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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Law Notes: St. Mary's University School of Law Newsletter Spring 2008

, 2003
The China Connection: St. Mary's Partners with China's Top Law School, Texas Attorney General Grants Award to Law Clinic, Mock Trial Team at Nationals, New Scholarships for South Texas, Alumni Chapters Spring Up, Homecoming ...
St. Mary's University School of Law
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Corinth; Acrocorinth [Ancient Greek and Roman site]

The walled gates of Acrocorinth, from the west, as rebuilt by the Venetians, showing the northern outcropping of rock; Acrocorinth, the acropolis of Corinth, is a monolithic rock overseeing the ancient city of Corinth, Greece.
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Vanderbilt University Law School Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 2009 Spring Symposium - Panel 3 (audio)

, 2009
Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer M4A file: "Law School - 2009 Spring JETLaw Symposium - Vanderbilt University Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 2009 Symposium - Panel 3 (audio) - Vanderbilt University."Law ...
Vanderbilt University. Law School
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Law Notes: St. Mary's University School of Law Newsletter Fall 2012

, 2012
A Note from the Dean, Entrepreneurial Spirit, A World of Opportunity, Earn CLE Credit in China, Campus Briefs, Meet Our New Faculty Members, Distinguished Law Graduate Dinner, Kudos and Class Notes, In Memoriam, Law Alumni Association President's ...
St. Mary's University School of Law
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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