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Encouraging Young Men to Get Married, Getting Married to Competent Women and Prohibiting Celibacy in the two Sahihs : An Objective Study [PDF]
مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإسلاميةThis study was based on defining the terms ‘young men’, marriage, celibacy, and the encouragement of young men to get married through presenting the Prophet Hadiths that indicate the desirability and enticement of young men to get married ...
Abdulrahman Hatem Karim Hammadi - +1 more
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Who Holds the Power? Gendered Experiences of Involuntary Singlehood in the Age of Online Dating*
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.Although singlehood is a desired lifestyle for an increasing number of heterosexual women and men, many are involuntarily single, struggling to find a partner. Meanwhile, popular debates about dating are sharply polarized along gendered lines. While “incels” see themselves as victims on a dating market ruled by women, relatively mainstreamed feminist ...
Lena Gunnarsson +2 more
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Taboos as Drivers for Counterculture: Normalizing Misogyny in Incel Communities and Beyond
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt, Justina Berškytė
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Child Brides in Africa: A Narrative Review on Effects, Gaps, and Interventions
Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.Child marriage, defined as union before age 18, affects millions of girls across sub‐Saharan Africa, with Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea, and Nigeria recording prevalence rates of 40–76%. This review synthesises evidence on the prevalence, sociocultural and economic drivers, and health, psychological, and social consequences of child marriage in Africa ...
Olaoye Damilola Quazeem +6 more
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'Not worse than other girls': the convent-based rehabilitation of fallen women in Victorian Britain [PDF]
, 1996 Focuses on the convent-based rehabilitation of fallen women in Victorian Britain. Penitentiaries for sexually and morally outcast females; Cultural issues; Description of penitentiary work; Sexually transgressive penitents; Cases; Category of fallen ...
Mumm, Susan
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“It Wouldn’t Be Her Own”: Norah Hoult’s “Miss Jocelyn” as a Response to James Joyce’s “Eveline”
HumanitiesThis article examines Norah Hoult’s 1929 short story “Miss Jocelyn,” from her short story collection Poor Women!, as an intertextual response to James Joyce’s representation of single women in the short story “Eveline” included in his landmark 1914 ...
Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan
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The Motifs of Sexual Abstinence and Virginity in Medieval Hungarian Legends [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2014 The goal of the study is to interpret the motifs of pudicity, sexual abstinence and virginity in the texts of chosen medieval legends written in Latin on the interdisciplinary level as otherwise they would hardly be understandable.
Kristína Pavlovičová
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Studia CeraneaThis article explores several real examples of celibacy, marriage and puberty in the works of 14th century Tarnovo authors. It explores several key issues: celibacy in both its manifestations – the orthodox and the heretical, among medieval Bulgarians ...
Hristo Saldzhiev
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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
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