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DEVADASI, POST-TRUTH AND ‘SIMULACRA’: DECONSTRUCTING THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION OF DEVADASI TRADITION IN SELECT INDIAN NARRATIVES [PDF]
TramesThe narratives around devadasi are historically constructed to glorify the dedication of young girls as dancers to various temples across India. Traditionally, a devadasi assumed a pivotal role in executing significant rites and festivities within temple
Neha Rohilla, Rekha Rani
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014 Although there are no national data and statistics regarding violence against disabled citizens in Brazil, findings from a number of small-scale research studies suggest that it is a problem of considerable magnitude.
Lyusyena Kirakosyan
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Sartre et Nizan, politique des mots
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2020 Sartre and Nizan, politique of words The aim of this article is to discuss and compare the main points of Nizan’s and Sartre’s views of committed literature.
Elisa Reato
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Mercy Oduyoye’s model of ‘partnership between women and men’ in African Christian ministry
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 Masculinity and manhood ideologies remain a serious theological concern in the context of South Africa and the continent of Africa. The masculinity ideology perceives femaleness as a symbol to be lower than maleness and thereby uses this as a strategy to
Gift T. Baloyi
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Critical Social Work, 2020 This paper outlines the development of the Transformative Consciousness (TC) of Oppression and Privilege (COAP) Scale created to address the conceptual and measurement limitations of the critical consciousness (CC) construct.
Alexis Jemal +2 more
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Female 'Weight' in the Nigerian Fiction: Iyayi's ‘Violence’ and Ibezute's ‘Dance of Horror’ [PDF]
English Studies at NBU, 2018 This article is a masculinist examination of Festus Iyayi's Violence and Chukwuma Ibezute's Dance of Horror. The article despises the ideological stance of some feminists - that women are unfairly treated in society and in literature by men.
Emmanuel Okereke
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Rise and Fall of Progressive Thought in Pakistan: An Appraisal of PTV Drama Tradition
JISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2013 The progressive thought process initiated by the Progressive Writers’ Movement of South Asia encapsulates its very ideals of secular thought, politics of social realism, challenging the status quo and presenting a fight of ideas or intellectual discourse.
Bilal Zubedi, Riaz Ahmed Shaikh
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Semantics of “Beneficence’’ in Quran [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2015 Semanticsdeals withthestudy ofmeaning.“Meaning’’ is awarenessofcultural context and the relationship between a word with other words in a text.
Alireza Dehghanpour +1 more
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Norms And Environment Of Gender, Sex, And Love: Black Female Protagonists In Toni Morrison's Sula
Gender Studies, 2014 The present paper discusses the great African American woman novelist Toni Morrison and her novel Sula. This work is an expression of Morrison's concern for the degradation of women in society.
KESUR BHUPENDRA NANDLAL +1 more
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Systemic Oppression and the Contested Ground of Information Access for Incarcerated People
Open Information Science, 2020 Library and information science (LIS), as a whole, has not prioritized the information access of people inside of jails and prisons as a central tenet of library practice At the moment, there is growing attention given to states’ attempts to curtail book
Austin Jeanie +3 more
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