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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth +3 more
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Roman Domination in Weighted Graphs
MathematicsA Roman dominating function for a (non-weighted) graph G=(V,E) is a function f:V→{0,1,2} such that every vertex u∈V with f(u)=0 has at least one neighbor v∈V such that f(v)=2.
Martín Cera +2 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Sociolinguistics II: Deviance, Dystopia, And Democracy (LING82) Syllabus [PDF]
, 2018 This course builds upon foundational concepts in sociolinguistic theory to examine discourses of news and entertainment media, across science fiction and politics.
Thomas, Jamie A.
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Warm Soil, Westerly Wind, and Wet Feet: Feeling and Measuring Ecological Time in the Roman World. [PDF]
Geohealth, 2023 Tally-Schumacher KJ.
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrines [PDF]
This contribution discusses Leibniz’s views on key Christian doctrines which were surrounded, in the early modern period, by particularly lively debates.
Antognazza, Maria Rosa
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