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Gender bias in a patriarchal society A media analysis on virginity and reproductive health [PDF]
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2012 Women and health are two very close issues as family health lies most often in the hands of women. Ironically, their awareness toward their own health is still low. Cultural constraints have made single, unmarried women or virgins feel reluctant to go to
Billy K. Sarwono
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 The traditional African society attached special value to female virginity, associating it with personal purity and honour. But today in Nigeria, virginity has lost its importance to premarital sex.
Solomon O. Ademiluka
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Virginity in the Christian Tradition
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 This entry traces the development of the Christian understanding of virginity with specific attention to theology and embodied, ecclesial practice.
Amy Brown Hughes
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Za Boskim Oblubieńcem. Teologiczno-liturgiczny sens dziewictwa konsekrowanego
Analecta Cracoviensia, 2012 The article deals with the subject of searching the nature of the consecrated virginity in the Church. This analysis is based on the theological and liturgical aspects defined by Ordo Consecrationis Virginum and Ordo Professionis Religiosae.
Janusz Królikowski
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"Like a virgin". Correlates of virginity among Italian university students
Genus, 2020 Virginity, as a status, carries with it enormous personal and social meaning and represents a sexual milestone with high cultural significance. In this paper, we describe the correlates of virginity in Italy by consulting a large-scale survey of ...
Manuela Stranges, Daniele Vignoli
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2021 This paper explores the concept of virginity in eight popular romance novels published in contemporary Iran and argues that virginity is not only a prerequisite for the heroine, but also the capital with which she can bargain in the novel’s patriarchal ...
Elham Naeej
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Analecta Cracoviensia, 2012 The article deals with the subject of searching the nature of the consecrated virginity in the Church. This analysis is based on the theological and liturgical aspects defined by Ordo Consecrationis Virginum and Ordo Professionis Religiosae. Therefore we
Władysław Kądziołka
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The Nursing Madonna in the Middle Ages: An Interdisciplinary Study
Religions, 2023 Because of the transgression of the first woman Eve, all medieval women bore the punishment, including the biological consequences related to pregnancy and birth. This affected the entire female gender, according to Judeo-Christian tradition.
María Elvira Mocholí Martínez
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Evidence to Suggest that Women’s Sexual Behavior is Influenced by Hip Width Rather than Waist-to-Hip Ratio [PDF]
, 2014 Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is an important ornament display that signals women’s health and fertility. Its significance derives from human development as a bipedal species.
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: Virginity, Culture, and Gender Inequalities Among Adolescents in Zimbabwe
SAGE Open, 2018 Given the significance of gender and cultural norms in producing meanings about sexuality, we address the ways in which rural adolescents in Zimbabwe, aged between 16 and 19 years old, give meaning to virginity and the social processes through which it ...
Vimbai Sharon Matswetu, Deevia Bhana
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