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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
wiley   +1 more source

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesGender &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

Book and library motif in Arabian Nights

open access: yesTürk Kütüphaneciliği, 2016
Tales are the most common and popular examples of the folk literature. They have always been in the lives of children and adults. Arabian Nights that draw the people’s attention to read are one of the most popular examples of dream world. In this book, it is aimed that using of book, library and literacy motifs and their conceptual meanings that could ...
openaire   +1 more source

Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

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