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How to write to a lover
History & The Arts

How to write to a lover

...out what to do after the café, I slipped and said something about going to my hotel room. We both laughed and decided to sit on a park bench for a little while instead, where he kissed me. Perhaps one of the very best kisses I’d ever had in my life. Here’s the last stanza of ‘Sweden for a Beginner’: III. Utgång A table of strangers teach me vändtia as the...
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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...out, modern yoga practice has much in common with exercise methods such as Swedish and Danish gymnastic drills that were popular for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yoga also offered relief from what one yoga teacher described in 1976 as “housewife syndrome” which included “monotony and lack of recognition, indeterminate pains and...
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Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...out more about The Open University's Open degree qualification. Tense parents and stressed children. A competitive high pressure home environment. Pressing kids to do well in school. Putting children through private tutoring and coaching classes with the aim of getting them into grammar schools and prestigious universities. Anxiety about educational achievement hangs over...
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A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...out about The Open University's Open degree. The term ‘misogynoir’ was coined based on the concept of intersectionality by Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey, and refers to the specific forms of misogyny that Black women encounter at the intersection of racism and sexism. Misogynoir has a significant influence on the lives and online experiences of Black women but is...
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The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...out about The Open University's Social Work and Early Years courses The concept of foster care emerged in the mid-16th century, becoming regulated in the mid-19th century. This history is poignant and has shaped our understanding of who are foster carers, what is foster care and what should it look like. It's about relationships, not preconceptions The words ‘foster...
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Consulting the oracle at Delphi
History & The Arts

Consulting the oracle at Delphi

...out more about the Acropolis, visit the Acropolis Museum and explore the interactive Parthenon Gallery and Frieze. There have been a number of arguments that various parts of the decorative programme of the Parthenon refer directly to the Athenian defeat of the Persians at Marathon. For example, the number of male figures in the frieze matches the number of the Athenian...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...out before them. Each soul later drank from the waters of forgetfulness to erase the memory of their former lives before being reborn into their new body. Atomic dispersal However, some philosophers firmly believed that these stories about the Underworld did more harm than good. Epicurus identified fear of death as the primary cause of unhappiness in mortals. He argued...
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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...out that the UK's Prevent program hasn't been a total success: Community-based work under Prevent began in 2007. The strategy has since come under continual criticism for aggravating perceptions of surveillance and discrimination in Britain’s Muslim communities. Recurring concerns with Prevent relate to the strategy’s disproportionate focus on Muslim communities, the...
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