Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony
ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
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ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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Living through disclosure: a descriptive phenomenological exploration of adult survivors' experiences of disclosing sexual assault to nurses. [PDF]
Dosdale C, Bevan M, Skarparis K.
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
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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"I Just Have to Go and Heal": A Qualitative Study on the Acceptability of the Belgian Sexual Assault Care Centres for Victims of Recent Sexual Assault. [PDF]
Baert S +6 more
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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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Drug-facilitated sexual assault (spiking) in Poland: risk perception, knowledge, and bystander intentions. [PDF]
Silczuk A +4 more
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830
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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Clinician acceptability and use of smartphone digital photography in sexual assault forensic examination in an Australian regional district's sexual assault services. [PDF]
Victoire A +4 more
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