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  • BCH volume 37 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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    British Catholic History / Volume 37 / Issue 2 / October 2024
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    23 July 2025, pp. b1-b2
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    October 2024
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  • CAJ volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 34 / Issue 3 / August 2024
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    01 October 2024, pp. b1-b2
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  • Abortion, Contraception, and the Comstock Law’s Original Medical Exemption, 1873–1936

  • Lauren MacIvor Thompson
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    The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / October 2024
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    18 February 2025, pp. 444-451
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    October 2024

  • The Comstock Act of 1873 was not meant to be, nor did it ever function as, a total abortion ban.1 This fact is important to emphasize in our current political moment because those who want to revive the statute have argued that the Comstock Act is an existing (if dormant) law that already bans abortion on a federal level. They have also argued that the law completely outlawed abortion in the past.2 The statute’s legislative and enforcement history, however, tells a different story. It was first and foremost a law about obscenity and sexual purity.3 It contained provisions for outlawing abortion and contraception, but the bill’s author, Anthony Comstock, along with his fellow vice crusaders, were mostly concerned about controlling illicit sexuality and censoring sexual material. From the beginning, the law was inconsistently and less often applied to violations involving abortion and contraception than it was against other forms of obscenity.4

  • JGA volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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    The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / October 2024
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    18 February 2025, pp. b1-b2
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    October 2024
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  • Singapore and the ends of Conservatism in Postwar Asia: Wu Teh-yao across the Colonial, Christian, Cold War, and Chinese Worlds

  • Chien Wen Kung
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    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 3-4 / October 2024
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    08 April 2025, pp. 480-502
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    October 2024

  • This article uses the career and writings of political philosopher Wu Teh-yao (1916-1994) to argue that Singapore in the 1970s–1980s embodied crucial aspects of conservatism as a modern, transnational ideological project in post-Second World War Asia. Wu opposed radicalism and was sceptical towards liberal democracy and Westernisation, all while promoting culture and tradition to legitimise a less-than-democratic political and social order. His worldview was shaped by a peripatetic life that spanned Asia and the United States and found expression in his propaganda work for the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, presidency of Tunghai University, and, above all, contributions to nation building in Singapore. Indeed, during this period, no intellectual lent as much discursive and administrative support, in English and Chinese, to legitimising authoritarianism and social conservatism in the city-state. Both intellectual biography and social history of ideology, the article explains how Singapore represented the realisation of what we typically call ‘Asian Values’ and was embedded within a wider conservative ideoscape. It questions the conventional temporality and genealogy of Asian Values, arguing that they did not simply flow downwards from upon high, but were also produced and circulated by figures who operated between the state and public.

  • BYZ volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies / Volume 48 / Issue 2 / October 2024
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    16 October 2024, pp. f1-f3
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    October 2024
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