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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Association of various reproductive rights, domestic violence and marital rape with depression among Pakistani women

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2009
Background Depression among women is common in developing countries. Gender inequality can contribute to women's risk for depression. Lack of reproductive and sexual rights is an important marker of gender inequality and women do not have the freedom to ...
Israr Syed M   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
wiley   +1 more source

Marital Rape Sebagai Pelanggaran Hak Asasi Manusia

open access: yesAl-Ulum, 2017
This article addresses the question of marital rape (rape in the household) or a rape that occurs between couples who tied with a legal marriage as a violation of human rights.
Titin Samsudin
doaj  

Criminalizing Marital Rape in India

open access: yes, 2021
The IPC, 1860, does not acknowledge that it is a offence for a man to rape his lady, hence marital rape is not an offense in India. The reasons for this are numerous, as evidenced by multiple investigations, legislative discussions, as well as judicial rulings.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
wiley   +1 more source

Marital sexual violence in Sohag, Egypt: a cross-sectional survey of prevalence, knowledge, attitudes, and sociodemographic factors in a sample of ever-married women

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
Background Marital Sexual Violence (MSV) or marital rape is a concealed form of domestic violence that may confront a forensic doctor. Respecting religious and social beliefs, referring to marital rape as MSV is more appropriate.
Rasha Elhaddad Ali Mousa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

Why Penalize Marital Rape

open access: yesIOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
Marriage is regarded as one of the most sacred institutions of our country, by which one legalizes their right to procreate. But when this sacredness is destroyed, this institution shatters completely, and what remains is just a display of its ruins to the society.
Sakshi Kanodia, Ranjabati Ray
openaire   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

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