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
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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.
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Cultural, religious, and demographic factors shaping Arab healthcare providers' decisions on referring Arab patients to palliative care in Israel: a qualitative study. [PDF]
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Defining self and other: Bangladesh’s secular aspirations and its writing of islam
, 2013 This article was published in the Economic & Political Weekly [© 2013 Sameeksha Trust ] and the definite version is available at : http://www.epw.in/journal/2013/50/revisiting-secularisation-special-issues/defining-self-and-other.html The article ...
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The mediating effect of access to finance on the relationship between debt management skills and the performance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) owned by Moslem Women in Western Uganda. [PDF]
F1000ResNakanwagi B, Manyange M, Andrew N.
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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Systematic literature reviews in migration studies: approaches to context-sensitive synthesis. [PDF]
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
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