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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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Hagar, Bilhah, and Zilpah: Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Enslaved Reproductive Bodies in Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean Painting. From Visual Exegesis to Iconographical Absence

Eikón Imago
This paper investigates the visual representations—or the marked absence—of Hagar, Bilhah, and Zilpah, three enslaved women in the Book of Genesis, within seventeenth-century Mediterranean painting. Drawing on feminist biblical criticism, art historical
Begoña Álvarez Seijo
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The Ethical Obligation to Disrupt

Old Testament Essays, 2022
In Nah 3:1, the Assyrian capital Nineveh is called “city of bloodshed.” Nineveh is indeed “a bloody city,” filled with the blood of the numerous dead bodies associated with the fall of the city.
Juliana Claassens
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Consent and Gender‐Based Violence: R v Hobday

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This note analyses the Court of Appeal decision in R v Hobday in the context of the longstanding but controversial caselaw on the relevance of consent to offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) or above. It considers whether the vulnerabilities of victims of gender‐based violence are adequately recognised by the judiciary in an area ...
Mandy Burton
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Reading the Bible as a Feminist

, 2017
This work provides a brief introduction to feminist interpretation of scripture. Feminist interpretation is first grounded in feminism as an intellectual and political movement. Next, this introduction briefly recounts the origins of feminist readings of
Jennifer L. Koosed
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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The wife as stranger in the family

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
The phenomenon of the stranger reveals that spatial relations are, on the one hand, only the condition and, on the other hand, the symbol of human relations. This article discusses the specific form of interaction of the wife (woman) as a stranger in the
Susara J. Nortjé-Meyer
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Terrible Silence, Eternal Silence: A Feminist Re-reading of Dinah’s Voicelessness in Genesis 34.

, 2009
This article explores the ethical implications of Dinah's silence in the text and interpretive traditions of Genesis 34. I compare her plight to that of contemporary rape survivors and propose a means of referring to the testimonies of these survivors as
Blyth, Caroline
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EMBODIED DATA/SUBALTERN DATAFICATION: Reimagining the Data‐Based City Through Quantified Lived Experience

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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“Torn Between Two Lovers”: Uncovering the Real Fool of Proverbs 9:1–18

Religions
Feminist biblical criticism of Proverbs 1–9 has decried the figure of “Dame Folly” as reinforcing pejorative stereotypes of women that blame women for “the world’s sin and corruption.” To be sure, in the history of Christian biblical interpretation ...
Lisa Marie Belz
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