This article explores the construction of boyhood in short fiction written by Patrick Pearse, the Irish nationalist and political activist executed for his leading role in the abortive Easter Rising of 1916. Pearse’s focus on the spiritual dimension of boyhood in his first collection of Irish-language stories, Íosagán agus Sgéalta Eile [Iosagan and Other Stories] (1907), simultaneously undermines and endorses imperialist and patriarchal assumptions about gender differentiation. In later stories published in An Mháthair agus sgéalta eile [The Mother and Other Stories] (1916), Pearse moved from advocacy of boyish spirituality to a more physical and militant representation of boyhood. This changing representation of Irish boyhood illustrates how Pearse’s increasing militarism reflected his ongoing construction of national identity.
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UK Teen Girl Comics from 1955 to 1960
Joan Ormrod
(1991) argues, they were represented as more realistic and normal whereas the glamor of American female stars in contemporaneous films was regarded as wasteful and unpatriotic; in this way, stardom was aligned to national values and identity. In Britain
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Jessamy Harvey
The tradition of religious clothing for children is relatively unexplored: this article develops the premise that debates about the links between the sacred and the market go deeper than concern about consumption, and bring to the surface issues of identity. Through exploring the historical development of the First Communion, not as religious ritual but as Catholic consumer culture, the article turns to analyse girls' communicant dress in Spain between the 1940s and 1960s which were the early decades of a dictatorial Regime (1939 to 1975) marked by an ideology of National-Catholicism. General Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, leader of the military rebellion against the elected government in 1936, ruled Spain until his death. One of my aims is to correct a tendency to make the little girl dressed in bridal wear the most visible sign because to do so disregards the cultural practice of wearing clothing to perform piety, signal a vocation or express gratitude for religious intercession.
Solveig Roth and Dagny Stuedahl
possibilities ( Kavli and Nadim 2009 ). In this article, we explore ethnic-minority girls’ identity processes and educational trajectories with a view to enhancing understanding of these so that schools can support them more effectively. We consider the ways in
Authenticity and Aspiration
Exploring the CBBC Television Tween
Sarah Godfrey
the complexities of the tween as a key representational paradigm of contemporary, young, postfeminist British femininity, following Jeanette Steemers (2004) , I am not suggesting that cultural and national identities are synonymous or homogeneous
Ambivalent Sexualities in a Transnational Context
Romanian and Bulgarian Migrant Male Sex Workers in Berlin
Victor Trofimov
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Melanie Kennedy and Natalie Coulter
brand identity of Akubra which positions itself as a symbol of nationhood founded on family values and the formation of a national culture. As Sarah Projansky says of the girl star, here Dolly “is a promise of the continued dominance of whiteness” (2014
Claudia Mitchell
television shows that embody a national discourse of ordinariness in their presentations of tweens, and conversations about quite different American ones directed at tweens, along with the collection of qualitative data on the uses of media. The analysis of
Christopher Pittard
panic, the late Victorian periodical press, and most prominently empire and national identity. The subtitle of her study specifies the boundary between boyhood and manhood, but the discussion itself reveals many more types of border crossing. Andrew
Girls’ Work in a Rural Intercultural Setting
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Ana Padawer
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