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Schenk-Sandbergen, L. Ch. Women in rice fields and offices: Irrigation in Laos : gender specific case-studies in four villages. [Laos?]: Empowerment, Heiloo, the Netherlands, 1995.

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van, Dijk Hemmes Fokkelien, Becking Bob, and Dijkstra Meindert, eds. On reading prophetic texts: Gender-specific and related studies in memory of Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.

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Women in pain: Gender and morbidity in Mexico. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

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B, Alvine Lynne, and Cullum Linda E, eds. Breaking the cycle: Gender, literacy, and learning. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999.

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Richards, Renée. No way Renée: The second half of my notorious life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

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Richards, Renée. No way Renée: The second half of my notorious life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

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Richards, Renée. No way Renée: The second half of my notorious life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

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1929-, Wagner Frank, König Kasper, Friedrich Julia, and Museum Ludwig, eds. Das achte Feld: Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960 : [Museum Ludwig, Köln, 19. August - 12. November 2006] = The eighth square : gender, life, and desire in the arts since 1960. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006.

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The science education of American girls: A historical perspective. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

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Cardinaletti, Anna, Laura Cerasi, and Patrizio Rigobon. Le lingue occidentali nei 150 anni di storia di Ca’ Foscari. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-262-8.

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I saggi raccolti in questo volume rappresentano una duplice testimonianza: la lunga tradizione di alcuni insegnamenti di lingue dell’area occidentale presenti fin dalle origini dell’allora Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio, ma anche l’attenzione all’evoluzione sociale e culturale che richiede un continuo aggiornamento ed arricchimento dell’offerta formativa. Nel volume si ripercorre la storia di insegnamenti di consolidata presenza congiuntamente a quelli di lingue e letterature introdotte in tempi più recenti nei piani di studio. Questo insieme di tradizione e modernità ha fatto di Ca’ Foscari un centro di assoluta eccellenza per le lingue e le culture straniere, oltre che il primo ateneo in Italia ad avere una facoltà specifica per questo genere di studi.
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Gigli, Daria, and Enrico Magnelli, eds. Studi di poesia greca tardoantica. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-488-2.

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Il volume contiene gli atti della giornata di studi svoltasi a Firenze il 4 ottobre 2012 e presenta i contributi di nove giovani studiosi di provata competenza, formatisi in varie Università italiane. La multiforme produzione poetica greca di età post-ellenistica è indagata attraverso i suoi generi letterari e le specifiche problematiche che essa pone: si tratta di epica mitologico-narrativa e didattica, di oracoli teologici, di innografia pagana e cristiana, di epigramma, di sopravvivenza del codice espressivo poetico nella prosa della prima età bizantina. I saggi sono diversi per prospettiva – critico-testuale, esegetica, storico-letteraria – ma accomunati da una solida base filologica, e ciascuno di essi offre idee innovative che rendono il volume di sicuro interesse per la comunità scientifica internazionale.
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Holz, Oliver, and Fiona Shelton, eds. EDucation & GEnder. Gender-specific education in different countries. Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.31244/9783830978688.

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A study funded by the European Commission, relating to gender specific differences in learning achievements, shows among other things that whilst gender equality is a hot topic in many countries a general equality policy is not always advocated. More importantly, measures to reduce gender differences in achievement seem to focus primarily on the underachievement of boys. In this publication, historical aspects and current trends within 12 European countries, regarding gender equality in education are presented and compared. The country studies and comparative analysis will inform and inspire everybody who is interested in gender issues in education.
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Monk, Janice, Mary Lay, and Deborah Rosenfelt. Encompassing Gender. Feminist Press, 2001.

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Monk, Janice, Mary Lay, and Deborah Rosenfelt. Encompassing Gender. Feminist Press, 2001.

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M, Lay Mary, Monk Janice J, and Rosenfelt Deborah Silverton, eds. Encompassing gender: Integrating international studies and women's studies. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York Press, 2002.

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Santiago Iglesias, José Andrés, and Ana Soler Baena, eds. Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Stockholm University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbp.

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Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion aims at advancing the study of anime, understood as largely TV-based genre fiction rendered in cel, or cel-look, animation with a strong affinity to participatory cultures and media convergence. Taking Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shin Seiki Evangerion) as a case study, this volume acknowledges anime as a media form with clearly recognizable aesthetic properties, (sub)cultural affordances and situated discourses. First broadcast in Japan in 1995-96, Neon Genesis Evangelion became an epoch-making anime, and later franchise. The initial series used already available conventions, visual resources and narrative tropes typical of anime in general and the mecha (or giant-robot) genre in particular, but at the same time it subverted and reinterpreted them in a highly innovative and as such standard-setting way. Investigating anime through Neon Genesis Evangelion this volume takes a broadly understood media-aesthetic and media-cultural perspective, which pertains to medium in the narrow sense of technology, techniques, materials, and semiotics, but also mediality and mediations related to practices and institutions of production, circulation, and consumption. In no way intended to be exhaustive, this volume attests to the emergence of anime studies as a field in its own right, including but not prioritizing expertise in film studies and Japanese studies, and with due regard to the most widely shared critical publications in Japanese and English language. Thus, the volume provides an introduction to studies of anime, a field that necessarily interrelates media-specific and transmedial aspects. In Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion, anime is addressed from a transnational and transdisciplinary stance. The disciplinary and methodological perspectives taken by the individual chapters range from audio-visual culture, narratology, performance and genre theory to fandom studies and gender studies. In its first part, the book focuses on textual analysis and media form in the narrow sense with regard to filmic media, bank footage, voice acting and musical score, and then it broadens the scope to consider subcultural discourse, franchising, manga and video game adaptations, as well as critical and affective user engagement.
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(Editor), Bob Becking, and Meindert Dijkstra (Editor), eds. Reading Prophetic Texts: Gender-Specific and Related Studies in Memory of Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hermmes (Biblical Interpretation Series , No 18). Brill Academic Publishers, 1996.

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Finkler, Kaja. Women in Pain: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

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Abi-Hassan, Sahar. Populism and Gender. Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.16.

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Despite the breadth and depth of inquiries into populism, its relationship with gender issues remains a widely understudied topic. On one hand, focus has been almost entirely on male leadership, despite the presence of a significant number of female populist leaders. On the other hand, procedural definitions of populism ignore the substantive and symbolic elements that emerge from a populist gendered discourse. Through a generalized discussion and references to specific examples in Europe and Latin America, this chapter explores three major topics at the intersection of populism and gender: populist supporters, populist gendered representation, and the subordination of personal (gender) identity in populist discourse. Consistent with previous studies, it illustrates the difficulty in finding common patterns in the populist treatment of gender issues, and where they emerge it is an instance of trends in gendered discourse, not populist discourse.
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Alvine, Lynne, and Linda Cullum. Breaking the Cycle: Gender, Literacy, and Learning. Boynton/Cook, 1999.

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Gazzarrini, Denise, and Giulio Perugi. Gender and Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Edited by Katharine A. Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190254131.003.0015.

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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in females and males appears to have more similarities than differences; however, gender-related factors appear to influence some aspects of BDD’s clinical expression and prevalence. In epidemiologic studies, BDD is slightly more common in females than in males, but in clinical samples and samples of convenience, the gender ratio is more variable. Gender seems to influence some specific body parts of concern (e.g., men are more likely to be concerned about their genitals, women their breasts and legs). Women appear more likely than men to use certain camouflaging techniques and to pick their skin in response to skin concerns. Differences in comorbidity have also been reported, with substance use disorders more common in males and eating disorders more common in females. Men and women are equally likely to seek cosmetic treatment for BDD, which differs from the general population, but women are more likely to receive it. The possible influence of gender on treatment response deserves further research.
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Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika, eds. Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799283.001.0001.

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This book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture, in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men. It uses a longitudinal cross-country comparative approach, relying on the Afrint dataset—unique household-level longitudinal data for six African countries collected over the period 2002–2013/15. The book first descriptively summarizes findings from the third wave of the dataset. The book nuances the current dominance of structural transformation narratives of agricultural change by adding insights from gender and village-level studies of agrarian change. It argues that placing agrarian change within broader livelihood dynamics outside agriculture, highlighting country- and region-specific contexts is an important analytical adaptation to the empirical realities of rural Africa. From the policy perspective, this book provides suggestions for more inclusive rural development policies, outlining the weaknesses of present policies illustrated by the currently gendered inequalities in access to agrarian resources. The book also provides country-specific insights from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia.
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Russell, Stephen T., and Stacey S. Horn, eds. Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199387656.001.0001.

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Studies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth show them to be at risk for some of the greatest difficulties experienced by adolescents: many of those problems have been traced directly to negative experiences in schooling. After more than a decade of research focused on the experiences of LGBT students in schools, a new generation of studies has begun to identify characteristics of schools that are associated with inclusion and safety for LGBT students, including practices and policies that are associated with positive school climate and student well-being. This book brings together contributions from a diverse group of researchers, policy analysts, and education practitioners from around the world to synthesize the implications for practice and policy of contemporary research on sexual orientation, gender identity, and schooling. It draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives and field vantage points and represents perspectives from around the world and from diverse sociocultural contexts. Included are syntheses of key areas of research relevant to SOGI issues in schooling, reviews and examples of new models and approaches for educational practice from around the world, case studies of innovative analyses or reflections on approaches to transformational policy and practice, specific examples of the application of research to change practice and policy, and case studies of efforts that take place at the nexus of research, practice, and policy. The fundamental goal of the book is to advance SOGI social justice through strengthening the relationship between research, practice, and policy to support LGBT students and schools.
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Aldama, Frederick Luis, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190917944.001.0001.

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Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant and field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector of publishing. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective, bringing together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, the Handbook explores how the term “global comics” has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that drive the field. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.
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Diederichsen, Diedrich, Thomas Meinecke, Hanne Loreck, Julia Friedrich, Cristina Nord, Eva Meyer, Marlene Steeruwitz, Judith Butler, Harald Fricke, and Douglas Crimp. The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006.

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Zarkov, Dubravka. From Women and War to Gender and Conflict? Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199300983.013.3.

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This chapter charts a brief history of the conceptual tools used to understand gender relations with respect to wars and armed conflicts. The chapter begins by summarizing some of the dominant theories of second wave feminism, including radical feminism, liberal feminism, black, lesbian and Third World feminism. It explores critiques of feminist theory, as well as the roles of equality and agency in feminist studies on women and war, the tensions between Western feminism and feminism outside of the West, and the impact of a constructivist analytical lens on feminist scholarship. It depicts how specific violent conflicts influenced feminist thinking in the 1990s and the early 2000s, tracing a genealogy from genocide in Rwanda and the war in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to 9/11 and the War on Terror.
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Richards, Renee, and John Ames. No Way Renee: The Second Half of My Notorious Life. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

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Bloxham, Donald, and A. Dirk Moses, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies subjects both genocide and the discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of genocide studies has developed to offer analysis and comprehension. Thirty-four articles chart genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Articles examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire, Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions.
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1929-, Wagner Frank, König Kasper, Friedrich Julia, and Museum Ludwig, eds. Das achte Feld: Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960 = The eighth square : gender, life, and desire in the arts since 1960. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006.

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Brand, Dionne, Peggy Bristow, Linda Carty, Afua Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, and Adrienne Shadd. We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up': Essays in African Canadian Women's History. University of Toronto Press, 1994.

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Peggy, Bristow, ed. We're rooted here and they can't pull us up: Essays in African Canadian women's history. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

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Bristow, Peggy. "We're rooted here and they can't pull us up": Essays in African Canadian Women's History. University of Toronto Press, 1994.

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Tolley, Kim. Standing at the Portals: The Science Education of American Girls. RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.

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Tolley, Kim. Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Tolley, Kim. Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Tolley, Kim. Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Tolley, Kim. Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Baldanzi, Jessica, and Hussein Rashid, eds. Ms. Marvel's America. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827029.001.0001.

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This book is a scholarly examination of the comic book character of the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, from multiple disciplinary approaches, including religious studies, gender studies, cultural studies, communication, and pedagogy. The essays cover topics from fashion, immigration history, technoculture, and fandom and are intended for a broad range of general and academic readers, from comics fans to comics scholars. The book’s four main sections—“Precursors,” “Nation and Religion, Identity and Community,” “Pedagogy and Resistance,” and “Fangirls, Fanboys, and the Culture of Fandom”—apply specific theoretical and cultural frameworks to their examination of the character. The book closes with a one-page comic by comics scholar and artist Jose Alaniz, as well as an exclusive interview with author G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar Shabana Mir. The editors’ wide-ranging expertise, from comics and religious studies to literature, gender, and popular culture, inform and shape this volume suitable for both undergraduate and graduate classrooms, as well as the general reader.
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Zimmermann, Bernhard, ed. 29. Salemer Sommerakademie. Rombach Wissenschaft, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783968217789.

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This book contains the papers on the topic of ‘Women and the Image of Women in Antiquity’ which were presented at the summer academy organised by the Ministry of Culture for Baden-Württemberg. These contributions examine the aforementioned subject from literary studies, historical, archeological and gender-specific perspectives. With contributions by Thomas Baier, Anja Bettenworth, Christine Walde, Christoph Riedweg, Michael Lobe and Corinna Reinhardt.
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Holroyd, Christopher R., Nicholas C. Harvey, Mark H. Edwards, and Cyrus Cooper. Environment. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642489.003.0038.

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Musculoskeletal disease covers a broad spectrum of conditions whose aetiology comprises variable genetic and environmental contributions. More recently it has become clear that, particularly early in life, the interaction of gene and environment is critical to the development of later disease. Additionally, only a small proportion of the variation in adult traits such as bone mineral density has been explained by specific genes in genome-wide association studies, suggesting that gene-environment interaction may explain a much larger part of the inheritance of disease risk than previously thought. It is therefore critically important to evaluate the environmental factors which may predispose to diseases such as osteorthritis, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis both at the individual and at the population level. In this chapter we describe the environmental contributors, across the whole life course, to osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis, as exemplar conditions. We consider factors such as age, gender, nutrition (including the role of vitamin D), geography, occupation, and the clues that secular changes of disease pattern may yield. We describe the accumulating evidence that conditions such as osteoporosis may be partly determined by the early interplay of environment and genotype, through aetiological mechanisms such as DNA methylation and other epigenetic phenomena. Such studies, and those examining the role of environmental influences across other stages of the life course, suggest that these issues should be addressed at all ages, starting from before conception, in order to optimally reduce the burden of musculoskeletal disorders in future generations.
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Holroyd, Christopher R., Nicholas C. Harvey, Mark H. Edwards, and Cyrus Cooper. Environment. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642489.003.0038_update_001.

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Musculoskeletal disease covers a broad spectrum of conditions whose aetiology comprises variable genetic and environmental contributions. More recently it has become clear that, particularly early in life, the interaction of gene and environment is critical to the development of later disease. Additionally, only a small proportion of the variation in adult traits such as bone mineral density has been explained by specific genes in genome-wide association studies, suggesting that gene-environment interaction may explain a much larger part of the inheritance of disease risk than previously thought. It is therefore critically important to evaluate the environmental factors which may predispose to diseases such as osteorthritis, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis both at the individual and at the population level. In this chapter we describe the environmental contributors, across the whole life course, to osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis, as exemplar conditions. We consider factors such as age, gender, nutrition (including the role of vitamin D), geography, occupation, and the clues that secular changes of disease pattern may yield. We describe the accumulating evidence that conditions such as osteoporosis may be partly determined by the early interplay of environment and genotype, through aetiological mechanisms such as DNA methylation and other epigenetic phenomena. Such studies, and those examining the role of environmental influences across other stages of the life course, suggest that these issues should be addressed at all ages, starting from before conception, in order to optimally reduce the burden of musculoskeletal disorders in future generations.
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Samuels, Jack, Marco A. Grados, Elizabeth Planalp, and O. Joseph Bienvenu. Genetic Understanding of OCD and Spectrum Disorders. Edited by Gail Steketee. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376210.013.0025.

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This chapter reviews the evidence for the genetic etiology of OCD and spectrum conditions. A genetic basis is supported by the familial aggregation of OCD; evidence for involvement of genes of major effect in segregation analyses; and higher concordance for OCD in identical than non-identical twins. Recent studies also support linkage of OCD to specific chromosomal regions and association of OCD with specific genetic polymorphisms. However, specific genes causing OCD have not yet been firmly established. The search for genes is complicated by the clinical and etiologic heterogeneity of OCD, as well as the possibility of gene–gene and gene–environmental interactions. Despite this complexity, developments in molecular and statistical genetics, and further refinement of the phenotype hold promise for further deepening our genetic understanding of OCD and spectrum disorders in the coming decade.
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Gill, Denise. Boundaries of Embodiment in Sounded Melancholy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190495008.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 grounds claims about musicians’ melancholic modalities in a multifaceted study of embodiment in Turkish classical musicking. After an investigation of how musicians describe the sensations of bodily melancholy to explain sonic melancholy, the chapter studies the way that melancholic affective practices differentiate specific kinds of boundaries: boundaries demarcating gender difference, weeping and tears and elucidating bodily boundaries, and theologies of listening that demarcate boundaries between the spiritual and the mundane. The chapter concludes that the musicians’ experiences suggest that the boundaries are meant to be crossed, because it is the very labor of crossing that makes individuals who they are.
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O’Neal, M. Angela. Cognitive Concerns. Edited by Angela O’Neal. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190609917.003.0030.

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This chapter reviews the incidence and gender-specific risks for women developing Alzheimer’s disease, AD. The incidence of AD doubles every five years beginning at age 60. Furthermore, AD is 2–3 times more common in women. Observational trials suggested that estrogen could play a role in delaying the onset of AD. However, the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study, WHIMS, published in 2003, demonstrated that estrogen, with or without medroxyprogesterone, substantially increased the risk of dementia of any cause, with AD being the most frequent etiology. Additional studies suggesting that there might be a window where hormonal therapy is beneficial have not been corroborated. The gender differences in AD may be partially explained by the finding that women have less ability to clear amyloid. This results in a larger amyloid burden. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the only clearly documented preventative treatment for AD.
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Kilde, Jeanne Halgren, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190874988.001.0001.

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How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors who address these questions using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women’s studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection. These chapters are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and others. They are organized here by geographical region, rather than tradition, to emphasize the cultural roots of religion and religious spaces. Several overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal, and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. Most importantly, these essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience; that is, they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meaning and experience.
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Eastlake, Laura. Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833031.001.0001.

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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome from the French Revolution to the First World War, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature were at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire. The Roman parallel was used to capture the martial virtue of Wellington just as it was used to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. Using approaches from literary and cultural studies, reception studies, and gender studies, this book is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome for Victorian ideas about masculinity. With chapters on education, politics, empire, and late Victorian decadence, it makes sense of the manifold and often contradictory representations of Rome—as distinct from Greece—in authors like Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and others.
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Lindsey, Treva B. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041020.003.0001.

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In search of greater educational, employment, social, political, and cultural opportunities, many African American women migrated to Washington with formerly unimaginable aspirations and expectations for themselves. Colored No More establishes this search as formative to a New Negro ethos.The introductory chapter defines “New Negro” and constructs a gender-specific understanding of this historical era and identity, while introducing Washington as both a unique and a representative site for the emergence of New Negro womanhood. Challenging the temporal primacy on the Interwar period in New Negro studies, the introduction asserts the importance of examining the lives of African American women to revisit how we conceptualize the “New Negro.” This chapter also deconstructs our understanding of “colored” as simply a racial marker- gender mattered in how Blackness was experienced during the New Negro era. In search of greater educational, employment, social, political, and cultural opportunities, many African American women migrated to Washington with formerly unimaginable aspirations and expectations for themselves.
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Wade, Tracey D., and Cynthia Bulik. Genetic Influences on Eating Disorders. Edited by W. Stewart Agras and Athena Robinson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190620998.013.5.

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The current chapter reviews our progress in understanding how genes influence eating disorders by addressing the following areas: (1) how recognition of genetic influences on eating disorders emerged; (2) the complexities of gene environment interplay; (3) what twin studies can tell us about gene environment interplay, and (4) the current state of molecular genetic studies. It is concluded that both genes and nonshared environment play a critical role in the explanatory framework for the etiology of eating disorders. Shared environment is likely to contribute to the development of cognition and attitudes that may initiate disordered eating practices. Researchers are on the cusp of identifying specific genes that are implicated, and explication of the manner in which genes and the environment work together to increase risk for eating disorders hinges on the collection of larger samples.
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De Ste Croix, Mark BA. Muscle strength. Edited by Neil Armstrong and Willem van Mechelen. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198757672.003.0007.

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Strength increases in boys and girls until about the age of 14 years where it begins to plateau in girls and a spurt is evident in boys. By 18 years there are few overlaps in strength between boys and girls. The exact age in which gender differences become apparent is both muscle group- and muscle action-specific. There are few well controlled longitudinal studies that have concurrently examined the influence of known variables using appropriate statistical techniques. Most studies have shown that maturation does not exert an independent effect when other factors, such as stature and body mass, are accounted for. Additionally, the assumption that muscle cross-sectional area is the most important parameter in strength production does not hold when examined with other known variables. Consistently, stature appears to play a key role in strength development and this may be attributed to changes in the muscle moment arm.
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Makarychev, Andrey, and Alexandra Yatsyk. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical dimension. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433853.003.0005.

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The chapter addresses Russian national identity by applying the concept of biopolitics. This approach constitutes a departure from dominant schools of thought, which view contemporary Russian political and social concepts through traditional lenses: institutional change, state–society relations, centre–periphery controversies, etc. Biopolitics offers a specific way of anchoring the uncertain Russian identity in a set of consensually understood nodal points that encapsulate bodily practices of corporeal discipline and control. The chapter argues that Putin’s regime utilises such a biopolitical approach to consolidate its rule, drawing on conservative norms that can be asserted through religious, gender-based or ‘Russian World’-grounded discourses. It examines this point through case studies of school education, anti-adoption legislation, the penitentiary system, family and reproductive health and other aspects.
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