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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract For years the decrepit Hotel Lunik in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, a city founded in 1950 as a model of socialist urbanism, has been widely understood as “a trace of capitalism.” Once a central landmark, Lunik was sold to a real estate speculator in 2006 and left to decay.
Samantha Maurer Fox
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The Regulation of Witchcraft and Sorcery Practices and Beliefs
, 2016 This article reviews and analyzes the growing bodies of literature on the regulation of sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices. The most visible problems relating to these beliefs and practices are the violent exorcisms, banishment, torture, and ...
M. Forsyth
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to develop a conceptual framework for examining how gender equity issues are co‐opted within CSR activities, focusing on empirical, business‐related studies. The authors investigate how companies navigate the co‐optation of gender equity, its subphenomena, underlying conditions, and employed strategies.
Larthia Gaspari, Marco Giuliani
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research evidence has shown that adverse occurrences within the kinship caregiving environment, such as the grandparents' experiences of violence and abuse, may introduce new stressors or exacerbate existing aged‐related challenges, leading to adverse impacts on grandparent kinship carers.
Hajara Bentum +2 more
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Roundtable: The Islandmagee Witches 1711 Creative and Digital Project [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2023 In March and September of 1711, in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland’s last witch trials took place. Eighteen-year-old educated gentlewoman Mary Dunbar accused eight Presbyterian women and one man from Islandmagee and the surrounding areas of using ...
VICTORIA MCCOLLUM +4 more
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Language and Witchcraft as a Trade: Insights from, Machakos County, Kenya
Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, 2019 Witchcraft is defined as the use of magical powers for healing, seeing into the future, causing harm or for religion. The belief in the powers of witchcraft is widespread in Africa.
Gatitu Kiguru +3 more
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