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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Pragmatic and Social Dimensions in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ BūrsaʿīdHenrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House stands as a landmark in feminist theatre and modern drama. This study explores the play through the framework of social pragmatics, investigating how Ibsen strategically employs language to critique the societal expectations
Samar Saad Almazroui
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Diagnosing, Resisting, Yielding – or How the Doctor Faces the Inevitable Tragedy
Études Lawrenciennes, 2021 Elise Brault-Dreux
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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Revue LISA, 2008 If Shakespeare’s Renaissance contemporaries were keen on efficiency and “progress” (in the sense of “onward movement in space”), they also particularly enjoyed labyrinthine ways which distracted them from their primary purposes.
Sophie Alatorre
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter in German: What’s Missing in Translation?
ELOPE, 2012 Several of Harold Pinter’s works have been adapted as screenplays and filmed. This paper investigates director Robert Altman’s TV movie The Dumb Waiter in comparison with the German dubbed version, Der stumme Diener, as well as the reception of Pinter’s
Renée von Paschen
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