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The Christian woman as a weaker, but honoured vessel (1 Pt 3:7): Forbidden to act in persona Christi
Published 2020-05-01“…On the flip side, this brings in a challenging equation of 1 Peter 3:7 where the woman is termed ‘the weaker vessel’ that ‘should be honoured …’. …”
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In Honour of Steve and Joyce Fienberg
Published 2018-12-01“…Whilst Steve was a great support and mentor to me as I embarked on my PhD research at the Hebrew University and the University of Southampton in 2004, he was married to an extraordinary woman who showed endless kindness to me and all of Steve’s students and mentees. …”
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Dropping Draupadi: The Crisis of A Woman Translating A Woman
Published 2022-12-01“…This academic essay seeks to criticize Delhi University’s exclusion of Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi, translated into English by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from its ‘women’s writing’ course in B.A. English (Honours) curriculum in August 2021. It attempts to establish the text as a crucial example of ‘a woman translating a woman’. …”
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WOMAN BETWEEN ISLAM AND WESTERN SOCIETY /
Published 1995“…Western civilization has formed principles independent of religious principles. The status of woman in Islam is the same as that of man. Injunctions about honour and respect enjoined for one sex are enjoined equally for the other sex. …”
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The Voice of an Indian Trans Woman: a Hijra Autobiography
Published 2018-03-01“…The <em>hijra</em> literature in English is gaining space, albeit small, in the literary milieu with its main character, a trans woman, who narrates her story challenging the heteronormative world. …”
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Speaking of Women? Exploring Violence against Women through Political Discourses: A Case Study of Headscarf Debates in Turkey
Published 2012-06-01“…With the rise of political Islam as of the 1970s, the image of the headscarved woman has challenged the construction of “modern Republican woman” and the association of women’s bodies with secularism. …”
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Abuse of Islamic Law and Child Marriage in South-Sulawesi Indonesia
Published 2016-06-01“…They perceive child marriage as the marriage conducted prior to the age of 16 for woman and of 19 for man as stipulated in the Marriage Law No.1 of 1974, as well as the marriage before ‘akil balig’. …”
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“They Threw Her in with the Prostitutes!”: Negotiating Respectability between the Space of Prison and the Place of Woman in Egypt (1943–1959)
“…Middle-class women, entering the space of the prison for the first time, risked their reputation and honour if they could not assert the decidedly different nature of their kind of imprisonment. …”
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Raptos, defloramentos, violência e relações de poder na Amazônia acreana (1904-1920)
Published 2015-06-01“…Regardless of whether they are fictional or real, these crimes bear the mark of power relations between genders, typically in case of disputes between men for the same woman, or in vendettas by male parents to defend the injured honour of women from their family, among other practices related to a society characterised by “rituals of masculinity”, as claimed by McClintock (2010) when talking about colonial and imperial contexts. …”
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Reflexões sobre o processo histórico-discursivo do uso da legítima defesa da honra no Brasil e a construção das mulheres Reflections on the historical-discursive process of the use...
Published 2012-04-01“…The objective is to understand how lawyers appeal until the present date to the legitimate defence of honour in trials of men who have killed a woman in order to avoid punishment for their crime. …”
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Me and Mr Darcy /
Published 2007“…He's every woman's fantasy . After a string of nightmare relationships, Emily Albright has decided she's had it with modern-day men. …”
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Kobieta w pismach Jana Kasjana
Published 2016-12-01“…In his writings, woman is not inferior to man, either by nature or by virtue. …”
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La confrontation du roi, des nobles et des paysans dans La serrana de la Vera de Luis Vélez de Guevara
Published 2008-10-01“…Written in 1613, Vélez de Guevara’s tragedy La serrana de la Vera first looks like one of those numerous Spanish plays about countrymen’s honour. However, this play differs from such a model insofar as its denouement is unconventional : the soldier who raped the mountain girl (called the « serrana ») is killed by the young woman herself, rather than by the community of country people, as is usually the case in those plays. …”
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Two Instances of Mundus Inversus in Psalm 113
Published 2009-07-01“…In Psalm 113:7-9, Yahweh changes the circumstances of the poor and needy and the childless woman. Social outcasts have their dignity and honour restored. …”
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