Le genre féerique illustré à l’époque victorienne : splendeurs et déclin d’un genre entré en résistance by Audrey Doussot

“…The Victorian period was a phase of triumph for fairy literature before its fighting spirit was smothered by a tendency to conform to middle-class normative ideology and an increasingly infantilized content.…”
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Transgression de l’espace et espace de la transgression dans The Human Stain de Philip Roth by Gilles Mayné

“…Coleman Silk’s most striking—geographical, social and cultural—transgression comes from his decision to depart from New Jersey’s low-middle-class (black) districts to settle down in the cosy, right-thinking and compartmentalized (white) environment of a Massachusetts university. …”
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A Presence without a Narrative: The Greeks in Egypt, 1961-1976 by Eftychia Mylona

“…This focus overlooks the actual social mobility experienced by the lower and middle-class Greeks who remained in Egypt and evolved socially. …”
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Revisões da masculinidade sob ditadura: Gabeira, Caio e Noll by Idelber Avelar

“…In Brasil the Abertura period coincided with the consolidation of the gay movement, divorce laws, the beginning of the massive incorporation of middle- class women to the wage labor force, increasing visibility of transvestites, and overall the marked decadence of the ideal man promoted by the military regime. …”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…It was the work of Defoe, Richardson and Fielding in England in the same period of time that popularised the novel especially among the middle class readers. In contrast to the classical genres, particularly the epic, the novel was about common man. …”
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Des sportives respectables. La fabrique à championnes noires de l’université d’État du Tennessee à l’ère de la guerre froide by François-René Julliard

“…Under the management of coach Ed Temple, a strategy of combining athletic performance with conformity to middle-class femininity was implemented. This strategy of legitimation was intended to counter the stereotypes surrounding women’s competitive athletics, which were accused of producing masculine-looking bodies and compromising women’s reproductive capacity. …”
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Inmigración asiática y homoerotismo: nuevas configuraciones de la otredad en el teatro argentino actual by Beatriz Trastoy

“…As an example, this article analyzes Shangay (2004) by José María Muscari, which stages with a critical sight the social and racial prejudices of Argentine middle class by means of the analogy between Far East culture (or what is usually taken by such) and homoerotism. …”
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Les représentations du cheval dans l’œuvre d’un artiste à la fin du XIXe siècle : Armand Charnay by Danièle Miguet

“…The artist came from the middle class, the son of a notary, who always lived in a rural environment, first in Charlieu, in the Loire department, then in Marlotte in the forest of Fontainebleau. …”
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Early Swimming Clubs: A Question of Class by Win Hayes

“…The second group contains two sub groups: the upper middle class managers or owners of factories and secondly the allied groups of those involved in the running of organisations aiming to attract large memberships such as churches. …”
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Le travail de Rithy Panh : un appareil funéraire by Martine Lefeuvre-Déotte

“…The target, they said, were the enemies of the revolution: the non-Khmers, the intellectuals, the owners, the city people, the middle-class. Their aim was not only to eliminate them but to make them disappear - kamtech in Khmer means not only to kill but to erase all traces, to reduce to ashes, so as to leave nothing of life or death. …”
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Handsanitizer Formulation 70% with the Addition of Natural Performance by Aisyah Mentari, Hafni Nur Insan

“…Background: The use of hand antiseptics in the form of gel preparations among the upper middle class has become a lifestyle. Several hand sanitizer preparations can be found in the market and usually contain a lot of alcohol. …”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…Mechanisation transformed space, in particular the household into an efficient machine, with industrial components and standardised dimensions (from the bathtub to the streamlined kitchen), while military manufacturing efficiencies and emerging technologies allowed consumer goods (from TV sets to Tupperware) to fill the middle class suburban home in the post-war era. This essay contemplates how logisticalisation, the latest incarnation of capitalist production, is permeating the design and conception of contemporary space through an exploration of the gadgets and objects that are increasingly used by the public as portals to the larger world of logistical flow. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…In the mid-Victorian period, at a time when the forces of respectability were rapidly transforming the British society, Punch, formerly famous for its biting pictorial comment on contemporary events, chose to champion the cause of the increasingly powerful middle-class. Under the pencil of Keene, Leech or du Maurier, the picture became one of the means through which the bourgeois identity was built, defended and promoted. …”
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L’identité argentine ou la construction d’un mythe littéraire entre Europe et Amérique by Lionel Souquet

“…This is followed by a study of the portrayal of the middle class (which differentiates the country from the rest of Latin America) as seen through Manuel Puig’s idiosyncratic descriptions. …”
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La valeur des pauvres. Le pari sur l’argent comme médiateur du conflit social contemporain by Gabriel de Santis Feltran

“…In contemporary Brazil, the urban periphery have two recent and dichotomous figurations: the cause of 'urban violence' that calls for more repression and the core of the 'development' which can turn poor people into "middle class". This essay argues that the representation of "urban violence" displaced the center of contemporary "social question" from "the worker" to the "marginal people". …”
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Educational endeavors in a rural society –an example from a small community in Sweden by Peter Erlandson, Anne Kjellsdotter

“…In contrast, national policies, along with the prevailing influence of metro-centric middle-class culture, advocate a different path, prioritising formal education to meet the demands of late modern society.…”
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The Ccritical Sstudy of the book entitled “Ssociology of Stratificationstratums and Ssocial Iinequalities” book by Vakil ahmadi

“…Of the book advantages are the study of social inequalities dimensions including such subjects as women and social stratum, religions and social stratum, ethnics and social inequalities, policy and social stratum as well as two chapters which deal with the case study of middle class in Iran and the USA. The formal generality factors have not been regarded as an educational book in university. …”
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Working-class youth participation in climate action: networks, civic experience, and equity by Rasha Naseif, Isabelle Haddad, Paul Almeida

“…Abstract Research on individual participation in climate action largely focuses on middle class environmental activism around protest events. …”
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Contentious Territorial Alliances: Coalition Politics and Struggles over Urban Development in Pikine, Senegal by Nicole C. List

“…Through analysis of two spatially distinct –albeit interlinked– episodes of conflict over the development of middle-class and elite housing projects on Pikine farmland, I argue that various public and private actors –including farmers, traditional authorities, housing developers, and local/central government officials– are breaking with older forms of urban governance and forming what I call “territorial alliances” to stake land claims and advance urban development projects. …”
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“[T]hat pincushion made of crimson satin:” Embroidery, Discourse and Memory in Victorian Literature and Culture by Róisín QUINN-LAUTREFIN

“…The practice of embroidery staged a tension between historicity and modernity, allowing middle-class women to engage in modern modes of production while imagining themselves as aristocratic ladies of the past. …”
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