Category: Academic
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Female Agency and the Gendering of Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Visual Representations
Harry Fry examines the portrayal of women by female and male artists, pointing to the persistent limitations of their agency.
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In Bad Taste: On the Politics of Aesthetics
Georgia Smith discusses the politics of aesthetics within the contexts of class, gender, and consumerism today.
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The Fight Against Equality: Phyllis Schlafly’s Impact on the Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was a centripetal force for feminists in the U.S. to rally around in the 1960s. Though popular and close to constitutional ratification, Edie Christian explores the legacy of Phyllis Schlafley’s activism against the Amendment.
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Galileo and the Modernisation of the Italian Language
Francesca Newson explores Galileo’s decision to write about science in Italian rather than in the traditional vernacular of Latin.
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Big Hair Energy: Exploring Ideas of Flavian Women’s Identity and Postmortem Agency
Hair has been one of the most consistent ways humans can express themselves throughout history. Yacine N’Dao analyzes the Flavian coiffure style that emerged under Flavian rule and how the style was used by women to make themselves visible despite sex-based social conditions.
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Saving Grace: The Story of a Sixteen-Year-Old Murderess
Grace Marks has become a mystified figure for her relation to the murder of Thomas Kinnear and housekeeper Nancy Montogomery. Ella Gibson analyzes how Marks’ mystification challenged power structures of both class and gender.
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“We foreigners don’t smoke opium”: Exposing Western Opium Consumption, 1840-1930
The narcotic opium is the subject of an explicitly racialised history. Kat Jivkova traces Western opium consumption in an attempt to remedy perceptions of the drug as inherently Chinese.
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Conceptualising Longevity within the Theoretical Wheel of Fortune: Trajan, Henry VIII, and Mao’s Cult of Personality
Harry Fry considers the concept of the wheel of fortune in relation to rulers spanning across history, from Roman Emperor Trajan to Mao Zedong.
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