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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
wiley   +1 more source

Hemmed In? Considering the Complexities of Amish Womanhood

The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
How have conceptions of Amish womanhood changed over time? In this article, I show that while early scholars offered only a rudimentary look at Amish women’s lives, current research is expanding and expounding upon this question. To begin, I survey early
Natalie Jolly
doaj  

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

Guide to the Linfield College-Good Samaritan School of Nursing Collection [PDF]

, 2017
The collection features a variety of historical documents concerning the Good Samaritan School of Nursing, spanning more than a century. This includes photos, a memoir, personal and professional correspondences, articles, financial analyses, and ...
Linfield College Archives
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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

The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future

American Studies in Scandinavia
In this essay, I argue that American literature and culture help students draw more expansive geographies of their selves and more articulate narratives of their experiences.
Myrto Drizou
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The Women Against Rape in War Collective’s protests against ANZAC Day in Sydney, 1983 and 1984 [PDF]

, 2015
Non-refereed Memoir delivered at “Women Against Rape in War: Gallipoli to Coniston” Conference, UTS 29 August ...
Burgmann, Meredith
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition

Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +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

SOUNDS OF «DIPLOMATIC SYMPHONY»

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2018
Review of the book by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Igor Melikhov. Diplomatic Symphony. MGIMO-University, 2017. 687 p.
V. М. Morozov
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