La semaine sainte à Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala by Sylvie Pédron Colombani

“…In this article, the author analyses the relationship between the people and their deity during this time, while focusing her attention on the tropical fruit offering and its preparation, and underlining its sexual and food dimension.…”
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Les sites pornographiques par le menu : pornotypes linguistiques et procédés médiatiques by François Perea

“…The analysis of these categories (the characters, their sexual activities and the media processes) leads us to propose, alongside the notion of stereotype, that of “pornotype”, defined as a trait resulting from the fragmentation of the sex scene and its participants in a catchy and metonymic form. …”
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Patriotisme philanthropique et citoyenneté féminine : les femmes et la Primrose League, 1914-1918 by Philippe Vervaecke

“…The case of the Primrose League, whose female membership carried out the sort of philanthropic work that conformed to the traditional view of the sexual division of labour, is used to qualify the historiographical interpretation according to which during the war women’s social status went through a dramatic evolution. …”
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Criminological and victimological determinants of prostitution: De lege ferenda proposals by Pavlović Zoran, Petković Nikola

“…Positioned between the ideas of sexual freedom, the right to control one's own Pbody, and the obligation to protect morality, prostitution elicits various societal responses. …”
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Du féminisme à la sexologie : un parcours en Histoire by Sylvie Chaperon

“…The object and purpose of my research is inscribed in the transition from the history of women and that of gender studies, and in the increase of the historical research done on sexualities.…”
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Sobre ciudadanía(s) by Susana Wappenstein

“…Sin embargo, insiste en la necesidad de ser más específicos respecto a la categoría “ciudadanía” para entender los alcances y limitaciones en los procesos de luchas, planteamientos y conformación de una ciudadanía sexual. …”
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Fallen Women in George Eliot’s Early Novels by Alain Jumeau

“…This paper deals with this form of moral and sexual deviance as it is represented in the early novels of George Eliot. …”
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Paul, rhetorically gifted, or discursively manipulative? by J. Punt

“…Using discourse as a broader category than rhetoric, several instances of discourse manipulation, which at times remind us of imperialist discourse, are identified, including kinship language and ethnic stereotyping, military metaphors, as well as gendered power discourse and sexual slander, illustrated with examples mostly from Philippians. …”
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Pour une ethno-trichologie tibétaine by Christian Bromberger

“…Head and body hair: these corporeal excrescences, which can be modified at no great risk, convey four types of information: on sexual statuses and differences between genders, as well as general differences established by societies; on ethnic, social and personal identities; on order and disorder, on the norm and the margin within a society; on the aesthetic trends in a given period. …”
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Space Matters in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park by Armelle PAREY

“…My hypothesis is that with this emphasis on space Cusk may be modernist in her narrative style but she deliberately remains close to the Victorians in her choice of themes and treatment of women characters in relation to space in order to make a strong feminist statement, in the sense that her novel examines the experience of sexual difference and gendered space to denounce them as a source of discrimination.…”
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Feasibility and staff acceptability of implementing Xpert HIV-1 viral load point-of-care testing: a pilot study in San Francisco by Kelvin Moore Jr., Noelle Le Tourneau, Jasmin Alvarez, Santos Rodriguez, Janessa Broussard, Pierre-Cédric Crouch, Jorge Roman, Patricia Defechereux, Jason Bena, Kimberly A. Koester, Lissa Moran, Christopher Pilcher, Robert Grant, Katerina A. Christopoulos

“…Remnant venipuncture specimens from clients undergoing HIV and other sexual health screenings were analyzed using the Xpert® HIV-1 Viral Load assay. …”
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A life stage resolved habitat model for guiding seagrass restoration in coastal lagoons by Sherry Y. Zhai, Michelle Waycott, Ryan Lewis, Emma O’Loughlin, Paul L.A. Erftemeijer, Peisheng Huang, Justin D. Brookes, Claire Sims, Zhenming Zhang, Matthew R. Hipsey

“…High-resolution predictions from a coupled hydrodynamic-habitat suitability model were validated against individual life stage data and reproductive outcomes (sexual and asexual) under both typical and atypical (La Niña) climatic conditions, achieving statistically significant (P < 0.05) correlation coefficients for all life stages under typical conditions. …”
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Prevalence, risk factors, and adverse outcomes of bacterial vaginosis among pregnant women: a systematic review by Neha Sethi, Vallikkannu Narayanan, Rahmah Saaid, Aizura Syafinaz Ahmad Adlan, Soo Tein Ngoi, Cindy Shuan Ju Teh, Mashitah Hamidi, on behalf of WHOW research group

“…The risk of developing BV during pregnancy was highest among women with multiple sexual partners. Additionally, factors including age, socioeconomic status, unhygienic practices, ethnicity, 2nd trimester, spontaneous abortion, vaginal douching, symptoms, and history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were also associated with a higher prevalence of BV. …”
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Preferences and access to community-based HIV testing sites among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Côte d’Ivoire by Christine Danel, Joseph Larmarange, Lazare Sika, Maxime Inghels, Arsène Kra Kouassi, Serge Niangoran, Anne Bekelynck, Séverine Carilon, Mariatou Koné, Annabel Degrées du Loû

“…Both knowing of and ever visiting an MSM-CBTS were significantly associated with a higher number of HIV tests performed in the past 12 months and having disclosed sexual orientation to one family member.In terms of preferences, 37% of respondents said they preferred undifferentiated HIV testing sites (ie, ‘all patients’ HIV testing sites), 34% preferred MSM-CBTS and 29% had no preference.Those who reported being sexually attracted to women, being bisexual and those who did not know an MSM non-governmental organisation were less likely to prefer MSM-CBTS. …”
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Comparison of Fecundity and Gall-Forming of the Horned-Gall Aphid, <i>Schlechtendalia chinensis</i> (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Different Populations by Xin Xu, Zhaohui Shi, Chang Tong, Shuxia Shao, Hongyuan Wei, Zixiang Yang

“…The number of male and female sexuales, fundatrices, the galls per tree, and the total weight of galls per tree in subsequent generations were analyzed, and differences in the fecundity and gall-forming effects of different populations were analyzed. …”
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Evaluation of the transmission-blocking potential of Plasmodium vivax antigen Pvg37 using transgenic rodent parasites and clinical isolates by Di Zhang, Yan Zhao, Dongyan Liu, Fei Liu, Pengbo Liu, Biying Zhang, Zifang Wu, Wanlapa Roobsoong, Sirasate Bantuchai, Sataporn Thongpoon, Piyarat Sripoorote, Meilian Wang, Liwang Cui, Yaming Cao

“…Transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) have shown the potential to inhibit malaria transmission by targeting antigens expressed in sexual-stage parasites. Pbg37, a conserved protein expressed in sexual stages from gametocyte to ookinete in the rodent parasite P. berghei, is a viable target for TBV development.Methods and findingsIn this study, we constructed a transgenic strain, TrPvg37Pb, expressing Pvg37 using the P. berghei ΔPbg37 strain. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Psychodynamic Short-Time Therapy Complemented with Bodywork. A Clinical Follow-Up Study of 109 Patients by Søren Ventegodt, Suzette Thegler, Tove Andreasen, Flemming Struve, Lars Enevoldsen, Laila Bassaine, Margrethe Torp, Joav Merrick

“…Most had a complex of mental, somatic, existential, and sexual problems. Of the patients, 69.72% did the retest after treatment. …”
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Mujeres y trabajo en el campo mexicano: Colotlán, Jalisco by Paulina Ultreras Villagrana

“…However, in the last decades of the 20th century there have been political, economic, and social changes that have modified the relations between men and women and the sexual division of labor in a free market economy.…”
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Love and Anxiety in the Early Postmodern World of Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls by Jennifer MURRAY

“…In spite of the promises of sexual and self liberation of the period, an underlying sense of emptiness, often experienced as impending danger, is perceptible and takes shape within Atwood’s stories as fantasies of violence or victimization, and appears in figures related to gothic imagery and doubleness.…”
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Quelques cas de séparation pour adultère masculin entre xvie et xviie siècles : arguments et enjeux by Claire Chatelain, Raphaëlle Lapôtre, Camille Noûs

“…For the former, the accusation of adultery refers to several series of failures by the husband of a sexual, generative, economic or patrimonial order but also, moral or political. …”
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