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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
wiley   +1 more source

Assisted chanting and Buddhist end-of-life care in contemporary China. [PDF]

open access: yesPalliat Support Care
Li SL, Jing J, Zhang J, Kleinman A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Parenting as Civic Action: A Relational Framework for Citizenship

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories ...
Lauren Erdreich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tokenism in Context: Unpacking Token Women Directors in the Corporate Boardroom

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tokenism in the corporate boardroom is a contemporary human resource management (HRM) issue for academics, practitioners and policy makers. This essay critiques the existing understanding of the concepts of tokens and tokenism in mainstream management and corporate governance scholarship within the particular context of women on corporate ...
Tanusree Jain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Societal Resilience as Deterrence: A Feminist Perspective on NATO and Ukraine's Experience

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent shifts in European security have placed resilience at the center of deterrence and defense strategies. While resilience has traditionally been understood as the ability to withstand disruption and sustain military operations, there have been calls for a whole‐of‐society approach that strengthens societies against hybrid threats and ...
Jan Daniel, Míla O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Turban of the Coptic Patriarch and Bishops.

open access: yes
Caption: "Turban of the Coptic Patriarch and Bishops."A drawing of a man's upper body; he is wearing a round turban. Engraving (prints)
Lane, E. W. (Edward William), 1801-1876
core  

Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
wiley   +1 more source

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