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Ethical considerations in surgical care: cultural and religious perspectives in Africa. [PDF]

Ann Med Surg (Lond)
Abate Bekele B, Kachouh C, Byiringiro C, Degefu Gashu A, Cherri B, Mshaymesh S, Wellington J, Uwishema O.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Converted Gods: Lives and Travels of Asante <i>Abosom</i> and <i>Asuman</i> Figures. [PDF]

Mater Relig
de Witte M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
wiley   +1 more source

Medicinal plant use in a context of coloniality: Congolese perspectives on lost and preserved healing traditions in Belgium. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
De Meyer E, Derveeuw S, Sinatu Bolya C, de la Peña E, Ceuterick M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

Stigmatization and Disparities in Healthcare Among LGBTQ Population in Africa: Advancing Health Equity. [PDF]

Public Health Chall
Omohwovo EJ, Lucero-Prisno DE.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Preventing Students with Disabilities from Participating in Sports at Rural Universities in Limpopo Province. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Mokwena TJ, Tshitangano TG, Tshivhase SE.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source