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

Gender &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
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Embraced by the Sea. The Metaphorical Use of the Sea and the Symbology of Water in Spanish and Hispanoamerican Poetry

Revista de Filología Románica, 2016
In Greek mythology and classical culture, there has always been a relationship between the sea and eroticism. Yet, European literature has been drawn away from this influence due to the weight of Jewish-Christian culture, besides the Arabic tradition on ...
Martin Schatzmann Willvonseder
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &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
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Islamic Studies in the Academic Heritage of Academician A. Krymsky

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2004
A.Yu.Krymsky is a world-renowned scholar, a well-known Orientalist who has dedicated his life to the study of Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern issues. Even the layman knows that it is impossible to study the languages, literature, history or ethnography
Yu.M. Kochubey
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Comparative analytical comparative study of the "Kan Makan" story by Mikhail Naeema and "One was not the same" Jamalzadeh [PDF]

ادبیات تطبیقی, 2020
The contexts and factors that create contemporary fiction in Arabic and Persian literature are close to each other; In particular, in both languages, the story is derived from Western storytelling patterns, meaning that the similarities have led many ...
Mohammad reza Pashaei, Hedayatollah Taghizadeh   +1 more
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Orientalism on the Revelation of the Prophet

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1986
W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1953), 192 pp., and Muhammad at Medina (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1956), 417 pp. Maxime Rodinson, Mahomet (France: Club francais du livre, 1961), 378 pp., English translation by
Muhammad Benaboud
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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