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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
wiley   +1 more source

Forced marriage, divorce, and the ecology of marital self-determination: findings from research with Orthodox Jews in New York. [PDF]

SSM Ment Health
Hirsch JS, Fortuna G, Ford J, Jen A, Weissman JL, Shah AH, Reiss F.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Marital Choices in the 19th-Century Poznań : Interplay of Origin, Occupation, and Age at Marriage. [PDF]

Hum Nat
Koníková L, Liczbińska G, Králík M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks [PDF]

The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants' labor market outcomes. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects immigrant ...
Delia Furtado, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
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Child marriage in contexts of forced displacement: exploring drivers and decision-making in Jordan through a gender and generational lens. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Presler-Marshall E, Jones N, Baird S, Abu Hamad B, Alheiwidi S, Oakley E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

It's Raining Babies? Flood Exposures and Fertility in Bangladesh. [PDF]

Popul Dev Rev
Thiede BC, Chen JJ, Mueller V, Hultquist C, Salim Z.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Refusing to Listen: Receptive Audiences and the Political Authority of Speech in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill

Constellations, EarlyView.
Thomas Henry Owings
wiley   +1 more source