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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

An Attempt to Integrate Previous Localized Estimates of Human Inbreeding for the Whole of Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
There have been a number of previous estimates of human inbreeding for Britons of British descent in Britain; each generally for different social classes, geographical regions, and/or time periods.
Pattison, John E
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Consanguineous Marriages in Iranian Folktales

open access: yesPublic Health Genomics, 2006
<i>Background:</i> Using folktales we can find some aspects of social customs. Here, I show the situation of consanguineous marriages in folktales from different Iranian populations and try to compare it with the present situation of consanguineous marriages.
openaire   +2 more sources

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Consanguineous Marriages and Reproductive Behavior: A Study from Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra

open access: yesNational Journal of Community Medicine, 2022
Introduction: India has been subdivided in to two major regions with respect to a preference for or avoidance of consanguineous marriage. The deleterious health effects associated with consanguinity are caused by the expression of rare, recessive genes ...
Venkatramana K Sonkar   +3 more
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Compare motor development of male and female children with consanguineous and in-law parents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
زمینه و هدف: مطالعات نشان داده اند ازدواج فامیلی می تواند احتمال بروز مشکلات متعددی در رشد حرکتی را موجب گردد. هدف این تحقیق مقایسه رشد حرکتی کودکان دختر و پسر با والدین نسبی و سببی بوده است. روش بررسی: در این مطالعه مقطعی، رشد حرکتی 15 کودک 4 و 5 ساله و
Bahrami, AliReza.   +3 more
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Consanguineous Marriages in Mental Retardation; A Study in a Rural Population

open access: yesمجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2011
• Background: According to general statistics, almost 3% of children at school age are mental retard. Many risk factors, especially consanguineous marriages, may lead to these disorders.
Mansoor Salehi   +2 more
doaj  

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