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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
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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

Marii Wojtak teoria genologiczna – w poszukiwaniu gatunkowych reguł tekstu

open access: yesStylistyka
Maria Wojtak is one of the most eminent Polish linguists. Her scientific achievements consist of works on linguistic geneology, stylistics, textology and discourse analysis, also from a diachronic perspective. The subject of research is press, religious,
JOLANTA NOCOŃ
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Narrative Writing Skills of Indonesian 6th Graders: A Critical Genre Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Applied Linguistics
This qualitative study examines the narrative writing skills of four 6th-grade students in Indonesia by analyzing four narrative texts and conducting interviews with the students about their writing processes. Using Bhatia’s Critical Genre Analysis (CGA) framework, the research investigates the interaction between textual features, professional ...
null Fila Alfia   +4 more
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

‘Women’s tales’: postfeminist adventures into consumerville [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article examines the project ‘Women’s Tales’, an on-going series of short films that fashion designer Miuccia Prada commissioned from international female directors, among them Lucrecia Martel, Ava DuVernay and Agnès Varda.
Caoduro, Elena
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