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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

Raymer, Lloyd Monroe, 1943-2012 (MSS 449) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 449. Genealogical reports and records generated by professional genealogist, Lloyd M. Raymer of Warren County, Kentucky, for clients across the country.
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
core   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Using the Illinois Digital Archives as a Genealogical Research Tool [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A brief, informative article describing how to use the Illinois Digital Archives as a resource for genealogical ...
Willey, Eric
core   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing your roots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
An event to allow students to trace back their ancestry with the assistance of the New England Historic Genealogical ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
core  

Effect of selection on ancestry: an exactly soluble case and its phenomenological generalization

open access: yes, 2007
We consider a family of models describing the evolution under selection of a population whose dynamics can be related to the propagation of noisy traveling waves.
A. H. Mueller   +10 more
core   +1 more source

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

Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

Qurʾanic Scholarly Authority Within Pesantren Networks in Indonesia: A Genealogical Reading of the Sanad of KH Munawwar Sidayu, Gresik

open access: yesQOF
This study examines the formation of scholarly authority within the network of tahfiz pesantren through the Qur’anic sanad of KH Munawwar Sidayu in Gresik, which plays a pivotal role in preserving the tahfiz tradition. The research focuses on mapping the
Nurul Hidayati
doaj   +1 more source

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