Chastity, Power Dynamics, and Enduring Spousal Love
, 2021 This chapter takes the same approach and draws not only on their descriptions of human experiences but also on the findings of social science. It analyzes the power dynamics of Hume’s androcentric chastity and contrasts it with Wojtyla’s personalist ...
Lemmons, Rose Mary
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Acting Virtuous: Chastity, Theatricality, and The Tragedie of Mariam [PDF]
, 2011 Given the interrelation of female chastity and female theatricality in early modem discourses, it comes as no surprise that both figure importantly in what is believed to be the first original English drama to be written by a woman.
Lehnhof, Kent
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Beyond the Dichotomy of Success and Failure: Making Activism Meaningful in South Korea and France
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 755-766, December 2026.ABSTRACT First deployed in the 1970s, prefiguration has recently gained traction among ethnographers of political action as a descriptor for activist practices that foreground participatory democracy, horizontality, and direct action, as seen in social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Notably, ethnographers have come to understand these prefigurative‐
Guilherme Fians, Sera Yeong Seo Park
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Perilous Power: Chastity as Political Power in William Shakespeare\u27s Measure for Measure and Margaret Cavendish\u27s Assaulted and Pursued Chastity [PDF]
, 2014 William Shakespeare and Margaret Cavendish each published plays and poems focusing on the precarious implications and cultural enactments of female chastity in their time. Their lives and writing careers bookend a time when chastity\u27s place in English
Smith, Kelsey Brooke
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 719-729, December 2026.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Spectral Ecologies: Sintering More‐Than‐Human Pasts to Less‐Than‐Certain Futures
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 910-916, December 2026.ABSTRACT How do we mourn the loss of more‐than‐human beings, and what becomes of them when they are gone? This commentary examines two installations in Spectral Remix, an art exhibition at the 2025 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Suraiya Luecke
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract This essay draws from the author's personal experiences to examine how forgetting and remembering operate in Ukrainian society following the totalitarian era, particularly under the ongoing full‐scale Russian invasion. It draws on ideas from Paul Connerton, Alexander Etkind, and Tamara Hundorova regarding memory and the effects of violence on ...
Julia Buyskykh
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Paradoxical Chastity in \u3cem\u3eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 1991 Chastity, said one of the early feminists more than a decade ago, is the only sexual perversion. Neither Shakespeare nor any of his contemporaries would have agreed with her.
Liston, William T.
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SEXUAL DIVERSITY AND DIVINE CREATION: A TIGHTROPE WALK BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE
Zygon, 2013 Although modern societies have come to recognize diversity in human sexuality as simply part of nature, many Christian communities and thinkers still have considerable difficulties with related developments in politics, legislation, and science. In fact,
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On the Dating of One of Leo Tolstoy’s Letters to His Daughter Maria Tolstaya [PDF]
Литературный фактThe article deals with some aspects related to the dating, content, and interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s letters to his middle daughter, Maria (1871–1906), who was a staunch supporter of her father’s religious and philosophical views. (For many years, she
Yuri V. Prokopchuk
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