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International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano +3 more
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Legal Comparison on Dowry In Islamic Countries [PDF]
, 2023 Various problems that arise because of dowry. Even though the provisions regarding dowry in the laws and regulations in Islamic countries have similarities and differences.
Darulhuda, Alaiddin Koto, -, Jumni Nelli
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DOWRY PRACTICES IN LAMPUNG PESISIR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGES: AN ISLAMIC LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
Indonesia Private Law ReviewIn Indonesia, Islamic law requires that the giving of a dowry in marriage involves mutual agreement between the prospective groom and bride. In Padang Ratu Village, the practice of dowry does not deviate from Islamic principles. Instead, the dowry amount
Restika Susanti
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More than proteins for empty stomachs: Wild meat in the BaTonga food system
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Our paper highlights the limitations of the framework used by many conservation‐focused programmes that incorporate food security objectives. This framework encourages the substitution of wild proteins with domestic proteins by promoting animal farming in communities located near conservation areas.
Muriel Figuié +5 more
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Gender &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
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Pennsylvania Quilts: Selections from the Landes Dowry
, 1997 Photograph of the exhibition "Pennsylvania Quilts: Selections from the Landes Dowry," February 16-April 27, 1997, held at the Dallas Museum of ...
Contreras, Alex
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, 2009 The Dowry Prohibition Act enacted on July 1, 1961, in India prohibits the giving or receiving of a dowry. The law defines a dowry as property or valuable security given by either party to the marriage, or by the parents of either party, or by anyone else,
Lodhia, Sharmila
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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From bridewealth to dowry? A Bayesian estimation of ancestral states of marriage transfers in Indo-European groups [PDF]
, 2006 Significant amounts of wealth have been exchanged as part of marriage settlements throughout history. Although various models have been proposed for interpreting these practices, their development over time has not been investigated systematically.
Fortunato, L, Holden, C, Mace, R
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