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Beyond the fourth wall: Reading, passing, and intervention in internet research (2008)
Journal Article
Ferreday, D., & Arthurs, J. (2008). Beyond the fourth wall: Reading, passing, and intervention in internet research. Feminist Media Studies, 8(1), 95-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770801899226

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Beyond the fourth wall: Reading, passing, and intervention in internet research.

Single women and philanthropy: A case study of women's associational life in Bristol, 1880-1914 (2008)
Journal Article
Martin, M. (2008). Single women and philanthropy: A case study of women's associational life in Bristol, 1880-1914. Women's History Review, 17(3), 395-417. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020801924522

This article examines the philanthropic and local government work undertaken by single women in Bristol in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing in particular on the life and work of one woman, Mary Clifford, the article conside... Read More about Single women and philanthropy: A case study of women's associational life in Bristol, 1880-1914.

The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders (2008)
Journal Article
Zacharias, U., & Arthurs, J. (2008). The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders. Feminist Media Studies, 8(2), 197-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770801980612

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders.

Women's History Review: Introduction (2008)
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Holden, K., Hannam, J., & Froide, A. (2008). Women's History Review: Introduction. Women's History Review, 17(3), 313-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020801924084

This article is an introduction to a special issue on the history of single women based on papers given at conference held in June 2006 at the University of the West of England, entitled ‘Single Women in History 1000–2000’. The analysis is based on o... Read More about Women's History Review: Introduction.

Media on ice (2008)
Journal Article
Blair, J., & Arthurs, J. (2008). Media on ice. Feminist Media Studies, 8(3), 318-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770802217386

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Media on ice.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
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Crogan, P., & Weber, S. (2008). Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber. Convergence, 14(4), 375-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856508094658

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign (2008)
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Charlesworth, D., Zacharias, U., & Arthurs, J. (2008). Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign. Feminist Media Studies, 8(4), 430-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770802420352

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign.

Review of 'Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870-1914: Bodies, Bounderies and Intimacy', by John Potvin (2008)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2008). Review of 'Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870-1914: Bodies, Bounderies and Intimacy', by John Potvin. Journal of Design History, 21(4), 391-393. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epn030

Potvin's book was a study of how male homosociality in late-nineteenth century British design cultures produced new dynamics of vision and touching, which became medicated through workshop practice and specific artefacts.

Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction (2008)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2008). Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction. Gothic Studies, 10(2), 35-50

In recent years Dickens's use of Gothic has been the focus of some diverse and absorbing critical interpretations. This paper seeks to address in more detail the ways in which Gothic features in Dickens's various responses to the law in his work. Sce... Read More about Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction.

Northern Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth, 1923-61 (2008)
Journal Article
Ollerenshaw, P. (2008). Northern Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth, 1923-61. Irish Historical Studies, 36(142), 227-242

Despite the unprecedented interest shown by historians in Ireland and empire in recent years, comparatively little research has focused on Northern Ireland's connections to the British Empire-Commonwealth in the post-partition decades. This article... Read More about Northern Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth, 1923-61.

Atrocity exhibition (2008)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2008). Atrocity exhibition. Science Fiction Film and Television, 1(2), 359-360

Review of named film

Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg (2008)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2008). Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg. Science Fiction Film and Television, 1(2), 303-325. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.1.2.7

10,000 word review of four more or less concurrent academic/critical books on Spielberg's films, including Warren Buckland, directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary blockbuster; Lester D Friedman, Citizen Spielberg; Andrew Gordon, Em... Read More about Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg.

'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution (2008)
Journal Article
Poole, S. (2008). 'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution. Rural History, 19(2), 163-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793308002471

Agricultural incendiarism was a perennial factor in social relations in some areas of nineteenth-century rural England and is often understood by historians as an expression of 'covert' social protest. However, such categorisation risks oversimplifyi... Read More about 'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution.

The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives (2008)
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Seale, C., & Charteris-Black, J. (2008). The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives. Ageing and Society, 28(07), 1025-1045. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X0800737X

Recognition of the greater capacity of older women to draw on supportive social networks has now supplemented an earlier focus of research into gender and ageing which portrayed older men as a 'privileged gerontocracy' because of their greater access... Read More about The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives.

The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair (2008)
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Hanks, P. (2008). The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair. International Journal of Lexicography, 21(3), 219-229. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecn031

John Sinclair opened up possibilities for new kinds of dictionaries. He assigned a central role to collocations and phraseology, insisting on close attention to textual evidence coupled with a broad theoretical perspective and ruthless jettisoning of... Read More about The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair.

Hidden danger (2008)
Journal Article
Malpass, P. (2008). Hidden danger. Roof -London-, 24-25