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

Gender &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

Visual recognition of the anteroposterior female body axis drives spatial elements of male courtship in Drosophila. [PDF]

G3 (Bethesda)
McKinney RM, Monroy Hernandez C, Ben-Shahar Y.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

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
wiley   +1 more source

Between commerce and care: intimate personalization, authenticity, and the ambivalences of outsourcing funeral work. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Sassatelli R, Ghigi R, Boni F, Arfini EAG.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

An examination of communication mechanism of ancestral hall sacrifice rituals in rural southern China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhang Y, Jiang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Food of the gods: cure for humanity? A cultural history of the medicinal and ritual use of chocolate.

Journal of NutriLife, 2000
T. Dillinger, P. Barriga, S. Escárcega, M. Jiménez, D. Lowe, L. Grivetti   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Agroecological transition or <i>agroecological repossession</i>? Resurgence of traditional food culture in the Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú. [PDF]

AlterNative (Nga Pae Maramatanga (Organ))
Tremembé L, Tremembé M, Bowness E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
wiley   +1 more source