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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Thinking about God increases acceptance of artificial intelligence in decision-making. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Karataş M, Cutright KM.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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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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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &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
wiley   +1 more source

A quick review of studies on religion and health

پژوهش در دین و سلامت, 2019
For downloading the full-text of this article please click here. In the history of Islam, knowledge about health has received a lot of attention. In Islam, health is an advantage and a prelude to perfection.
Hamid Soori
doaj  

Comparative Analysis of Practical Contradiction of Attaining Knowledge and the Mission of Motherhood in the Human Perfection with the Tendency of Practical Morality [PDF]

اخلاق وحیانی, 2019
The position of women as half of the population of the world and their role in the social life is the effective and impressive affair, and study of it, given their existential dispositions and capacities, is a necessary issue.
maryam rastagar, reza noroozi, alli pirhadi   +2 more
doaj  

Ulul Albab: The Concept of Perfect Intelligence in Islam: Theoretical Review and Application in Islamic Psychology

Jurnal Indonesia Sosial Sains
Allah as the Creator of the universe, including human beings, has bestowed the brain and intellect including the heart (qalbun) to humans as His great gift. This is what distinguishes humans from other creatures in this universe. Man becomes a perfect creature because he can think and feel or have lust (will).
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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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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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