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The case for ensuring chastity for men with women's emancipation

, 2023
It is perhaps worth mentioning here that, in conventional societal perceptions, the chastity of women is given greater attention and importance. Such an attitudinal bias is unacceptable in Islam because the two verses (24:30-31) in the Quran that discuss
Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
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சங்க காலப் பெண்களின் மாண்புகள் / The Merits of Women in the Sangam Period [PDF]

Pandian Journal of Women's Studies
Literature tells us that women lived with dignity during the Sangam period. Women of that time were called by many names like Mangala Mahal, Manaiyal, Mellyil Mahal, Seyizhay Mahal, Veyyol, and Vasayil Mahal. Tolkappiyar says that the primary qualities
முனைவர் பா. ம. ஜெயகலா / Dr. P. M. Jayakala
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Performing Chastity

, 2023
If chastity has for generations served the needs and desires of men, can it still be taken seriously as a virtue? Dismissed in the west as a medieval superstition, or, at best, as a means of escape from an intolerable situation, chastity seems a worn-out version of goodness which belongs in the past.
Craik, Katharine, Fernie, Ewan
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Celibacy, Chastity and Self-Cultivation in the Thought of Jesuits and Chinese Catholics in Late Ming and Early Qing China

Religions
This article examines Catholic celibacy from the late Ming to early Qing dynasty, revealing how Jesuit missionaries and Chinese Catholics interpreted and advocated for chastity.
Biyun Dai
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Pathology of the issue of chastity and hijab among undergraduate female students at Allameh Tabataba'i University [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Farhang Mushavirah va Ravān/Darmānī, 2014
One of the important issues in the field of women studies from the viewpoint of the Qur'an on "coverage" is that coverage of the body has been put as an inborn need in them.
Ali Krbalaei pazooki, Mohammad Hossein Khavaninzadeh   +1 more
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சங்க மருவிய காலத்தில் பெண்கள் வாழ்வியல் – நாலடியார் / Women's Lifestyle in the Post-Sangam Era – Naladiyar [PDF]

Pandian Journal of Women's Studies
The post-Sangam era, when love and bravery were considered the two eyes of life, is the period after the Sangam era. Since many moral books were written during this period, it is also called the period of morality.
தேவசுந்தரம் தினுஷிகா / Devasundaram Dinushika
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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Korean Perceptions of Chastity, Gender Roles, and Libido; From Kisaengs to the Twenty First Century [PDF]

, 2012
The kisaengs were highly educated performing artists that contradicted the historical view that Korean women should be chaste, quiet, and inconspicuous. Beginning in the twentieth century, kisaengs declined in popularity as sexual services became widely ...
Maynes, Katrina
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India

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

Gender &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
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