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From Print to Digital: Reappropriation of the Ready-Made Image in Works of Margit Sielska and Weronika Gęsicka 从印刷到数字:Margit Sielska和Weronika作品中现成图像的再占用Gęsicka

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-18 DOI: 10.16995/olh.6390

Karolina Koczynska

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Brandon is a Network Not a Name: Fictocriticism & the Cyberfeminist Art of Shu Lea Cheang 布兰登是网络，不是名字:小说批评&张舒莉的网络女性主义艺术

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-18 DOI: 10.16995/olh.6391

Zachary Pearl

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RINGL + PIT: (UN)FIGURING THE NEW WOMAN 塑造新女人

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-18 DOI: 10.16995/olh.6392

Stephanie Bender

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Enfolding the Hand, Entrancing the Eye: Erica Baum’s Dog Ear Enfolding the Hand，Entrancing the Eye：Erica Baum的狗耳朵

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-18 DOI: 10.16995/olh.6385

Riley Hanick

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Uniting the Nation through Transcending Menstrual Blood: The Period Products Act in Historical Perspective 超越经血统一民族：历史视野中的生理期用品法案

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.16995/olh.6339

Bettina Bildhauer

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Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola's 'La Faute de l'abbé Mouret' 疾病、美学与身体政治:在Émile左拉《修道院的命运》中塑造第三共和国

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.16995/olh.4724

K. Y. Wong

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The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021 in the context of menstrual politics and history: An introduction 月经政治和历史背景下的《2021年经期产品（免费供应）（苏格兰）法》：引言

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-04 DOI: 10.16995/olh.8159

Bettina Bildhauer, C. Røstvik, Sharra L. Vostral

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Contagious Otherness: Translating Communicable Diseases in the Modern Italian and Francophone Novel 传染性异性:翻译现代意大利语和法语小说中的传染病

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-10-28 DOI: 10.16995/olh.4714

Marta Arnaldi

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Meaning after Humanism? On Reading in Ruins 人道主义之后的意义？废墟中的阅读

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-10-21 DOI: 10.16995/olh.7936

J. Hoydis, R. Bartosch

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In the Beginning There Were Dragon(cillo)s: Using Shadow Puppetry to Engage Young Audiences 一开始有龙：用皮影戏吸引年轻观众

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Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-09-27 DOI: 10.16995/olh.4791

Esther Fernández, Jason Yancey, J. Wade, Jared S. White

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