bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The crisis of the professional identity of the teacher in the context of the formation of a new information and communication educational paradigm: Aspect of research and publication activity
Authors: Loboda Svitlana , Błaszczak Iwona , Plyska Yuriy
Published: January 2024

The problem of the study - the genesis of the problem of the crisis of professional identity of a teacher in the context of the formation of a new information and communication educational paradigm in the second half of the twentieth century - early twenty-first century. The analysis of the scientific and pedagogical literature of the second half of the twentieth century - the beginning of the twenty-first century demonstrates that the transition to a new paradigm of education was marked by the emergence of a crisis of professional identity, which is also emphasised by the ambiguity of definitions of the concept of professional identity. In the modern scientific and pedagogical discourse, a teacher is seen as a person with numerous roles. The scientific, theoretical and philosophical foundations for considering research activities and publication activity as key indicators of the level of professional identity of a teacher are identified and substantiated. An empirical study of the opinions of practicing teachers in Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Sweden on research and publication activity is carried out. The results of the international empirical research state the presence and reveal specific manifestations of the professional identity crisis.
Experiences of the mobile dating applications users: a cluster analysis
Authors: Kacprzak-Wachniew Kamila , Pilarska Natalia , Sołtys Michalina Weronika
Published: January 2024

The growing popularity of dating apps has been noted in recent years, but the nature of the user experience of dating apps is heterogeneous. The present study aimed to investigate the experiences of dating app users and distinguish their types based on cluster analysis. An exploratory study was conducted online among 406 adults who have used online dating. Survey questions investigated: motives for online dating, perceived pressure to find a partner, length of use of the dating app, usability rating, perceived benefits and well-being after using dating apps, frequency of experiencing negative events while dating, reasons for and number of deletions of dating profile. Three credible clusters were identified: “persistent” - people who are mainly looking for a relationship, have long periods of use of the app and delete it less often; “for a while”. - are those with different motives for online dating, use the app briefly and rarely return to it, and are characterized by a small number of difficult online situations; "hurt" - people with motives other than looking for a relationship, have many negative experiences and most often delete dating apps. The clusters differed in age, gender, relationship status, motives (relationships vs. other motives), pressure (pressure, no pressure).
Assessment of early primary school students during remote education in Poland
Authors: Zubala Ewelina , Wichrowska Kamila , Marchlik Paulina
Published: January 2024

Properly conducted assessment aims to help students build self-confidence and develop an attitude toward effective learning but it also aims to show teachers the right path to create new educational challenges for students. Assessing the youngest children is particularly difficult, especially when it is done in remote education. The aim of this article is to analyse and present the issue of verifying the knowledge and skills of students from early primary school (grades 1–3) during distance learning. The authors of the article conducted a qualitative study before the third schools’ closure in Poland due to the coronavirus pandemic. The research question asked in the article is: How were early primary students’ knowledge and skills verified in remote education? The findings focus on the specific forms and challenges in assessing the children’s work and progress, even indicating statements about the pointlessness of assessing the youngest students during remote learning. Online assessment of the pupils was problematic due to the limited computer skills of the youngest children and the need for their parents’ support. Teachers’ statements included opinions regarding the reliability of the assessment. It was recognised that the process was prone to a significant degree of cheating.
Students facing the perspective of returning to school after the period of remote education. Based on the Comfort–Stretch-Panic concept
Authors: Chojnacka Barbara , Iwański Rafał , Litwiński Michał , Sielicka Edyta
Published: January 2024

The aim of the study was to identify the factors that influence situating the students in the Comfort–Stretch-Panic (CSP) zones in the perspective of transition from remote to direct education. The study uses an original tool adapted upon the CSP concept. The presented data was obtained in 2021, from a representative sample of 1125 students. Thus, obtained data allowed to determine the factors of willingness of the primary school students to return to direct education. The research hypotheses were verified using a multinomial logit model. The study shows that the students' readiness depends on factors such as: gender and age, active participation in the online educational process, difficulties related to the process and relationships at school, as well as the family and school support potential. The significant influence caused by the students' personal problems and psychophysical condition on their potential return to direct education was not observed.
Prevalence of gastrointestinal helminth parasites of equines in central zone of Kashmir Valley
Authors: MARIA A , SHAHARDAR R A , BUSHRA M
Published: January 2024

Faecal samples (550) from equines were examined in central zone of Kashmir valley from September 2009 to July 2010 and 95.09% were found positive for ova of one or other gastrointestinal helminths. Nematodes were most prevalent helminths (95.09%) followed by cestodes (1.45%). Among nematodes Cyathostomes were found to be the most prevalent (94.72%), followed by Strongylus spp.(81.09%), Triodontophorus spp. (60.90%), Dictyocaulus arnfieldi (13.09%), Oxyuris equi (8.18%), Strongyloides westeri (6.90%) and Parascaris equorum (4.36%). The seasonal analysis exhibited highest infection (100%) in spring followed by 99% in summer, 94.66% in autumn and 88% in winter with nonsignificant variation. The overall prevalence of mixed infection was 91.45%. The overall mean intensity of infection was 1546.45±345.47. Highest mean intensity was recorded in spring followed by autumn summer and minimum in winter. There was nonsignificant variation in incidence and intensity of infection among different types of equines. Similarly, incidence and intensity of infection remained marginally higher in young ones and in females. Different genera of strongyle worms identified on coproculture were Cyathostomum spp. (62.00%) followed by Triodontophorus spp. (8.00%), Gyalocephalus spp. (7.33%), Strongylus vulgaris (6.00%), Strongylus edentatus (4.00%), Trichostrongylus axei (4.00%), Poteriostomum spp. (3.00%) and Oesophagodontus spp. (3.00%).
Prologue
Authors: Kaliss Gregory J.
Published: January 2024

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Introduction
Authors: Kaliss Gregory J.
Published: January 2024

This chapter begins with Laura Ingraham’s 2018 admonishment to LeBron James to “shut up and dribble” and his public refutation of her criticisms regarding his politics. The chapter then situates this moment of athlete activism, and the backlash that accompanied it, by discussing the long history of African American athletes and women athletes in the United States. The bitter response to athletic pioneers like black boxer Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the opening up of opportunities for women athletes such as Wilma Rudolph during the Cold War, show how different social contexts impacted athletes’ political possibilities. By highlighting the tensions that accompanied athletes’ efforts to contest systemic racism and patriarchy, this chapter sets the stage for the book’s five case studies.
Black Men / Black Gladiators
Authors: Kaliss Gregory J.
Published: January 2024

This chapter uses the Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier boxing bout of March 1971 to explore black athletes’ efforts to challenge dominant stereotypes of black men. Against a backdrop of anti-Vietnam War protests, Black Power, and black capitalism, the undefeated Ali and Frazier became potent, and often opposing, symbols of black masculinity. To many, Ali represented revolution and outspoken critiques of established norms, while Frazier stood for working within the system, work ethic, and personal modesty. Debates about the financing of the fight, in particular, raised significant questions about the possibilities and limitations of black athlete empowerment in a white-dominated, capitalist sports world.
Translation in Feminism/Feminism in Translation
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

Following a brief preface that describes the author’s transnational/translational journey that led her to Hanne Blank’s Virgin: The Untouched History, the introduction introduces the theoretical and methodological framework of the research project, which is inspired by Edward Said’s “traveling theory.” This chapter particularly explains how Said’s theory is supplemented by the critical theories of transnational and women of color feminisms, translation studies, indigenous feminisms, reception studies, and comparative literature so that it pays analytical attention to translational procedures and agents of cross-border travel, geopolitical directionality of global flows of feminist texts, politics of reading translation, and ethical formations of post-oppositional connectivities across border. The introduction ends with chapter summaries.
Local Politics of Feminist Translation
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

Chapter 5 takes off from the fact that Virgin’s Turkish translation remains the only feminist book in Turkish that is exclusively dedicated to challenging heteropatriarchal virginity codes and conventions. The chapter then asks how the translation could settle in Turkey despite its exclusively western identity and scope and unsettle Turkey’s locally grounded virginity regime. Chapter 5 investigates the traveling book’s local political impact by drawing on the reception study conducted with its feminist readers and reveals that the book has significantly contributed to Turkey’s existing feminist resistance to virginity violence by (1) providing counter knowledges on virginity and, (2) raising critical awareness and acting as a call for feminist action.
Translation in Transnational/Transnational in Translation
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

Conclusion highlights translation’s potential to facilitate empowering interactions between resistant texts and feminist readers and mobilize feminist connectivities across borders. The chapter first brings up cautionary tales about transnational feminisms by asking what would happen if the geopolitical composition and direction of the traveling text were reversed. It then discusses two scenarios illustrating some disturbing reactions Virgin Crossing Borders received at western academic settings, which reveals the urgency of assuming ethical responsibility when it comes to hearing one another across borders. The chapter ends by underlining the importance of cultivating a new ethos of cross-border translation and reception that simultaneously celebrates the indeterminate alienness of the other, the fluidity and vulnerability of the self, and the fine possibility of hybridization.
Laboring Behind Search
Authors: Yeo ShinJoung
Published: January 2024

Through search, this chapter explicates the labor organization under capitalism and challenges the pervasive myth of the Internet companies as exclusively, even generally, reliant on young, highly-paid and educated workers. Building on Harry Braverman’s theory of labor, the chapter identifies four interlocking categories of work that support the search engine industry – a reserve army of labor (RAL), a relatively small cadre of highly-skilled full-time workers, and below that – propping it all up – legions of contract- and process workers and unwaged labor which support capital’s accumulation projects. The chapter proceeds in light of historical scholarship and holds that unwaged labor is deeply rooted in capitalism and its relationship to waged labor.
Introduction
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

The introduction sets out the key issues and theoretical contribution of the book. It explicates how danzón is and is not linked to joyousness, blackness, nostalgia, a modernist aesthetic, conviviality, older age, and romance. It offers a typology of ambivalence as a theoretical tool to navigate cultural landscapes, proposing three models of ambivalence--static, dialectic, and utopian--based on static dualisms, dynamic dialectics, and idealism. And it addresses the logics of interweaving ethnographic fiction between the conventionally written chapters of the book. It also outlines the chapters and the methodological strategies employed.
United in a Vipers’ Nest
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

This chapter explores group dynamics, specifically how conviviality, rivalry, envy, and ostracism play out in, and between, dance groups. The chapter revisits Kracauer’s classic essays, together with ethnographies of Amazonia, to examine the quality of group experience. It challenges Iannaccone’s influential rational-choice model of (religious) groups, whereby “free-riders” undermine the viability of a group’s conviviality and collective aims, instead proposing that it is intimacy that threatens group cohesion: both intimacy and rivalries can be productive in propelling revival movements, in enabling groups to split and multiply. The chapter considers how knowledge is restricted and transmission processes curbed by group leaders. Throughout, it points to static and utopian ambivalences provoked by conviviality, rivalry, envy, and ostracism.
Loving Ambivalence
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

This chapter argues that older people’s romantic lives have been largely ignored in music-dance scholarship and analyzes how older people negotiate intimacy, notions of decency, and gossip in a context where most women are post-marriage and most men have wives and lovers. It points to ambivalences that pervade these relationships. The chapter also explores perceptions of danzón as an older people’s music-dance form, denials of this and of older age; the tensions that the emergence of the modernist aesthetic of the revivalist dance created when performed by older bodies; and what groups enable in terms of amorous encounters. Finally, it reflects on age and gender in Veracruz’s danzón scene in relation to María Novaro’s film Danzón.
Diana
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

In order to enable people’s struggles and intimate feelings to be alluded to, and stories that pervade danzón practitioners’ lives to be told that would otherwise be absent, short, experimentally written vignettes are interwoven between the more conventionally written chapters of the book: most are ethnographic fiction. Vignette 7 portrays how important danzón is in the lives of Diana and her brain-damaged son, Tito; the losses they have suffered; and how they were ostracized from a dance group.
Freedom’s Fullness
Authors: Torres Anna Elena , Zimmer Kenyon
Published: January 2024

This introduction discusses the fundamentals of anarchist ideology and practice: non-domination, antistatism, anticapitalism, and prefiguration. It then surveys the breadth and diversity of historical Jewish anarchisms, which varied in the languages they utilized, in how central Jewish identity was to them, and in their relationships to both other anarchists and other Jews. Much of this history, however, has been ignored or repressed by previous historians of the Jewish experience, of labor and radical history, and of Yiddish literature. Finally, this introduction provides an overview of the rest of the volume, organized around the themes of roots, strategies, and culture.
Jewish Anarchist Temporalities
Authors: Brody Samuel Hayim
Published: January 2024

Jewish anarchists have had varying and complex relationships to Jewish religious traditions, as well as to temporality, the lived experience of time. They have most commonly favored a “progressive” temporality shared with other radicals, in which the new socialist-anarchist dawn is coming to replace the statist-capitalist world just as that world replaced the one of the Middle Ages. However, they have also sometimes opted for a “non-linear” temporality, in which the past, present, and future are collapsed together and lived simultaneously. This chapter explores these alternate temporalities in the works of three German-Jewish anarchists: Gustav Landauer, Erich Mühsam, and Martin Buber.
In the Jewish Tower
Authors: Aizman Ania
Published: January 2024

Writing in the 1920s for a Soviet Russian audience, Semyon Sibiriakov (1888-1937) painted one of the few extant portraits of Jewish anarchist culture told from within the movement: particularly, of post-1905 Jewish anarchism and anarchists in tsarist prisons. His stories show a distinctive aspect of Jewish anarchism: that collective resistance was a continuum ranging from terror to civil disobedience, and from jokes and pranks to historical commemoration and personal eulogy. This chapter discusses Sibiriakov in the context of organizations that harbored anarchists and anarchist writing in the early Soviet period and contrasts his career with that of more famous counterparts, such as Isaac Babel.
Flaco's Legacy
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

This book addresses the worldwide spread of Texas-Mexican conjunto music, a regional tradition historically forming a symbol of working-class, cultural identity–or at least a narrative of such. It identifies former representations of the genre within the local community before tracing more recent performances, recordings, media depictions, hybridizations, and unconventional adoptions of conjunto music throughout the United States and around the world. It invokes three processes of globalization (media/migration, hybridization, and appropriation) to consider a disconnection of the music from its original sociocultural context, establishing new understandings of categorization in temporally shifting relationships between people and artistic commodities. As such, it challenges former historiographies of genre as identity to complicate the role of the Texas-Mexican artform among shifting conceptions of the U.S.-Mexico border, its people, and its influences worldwide. Contemporary manifestations of conjunto music–however the genre is defined–are not restricted to a particular location or temporal moment. The music instead travels outside of stereotypical understandings of the border region, encompassing people, places, and stylistic traits no longer affiliated with a presumed sociocultural identity. This book uses the globalized circumstances of conjunto to trace new iterations of the music, but also to offset primitivist representations of the associated community as developed via aesthetic traits.
“We love you, Flaco!”
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

This chapter discusses the impact of global performances by local artists on the dissemination of conjunto music. It traces inter/national tours and festival participation by Flaco Jiménez, Mingo Saldívar, and Steve Jordan beginning in the 1970s, arguing that global attention to conjunto music was stimulated by these initial presentations. While Flaco and Saldívar have both accepted a certain understanding of their music–and thus identity–as “other” among U.S. American culture, Jordan’s attempts to escape fixed correlations between cultural heritage and aesthetic characteristics have resulted in frustrations, economic limitations, and an ultimate retreat to more comfortable understandings of acceptance for minoritized musicians.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Dodge Presents Flaco Jiménez!”
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

This chapter discusses the role of modern media representations of conjunto on the global dissemination of the genre. It traces the recording history of the genre through small, regional labels like Ideal and Falcón and larger, niche companies like Arhoolie and Arista Texas, contending that such specialized distribution has limited an inter/national understanding of conjunto to Flaco Jiménez’s particular flavor of the genre as interpreted among a bourgeois audience. In addition, it explores the radio presence of conjunto in stations like KEDA in San Antonio. Although globalization broadens participation in Texas-Mexican conjunto, it constrains aesthetic traits and community-based meanings to what is disseminated through these mediated channels.
“You have to mix it up!”
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

This chapter analyzes hybridity in the music of Flaco Jiménez, including the artist’s solo works and his participation in groups like the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven. The development of Texas-Mexican conjunto creates a cycle of hybridization that shifts in time between more and less homogenous aesthetic practices. This process helps to characterize a bicultural identity for regional performers that better represents the associated constituency than strictly traditional stylistic traits. This hybridization demonstrates that while musicians outside the most traditional understanding of Texas-Mexican identity assert their cultural positionality by remaining closely in line with historic understandings of the music, local artists experiment with alternative styles.
“I play the jazz accordion!”
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

This chapter analyzes cross-cultural influences in the music of Mingo Saldívar and Steve Jordan. Signifying bicultural identifications, these works blend at least two distinctive genres. In this way, Jordan introduces “blackness” into the regional identity. Yet, this explanation is complicated by the analogous supposition of inserting “whiteness” into Saldívar’s performances. These particular cultural combinations correspond to differences in reception for each artist: Jordan’s insertions of stereotypically African-American musical traits have not been fully accepted among the local community or the more mainstream population, while Saldívar’s use of characteristics tied to Anglo-American populations serves as an ethnic “representation” of the United States.
“It’s jealousy…”
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

This chapter explores the male dominance of Texas-Mexican conjunto, tracing hybrid musical performances of women like Eva Ybarra as a counterbalance against historiographic narratives of–not only–conjunto as Texas-Mexican identity, but, specifically, conjunto as male Texas-Mexican identity. It examines the notion that the lack of female participation in conjunto is–in part–a misconception caused by the exclusion of women from the literature, further dismantling former understandings of genre as sociocultural identity. However, while female artists do pursue processes of globalization, they rarely pursue new methods of stylistic innovation. This suggests that women must assert their positionality within the Texas-Mexican community through adherence to the globalized pursuits of male musicians.
Continuing Considerations
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

The conclusion to this book presents closing analyses of the processes (media/migration, hybridization, and appropriation) and implications (genre and identity) of globalization, as demonstrated by Texas-Mexican conjunto music. This section goes beyond the preceding chapters to consider more recent circumstances of the genre, including contemporary hybridizations of local artists and recent folkloric pursuits among traditional venues, festivals, and educational institutions. The juxtaposition of these two methods demonstrates the role of conjunto outside of stereotypical understandings of genre as working-class identity and instead leads to new representations of the music outside of historic–and primitivist–notions of culture.
Conceptual Work
Authors: Dragomir Cristina-Ioana
Published: January 2024

Chapter 1 presents the conceptual work that supports the book. It starts with a brief presentation of the history of foreigners in the US military and shows how their naturalization process has not yet been thoroughly investigated. It continues by linking this to the historical backbone of the argument, introducing the theory of intersectionality and its strength in applying it to the analysis of the narratives of immigrant soldiers. Different from classical applications of intersectionality theory, stating the need to analyze the interconnected nature of social categorizations of race and gender, the theory is applied to see how immigrant soldiers’ ethnicity/ race, gender, and class create overlapping and interdependent systems of disadvantage, which reproduce the hierarchies that exist within civilian life.
Lily
Authors: Dragomir Cristina-Ioana
Published: January 2024

What is the process of naturalization of the immigrant soldiers? This chapter presents the life story of Lily, whose life began during communist Romania and who decided to come to the United States. When life changed unexpectedly, Lily decided to enlist in the U.S. Air Force. Here, she began her journey of naturalization through everyday performative practices. Lily’s desire to succeed in the military and beyond was both aided and hindered by interconnected categorizations of race/ethnicity, class, and gender. In spite of her many successes, Lily’s story ends by showing how her immigrant status was not erased in the military, but impeded her social mobility.
Alexa
Authors: Dragomir Cristina-Ioana
Published: January 2024

What is the process of naturalization of the immigrant soldiers? This chapter presents the life story of Alexa, whose life started in Latin America. Her immigrant journey started when she was young, when she first went to eastern Europe and from there to the United States. Here, after years working as doméstica, Alexa decided to enlist in the U.S. Army. Throughout her immigrant journey, Alexa strove to integrate, but she was always aware of falling short. The military seem to offer her this opportunity, as well as access to higher education. Alexa embraced her enlistment. However, when facing health issues, she relayed that many of the interconnected categorizations of race/ethnicity, class, and gender she faced in civilian life were duplicated in the military.
Vikrant
Authors: Dragomir Cristina-Ioana
Published: January 2024

What is the process of naturalization of the immigrant soldiers? This chapter presents the life story of Vikrant, whose life began in India, and who--after being highly educated in his home country--decided to come to the United States as a graduate student at an Ivy League university. In spite of his assiduous efforts, he had a hard time becoming a US citizen, integrating in the host country, and obtaining economic stability that would allow him to pay his student loans. Aiming to overcome all this, he joined the U.S. armed forces, via a pilot program that allowed folks on temporary visas to enlist, offering them the opportunity to speedily naturalize. While serving in the U.S. Army, a predominantly (to say the least) masculine institution, he engaged in bodily performative practices, which supported his integration, while also experiencing downward economic mobility.
Conclusion
Authors: Dragomir Cristina-Ioana
Published: January 2024

What is the process of naturalization of the immigrant soldiers? Much like the naturalization of immigrants within civilian life, this chapter concludes that the three participants in this study, Lily, Alexa, and Vikrant, underwent a process of “segmented assimilation.” Namely, their identities played an important role in finding their place in the host country. While, by serving in the military, their overall lives bettered on many accounts, the myth of a meritocratic military service crumbled when analyzed through the intersectionality framework. More specifically, the lives of the three immigrant soldiers show the important roles that race/ethnicity, gender, and class play in the process of becoming American.
Edith Head
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Stanwyck’s collaboration with costume designer Edith Head began in 1937 and was first noticed in The Lady Eve (1941). Head’s designs helped Stanwyck become glamourous, defining her figure and helping her negotiate the on-screen/off-screen transitions necessary for media celebrity. Unlike Orry-Kelly, who dressed Stanwyck in some of her early ’30s films, Head’s designs were more in line with the fashion trends of Stanwyck’s audiences, including the tight sweaters of pinup culture in the 1940s and jeans in the 1960s. The feminine elegance of Head’s designs offset Stanwyck’s “tough” public image and also helped her inhabit the “sleazy” persona of characters such as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity.
William Holden
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden were lifelong friends and they made two movies together: Golden Boy (1939) and Executive Suite (1954). This chapter analyzes those two films as well as the gossip surrounding Holden and Stanwyck’s relationship from an anthropological perspective, as it was implicated within the networks and rituals of celebrity. Stanwyck mentored Holden as a young man, as she did with several other actors, including her second husband, Robert Taylor, who, like Holden, was younger than she was. Drawing on theorists John Caldwell and Sherry Ortner, the production culture of mid-century Hollywood is explored as a highly gendered scene. Stanwyck nevertheless managed to invert and engage with this culture as a professional older woman.
Kate Crawley
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Stanwyck plays a character named Kate Crawley in two episodes of the TV series Wagon Train, in 1963 and 1964, which is the only cross-dressing role in her career, inspired by the legendary figure of Calamity Jane. Despite persistent rumors about her sexuality and suspected lesbianism, little evidence from Stanwyck’s biography supports her being anything other than heterosexual. This chapter argues that her star image definitely produces a space for lesbian fantasy, which was an important cultural space during her career and remains an important component of her archival stardom. Drawing on Patty White’s analysis of Hollywood lesbianism, the chapter also discusses Walk on the Wild Side (1962) and other points of provocation in Stanwyck’s career for the lesbian rumors.
Paranoia, Abjection, and Gaslighting
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

In paranoid woman’s films, or gothic noir, female protagonists are consistently terrorized by husbands and “gaslit” by the very narratives that they star in. Stanwyck made a series of these films in the 1940s, and this chapter analyzes The Gay Sisters (1942), The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947), The Other Love (1947), Cry Wolf (1947), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). An analysis that accounts for the female actor as well as the female spectator leads to the conclusion that if we consider these films to be “abject” and not simply paranoid, we might better recognize the discourse of misogyny at work in this cycle of classical Hollywood cinema.
Riding, Falling, and Stunts
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

How did a Brooklyn orphan become known as a western hero in the image of her hero, Pearl White? This chapter traces Stanwyck’s relationship with horses, including her ambition to be a stunt woman. In fact, she suffered many injuries over the course of her career, and many of the most incredible stunts were actually performed by stuntpeople. Comparing the dynamic image of a woman on horseback with anecdotes from behind the scenes underlines the precarity of women’s agency in Hollywood. The contrast between the imagery of a woman hero and the narrative traps and patronizing critical commentary helps to underscore the ambivalence within American cultural history and Stanwyck’s role in the dreamscape of Hollywood.
Theresa Harris
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Theresa Harris was a black actor with 103 film credits to her name, three of which are Stanwyck films: Baby Face (1933), Banjo on My Knee (1936), and The File on Thelma Jordan (1949). Despite the paucity of archival evidence of Harris’s career, this chapter speculates on her contribution to Hollywood as a bit player, singer, and character actor. The critical race theory of Christine Goding-Doty suggests that Harris creates racial events through her diverse appearances, marking the lost possibility of a different cinema in which whiteness recedes into the background.
Union Pacific
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

This chapter examines four films that Stanwyck made in the late 1930s, tracking the conversion of the New Woman through the New Deal prewar debates about democracy and American nationalism. Red Salute (1935), The Plough and the Stars (1936), Union Pacific (1939), and Meet John Doe (1941) are all discussed as history films in which Stanwyck’s characters tend to hold strong views. Their positions are passionately articulated but are ultimately used in service of the status quo, despite the challenges and choices that are presented by the narratives and her performances.
Voice, Body, Identity
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Barbara Stanwyck’s voice was distinctively deep and maintained a Brooklyn accent, often incongruously, in most of her roles. This chapter explores the musicality of her voice, using Nina Sun Eidsheim’s understanding of the voice as an event, rather than an object, and Roland Barthes’s analysis of the grain of the voice. Speaking and singing, Stanwyck uses her voice as a gestural expression, playing with her low register, which challenges gender norms, and her accent, which complicates class and ethnicity.
Working Women and Cultural Labor
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Barbara Stanwyck played dozens of working women over the course of her career, and she herself had an excellent reputation as a film professional, although she was disdainful of unionized labor. In this chapter Stanwyck’s roles as professional women in The Bride Walks Out (1936), You Belong to Me (1941), Witness to Murder (1954), Roustabout (1964), and Nightwalker (1964) are examined, alongside her farm-laboring roles and showgirls of the 1930s. Using the concept of cultural labor, the chapter foregrounds the double standards of misogyny, in which Stanwyck’s labor was embedded, as well as her discursive modeling of gender alterity as a working woman.
Exotica and Bitter Tears
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) is analyzed in this chapter as an orientalist film featuring an interracial relationship that was “too early” for its time. Stanwyck’s performance as a submissive and surprisingly passive captive is explored in terms of cosmopolitanism, orientalist design, international film culture, and melodrama. I argue that the Chinese setting of Bitter Tea, aestheticized and stylized in ways that bring it into alignment with modern design, provides a unique space for the production of a female subject who is drawn into the exotic attraction, including its alternate modes of spirituality and love.
You Belong to Me
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

This essay explores the theme of possession in the titles of Stanwyck’s films, in the historical work of her superfans, in the industry archives, and in the American Heritage Center. The question of ownership of a movie star is explored in Mary Anne Doane’s work on the Hollywood woman’s film and Stanwyck’s own relation with her fans. Letter writing and scrapbooking are considered along with film performances as the diverse fragments of an expanding, open-ended archive that may not be able to capture the star but can always produce new histories.
Introduction
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

This chapter opens with a description of a march commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and it links participation in such events with the underlying ethos of capoeira. It distinguishes capoeira groups that privilege the Brazilian aspects of the art’s development and whose practitioners may focus primarily or even exclusively on the movement and form of capoeira from groups that express a greater commitment to the art’s African roots and its rhetorical construction as an art of resistance. This discussion complicates the dichotomous characterization of capoeira’s major styles and frames capoeira as a form of serious leisure. It also provides a working definition of social justice, which is further elaborated in chapter 2, and lays out a plan for the book.
Social Justice and Resistance as Analytical Frames
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

This chapter addresses the ways in which the story of capoeira’s origins and historical events become the basis of a narrative that supports certain practitioners’ conceptualization of capoeira as an art of resistance. It also provides a definition of social justice and explains the ways in which capoeiristas’ actions align with this definition. There is a special focus on several key mestres whose orientations help explain the widespread diffusion of activist capoeira throughout the world. This chapter also defines a new concept—performative resistance—to argue that the performance of arts like capoeira has the potential to bring about new states of being.
Becoming a Capoeirista
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

This chapter addresses the question of whether participation in capoeira really changes one’s way of being in the world, or whether capoeiristas themselves just tend to be a self-selecting group already on board with social justice causes. It argues that most capoeiristas experience some degree of personal growth as a result of their involvement in the art and in the greater capoeira community. This chapter also introduces the concept of affective habitus, an underlying emotional orientation toward the world that one acquires as a result of engagement with a particular social field. This concept is intended to complement the ways in which martial arts scholars have typically discussed students’ genre-specific development. Attention to power differentials in society, humility, and self-control are key aspects of a capoeirista’s affective habitus.
The Capoeira Community
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

This chapter explores the prefigurative politics of capoeira groups, specifically the ways groups are constructed in opposition to the individualist, consumerist expectations of present-day capitalist societies like the United States. The capoeiristas in this chapter focus on cultivating community and on producing the kind of supportive, collaborative environment that weeds out “assholes.” This chapter addresses why students sometimes seek out a new teacher if they feel that the community aspect is lacking in their present group. It also addresses the importance of structural diversity within the capoeira community as a key element in catalyzing social action. Opportunities to get to know and build friendships with people from different backgrounds raise white students’ awareness of the ongoing prejudice faced by people of color.
Jogue Pra Lá
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

The chapter opens with a story of how a capoeirista uses capoeira in his work as a therapist, discussing experiences of playing capoeira with patients as a springboard for discussing more abstract issues like addiction or suicidality. This epitomizes the mandate to jogue pra lá, meaning to carry the lessons of capoeira out into the world at large. This chapter deals with the various ways in which the mentality of being a capoeirista changes individuals’ interactions with their communities, their families, and their coworkers. In addition to therapeutic applications, this chapter focuses on two individuals who have been inspired to work for social justice in their professions in part because of how they understand/interpret capoeira.
Challenges to the Social Justice Perspective
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

This chapter acknowledges that while ample evidence supports the thesis that capoeira in the United States is associated with activism, there are also apolitical capoeira groups that do not pursue this kind of social engagement. It addresses the irony of certain acts within the capoeira community that undercut the idea of capoeira being a liberatory art (e.g., the hierarchical structure of organizations, abuses of power, sexual predation). This chapter pays particular attention to the capoeira community’s reaction to George Floyd’s murder in 2020, including the microaggression of white capoeiristas’ expecting capoeiristas of color to do emotional labor on their behalf. It also calls for more focused attention on the widespread issue of gender-based discrimination within capoeira.
Positioning Mormonism within Irish Religions
Authors: O’brien Hazel
Published: January 2024

The Introduction justifies the need for the research which has underpinned this book by outlining the rapid social changes which have occurred in Ireland and their effects on and relationship to, religious change. It outlines the simultaneous decline of Roman Catholicism in Ireland alongside growth in other religions and in atheism, and illustrates the need for greater understanding of how smaller religions such as the CoJCoLDS are experienced in an Irish context. It offers an analysis of the commonalities between the CoJCoLDS and Irish Catholicism, and shows the reader how we can better understand contemporary changes within Mormonism and Irish society though an exploration of collective memory and tradition in a context of rapid social change. In the Introduction a summary of each chapter is also described.
Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

This book examines the evolution of Southern death care--the burial of the dead, the mourning of the loss, and the comfort given to the grief-stricken--over the course of the twentieth century. I argue that the desire to lower high death rates created a new ritual, life extension, whereby the desire to live fully to one’s “three score and ten” years catalyzed an incipient health care infrastructure and transformed how the region buried its dead. This, in turn, led to the federal government enshrining these new rights in the New Deal, expanding American citizenship to include some health rights.
Life Extension and the Emergence of a Death Commerce System
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

As evangelical Christians thought about when one should die, a new commercial death system that included burial societies, insurance companies, and new funeral directors invested in a new system called “life extension.” The belief was, if Southerners (and others) lived longer, then the cost to this emergent industry would lessen. Thus, even as it emerged as a segregated system, it eyed the high mortality rates among its customers, investing in practices that would help lower them.
Remembering the War, Forgetting the Flu, Burying the Military Dead
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

The military’s expectation that soldiers would die and that there would be a need to repatriate American bodies buried overseas caused the passage of General Order #30. It created a Graves Registration Service, housed under the Quartermaster Corps, that established a centralized burial practice for the deceased. The repatriation of soldier bodies caused some subtle shifts when military practice conflicted with Southern practice. Moreover, the memorialization of soldiers caused the Spanish flu to be forgotten or transformed into a heroic act.
Indifference, Shame, Selfishness, and Wrong Living
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

New influencers--Sigmund Freud, etiquette gurus like Emily Post, religious authorities who changed centuries-old documents to account for this modern era--gave grief a more prominent place as funeral professionals took over care of the actual body. A new material culture appeared; scrapbooking became a new way to grieve and condolence notes became a way to comfort.
The Japanese Gambit
Authors: Allen Gene
Published: January 2024

In 1933 Cooper reached a news exchange agreement with the Japanese agency Rengo Tsushinsha in what until then had been the exclusive territory of Reuters. Roderick Jones of Reuters demanded that AP either give up its relationship with Rengo or lose its connection to Reuters and its allies. However, Cooper’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering meant that Reuters had no alternative supplier of U.S. news. As a result, AP gained the autonomy it needed to expand all around the world. Financial pressures of the Great Depression meant it had no resources to pursue this goal seriously until the end of the decade.
“The Government Suit”
Authors: Allen Gene
Published: January 2024

In 1942 the U.S. government charged AP with violating antitrust law over its system of allowing existing members to veto the admission of any new local competitor. AP’s board of directors was deeply divided about how to respond to the prosecution but ultimately opposed it vigorously. After AP’s final appeal to the Supreme Court was lost in 1945, Cooper led the adoption of a new system in which any bona fide newspaper could join AP.
Shadow of the New Deal
Authors: Shepperd Josh
Published: January 2024

Pulling from detailed archival research, Shadow of the New Deal examines how the media reform movement built the infrastructure for US public media during the 1930s. After the Communications Act of 1934 decimated access to broadcast licenses for noncommercial media, an advocacy movement emerged that applied trial-and-error, system-building strategies to change American media policy to increase equal access to education through technology. Among reform strategies examined in this book, advocates developed a unique noncommercial mission statement, creative forms of production and distribution without advertising support, a collaborative lobby that spanned university, government, and commercial broadcasters, and convened research that inspired the discipline of communication studies. Reformers laid groundwork for the first American noncommercial media industry by synthesizing a decentralized production culture, government clearinghouses, communications researchers, and philanthropic groups into a coalitional structure. Besides the formation of the institution, this historical case study points to a rare example of a media reform movement that succeeded in changing public policy by pulling from an alternative logic to free-market ideology.
Distribution and Facilities
Authors: Shepperd Josh
Published: January 2024

Chapter 3 examines the development of the first production and distribution models for noncommercial media. Through trial-and-error experimentation, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) tested rebroadcasting strategies so that more universities could feature quality programs. The University Broadcasting Council (UBC) connected universities in Chicago to produce the first educational radio curriculum. And the Rocky Mountain Radio Council (RMRC) implemented the first regional noncommercial broadcasting network across three states. Based upon the influence of these experiments, the University of Illinois Allerton House Seminars founded the “bicycle network,” regarded in the industry as the proto version of public broadcasting.
Conclusion
Authors: Shepperd Josh
Published: January 2024

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