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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]
, 2016 Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
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Journal of Algebra, 2014 The action of any group on itself by conjugation and the corresponding conjugacy relation play an important role in group theory. There have been several attempts to extend the notion of conjugacy to semigroups. In this paper, we present a new definition of conjugacy that can be applied to an arbitrary semigroup and it does not reduce to the universal ...
João Araújo +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Is breast best?: breastfeeding, motherhood and identity [PDF]
, 2003 Is Breast Best?: breastfeeding, motherhood and identity is concerned with how breastfeeding is both a personal and a political issue. Earle begins with a cross-cultural analysis of the prevalence of breastfeeding, considering differences between and ...
Earle, Sarah
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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When breast cancer crosses real life: sexuality, conjugality, and gender issues from the perspective of surviving women [PDF]
Saúde e SociedadeThe goal of the research was to analyze the perception of sexuality in women diagnosed with breast cancer, regardless of the treatment stage. This was a qualitative study conducted in the state of Ceará.
Aline Veras Moraes Brilhante +4 more
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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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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2010 The present study investigated the conjugality in two families in which the wife had postpartum depression, according to the Beck Depression Inventory and a diagnostic interview. The husbands did not have depression. A case-study design was used in order
Giana Bitencourt Frizzo +3 more
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Intimacy and Virtual Extimacy in Contemporary Conjugality
Interação em Psicologia, 2016 Antes do boom da internet, a intimidade mantinha uma forte vinculação com a ideia de privacidade. Contudo, é notória a transformação da intimidade hoje, justamente, no que concerne à sua ligação com o espaço virtual.
Carolina Mendes-Campos +2 more
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Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
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