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Mahadevan, Vishy. "The decent rogues: a review." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 94, no. 7 (July 1, 2012): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363512x13311314196573.
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The Decent Rogues is the brainchild of two immensely talented and inventive young men, dan Lashbrook and rob Pratt. Written and composed in its entirety by this duo, The Decent Rogues is a new, original, quirky and witty musical set in the fictional village of horston Barrow in Edwardian England. It tells of the friendship between Percy Goldsmith and Bevan Bawden and of the double lives they lead – gentlemen and staunch pillars of their community on the one hand and devious, conniving crooks on the other.
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Reed, John R. "FIGHTING WORDS: TWO PROLETARIAN MILITARY NOVELS OF THE CRIMEAN PERIOD." Victorian Literature and Culture 36, no. 2 (September 2008): 331–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080200.
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About a decade after Waterloo, there arose in England a subgenre of fiction that can be called the military novel. George Robert Gleig is credited with originating the genre with a fictionalized autobiography entitled The Subaltern, which appeared serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1825 and was subsequently published as a book. Military memoirs were appearing from soon after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the military novel was an outgrowth of that literature. Many of the authors of military novels had themselves served in the army, but the most notable of them all, Charles Lever, had not been a military man, though he consorted with officers often enough. Beginning with The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, which was serialized first and then appeared as a single volume in 1839, Lever produced a string of popular novels about the army, with young officers as their heroes. The novels of this subgenre concentrated on officers, though there are amusing rankers, that is, enlisted soldiers, as well in Lever's novels likely to be clever Irishmen. For the most part, though, rankers are background figures and have largely stereotypical lower class ways. There are obligatory romance and inheritance plots in these narratives, with the hero usually ending up married and with an estate of his own, either through direct inheritance, or the discovery of a hitherto unknown fortune. This genre lasted about fifteen years, petering out by mid-century.
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Kim, Il-gu, and Hee-sun Kim. "Angry Young Generation: The Revisiting and Vision of Angry Young Men Fiction." Convergence English Language & Literature Association 8, no. 1 (April 30, 2023): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.55986/cell.2023.8.1.1.
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This study first examines the global youth crisis, symbolized by the term “Ikea Generation”, referring to young people in temporary employment who are easily used and discarded. It traces the origin of this phenomenon back to the works of the “Angry Young Men” in post-World War II Britain during the 1950s. This article compares it to contemporary South Korean youth culture. The study then analyzes three representative novels of the Angry Young Men generation: Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, John Braine's Room at the Top, and Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. After examining their contributions, the conclusion suggests Richard Hoggart's vision of the “cultured, political, and intellectual working-class minority” as a source of hope and alternative for the angry youth, as emphasized in his work The Use of Literacy.
In particular, the conclusion highlights that just as the Red Brick universities in the UK helped eliminate the literacy gap among the working class and improved social mobility and growth, digital literacy can emerge as a new opportunity for social mobility among South Korean youth. The study emphasizes the need for national support and policy for this digital literacy for the Korean youth generation.
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Burton, P., A. Lowy, and A. Briggs. "Increasing suicide rates among young men in England and Wales." BMJ 300, no. 6741 (June 30, 1990): 1695–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.300.6741.1695.
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Robertson, Laura, and John Peter Wainwright. "Black Boys’ and Young Men’s Experiences with Criminal Justice and Desistance in England and Wales: A Literature Review." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (April 15, 2020): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020050.
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Black boys and young men are over-represented in the youth and adult justice systems in England and Wales. Despite the Lammy Review (2017) into the treatment of and outcomes for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic individuals (BAME) in the criminal justice system, the disproportionate numbers of Black boys and young men at all stages of the system continue to rise. There has been limited qualitative research of Black boys’ and young men’s experiences with the justice system in England and Wales. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on their experiences with sentencing and courts. What is known tends to focus on Black, Asian, and minority ethnic and/or Muslim men’s experiences more generally. A lack of critical understanding of the specific experiences of desistance by young Black men has been criticised in the literature. Set in this context, this review of UK literature focuses on the following questions: (1) What are Black boys’ and young Black men’s experiences with the youth and criminal justice systems in England and Wales? (2) What does research tell us specifically about their experiences with desistance?
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Bean, Thomas W., and Helen Harper. "Reading Men Differently: Alternative Portrayals of Masculinity in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction." Reading Psychology 28, no. 1 (March 2007): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02702710601115406.
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Davies, P. M., P. Weatherburn, A. J. Hunt, F. C. I. Hickson, T. J. McManus, and A. P. M. Coxon. "The sexual behaviour of young gay men in England and Wales." AIDS Care 4, no. 3 (July 1992): 259–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540129208253098.
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McKenzie, Kwame, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kiran Nanchahal, and Bob Blizard. "Suicide rates in people of South Asian origin in England and Wales: 1993–2003." British Journal of Psychiatry 193, no. 5 (November 2008): 406–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.107.042598.
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BackgroundLow rates of suicide in older men and high rates in young women have been reported in the South Asian diaspora worldwide. Calculating such suicide rates in the UK is difficult because ethnicity is not recorded on death certificates.AimsTo calculate the South Asian origin population suicide rates and to assess changes over time using new technology.MethodSuicide rates in England and Wales were calculated using the South Asian Name and Group Recognition Algorithm (SANGRA) computer software.ResultsThe age-standardised suicide rate for men of South Asian origin was lower than other men in England and Wales, and the rate for women of South Asian origin was marginally raised. In aggregated data for 1999–2003 the age-specific suicide rate in young women of South Asian origin was lower than that for women in England and Wales. The suicide rate in those over 65 years was double that of England and Wales.ConclusionsOlder, rather than younger, women of South Asian origin seem to be an at-risk group. Further research should investigate the reasons for these changes and whether these patterns are true for all South Asian origin groups.
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Elliott, Karla, and Steven Roberts. "Balancing generosity and critique: reflections on interviewing young men and implications for research methodologies and ethics." Qualitative Research 20, no. 6 (February 16, 2020): 767–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794120904881.
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Feminist research methodologies have challenged power imbalances in qualitative interviews and gendered inequalities more broadly. We explore the methodological and ethical complexities of, and implications for, doing feminist research with young men. We draw on two studies in which narrative interviews with young men were conducted: one in 2014 and 2015 with 28 middle-class men between the ages of 20 and 31 living in Australia and Germany; and one a longitudinal study beginning in 2009 in the south-east of England with 24 working-class men between the ages of 18 and 24. We explore the production of narratives in interviews with young men, rapport-building, and interactional issues. Balancing generosity and critique emerges as a key ethical and methodological consideration for research conducted with young men. We suggest that negotiating the tensions of this balance can hold key possibilities for research and for proliferating alternative modes of masculinity.
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Whitfield, Michele, Carol Cort, Anthony Fallone, and Bahman Baluch. "Had They Attended a University: How Would They Have Liked to Have Been Remembered." Perceptual and Motor Skills 76, no. 3 (June 1993): 1048–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1993.76.3.1048.
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50 women and 50 men in a town in the East of England were asked how they would have liked to have been remembered had they attended the university Women of both mature (37 to 41 years) and young ages (18 to 21 years) were more concerned about being remembered as popular than brilliant. A negligible number wished to be remembered as an athletic star. Men in young and mature groups were divided on the issues of brilliance, popularity, and athletic stars. The only statistically significant analysis concerned the differences between young men and women on the issues of brilliance and popularity. The results are discussed in relation to previous work on differences in attitudes amongst men and women in academic and nonacademic settings.
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Lawler, Stephanie. "Heroic workers and angry young men: Nostalgic stories of class in England." European Journal of Cultural Studies 17, no. 6 (August 6, 2014): 701–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549414544114.
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Bhatti, Ghazala. "Outsiders or insiders? Identity, educational success and Muslim young men in England." Ethnography and Education 6, no. 1 (March 2011): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2011.553081.
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Forman, D., and C. Chilvers. "Sexual behaviour of young and middle aged men in England and Wales." BMJ 298, no. 6681 (April 29, 1989): 1137–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.298.6681.1137.
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Baumgartner, Eric. "“Why Do We Ask Them About Their Gender, If We Then Go on to Do Nothing with It?”." Boyhood Studies 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2020.130102.
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Boys and young men continue to make up 81 percent of the Youth Justice System (YJS) in England and Wales, yet dominant discourses on young people who have been identified as having offended largely neglect to examine the potential role of masculinity in offending and interventions. This article aims to fill the gap of research in this area by exploring the role masculinity may play as understood by practitioners. It concludes that practitioners closely link “localized forms of hegemonic masculinity” to offending behavior of boys and young men.
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Callaci, Emily. "Street Textuality: Socialism, Masculinity, and Urban Belonging in Tanzania's Pulp Fiction Publishing Industry, 1975–1985." Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, no. 1 (January 2017): 183–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417516000578.
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AbstractFrom the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, a network of young urban migrant men created an underground pulp fiction publishing industry in the city of Dar es Salaam. As texts that were produced in the underground economy of a city whose trajectory was increasingly charted outside of formalized planning and investment, these novellas reveal more than their narrative content alone. These texts were active components in the urban social worlds of the young men who produced them. They reveal a mode of urbanism otherwise obscured by narratives of decolonization, in which urban belonging was constituted less by national citizenship than by the construction of social networks, economic connections, and the crafting of reputations. This article argues that pulp fiction novellas of socialist era Dar es Salaam are artifacts of emergent forms of male sociability and mobility. In printing fictional stories about urban life on pilfered paper and ink, and distributing their texts through informal channels, these writers not only described urban communities, reputations, and networks, but also actually created them.
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Wainwright, John, Laura Robertson, Cath Larkins, and Mick Mckeown. "Youth Justice, Black Children and Young Men in Liverpool: A Story of Rac(ism), Identity and Contested Spaces." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (May 6, 2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020057.
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This study explores the experiences of the black children and young men that attended a Youth Offending Team (YOT) in Liverpool, a city in the North of England, UK. It focuses on the perspectives of both the YOT practitioners and the black children/young men as they develop working relationships with each other. Through this two-way prism the back children/young men reflect on what is important to them before and after they enter the criminal justice system. Likewise, the YOT practitioners provide their understanding of the key issues in the young people’s lives—in particular, how the black children/young men made sense of their lives in Liverpool with a particular identity with place, space, class and race. A genealogy of race/class prism, along with an intersectional and appreciative inquiry methodology, was employed that encouraged the youth justice workers and young black men to explore the strengths and realities of their lives. Focus groups were undertaken with seven YOT practitioners and managers, along with semi-structured interviews with five black children/young men. The methodology focused on points of intersection of power, difference and identity. Findings that emerged from the participants included the experience of racism within the criminal justice system, the community and the wider city, along with the importance of education, employment and relations with the young people’s family. A core theme was an identity of black children/young men from a specific region. This intersection was as Scousers, black boys/young men, the contestation over space and their negotiated identity regarding race. The ambivalence and (un)certainty that these identities evoked provide possibilities for youth justice practitioners engaging with young black men involved in serious and repeat offending.
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Blower, Alex, and Jon Rainford. "Internalizing the Present in the Articulation of the Future." Boyhood Studies 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2023): 109–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2023.160207.
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Abstract Young men, especially from working-class backgrounds, often lack the space, capacity, or opportunity to reflect upon masculinities and their role in shaping future trajectories. By devising mechanisms to engage young men differently in creative activities, participants in our project were supported to think beyond assumed futures and explore new possibilities. Mobilizing the theory of possible selves, this article draws on data across three creative university outreach workshops in England with 18 participants who were given the opportunity to explore masculinities using creative writing, photography, and dance/movement. Combining artifact analysis and semi-structured interviews, the article argues that these workshops created safe spaces for young men to articulate their concerns and fears about harm and risk in everyday life while facilitating an exploration of alternative possible selves.
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Ben-Amos, Ilana Krausman. "Service and the coming of age of young men in seventeenth-century England." Continuity and Change 3, no. 1 (May 1988): 41–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416000000801.
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L'auteur étudie comment on accède à la majorité en Angleterre au dix-septième siècle. II démontre que l'entrée en service est essentielle pour les jeunes hommes afin d'acquérir la maturité sociale. Grâce a une analyse des autobiographies et d'autres données concernant les apprentis de la ville de Bristol, il relève la liberté de choix qui leur est accordée lorsqu'ils quittent le foyer familial d'une part et lorsqu'ils sont confrontés à de nombreuses difficultés après avoir quitté le service d'autre part. II souligne la vulnérabilité de l'apprenti devant les fréquentes interruptions des stages d'apprentissage. A la fin de l'article l'auteur démontre que le fait de vivre en service est intimement lié au processus de la formation familiale et à l'entrée dans la vie adulte.
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Raleigh, V. Soni, and R. Balarajan. "Suicide and Self-burning Among Indians and West Indians in England and Wales." British Journal of Psychiatry 161, no. 3 (September 1992): 365–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.161.3.365.
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Suicide levels in England and Wales during 1979–83 were low among males from the Indian subcontinent (SMR 73) and significantly high in young Indian women (age-specific ratios 273 and 160 at ages 15–24 and 25–34 respectively). Suicide levels were low in Caribbeans (SMRs 81 and 62 in men and women respectively) and high in East Africans (SMRs 128 and 148 in men and women respectively). The excess in East Africans (most of whom are of Indian origin) was largely confined to younger ages. Immigrant groups had significantly higher rates of suicide by burning, with a ninefold excess among women of Indian origin. The pressures leading to higher suicide levels among young women of Indian origin highlight the need for making appropriate forms of support and counselling available to this community.
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Keizer, Arlene R. "Collateral Survivorship." Radical Teacher 114 (July 18, 2019): 48–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2019.620.
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"Collateral Survivorship" analyzes my collegial friendship with a renowned fiction writer recently described as a “skilled predator” in an investigation of sexual harassment and abuse at an elite private academy in New England. Written for an audience of other scholars and writers, my essay is neither an indictment nor a defense; it’s an investigation of the forms of socialization that make even women like myself (feminist writers and scholars) vulnerable to such men. In short, "Collateral Survivorship" is focused upon the heterosexual erotics of instruction, not a particular individual.
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Limmer, Mark. "“I Don’t Shag Dirty Girls”." American Journal of Men's Health 10, no. 2 (November 26, 2014): 128–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988314559241.
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Understanding and addressing the sexual risk taking of young men remains a key research, policy, and practice concern in attempts to improve the emotional and physical sexual health of young men and their sexual partners. This article explores one of the ways in which young men attempt to mitigate sexual risk through the assigning of labels to particular young women and using these as a basis for their decisions in relation to sexual activity, contraception, and condom use. The article uses the lens of hegemonic masculinities theory to increase understanding of the role played by the construction and performance of marginalized masculinities and how these in turn are influenced by social exclusionary processes. The article draws on focus group and interview data from 46 young men aged 15 to 17 years living in the northwest of England, purposively selected on the basis of the prevailing policy definitions of social inclusion and exclusion. The article describes a form of marginalized masculinity pertaining to socially excluded young men, which as a result of limited access to other tenets of hegemonic masculinity, is disproportionately reliant on sexual expertise and voracity alongside overt demonstrations of their superiority over women. It is in this context that young women are assigned the labels of “dirty” or “clean” on the basis of a selection of arbitrary judgments relating to dress, demeanor, area of residence, and perceived sexual activities. The motivations of the young men, the impact on young women, and the policy and practice implications are all discussed.
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EL-Shazli, Salwa. "Mother Ireland, Blood-Mother, and the Lost Young Men In Selections of Modern Irish Fiction." مجلة وادی النیل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانیة والاجتماعیة والتربویه 29, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 41–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/jwadi.2021.146826.
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Basu, Manisha. "Thick as Thieves: Mothers, Gypsies, & Criminals in Enola Holmes’ Victorian England." Victoriographies 14, no. 1 (March 2024): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2024.0515.
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In her 2006 Young Adult novel, The Case of the Missing Marquess, Nancy Springer narrativises Enola Holmes as Sherlock Holmes’ intrepid and extraordinarily intelligent sister, a young woman with the ability to challenge even that great detective's iconic deductive abilities. I suggest that this overtly feminist impulse in rewriting the Victorian world of Conan Doyle is supplemented in Springer's novel with a nod toward the politics of intersectionality which attends to the ways in which gendered, class-based, and racialised identities become relational in an axiomatics of capitalist-colonialism. Particularly in conversation with Conan Doyle's 1892 short story, ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, Springer's narrative takes a meta-critical neo-Victorian stance in encouraging its young audience to do three important things: first, mine the subtext of Conan Doyle's detective fiction for the broad anxieties it points to in imperial Victorian culture; second, probe the conditions of colonial commerce under which identities based in gender, race, and class differentials intersect with one another; and third, ask how to develop a decolonial praxis that in exposing such intersections, can avoid isolationist critical proclivities, and embrace instead a transnational and comparative sensibility of reading that is alive to at once specific and interrelated disempowerments.
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Ahmaro, Lara, Laura Lindsey, Simon Forrest, and Cate Whittlesea. "Young people’s perceptions of accessing a community pharmacy for a chlamydia testing kit: a qualitative study based in North East England." BMJ Open 11, no. 9 (September 2021): e052228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052228.
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ObjectivesChlamydia testing among young people in community pharmacies in North East England has been low compared with other remote settings offering testing for the past few years. To understand why this may be, to maximise service provision, the perceptions of young men and women about pharmacy testing and possible chlamydia treatment were gathered and interpreted.DesignIndepth, semistructured interviews.SettingFour youth centres in North East England.ParticipantsThe study included 26 young people aged 16–23. The sample of participants comprised those with a history of chlamydia testing as well as those never tested.InterviewsFace-to-face interviews were conducted between October 2018 and May 2019. The interview schedule covered young people’s perceptions of sexually transmitted infections, provision of pharmacy sexual and reproductive health and chlamydia testing, and potential chlamydia treatment. Data from the interviews were subjected to thematic analysis.ResultsThe geographical accessibility and long opening times of community pharmacies in North East England were perceived benefits of the service. However, young people had concerns about being judged by pharmacy staff or overheard by customers when requesting the test. Men did not want to be seen by their peers accessing the pharmacy. These barriers were associated with a perceived stigma of chlamydia. Despite this, young people thought that pharmacist advice on the test kit would be important to ensure they complete it correctly. Those never tested favoured how the kit could be taken home to complete the urine sample. The option of including chlamydia treatment was reported to be convenient and comforting.ConclusionSupporting pharmacies in North East England to offer a confidential chlamydia testing service is necessary to overcome young people’s perceived barriers to testing. Delivering testing as an integrated sexual health package with other pharmacy services, together with treatment where suitable, will increase acceptance for testing and timely access to treatment.
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Rathbone, Adam, Nia Cartwright, Lewis Cummings, Rebecca Noble, Kristina Budaiova, Mark Ashton, Jonathan Foster, Brendan Payne, and Sarah Duncan. "Exploring young people’s attitudes to HIV prevention medication (PrEP) in England: a qualitative study." BMJ Open 14, no. 3 (March 2024): e077733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077733.
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IntroductionYoung people aged 18–24 years old are a key demographic target for eliminating HIV transmission globally. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a prevention medication, reduces HIV transmission. Despite good uptake by gay and bisexual men who have sex with men, hesitancy to use PrEP has been observed in other groups, such as young people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds. The aim of this study was to explore young people’s perceptions and attitudes to using PrEP.DesignA qualitative transcendental phenomenological design was used.Participants and settingA convenience sample of 24 young people aged between 18 and 24 years was recruited from England.MethodsSemistructured interviews and graphical elicitation were used to collect data including questions about current experiences of HIV care, awareness of using PrEP and decision-making about accessing PrEP. Thematic and visual analyses were used to identify findings.ResultsYoung people had good levels of knowledge about HIV but poor understanding of using PrEP. In this information vacuum, negative stigma and stereotypes about HIV and homosexuality were transferred to using PrEP, which were reinforced by cultural norms portrayed on social media, television and film—such as an association between using PrEP and being a promiscuous, white, gay male. In addition, young people from ethnic minority communities appeared to have negative attitudes to PrEP use, compared with ethnic majority counterparts. This meant these young people in our study were unable to make decisions about when and how to use PrEP.ConclusionFindings indicate an information vacuum for young people regarding PrEP. A strength of the study is that theoretical data saturation was reached. A limitation of the study is participants were largely from Northern England, which has low prevalence of HIV. Further work is required to explore the information needs of young people in relation to PrEP.
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Stanistreet, D., and V. Jeffrey. "Injury and Poisoning Mortality among Young Men—Are There any Common Factors Amenable to Prevention?" Crisis 24, no. 3 (May 2003): 122–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027//0227-5910.24.3.122.
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Summary: Background: Deaths from injury and poisoning (suicide, accidents, undetermined deaths, and homicide) are the major cause of death among young men aged 15-39 years in England and Wales and have been increasing in recent years. Aim: To describe common characteristics among young men who die from injury and poisoning. Design: We employed a retrospective survey methodology to investigate factors associated with deaths by injury and poisoning among young men aged 15-39 years (n = 268) in Merseyside and Cheshire during 1995. Data were collected from Coroner's inquest notes and General Practitioner records. Main results: The most common cause of death was poisoning by alcohol and drugs (29.1%, n = 78). A high proportion of cases were unemployed (39.4%, n = 106). Cases were also more likely to be single compared to the general population (74.2% vs 55.5%). Self-destructive behaviour was evident in 77% of deaths (n = 206). Conclusions: Alcohol and drug use are important contributory factors to injury and poisoning deaths. More research is needed into the effects of unemployment and being single on the health of young men, and to investigate the motivations behind risk taking and self-destructive behaviour.
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Gunnell, D., B. Wheeler, S.-S. Chang, B. Thomas, J. A. C. Sterne, and D. Dorling. "Changes in the geography of suicide in young men: England and Wales 1981–2005." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 66, no. 6 (December 3, 2010): 536–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.104000.
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Christie, B. "Suicide rate in young men in Scotland is twice that in England and Wales." BMJ 323, no. 7318 (October 20, 2001): 888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.323.7318.888d.
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Muktadir, Abdullah Al. "To Look Back Is to Suffer:." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 6 (December 1, 2015): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v6i.191.
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This paper is an attempt at understanding the formation of “masculinity” apropos conflicting childhood memory with reference, first, to Esthappen in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and, second, to the young men in Bangladesh. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on the “unusual” present as well as the split/shared memory of Esthappen to explore how he gradually develops a marginalized self and eventually stops claiming “masculinity.” The formation and evolution of a person’s childhood memories go through a culturally predetermined gendering process. It is not rare that a person, like Estha, fails to survive the gendering of memory and is, thus, led to cling to an always-traumatic childhood to look back upon. The second section, referencing differing versions of “masculinity” and Jan Assmann’s idea of “Cultural Memory,” concentrates on the young men in Bangladesh who, like Estha, have experienced stunted development of subjectivity. Acknowledging the fact that these young men live in a different spatio-temporal and socio-cultural scenario, the section shows, based on a number of interviewbased case studies, how culturally pre-determined gendering works on the development of male subjectivity. The third section places Roy’s Estha and the young men in Bangladesh, the fiction and the fact, face to face to show how unconventional dealing with childhood memory may lead a male individual to resist or fail in conforming to the mainstream ideas of masculinity.
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Trowler, Vicki, Robert Allan, and Rukhsana Din. "The Mystery of the Missing Men." Boyhood Studies 12, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 51–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2019.120204.
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There is something of a moral panic about the relative paucity of men in higher education in many countries. Closer examination shows that it is often men from subordinate groups in their contexts, such as working-class men (in the UK context) or African men (in the South African context) who are most underrepresented. This article draws on research in Scotland, South Africa and England to examine the experiences of young men positioned as “nontraditional” in their localized HE contexts who do attend university. Our studies found their experience of “belong-ing” to be mediated by their underrepresentation, as well as constructions of masculinity at system/context or at individual/group level. Understanding the latter can help ameliorate the effects of the former.
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Kriegh, LeeAnn, and Mary Jo Kane. "A Novel Idea: Portrayals of Lesbians in Young Adult Sports Fiction." Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 6, no. 2 (October 1997): 23–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.6.2.23.
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Over the past two decades, sport media scholars have demonstrated that female athletes are portrayed in ways that trivialize and undermine their accomplishments as highly skilled competitors, thus denying them power. More recently, scholars in a related field of knowledge—homophobia in women’s athletics—have also addressed the various ways in which power is denied to sportswomen. Although scholars within both bodies of knowledge have investigated institutional structures, ideologies and practices by which men continue to monopolize sport, few studies have explicitly linked sport media scholarship to the literature on homophobia in women’s athlet. An additional limitation in both fields of knowledge is that analyses focused primarily on adult female athletes; examinations of adolescent females are virtually nonexistent. A final limitation is that the vast majority of studies have focused on print and broadcast journalism, thereby ignoring another influential medium, young adult sports fiction. Therefore, the purpose of our investigation was to extend the knowledge base in three ways: 1) to explicitly link two bodies of knowledge concerned with women’s athleticism--sport media and homophobia/heterosexism; 2) to focus on a population that has been sorely neglected; and 3) to investigate a rich new area of analysis-young adult literature-particularly as it relates to the presence, and characterization of, lesbians in sport.The sample consisted of novels meeting the following criteria: (a) published for a young adult audience, (b) featured a female athlete as protagonist, (c) had sport as a major characteristic of the story, and (d) and be published during or after 1970. Using a qualitative methodology, we examined themes and character portrayals related to the suppression and oppression of young sportswomen in general and lesbians in particular. More specifically, we were interested in whether manifestations of homophobia in women’s athletics (e.g., silence and denial) were present in the novels under consideration. Results indicated that a lesbian presence was subverted in numerous ways, ranging from explicit verbal attacks on female protagonists accused of being “freaks,” to more subtle, apologetic constructions in which female athletes were characterized as ultra-feminine. These findings suggest that the homophobic and heterosexist coverage given to sportswomen in print and broadcast journalism extends into young adult sports fiction.
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McDowell, Linda, and Anna Harris. "Unruly bodies and dangerous spaces: Masculinity and the geography of ‘dreadful enclosures’." Urban Studies 56, no. 2 (November 21, 2018): 419–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098018810320.
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In this article, the co-constitution of place and masculinity is examined through a focus on three locations in Hastings, a seaside town on the south coast of England. Certain estates, streets and a square in the town have a reputation for danger, poverty and insecurity, places that ‘respectable’ inhabitants avoid when possible. The estate ranks high on indicators of deprivation whereas the street and the square are dominated by working class young men at particular times of the day and night when drug taking, casual sex and violence are common. Public performances of a version of protest masculinity reinforce the stereotypical reputations of both the spaces and the bodies of young men, exacerbating socio-economic and spatial inequality in the town.
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Montero-Fernández, Delia, Angel Hernando-Gómez, Antonio Daniel García-Rojas, and Francisco Javier Del Río Olvera. "Click Surveillance of Your Partner! Digital Violence among University Students in England." Social Sciences 12, no. 4 (March 30, 2023): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040203.
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have given rise to new forms of contact as well as new forms of violence. This research analyses whether ICTs are the cause of a new form of digital violence and studies the prevalence of this digital violence exercised through screens among university couples. A quantitative and qualitative methodology was applied in this study: a non-probabilistic purposive or discretionary sample of 303 (Age = 22.79; SD = 47.32; 58.7% male), with the use of an ad hoc questionnaire, and two focus groups of students studying in the same country. The results reveal a prevalence of 51.04% in the perception of digital violence through electronic devices in dating relationships among young people; 15.84% in the prevalence of digital violence in young couples’ relationships; 9.36% in the prevalence of traditional violence; and 35.78% in the tolerance of digital violence among young people. The results highlight a slightly higher prevalence of women compared with men in digital violence. We conclude that there is a significant prevalence of digital violence among these young couples in the university context, which should be the subject of the creation of different awareness-raising, prevention and specific training programmes against it.
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Chandi, Jasdeep Kaur, and Kulveen Trehan. "Clutching on to Gendered Tropes? Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction." Journalism and Media 3, no. 4 (November 15, 2022): 715–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia3040047.
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As more young girls write stories online thanks to the increased amount of publishing platforms, their fiction becomes a means to explore if they are offsetting prescribed practices of patriarchy in their gender constructions. Often, young women interrogate gender and recontextualize their experiences by writing fanfictions. In the age of transmedia storytelling, various online fan communities are rich data sources, as transnational female fans prolifically write fiction featuring icons from music and movies belonging to another country. We examined how young Indian girls frame gender roles and power dynamics in their fanfictions of BTS, the South Korean boyband, on Wattpad. To know if conventional gender frames are upheld or challenged in fanfiction stories revolving around non-Indian celebrities, we performed a textual analysis on forty-four BTS fanfictions. We found that in these fanfictions, existing gendered tropes used to depict masculinity and femininity are mostly normalized, with minor alterations reflecting a power imbalance typical in Indian patriarchal households. A subversion of tropes was found in framing men as emotionally expressive, arguably drawing from the soft masculinity projected in the home country of BTS–South Korea. Grounding these findings in self-categorization theory implores us to situate the construction of gendered identities within the socio-cultural conventions of fanfiction writers.
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Wise, J. "Only 15% of young men in England were tested for chlamydia last year despite recommendations." BMJ 348, jun18 25 (June 18, 2014): g4121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g4121.
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Underwood, Lucy. "Recusancy and the Rising Generation." Recusant History 31, no. 4 (October 2013): 511–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034193200013996.
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This article examines the involvement of young people in recusancy in Elizabethan England. It explores how two issues – the meaning of recusancy and the appeal of religion (specifically Catholicism) to youth – can illuminate each other. After looking at some of the evidence for the role of recusancy in juvenile experiences of Catholicism, the article focuses on three contrasting cases which illustrate young people's engagement with recusancy and Catholicism, and how it was interpreted by adult authorities, Catholic and Protestant: a case of recusant proselytising by the young men of a gentry household, as reported to the Privy Council; the alleged visions of fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Orton in Flintshire in 1581; and the autobiographical testimony of Robert Colton, a recusant youth imprisoned in London's Bridewell in 1595–6. It is argued that including recusancy will help us to better understand the complexity of youthful engagement with religion in early modern England, and also to appreciate the implications of recusancy.
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McDowell, Linda, and Carl Bonner-Thompson. "The other side of coastal towns: Young men’s precarious lives on the margins of England." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 5 (November 18, 2019): 916–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x19887968.
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English coastal resorts are among the most deprived towns in the country, with levels of economic and social deprivation often exceeding those of the inner areas of large cities and former industrial settlements. Their dominant image in the media and other forms of representation, however, is of places of innocent fun and leisure, often associated with their history as holiday destinations for working-class families, although the darker side of these towns is not completely ignored. The lives of white working-class, year-round residents in these towns, however, seldom feature in representations or in policy and academic research. Here, we focus on the everyday lives of one group: young white working-class men whose employment opportunities have been adversely affected by economic decline, austerity and rising inequality. In places where employment is largely restricted to customer-facing jobs in the holiday trade, the dominant construction of youthful masculinity and the associated rhetorical view of these men as troublesome not only excludes them from the labour market but exacerbates their marginality. Through interviews in four English resorts, we explore the causes and consequences of their precarity.
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King, Henry. "“Her lost girl”: Shirley Jackson and Kenneth Burke in the Bennington Triangle." American Studies in Scandinavia 53, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v53i2.6389.
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From 1945 to 1950, a number of unexplained disappearances occurred in the vicinity of Bennington, Vermont. During the same period, the author Shirley Jackson moved to North Bennington, while her friend Kenneth Burke (a colleague of her husband at Bennington College) published two pivotal works of theory, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). Although the disappearances have previously been noted as a context of Jackson’s fiction, especially the short story “The Missing Girl”, this article applies a Burkeian lens to analyse how Jackson used the disappearances to explore the effects of what Burke calls “the hierarchal psychosis” on young women and rural New England society.
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Geybels, Lindsey. "Shuffling Softly, Sighing Deeply: A Digital Inquiry into Representations of Older Men and Women in Literature for Different Ages." Social Sciences 12, no. 3 (February 22, 2023): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030112.
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When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on stereotypes connected to older women, and few comparative studies have been conducted pertaining to the representation of the intersection between older age and gender in fiction. This article argues that not only children’s literature, traditionally considered to be a carrier of ideology, plays a large part in the target readership’s age socialization, but so do young adult and adult fiction. In a large corpus of 41 Dutch books written for different ages, the representation of older men and women is studied through the verbs, grammatical possessions and adjectives associated with the relevant fictional characters, which were extracted from the texts through the computational method of dependency parsing. Older adult characters featured most frequently in fiction for adults, where, more so than in the books for younger readers, they are depicted as being prone to illness, experiencing the effects of a deteriorating body and having a limited social network. In the books for children, little to no association between older adulthood and mortality was found in the data. Ageist stereotypes pertaining to both genders were found throughout the corpus. In terms of characterization, male older adults are associated more with physicality, including matters of illness and mobility, while character traits and emotions show up in a more varied manner in connection to female older characters.
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Gagné, Thierry, Amanda Sacker, and Ingrid Schoon. "Changes in Patterns of Social Role Combinations at Ages 25–26 among Those Growing Up in England between 1996 and 2015–16: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort and Next Steps Studies." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 50, no. 10 (July 16, 2021): 2052–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01477-1.
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AbstractChanges across education, employment, and family life over the past 20 years challenges the capacity of previously established social role combinations to continue representing the experiences of young men and women born since the late 1980s. Latent class analysis was used to derive patterns of role combinations at ages 25–26 in those growing up in England, using data from 3191 men and 3921 women in the 1970 British Cohort Study (1996) and 3426 men and 4281 women in the Next Steps study born in 1989–90 (2015–16). Role combinations in 1996 were well defined by five patterns across genders: educated, work-oriented, traditional family, fragile family, and slow starters. Patterns in 2015–16 diverged across genders (e.g., disappearance of home ownership in the traditional family group among men and higher education as a group identifier among women) and included across genders fewer work-oriented, more slow starters, and a new group of “left behind” who are excluded from work and relationships. Young men and women born around 1990 experienced diverging role combinations characterized by increased delays and inequalities, with fewer being able to attain the milestones traditionally associated with the transition to adulthood by the mid-20s.
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Raleigh, V. Soni, L. Bulusu, and R. Balarajan. "Suicides Among Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent." British Journal of Psychiatry 156, no. 1 (January 1990): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.156.1.46.
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Suicides in England and Wales among immigrants of Indian ethnic origin were analysed for the period 1970–78. There were excess suicides among young Indian women, these being disproportionately more among the married. Burning was a common method of suicide among Indian women. Suicide rates were low in Indian men and the Indian elderly. A large proportion of the male suicides were among doctors and dentists.
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Weatherill, Lorna. "A Possession of One's Own: Women and Consumer Behavior in England, 1660–1740." Journal of British Studies 25, no. 2 (April 1986): 131–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/385858.
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Hall Men are born free, how is it that all Women are born slaves? As they must be if the being subjected to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary Will of Men, be the Perfect Condition of Slavery? [Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (London, 1700), p. 66]The wife ought to be subject to the husband in all things. [Hannah Woolley, The Gentlewoman's Companion or a GUIDE to the Female sex (London, 1675), p. 104]IDid men and women have different cultural and material values in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries? We know very little in detail about the activities of people within their homes and especially about their attitudes to the material goods that they used and that surrounded them. Virginia Woolf's complaint that she had no model to “turn about this way and that” in exploring the role of women in fiction applies equally to women's behavior as consumers, for we still do not know, as she put it, “what, in short, they did from eight in the morning till eight at night.” Did their particular roles within the household result in different material values, just as their biological and economic roles were different? We do know that power was unequally distributed within the household, although we can also demonstrate cooperation and affection between family members. We take it that the household was, in some sense, the woman's domain, but very often we cannot explore what this meant in practice. In short, was being “subjected to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary Will of Men” reflected in women's cultural values and tastes?These are broad questions that are not easily answered, either in theory or by observation, especially as it is not easy to identify the behavior of women as distinct from that of the family and household, but they are questions worth asking to see if there are signs of behavior different enough to warrant the view that there was a subculture in which women had the chance to express themselves and their views of the world separately, especially as the daily routines of their lives were different.
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Liebovich, Betty. "Margaret McMillan’s Contributions to Cultures of Childhood." Genealogy 3, no. 3 (July 25, 2019): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3030043.
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Margaret McMillan is widely known for her open-air nursery, making it her life mission to live by the McMillan family motto, Miseris Succurrere Disco, which translates to ‘I endeavour to care for the less fortunate’. Margaret and her sister, Rachel, dedicated their lives to improving living conditions for the poor and working class in England and created health and dental clinics for them in Bradford, Bow and Deptford. During the 1889 Dock Strike, Margaret and Rachel supported workers by marching and demonstrating at Parliament. At the turn of the last century, they were instrumental in inspiring legislation for children’s welfare and education on both local and national levels in England. Their efforts led to campaigning for the 1906 Provision of School Meals Act and medical inspections for primary school children. In an effort to improve health conditions for the children living in the Deptford community, they created night camps for deprived children in 1908. With war impending in 1914, they created the first open air nursery in England in order to serve the disadvantaged community surrounding it, providing a safe and nurturing learning environment for the young children of the women going to work in place of the men who were called up to war. Margaret McMillan’s ideals for young children’s nurture and education continue to influence how we educate children in contemporary England and are woven into the fabric of our goals for young children’s futures.
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Curtis, Heather D. "Visions of Self, Success, and Society among Young Men in Antebellum Boston." Church History 73, no. 3 (September 2004): 613–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640700098310.
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When Dwight L. Moody left his native town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for Boston in 1854, he was one among hundreds of young men flocking to urban centers in hopes of achieving greater prosperity and “success” in mercantile careers than their families had attained through agricultural pursuits or village commerce. This trend was part of a larger pattern of urban growth that began in the early nineteenth century, fueled by both foreign immigration and the expansion of industrial capitalism. In the decades prior to the Civil War, Boston's population expanded exponentially, reaching nearly 140,000 at the time of the 1850 census, a six-fold increase since 1800. Of this number, nearly one-half were of “foreign” birth or parentage, and an additional 25,000 were “Americans” who had migrated to Boston from rural New England and other areas of the United States. Only around 50,000—or 35 percent of the total population—had been born and raised in Boston. This rapid influx of newcomers to the city provoked growing concern among native Bostonians, as the presence of rural youths, Irish Catholics, and other “outsiders” began to challenge and transform traditional patterns of social, economic, political, and religious life.
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White, Carolyn W. "The Strange Death of Liberal England in Its Time." Albion 17, no. 4 (1985): 425–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4049432.
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In the autumn of 1935 an obscure New York publishing house brought out a book by a young British writer which had an arresting title, The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914. Reviewers praised the book for its superb writing, brilliant wit, and elegant style. It was noted, however, that the thesis of the book was either indecipherable or if discernible lacking in conviction. Its author was George Dangerfield, a recent immigrant to New York and literary editor of Vanity Fair, the demise of which shortly followed the publication of its editor's book. In the middle of the 1930s Dangerfield appeared to represent those young Englishmen without birth and without resources who had “the will not to let any sentiment for the beauties of that England which is gone, or any compromise with the unreal thinking of the men who enjoyed it, stand in their way as they mold the England that shall be.” After 1935 Dangerfield was a professional writer and lecturer until World War II when he joined the American army as an infantryman and assumed American citizenship at Paris, Texas, in 1943. Thereafter he could no longer speak with the clear, authentic voice of the new young England. Rather he identified the persistence of “good, sound American doctrine” from the Federalist Papers as “one of the glories of our republic,” and he evoked that doctrine in defense of free association and the open competition of ideas. As the cold war ensued and Joseph McCarthy reached for national office, George Dangerfield continued to speak for liberal democracy.
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Biddle, Lucy, Anita Brock, Sara T. Brookes, and David Gunnell. "Suicide rates in young men in England and Wales in the 21st century: time trend study." BMJ 336, no. 7643 (February 14, 2008): 539–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39475.603935.25.
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Bennett, Judith M. "Wretched girls, wretched boys and the European Marriage Pattern in England (c. 1250–1350)." Continuity and Change 34, no. 3 (December 2019): 315–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416019000328.
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AbstractFollowing on from ‘Married and not: Weston's grown children in 1268–1269’, this article places the Lincolnshire village of Weston within a realm-wide context to demonstrate that, as the rural economy stumbled after c. 1250, many young women and men either delayed marriage or could not marry at all. The European Marriage Pattern (late marriage for some and no marriage for others) can be discerned in England long before the socio-economic adjustments that followed the Black Death, and it grew mainly from poverty, not prosperity.
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MacMillan, Ken, and Melissa Glass. "Murder and Mutilation in Early-Stuart England: A Case Study in Crime Reporting." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 27, no. 2 (July 20, 2017): 63–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1040562ar.
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Although historians have long recognized that crime pamphlet authors were not very faithful reporters, it has been difficult for them to establish precisely how much fiction this literature contained because of the limited availability of other sources with which to compare them. Using a case study approach, this essay examines two murder pamphlets, both written in 1606, that describe the murder of a young boy, Anthony James, the mutilation of his sister, Elizabeth, and the conviction and execution of their alleged assailants, Agnes and George Dell. The presence of two pamphlets describing the same series of crimes was unusual, and, through a process of detailed comparison and critical interpretation, provides us with an opportunity to reflect further on the accuracy and purpose of crime reporting in early modern England. The two versions contain a great deal of contradictory information, were seemingly written for very different audiences, served a variety of functions for contemporary readers, and raise the question of whether the authors believed that justice was done in this case.
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Reynolds, Kimberley, Tom Schofield, and Diego Trujillo-Pisanty. "Children’s Magical Realism for New Spatial Interactions: Augmented Reality and the David Almond Archives." Children's Literature in Education 51, no. 4 (June 29, 2019): 502–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-019-09389-2.
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Abstract This article draws on a multi-disciplinary project based on the David Almond archives at Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The project combined archival research, augmented reality (AR) technology, Almond’s magical realist writing and experimental workshops to explore whether AR can enhance young people’s engagement with archives and literature. In the process it highlighted the extent to which Almond’s fiction is itself a form of augmentation that represents a particular geographical location—the North East of England—in ways that challenge official accounts of that place. This aspect of Almond’s writing corresponds to what Michel de Certeau describes as tactical spatial practice and is closely associated with some forms of AR.
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Gagné, Thierry, Alita Nandi, and Ingrid Schoon. "Time trend analysis of social inequalities in psychological distress among young adults before and during the pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study COVID-19 waves." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 76, no. 5 (October 29, 2021): 421–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-217266.
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BackgroundDespite concerns about mental health problems among those aged 16–24 in England, which social groups have been most at risk, both over the past decade and during the COVID-19 pandemic, remains unclear.MethodsWe examined trends in psychological distress among young adults 16–24 years old in England using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Using longitudinal data as repeated cross-sectional waves, we examined differences over time in mean General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) scores from wave 1 (2009–2010) to wave 10 (2018–2019) and six COVID-19 waves collected between April and November 2020, by economic activity, cohabitation with parents, parental education, area deprivation, ethnicity, age and sex.ResultsCompared with 2009–2010, increases in GHQ scores in 2018–2019 were higher in women than men (2.1 vs 1.3), those aged 16–18 than aged 22–24 (2.6 vs 0.9), those from white UK group versus other ethnic minorities, and those out of the labour force (3.6) or employed part time (2.2) than those employed full time (0.8). Compared with 2018–2019, psychological distress in 2020 also further increased among young adults residing in the most deprived areas (4.1 vs 1.2 in the least deprived areas). In 2020, losing one’s job or most of one’s work hours was associated with higher psychological distress and attenuated the differences between deprivation quartiles by 17%.ConclusionIn England, inequalities in psychological distress among young adults may have changed and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Investing in opportunities for young adults, particularly in more deprived areas, may be key to improve population levels of mental health.