The Gendered Nose and its Lack: "Medieval" Nose-Cutting and its Modern Manifestations [0.03%]
性别化的鼻子及其缺失：“中世纪”的割鼻行为及其现代表现形式
Patricia Skinner
Patricia Skinner
Time magazine's cover photograph in August 2010 of a noseless Afghan woman beside the emotive strap line, "What happens if we leave Afghanistan," fuelled debate about the "medieval" practices of the Taliban, whose local commander had instru...
The case of the missing girls: sex ratios in fifteenth-century Tuscany [0.03%]
十五世纪托斯堪纳的性别比：消失的女孩们的案例
Tovah Bender
Tovah Bender
This article addresses the apparent shortage of women in the 1427 Florentine Catasto, perhaps the most complete premodern European demographic source. It argues that the shortage exists because it was only when they entered their first marr...
Marrying into the European family of nations: national disorder and upset gender roles in post-Communist Romanian film [0.03%]
走进欧洲民族大家庭：后共产主义罗马尼亚电影中的国家失序与性别错乱形象
Diana Georgescu
Diana Georgescu
Drawing on recent Romanian films, this article explores the distinctive post-communist concerns with national relocation in the symbolic geography of Europe. The focus on tragic comedies, an increasingly popular genre in Eastern European ci...
Manon Parry
Manon Parry
In the first half of the twentieth century, birth control advocates used the mass media to reframe contraception from a private, secret matter to an acceptable part of life fit for public discussion. Although their campaign began in print, ...
The survey project: researching women’s everyday experience and envisioning modernity in rural Bohemia at the end of the Second World War [0.03%]
调查项目：二战结束之际研究农村波西米亚的妇女日常生活和展望现代性
Melissa Feinberg
Melissa Feinberg
This article examines a survey of rural Czech women conducted in 1944–1945. It argues that the survey tells two very different stories. First, the survey provides an unvarnished look into the everyday material circumstances of a few rural ...
"A matter of physical health and strength”: disciplining the female body and reproducing the Czech national community in the mid-nineteenth century [0.03%]
“关乎身体健康与体魄的问题”：19世纪中叶的波西米亚女性身体规训与民族共同体的重塑问题
Dáša Frančíková
Dáša Frančíková
An 1850 article “Uzavírání sňatku” (“Marriage”) by Czech physician Jan Špott outlined the requirements for those who considered themselves part of the Czech national community. Špott stressed that those concerned with the future n...
'Til death parts us: women’s domestic partnerships in eighteenth-century Brittany [0.03%]
《至死方休：十八世纪布列塔尼女性的居家伴侣关系》
Nancy Locklin
Nancy Locklin
This article investigates the legal provision for two adult, unmarried women to create a “perpetual society” with one another found in the customary code of 1725 for the French province of Brittany. This arrangement allowed women who shar...
Charu Gupta
Charu Gupta
This article focuses on disparate sites and subjects to reflect on and problematize the relationship between sexuality and the archives in colonial north India. I dwell on how ‘recalcitrant’ and hidden histories of sexuality can be gleane...
Healthy vocations: field nursing and the religious overtones of public health [0.03%]
健康职业：田野护理与公共卫生的宗教意味
Christin L Hancock
Christin L Hancock
This article argues that the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) field nursing program of the 1930s, which continued much of the same assimilation-style health care practices begun generations earlier by missionaries and field matrons, perpetuat...
Traveling with faith: the creation of women's immigrant aid associations in nineteenth and twentieth-century France [0.03%]
信心之旅：19至20世纪法国妇女移民援助协会的建立与发展
Emily Machen
Emily Machen
This article explores the efforts of French Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish women to morally, spiritually, and physically protect immigrant and migrant women and girls in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Women of faith wo...