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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

Sex Trafficking: Proposals in the 114th Congress to Amend Federal Criminal Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
[Excerpt] The 114th Congress opened with the introduction of a number of proposals that address human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking. Among them were proposals to amend existing federal criminal law, which would expand the coverage of federal ...
Doyle, Charles
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

Why Deporting Immigrants for “Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude” is Now Unconstitutional [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the best of times, immigrants should only be deported according to the rule of law and not by the whim of executive branch officials. Now, it is imperative.
Kornegay, Lindsay M., Lee, Evan Tsen
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