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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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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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Fiat JustisiaThe phenomenon of mosque dowry in Indonesian celebrity marriages, with the aim of exploring its validity according to Islamic family law. Dowry, as an essential component in marriage and a symbol of appreciation, has evolved in form, giving rise to ...
Ahmad Alfin Afadi +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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IslamiyyatMarriage, a social institution with various obligations and customs, involves legal responsibilities like dowry, alimony, and cohabitation. Traditional practices like bride price, gift-giving, breastfeeding rights, and dowry are deeply rooted in ...
Ahmed Ekşi , A.H.M. Ershad Uddin
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Cause and manner of suspected dowry deaths in a metro city of India
SVU - International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background : Even in the presence of stringent laws dowry-related violence, cruelty and dowry death is common in India. Understanding the cause and the manner of suspected dowry death is essential not only to bring the culprits to book but also to ...
Indrani Das, Kanad Bag*
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Undetermined Ṣidāq in the Mirror of Jaʿfarī Jurisprudence and Iranian Legal Code [PDF]
آموزههای فقه مدنيFloating dowry is a type of dowry that is not specified in the text of the contract, but its calculation mechanism is specified. In this case, the parties open the dowry to be appointed according to the custom of the day or the opinion of one of the ...
Ibrahim javanmard Farkhani +2 more
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The Legal-Jurisprudential Status Concerning the Allot of Parts of the Body as a Dowry [PDF]
فقه و حقوق خانواده, 2016 As a legal requirement of marriage, designating type of a dowry and its amount is one of those issues that is of vital importance for couples and their families; although the most common dowry is designated in the form of coins, cash amd so on, in which ...
javad niknejad
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