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You Are How You Eat? Femininity, Normalization, and Veganism as an Ethical Practice of Freedom
Societies, 2014 In this paper I argue that the practice of veganism is, or can be, a Foucauldian ethical practice of freedom. I begin by sketching out the problematization of alimentary practices within a normalizing patriarchal framework, which some feminists argue is ...
Megan A. Dean
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The Female Quixote as Promoter of Social Literacy
ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2013 In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s conception of England as an orderly, unromantic site of commercial trade.
Amy Hodges
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A Critical Analysis of the View on the Permissibility of Beating Rebellious Wives Due to Committing Immorality [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنیAmong the controversial verses in the field of family law in the Holy Qur'an, verse 34 of Surah Nisaa is about dealing with women. Corporal punishment of unruly women is criticized in this verse.
saeid Davoodi limoni +1 more
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WIVES, WIDOWS, AND SINGLEWOMEN: WORKING WOMEN AT LONDON’S EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FAIRS
Essays in Economic and Business History, 2006 Eighteenth-century city officials and social commentators targeted London fairs as disorderly institutions that interfered with “true” commerce. Critics used gendered imagery to describe the evils of fairs, and unruly women were central to these ...
Anne Wohlcke
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The Domestic Tyranny of Haunted Houses in Mary Wilkins Freeman and Shirley Jackson
Humanities, 2019 Mary Wilkins Freeman and Shirley Jackson, though writing in different time periods, are both invested in recuperating domesticity and using their work to imagine what domesticity removed from the context of marriage and children can offer single women ...
Christine Junker
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Forum, 2019 Colonialism, as a material, discursive and imaginative process was based on constructing colonized territories and native populations in rigid and specific ways.
Uttara Rangarajan
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A Wild Bunch: Older “Funny Girls” and the Small Screen
European Journal of American StudiesThe sitcom has had significant impact on how images of later life as well as later-life femininity are perpetuated, legitimized, transformed, and deconstructed.
Franziska Röber
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn +2 more
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Carcerality, Under-age Marriage and the Making-Up of “Victims” in Bangladesh
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic JournalBased on the cases of young women held in a “Safe House” in Dhaka, this paper argues that the label “marriage victim” is used discursively to discipline young women who have eloped against parental wishes.
Katy Gardner
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