Stories
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Where does violence come from?
The popular understanding of certain ideas in psychology have become so embedded that it’s easy to blame the parents when a young person commits a crime. Laura Bui looks to the past for evidence.
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What is structural violence?
Structural violence is seemingly invisible. But its tentacles have invaded every part of many people’s lives, thoughts, experiences and expectations, shaping them in ways they don’t even realise.
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How can I stop fainting?
Fed up with the faints that bolstered her fragile young snowflake image, Gwen Smith sought expert medical help to keep her upright in trying situations.
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A Jewish man selling oranges outside the Royal Exchange in London; a Jewish man in a top hat and coat displaying a bond for £50,000 that he has acquired; representing the advancement of Jews from street-selling to high finance. Wood engraving, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 33091i- Pictures
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Two black men are given a lunch of roast beef by a white farmer, then they attempt to rob him, but he catches them, beats them, and sends them on their way. Coloured wood engravings.
Date: [1870?]Reference: 33032iPart of: Münchener Bilderbogen.- Pictures
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Many people are riding on and crowding around a large horse-drawn carriage. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862, after A. Hunt.
Hunt, Alfred, 1830-1896.Date: 1862Reference: 33229i- Books
How stereotypes about science affect the participation of women / a lecture by Mary Beth Ruskai.
Ruskai, Mary Beth.Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
Obesity in America, 1850-1939 : a history of social attitudes and treatment / Kerry Segrave.
Segrave, Kerry, 1944-Date: [2008], ©2008