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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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Cause and manner of suspected dowry deaths in a metro city of India
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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Educated, and yet Dying Dowry Deaths [PDF]
he recent dowry murder of Divya, a chartered account in Tamil Nadu, has stirred up a storm. Another recent event was the suicide of the IIT-Delhi research scholar Manjula Davak. Her father was quoted as saying, “It was a mistake to educate my daughter
Dixit, Shalini
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Marriage, 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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The Legal-Jurisprudential Status Concerning the Allot of Parts of the Body as a Dowry [PDF]
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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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
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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The Creative Writing Scholarship Committee had this to say on Karissa Wehri’s “The Street Dog’s Dowry”: “In the opening sentence, Karissa Wehri’s ‘The Street Dog’s Dowry’ invites the reader into a meditation on generosity, compassion, and the ties that ...
Wehri, Karissa
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Undetermined Ṣidāq in the Mirror of Jaʿfarī Jurisprudence and Iranian Legal Code [PDF]
Floating 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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Tinjauan Etis-Teologis Terhadap Tradisi Belis Di Pulau Sumba Berdasarkan Konsep Mahar Dalam Alkitab
This paper is aimed to determine the appropriate Christian attitude towards the practice of belis (dowry) in Sumba Island. The biblical, anthropological, and sociological concepts of dowry are the conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing the
Johanis Putratama Kamuri +1 more
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
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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