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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Receptions of Israelite nation-building: Modern Protestant natalism and Martin Luther [PDF]

, 2010
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Dialog© 2010. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comThis article evaluates the claim that Martin Luther was the forerunner of natalism, looking at his references to ...
McKeown, John P.
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A theology of marriage: A biblical or a cultural construct?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This article argues that the contemporary mainline understanding of marriage (theology of marriage), especially in the local South African denominational context, is not ‘based on the Bible’, but rather on a cultural construct.
Ernest van Eck
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Chastity, bachelorhood and masculinity in early modern Europe : the case of the Hospitaller Knights of St. John (c. 1520- c. 1650) [PDF]

, 2009
This chapter engages with gender through an analysis of the historiography of chastity, bachelorhood and masculinity in early modern Europe. We begin with an overview of the ideas and practices related to chastity during the Middle Ages and how these ...
Buttigieg, Emanuel
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‘The Citadel of Their Celibacy’: Masculinity, Celibacy and Marriage in Mary Lavin’s Short Fiction

Humanities
Throughout her oeuvre, Mary Lavin (1912–1996) engages with the nuances of “celibate moments” within masculine life cycles. This periodic sexlessness is often expressed through the complexities of strained or upended marital unions, as in “A Happy Death”,
Fae McNamara
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Right to Life Homily [PDF]

, 1980
This homily was given at St. Ferdinand Church, Chicago, on Oct.
Ratner, Herbert
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The Origins of la vie neutre:Nicolas Caussin's Influence on the Writings of Gabrielle Suchon [PDF]

, 2009
This article examines the influence of Nicolas Caussin's writing on secular celibacy (vie neutre) — and especially of his Vie de Sainte Isabelle (1643) — on Gabrielle Suchon's Traité de la morale et de la politique (1693) and Du célibat volontaire, ou la
Desnain, V.
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Celibacy obligation for clerics according to the Code of Canon Law of 1983

Kościół i Prawo, 2012
The issue of celibacy obligations for clerics according to the Code of Canon Law of 1983 was taken up in the article. This problem contains the following items: 1) theological and legal basis for the celibacy obligation; 2) celibacy obligation in the ...
Michał Grochowina
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