L’espace urbain algérois à l’épreuve de ses graffiti by Karim Ouaras

“…It reveals multiple strategies to manifest desire to say, to break taboo, and to give meaning to its presence in the city as a social actor. …”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…It argues that while some of these practices made fatherhood fluid and accrued uncommon agency to women, others framed women in taboo and sexuality. The central contribution of this paper is that as a study in gender, it brings the discourse within the framework of shifting fatherhood and sexuality in Yorùbá. …”
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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), le récit d’esclave revisité by Delphine Letort

“…Julie Dash dedicated Daughters of the Dust to the female members of the black community, endeavouring to uncover the secrets of their common history turned into a taboo subject by the silence that enshrouds the issue of femininity at the time of slavery. …”
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« L'État de tous les spectateurs » by Irina Tcherneva

“…The definition is not taboo any more, Soviet administration claims it in public: “The cinema is also a trade sphere”. …”
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Le cru de l’écrit ou les archives de la sauvagerie by Alice Delmotte-Halter

“…The ethnocritic ethnographer here observes that the principles of taboo, prohibition and shame, are those that maybe reorganize the most strongly rewritings up to their final book form. …”
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Narratives of Judgement: Representations of “Privileged” Jews in Holocaust Documentaries by Adam Brown

“…Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi’s highly influential essay, “The Grey Zone”, explores the taboo issue of “privileged” Jews, those prisoners who were forced to cooperate with their Nazi captors in order to prolong their lives or the lives of their families. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Why People Are Talking About the End of Life by Suzanna Smith, Lynda Spence

“… Mortality has been a taboo subject for many years. Many cultural, demographic, educational, and policy changes have played a part in a shift toward an increased openness to talking about death as a natural part of life in the United States. …”
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Unfinished buildings, a new point of departure. Designing difference for a sustainable future by Maria Luisa Germanà, Francesca Anania

“…Contemporary unfinished buildings, which represent a widespread sort of abandoned built environment around the globe, have only recently shaken off the taboo to which they have been relegated by their inescapable condition as symbols of failure. …”
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Le leadership : la fin d’un tabou et le début d’un mythe. Évolution des métiers de l’encadrement scolaire et de leur formation en Suisse romande by Laetitia Progin

“…This analysis highlights the fact that – mainly as a result of training – school principals no longer consider leadership to be a taboo word, whereas this has long been the case. …”
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Quest Narratives and Heroine Journeys: the road to freebirth and the joy of undisturbed physiological birth by Gemma McKenzie

“…Freebirth (intentionally giving birth without doctors or midwives present) is a taboo and stigmatised birthing decision. In this study, 16 women who had freebirthed their babies in the UK were interviewed, and the data was analysed using the voice-centred relational method (VCRM). …”
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Managing Air Traffic Flow With Link Flow Rate Control: A Pure Integer Programming Model With More Accurate Link Connection Modeling by Han Zhong, Lai Wei, Wei Guan, Wenyi Zhang

“…Besides a new chromosome coding rule for converting binary decision into time series vectors, the algorithm uses a taboo mutation operator and an adaptive mutation probability selection operator. …”
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Код-«мусор» – кривой почерк – опечатка: несовершенство как литературный приём в цифровой эре by Ellen Rutten

“…Blockbusters shot with cheap cameras, trash fashion, consciously blurry photos, glitch music: for the cultural producers and consumers of these and other aesthetic practices, the unpolished object is not a taboo but rather an asset or a hallmark of sincerity, authenticity, and other positive values. …”
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Czy nuda w szkole może stanowić barierę w edukacji? by Iga Kazimierczyk

“…In the article I focus on barriers such as lack of knowledge about boredom, social learning of boredom, inhibition of conversation and communication process in the classroom, training of social isolation, feelings of fear, the threat of lower school achievements, poorer functioning and well-being of the student, equation of boredom with lack of being busy, and acceptance of boredom as a taboo. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…For fifteen years, many Moroccan women writers have been breaking the silence on the persistent taboo of feminine virginity in a traditional patriarchal society. …”
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Da literatura para a infância à literatura de fronteira: Agustín Fernández Paz e Lygia Bojunga by Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou

“…Among several topics discussed, pointing the work of the two authors, it can be mentioned, to highlight the painstaking handling of narrative forms and records, the exploring of the fantastic-realist trend; inter-textuality; the frequent use of peritexts; female protagonists, the taste for taboo topics; and social criticism.…”
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Mythe et colonies dans l’Allemagne de Weimar by Catherine Repussard

“…All attempts at emancipation, including the young pearl diver Matahi’s forbidden love for the beautiful girl, come up against the immutable taboo dictated by the priest Hitu, who represents Tradition (and murders Matahi), and are doomed to end in death. …”
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The initiation of a young plower: Between myth and reality. First turf by M. Đ. Glišić in the context of oral folklore and traditional culture of the Serbs by Perić Dragoljub Ž., Jokić Jasmina S.

“…This semiotic interpretation conducted here was carried out at the level of analysis of space and time, actors, actions, communication, as well as the analysis of their accompanying elements (taboo regulations, ritual behavior, props, food and drink, etc.) related to the plowing the first furrow in the context of the ritual of maturation. …”
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A Narrative Inquiry to Explore Lived Experiences of Women Pursuing PhDs in South Africa by Lianne Keiller, Abigail Ruth Dreyer

“…Adding in the complexity and challenges of pursuing a PhD to the existing burden placed on women in a gender-segregated environment can be taboo. In this paper, a novel methodology of Narrative Inquiry of reflective writing is used to explore the stories that may be difficult to articulate. …”
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The Critical Survey of Evolution in Common Persian Slang Lexicography “By Emphasizing on Twelve Common Persian Slang Lexicons” by Ghodsie Rezvanian, Siyavash Haghjoo, Leila Darvish Ali Pour Astaneh

“…From Ghaghara era up to now, around 60 lexicons gathered but unawareness to methods and configuration of methods in micro and major structure for lexicography, the old approach to slang, low vision to slang in comparison with formal language, fear of destroying taboo words in formal language from cultural statecraft which caused more gathering merchant lexicon and unnoticed in university meetings. …”
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Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace by Adriana Marques Silva, Joaquim Pinto Contreiras, Ana Patricia Duarte

“…The results include recurring themes, such as domestic violence as a taboo subject, the difficulty of detecting this crime at work despite extant well-established indicators of this problem, its repercussions for teams, unawareness of specifically related labour laws and the need to train and inform workers. …”
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