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Slavery in the 21st Century [PDF]
, 2006 This paper briefly examines the modern practice of slavery. It attempts to demonstrate that slavery is a larger problem than most understand, does exist in the United States, and will outline some effective means to combat ...
Rickert, Paul R
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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Immigration politics, slavery talk: the case for a class perspective [PDF]
, 2015 The UK Modern Slavery Bill, and UK politicians’ obsession with immigration, risk undermining political moves to greater solidarity among all those—migrant and non-migrant—experiencing abuse or unfreedom in their ...
Rogaly, Ben
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Guillotine, and Modern Ontological Anxiety [PDF]
, 2016 Lacefield’s interdisciplinary analysis analyzes motifs of decapitation/dismemberment in Frankenstein and then moves into a discussion of the novel’s exploration of the ontological categories specified above.
Lacefield, Kristen
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Interdisciplinary Materials, EarlyView.The distributed multijoint motion recognition cluster based on polyvinylidene fluoride membranes with high piezoelectric properties adopted a one‐master‐multiple‐slaves architecture and multipoint wireless collaboration to synchronously recognize motions of the wrist, elbow, and shoulder.
Zhongkun Wang +8 more
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International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract Background Violence against women remains a serious public health problem and a violation of human rights that affects women's health. Healthcare providers play a fundamental role in preventing and responding to violence against women and girls.
Odette del Risco Sánchez +4 more
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Modern Slavery Disclosure in the G20: Firm and National-Level Insights
Jurnal AkuntansiThe urgency for firms to disclose modern slavery practices has increased in light of global human rights concerns. This study investigates the firm-level and country-level determinants that influence modern slavery disclosure using panel data from 6,757 ...
Vidya Intani Athfalina
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Journal of Islamic World and Politics, 2020 The case of maritime slavery that took place in Benjina, significance unpopular, and isolated area in easternmost part of Indonesia shook the world. Hundreds of foreign shipman, seafarers were found enslaved for years.
Anastazia N Wattimena
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Modern Slavery Is an Enabling Condition of Global Neoliberal Capitalism: Commentary on Modern Slavery in Business [PDF]
, 2021 Banerjee, S. B.
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