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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Rosa Damascena

open access: yes
Due to the diversity of perspectives and methodologies within the relative uniformity of the subject, this collection of papers offers a rich overview of the multidisciplinary research on Arabic literature. The book includes two thematic parts. The first of them pertains to studies on Arabic literature, more precisely, on historical chronicles ...
Michalak-Pikulska, Barbara   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Searching for seeds to rest in libraries : European collecting habits towards Malay books and manuscripts in the nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
European scholars, colonial administrators, missionaries, bibliophiles and others were the main collectors of Malay books in the nineteenth century, both in manuscript or printed form.
Warnk, Holger
core  

Integration Through Segregation: Swedish‐Jewish Emancipationists and the Jewish Girls’ School in Nineteenth‐Century Sweden

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth‐century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including regarding Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’. The community meetings were a male sphere in which men discussed women's role within Jewish tradition. This
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
wiley   +1 more source

A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain.
Emma Kalb
wiley   +1 more source

Zafar Hasan Aybak: A Sacrificed Life for Turks

open access: yesTurcology Research, 2022
Muhsin Ramazan İŞSEVER
doaj   +1 more source

Un fragmento ficticio de Safo en Ezra Pound: ¿Pseudocita o monólogo dramático? [PDF]

open access: yes
Pound’s Papyrus poem is a fictitious fragment inspired in Sapho. Pound had a deep knowledge of Classical literatures and languages, and he was a great admirer of oriental literatures as well.
Barrios Castro, M.ª José
core   +1 more source

Growth and Development of Oriental Libraries in India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
India is a vast repository of different cultures, both because it was invaded by a number of foreign countries and peoples, and because of its contacts with people from the East.
Gul, Sumeer, Khan, Samina
core   +1 more source

Gender and Segregation: An Introduction

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the ...
Lisa Hellman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

طبيعة المعنى اللغوي وطبيعة بنائه: دراسة في المنظورين التقليدي والإدراكي

open access: yesالآداب للدراسات اللغوية والأدبية
تستكشف هذه الدراسة طبيعة المعنى اللغوي وطبيعة بنائه في الدلالات الحرفية التقليدية والدلالات الإدراكية الحديثة، وتفحص بعض المفاهيم ذات الصلة. واقتضت طبيعة الموضوع أن تكون في مقدمة وتمهيد وثلاثة مباحث، تضمن المبحث الأول طبيعة المعنى اللغوي في المنظورين ...
سامي محمد نعمان   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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