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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper we report on faunal remains recovered from a legacy archaeological excavation undertaken in the rockshelter entrance of Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), a GunaiKurnai site located on the west bank of the Snowy River, East Gippsland, southeastern Australia.
Matthew C. McDowell +7 more
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Dispelling the Myths About the Battered Woman\u27s Defense: Towards a New Understanding [PDF]
, 1992 This essay explores the growth of the use of self-defense by battered women from a historical perspective in order to explain the magnitude of the prejudices these defendants face.
Dowd, Michael
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Overcoming Barriers in Communities [PDF]
, 2001 Panelist Evelyn Cardona, discussed the work of the Brooklyn Coalition Against Family Violence, where she is the director, her own experience as a battered woman, and how she overcame it.
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From disorientation to preparedness: Information practices as scaffolding in acute crises
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This qualitative study examines how adults in Israel enacted information practices during an acute national crisis. Using the information transitions framework, we investigate how concrete practices emerge and evolve across three stages: understanding, negotiating, and resolving. Semi‐structured Zoom interviews with 18 adults were analyzed via
Lilach Alon +2 more
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Crònica d'un equívoc: la construcció d'una identitat femenina en les notícies sobre maltractaments
Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2010 The article deals with the construction of a determined and stereotypical female identity in the news on battered women. Form and content of news are analysed to draw how women are represented in written news and reports on battered women and gender ...
Eulàlia Lledó
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Battered women’s valuations on health care received [PDF]
NURE Investigación, 2010 Violence against women in Spain is currently a problem of state public health and of great social concern because of numerous cases of women murdered by their partners or former partners.
Juana Robledo Martín +3 more
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Shelter homes for battered women as a response to a public health problem
Feminismo/s, 2007 Shelter homes for battered women started to appear in the sixties in the USA as a response to the situation of emergency that domestic violence provoked in women. Only in the eighties did these homes start to be created in Spain.
Ana Paula Cid Santos
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Women Leaving Violent Men: Crossroads of Emotion, Cognition and Action [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis addresses battered women’s leaving processes. Leaving is conceptualised in a wider sense, i.e. as disentanglement from violent relationships beyond the physical break-up. The general aim of the thesis is to study how emotion and cognition are
Enander, Viveka
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"The mad", "the bad", "the victim":gendered constructions of women who kill within the criminal justice system [PDF]
, 2013 Women commit significantly fewer murders than men and are perceived to be less violent. This belief about women’s non-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristics ...
Weare, Siobhan
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