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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

From Prohibition to Digitalisation: 100 Years of Cameras in the Courtroom

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article traces the shifting relationship between the courts, the public, and the media in England and Wales from the 1925 prohibition on courtroom photography to the contemporary regime of livestreamed and recorded proceedings. It situates the introduction of the ban on courtroom images within the first administrative turn of the judiciary, when ...
Ozan Kamiloglu, Kanika Sharma
wiley   +1 more source

Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Drawing on the theory of practical reasons, John Gardner has offered a seminal account of excuses in criminal law. His proposal is that an excuse asserts that the defendant acted for what she justifiably believed to be sufficient reason for her to perform the offending act although she had no such reason.
Andreas Vassiliou
wiley   +1 more source

Peire Bremon Ricas Novas, “Rics pres, ferms e sobeirans” (BdT 330.15a) [PDF]

open access: yesLecturae Tropatorum, 2008
This article provides a new critical edition and a commentary of Peire Bremon Ricas Novas’s “Rics pres, ferms e sobeirans”, a courtly love song composed between 1228 and 1257 and dedicated to Audiart del Baux.
Paolo Di Luca
doaj  

Le personnage d’Iseut dans le « Tristan » de Béroul. Charme et complexité

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2009
Béroul’s Roman de Tristan revolves round Iseut as sole important female character. Her mythical origins show her as a magician and stranger to the values of Marc’s Kingdom.
Jean Louis Benoit
doaj   +1 more source

Gender diversity and syphilis: something's going on? [PDF]

open access: yesFront Sociol, 2023
de Dios-Aguado M   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Voltaire's "Racine": the paradoxes of a transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article highlights some paradoxical aspects of Voltaire's admiration for Racine. He paid little attention to Racine's plays as dramatic entities, followed received opinions, and made many unfavourable judgements, especially concerning Racine's mix ...
Campbell, J.
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