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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing ...
Paolo Grassi
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &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
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I that am Lord of Lif: The Christ-knight figure of the Ancrene Riwle, Piers Plowman, and the Faerie Queene [PDF]
, 2005 Throughout medieval literature, the allegory of Christ as a knight appeared in numerous text, and the Christ-Knight figure was an extremely important literary, religious, cultural, and historical force.
Conroy, Melissa Ann
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Upstairs, Downstairs: Doctrine and Decorum in Two Sermons by John Donne [PDF]
, 2010 Published as David Colclough, Upstairs, Downstairs: Doctrine and Decorum in Two Sermons by John Donne, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 163-191. © 2010 by University of California Press/Henry E.
Colclough, D
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &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
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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It’s About the Journey: Lewis on Heroes and Personality in Out of the Silent Planet [PDF]
, 2017 In his novels, Lewis’s heroes come from humble beginnings and are shaped by circumstances until Lewis is satisfied with them; that is, until they reach their full potential.
Hook, Jillianne L
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On Characterizing the Data Access Complexity of Programs [PDF]
, 2014 Technology trends will cause data movement to account for the majority of energy expenditure and execution time on emerging computers. Therefore, computational complexity will no longer be a sufficient metric for comparing algorithms, and a fundamental ...
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