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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
wiley   +1 more source

The Depiction of Black Feminism in Bell Hooks’ Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1982 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This research is entitled ―The Depiction of Black Feminism in Bell Hooks‘ ‗Ain‘t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 1982‘‖. It deals in details with Feminism in the first chapter, however the second chapter engages with the study of the black female ...
Madani Yousfi, Fatima, Bendiab, Imane
core  

Talking back to white Italy: unpacking the knot of racism, colonialism and feminism from the perspective of Black asylum-seeking and refugee women

open access: yesComparative Migration Studies
The relationship between feminist movements and racialised migrant women in Europe remains marred by the continued marginalisation of migrant women’s political claims in feminist struggles, despite the circulation of intersectional discourses within ...
Yvette Samnick, Ilaria Michelis
doaj   +1 more source

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Considerations on the afrofeminine poetics by Mel Adún: Affection, eroticism, feminine emancipation and mysticism

open access: yesTravessias, 2018
Mel Adún is a young black writer who has published her works in newspapers, blogs and, chiefly, in the magazine Cadernos Negros, specialized in the literary productions of Afro-Brazilian writers and in which Adún has already published some short stories ...
Rangel Gomes Andrade   +1 more
doaj  

Violence as a Form of Oppression towards Black Women in Octavia E Butler’s Kindred

open access: yesPuitika
This article analyzes oppression of black women in Octavia E Butler’s novel entitled Kindred. The primary source is the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler while the secondary sources used are books and articles.The aim of this research to identify the ...
Qatrunnada Viranda Hasanady   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
wiley   +1 more source

Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
wiley   +1 more source

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