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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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The Earth Mourns: Interconnectedness of Yahweh, People and Land in Jeremiah 23:10 and 15
Old Testament Essays, 2020 According to Jeremiah 23:10 the land mourns because of the unethical behaviour of the religious leaders in Judean society. The example set by these leaders gives leeway to the people of Judah to follow suit. The article discusses the relationship between
Wilhelm J Wessels
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi +4 more
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Adultère, indices médicaux et recul de la torture à Genève (XVIIe siècle)
Genre & Histoire, 2016 This article investigates how the practice of judicial torture was shaped by attitudes to sin, to gender, and to the testimony of medical experts in seventeenth-century Geneva.
Sara Beam
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Adultery: Trust and Children [PDF]
, 2017 Deborah Rhode writes that while adultery is admittedly not good, it should not be criminal. She argues that it should not generate a tort action either, because the original purposes for which the torts of alienation of affections and criminal ...
Brinig, Margaret F.
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Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Urwatul WutsqoOne of the strong beliefs among the Madurese community is the inevitability that the child of adultery will inherit the habits of the biological father who committed adultery. This study is called the heredity of the child of adultery.
Syahrullah Asyhari +2 more
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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