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Women in Britain’s First Muslim Mosques: Hidden from History, but Not Without Influence

Religions, 2020
Two of the earliest Muslim communities in Britain evolved around the first mosques in Liverpool and Woking (both—1889). The history of these early British Muslims is being recovered but little is known about the women (usually converts) in these ...
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
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Feminist and Materialist Philosophies of History in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls

Meliora, 2022
The first act of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls does away with temporal boundaries, inviting women across historical periods, artistic masterworks, and literary epics to a dinner party. During the evening, the women share their life stories, interrupt each
Sophie Poole
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Review of Sigrund Haude and Melinda S. Zook, eds, Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women: Essays Presented to Hilda L. Smith

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2016
This article reviews Sigrun Haude and Melinda S. Zook, eds, Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women: Essays Presented to Hilda L. Smith.
Emma Major
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Footprints, Imprints: Seeing Environmentalist and Buddhist Marie Byles as an Eastern Australian

PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2007
This paper looks at the Australian author, traveller, conservationist and Buddhist Marie Byles (1900-1979) as “eastern” and Australian at once. It investigates the influence of Buddhist spirituality and travel on her approach to the environment and ...
Allison Jane Cadzow
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Graphic Histories of Solidarity, in Solidarity [PDF]

Kronos
Revolutionary experiments require building revolutionary relationships. This praxis of material and social creativity to reorganise power dynamics and weave connections across weaponised divides, are evident in the content, the form and the backstory ...
Koni Benson
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Researching gender: the challenge of global diversity today [PDF]

, 2010
The text of this paper is based on a lecture given at the symposium of the Ghent African Platform “Researching Gender in/on Africa” at Ghent University in December 2009.
Longman, Chia
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Women’s and feminist periodical press in literary studies’ classroom: Theory and practice [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020
Women’s and feminist periodical press represents a fruitful resource for researchers who explore women’s and gender history, history of women’s and feminist movement(s), women’s writing, and various gender identites which were - and still are ...
Kolarić Ana
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Die Evidenz der Erfahrung

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2013
Starting from the historical and epistemological problem of “visibility”, this article discusses the role and authority of “experience” in the field of (feminist) history and historiography. The article criticizes the foundational function of “experience”
Joan Wallach Scott
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L’expérience collective des archives

Glad!, 2021
This article offers an introduction to the English feminist history of the 70s, little known in France, and it analyzes the activist contexts in which this history emerged.
Delphine Frasch
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Mothering a nation : the gendered memory of Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion [PDF]

, 2015
textThis paper approaches fiction as a site of gendered history and memory and presents two pieces of literature by Kenyan authors - Passbook Number F.47927 by Muthoni Likimani and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo ...
Murimi, Wanjira
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