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Doctors and sheikhs: "Truths" in virginity discourse in Jordanian media [PDF]
, 2013 This article is concerned with the role Jordanian media play in circulating certain discourses on virginity, namely religious and medical discourses, which are presented as truths that ultimately maintain the conservative status quo with regards to ...
Mahadeen, Ebithal
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Muslimska moderskap i 2000-talets Sverige
Kulturella Perspektiv, 2004 Being a mother is often presented to be a Muslim woman's primary obligation in life, according to religious texts. In my study I explore the meanings of motherhood among some Muslim mothers living in Sweden today.
Jenny Ask
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Spartan Daily, November 29, 2018 [PDF]
, 2018 Volume 151, Issue 41https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2018/1083/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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, 2010 This Article examines three traditionally “taboo trades”: (1) the sale of sex, (2) compensated egg donation, and (3) commercial surrogacy. The Article purposely invokes examples in which the compensated provision of goods or services (primarily or ...
Krawiec, Kimberly D.
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Psycho-sociological comments on the social representation of virginity as purity fetish
Discover Global SocietyThis text presents some psycho-sociological comments on the social representation (or SR) of the object “hymen” and its practical counterpart of defloration. The main argument is based on the observation of the recurrence of fetishistic attitudes towards
Jean-Marie Seca
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The Motifs of Sexual Abstinence and Virginity in Medieval Hungarian Legends [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2014 The goal of the study is to interpret the motifs of pudicity, sexual abstinence and virginity in the texts of chosen medieval legends written in Latin on the interdisciplinary level as otherwise they would hardly be understandable.
Kristína Pavlovičová
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Genealogy+Critique, 2018 The forth volume of Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité, only recently edited by Frédéric Gros, sets the keystone not only to his "history of sexuality," but to his entire work.
Philipp Sarasin
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“Precocious girls” : age of consent, class and family in late nineteenth-century England [PDF]
, 2020 A fixed legal age of consent is used to determine when a person has the capacity to consent to sex yet in the late Victorian period the idea became a vehicle through which to address varied social concerns, from child prostitution and child sexual abuse ...
Lammasniemi, Laura
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Les réfections chirurgicales de l’hymen en Tunisie. Des techniques de purification et d’absolution ?
L’Année du Maghreb, 2017 Taking into consideration the use of "chinese" artificial hymens and the surgical practices of hymen repair (hymenorraphy and hymenoplasty), this article examines the interstitial spaces that allow to negotiate the social imperative of prenuptial ...
Ibtissem Ben Dridi
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Is my daughter still a virgin? Can you, please, check it, doctor?
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2018 Gender-based violence is a pervasive public health problem, let alone a violation of human rights. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that, overall, 35% of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence ...
Sara Rigon
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