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The Emergence of Roman Legal Science
SEEU ReviewThe origins of Roman legal science date back to the later Republican era, when the pontifices greatly influenced the interpretation and administration of law. They were instrumental in shaping the law outlined in the Twelve Tables.
Mehmeti Sami
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato
Constellations, EarlyView.
Benjamin Hutchens
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &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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Theory and Ideology. Conceptual Crisscrossing
Sfera Politicii, 2011 The paper argues that philosophy should be seen in the light of the Greek word – theoria. This is precisely what distinguishes it from ideology. In order to prove this assertion the paper explores the meanings of the notion theoria independently or with ...
Nicolae Drăgușin
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On the Ambiguities of Laclauian Populist Leadership
Constellations, EarlyView.
Riku Kusumoto
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &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
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Provincializing Frankfurt: A Postcolonial Rereading of Habermasian Theory
Constellations, EarlyView.
Floris Biskamp
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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