Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, by Laura Horak
Who wears the trousers? Women often played men in early Hollywood, and few were anything like the 鈥榤onstrous butch鈥 archetype, Leanne Dawson finds
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15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun, by Lucie Green
Book of the week: The Sun鈥檚 magnetic fields make it much more than a dull ball of hot gas, says Marcus Chown
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My terrifying 鈥 and valuable 鈥 time in a psychiatric ward
During a bout of severe depression, a professor in the US was admitted to a secure hospital unit. He writes here of his experiences
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Do academic social networks share academics鈥 interests?
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing
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The week in higher education 鈥 7 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners 鈥 7 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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糖心Vlog Leadership & Management Awards 2016 shortlist announced
Are you on this year's shortlist?
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 7 April 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Subtle racism is alive in the academy鈥檚 corridors
To eradicate the problem, we need everyone to examine their consciences and recognise their biases, says Kalwant Bhopal
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Is the ESRC below the radar or out of the loop?
We know too little about the impact of a research council that funds work with big policy implications, says David Walker
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Last man in the university: it鈥檚 13 o鈥檆lock on campus
Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today鈥檚 academy, doublethinks Eric Blair
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Doing fine in Kazakhstan
We at Nazarbayev University would like the opportunity to comment on the piece by Ararat L. Osipian about the university (鈥淐an a young university be a world-leading university?鈥, Features, 31 March...
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More than money
In her blog post 鈥淎 vote for Brexit is a vote for uncertainty in higher education鈥 (17 March), Angela Eagle concentrates on the figures in broad terms of student numbers and hard cash, which I聽guess...
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Devil鈥檚 in the REF
The language of the 鈥減hilosophy of education鈥 that Alis Oancea talks about is all very well (鈥淐hallenging the grudging consensus behind the REF鈥, 25 March), but I聽submit that the continual surrender...