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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
wiley   +1 more source

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

On Medical Domination

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I propose and define the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnographic study of abortion services in France, I analyse how a set of legitimised and institutionalised power practices shape ...
Raphaël Perrin
wiley   +1 more source

Husserl’s Concept of the ‘Transcendental Person’: Another Look at the Husserl–Heidegger Relationship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper offers a further look at Husserl’s late thought on the transcendental subject and the Husserl–Heidegger relationship. It attempts a reconstruction of how Husserl hoped to assert his own thoughts on subjectivity vis-à-vis Heidegger, while also ...
Luft, Sebastian
core   +1 more source

Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
wiley   +1 more source

Investor‐ versus Multi‐stakeholder Orientation: The Influence of CSR Framework Adoption on Information Asymmetry

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
This study examines how firms’ adoption of corporate social responsibility frameworks (CSRFs) that follow different user orientation approaches affects information asymmetry in capital markets. We draw on novel hand‐collected adoption data from seven established CSRFs for a sample of STOXX Europe 600 firms from 2017–2020. Our findings reveal that CSRFs
Andreas Altendorfer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CEO‐Board Social Ties and Corporate Tax Avoidance

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines CEO‐board social ties that engage in corporate tax avoidance. We find that an increasing proportion of CEO‐board social ties in a firm is associated with higher levels of tax avoidance. Our results withstand several endogeneity tests, including propensity score matching, entropy balancing and a difference‐in‐differences ...
Chen Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
wiley   +1 more source

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