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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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Juveniles, Sex Offenses, and the Scope of Substantive Law [PDF]
, 2013 The question this Article seeks to answer is whether the justice system ought to distinguish between adult and juvenile offenders for these age-determinative sex offenses when assessing the seriousness or gravity of these crimes.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Sex Offenses: A Sociological Critique
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1960 Issues raised by sex offender legislation cut across a number of problems that are of interest to law, psychiatry, and the social sciences. Three problems are selected for brief review in this paper. The first concerns the basis for deciding what types of sex relationships should be subject to legal restraint.
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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Sex Offenses: A Clinical Approach
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1960 It: is assumed in this article that a clinical approach to the problem of the sex offender based on genetic-dynamic considerations would add to our understanding of this problem. The material contained in this presentation has been familiar to students of the subject for a very long time, and a thorough acquaintance with it constitutes an indispensable
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Sex effects and sentencing: An analysis of the statistical literature
, 1995 We analyze the statistical literature on gender and sentencing to determine whether findings of “sex effects” favoring women are related to the statistical procedures used, to court contexts and sample composition, and to conceptual dimensions of the ...
Bordt, Rebecca L, Daly, Kathleen
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Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
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X v The Lord Advocate: Challenges and Concerns for Vicarious Liability
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In X v The Lord Advocate, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Crown cannot be vicariously liable for torts committed by judges. This case note critically examines what could be viewed as two significant doctrinal shifts that were introduced by this ruling.
Haim Abraham
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression
Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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