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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Gendered images of God in the Belhar Confession (1986)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The Confession of Belhar was accepted as a formal confession of faith by the 1986 General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church at its meeting in Belhar, a then ‘Coloured township’ near the Cape Town International Airport in the deep southwest of ...
Christina Landman
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The Confessing Subject and the Construction of Modern Catholic Selves

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2017
Historians and sociologists have argued that the practices of confession played a major role in the transition to modern, introspective individuality.
Moshe Sluhovsky
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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The significance of eschatology in the reception of the Belhar Confession

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article offers a constructive thesis on how the continued relevance of an ecclesial document such as the Belhar Confession can be maintained, given the need to recognise a particular casus confessionis.
Ernst M. Conradie
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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„La Țigănci”, nuvela-parabolă a profetismului eliadesc / "La Țigănci" – The Parable of the Eliadesc Prophetism

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 2018
The unprecedented experience of Gavrilescu, the main character in the La Țigănci short story, continues to arise various interpretations, proving the viability of this eliadesc writing. For some literary critics, he is the anti-hero by definition, which
Liliana Danciu
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Próba psychologicznego pomiaru postaw penitentów wobec spowiedzi

Śląskie Studia Historyczno-Teologiczne, 1991
Sin, as an act of rebellion against God, is a theological concept which also has its psychological determinants and consequences. Psychology is concerned with understanding and treating the latter. Sacramental Confession besides offering forgiveness of
Henryk Krzysteczko
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