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Was Einhard a widower?

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Analyse socioculturelle de l’évolution des conditions de vie de la femme tagbana [PDF]

open access: yesZiglôbitha, 2023
Résumé : La femme tagbana d’avant les indépendances est celle-là qui n’a presque aucun droit dans la société. Son rôle était limité aux travaux champêtres et domestiques. Elle est l’éducatrice des enfants et la nourricière de la famille. Sa mission était
Eugenie OUATTARA
doaj  

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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La femme comme facteur d’évolution sociale dans Chants d’ombre de Léopold Sédar Senghor [PDF]

open access: yesAkofena
Résumé : Dans l’évolution sociale, on ignore que la femme en a été un facteur clé. Elle a toujours été comme une bonne à rien, incapable de réussir quoi que ce soit ou de se prendre en charge soi-même.
Adou BOUATENIN
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Femme aimée, aimer-femme, aimer les femmes...

open access: yesLes Cahiers du GRIF, 1978
Femme aimée, aimer-femme, aimer les femmes.... In: Les Cahiers du GRIF, n°20, 1978. Femmes entre elles, lesbianisme. pp. 93-95.
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Quelques représentations de la femme dans les œuvres de Viktor Pélévine

open access: yesILCEA, 2017
L’article examine quelques représentations de la femme dans les œuvres de V. Pélévine, écrivain russe contemporain à grand succès, représentatif du postmodernisme.
Isabelle Després
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

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