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Showing 1 to 20 of 178 for “"Honour"”.
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Exploring honour killings through literature : an investigation of motivations for honour killings
This thesis argues that the complex attributes of honour killings delineated in literary works can guide us to have a better understanding of honour killings as a social phenomenon. Literature vividly conceptualises the complex web of relations between individual and society while narrating actions …
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Defining the limits of honour crimes
Honour-related violence manifests itself in different forms. The original contribution made by this thesis is to offer a more comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon. The limits of honour crimes must be defined more widely so that they include conducts and behaviours that originate from the …
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The Honour of Wallingford, 1066-1300
The honour of Wallingford was the great lordship centred on the castle of Wallingford on the bank of the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire that dominated the southern midland region as an important centre of power. Famous in English constitutional history for its unique mention in …
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The news coverage of honour killings in Canadian newspapers
The issue of honour killings has become a prominent topic of discussion in the Western discourse of violence against immigrant women. In Canada, particularly, the recent high-profile cases of honour killings have drawn increased attention from the media, academics and the public. The prevalent …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
… Knight, I seek to demonstrate how clothing, honour, gender and gifts shape the experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and disrupt the body as a category on which to base nobility. Although my texts emerge from different social and historical circumstances, the clothing …
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Masculinity and The Plebeian Honour Fight: Dispute Resolution in Georgian England
… has been coined by this study as a ‘plebeian honour fight’. The fight not only embodied ideas of justice and fairness but performed an important social role, serving both as a utility for dispute resolution as well as a means of status attainment. Plebeian self-control, a quality shown to be …
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Honour and the culture of male Venetian nobles, c. 1500-1650.
… generalisations established elsewhere. Why honour? For some historians the study of mentality involves eliminating all that was unique and individual. However, any attempt to consider how ideas on honour affected behaviour, rather than simply how they affected other ideas, necessarily …
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Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914—1945
… study to trace the evolution of military dishonour and dismissal from an historical perspective in the Canadian armed forces during the First and Second World Wars. Using extensive general court martial records, archival documentation, and restricted personnel files, this study examines …
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Factors Associated With 'Honour' Based Violence in Middle Eastern and South Asian Communities Worldwide
… regarding the factors that are pertinent to ‘Honour’ Based Violence (HBV) in Middle Eastern and South Asian communities. This thesis attempted to identify these factors via two approaches: a systematic review, and a qualitative study. The systematic review examined 16 peer-reviewed journal …
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The Ferrers Earls of Derby : a study of the Honour of Tutbury 1066-1279.
… family in England and the development of the Honour of Tutbury from c.1066 to 1279. The first chapter is concerned with the agglomeration of the Honour of Tutbury within the context of the pacification of the north and west midlands in the period immediately following the Conquest. In addition …
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Incorporating the principles of gender equality into the penal code of Palestine to combat honour-based violence
Honour-based violence is deemed to be an extreme manifestation of women s rights violations throughout the Arab world including Palestine. The connection between the honour phenomenon and Islamic shari a, along with Arab conservative tradition, raises controversy surrounding the genuine origin of …
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Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman: Honour and Dishonour in the Court Martial Records of the Marines Ashore, 1783-1793
… behaviour which was considered as either honourable or dishonourable. A focus on this type of behaviour, and more importantly on transgressions of ideal behaviour, within the brotherhood of the officer corps can demonstrate how male representations were linked to validation and group …
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Understanding honour-based abuse: The role of sexism and scripting amongst Pakistani adults living in rural Pakistan administered Kashmir, Pakistan and England
Honour-based abuse (HBA) is a pervasive form of abuse that has the capacity to cause significant harm. To date, there is a paucity of research that explores HBA beliefs, and the factors that promote and perpetuate these beliefs within the Pakistani community. This research aimed to understand HBA …
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The construction of shame in the Hebrew Bible: the prophetic contribution
… shame is usually paired with its binary opposite honour. The honour/shame model is characterised especially by defined gender roles and challenge-ripostes. Shame is associated particularly with women's sexuality; honour with competition among men of relatively equal status. Although the model has …
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Toa Tama !Khams Ge' : remembering the war in Namakhoeland, 1903-1908
… the history of Namibia, and it is an esteem honour to honour to have ventured in this line of work. I was born in Namibia and studied history at high school. My classmates and I were not thoroughly taught the history of Namibia or Africa as a whole, and thus we never heard our story. I found …
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The rhetoric of Abraham's faith in Romans 4
… within the Mediterranean agonistic culture where honour is the most sought after limited good. This moves Judean Christians to use the Mosaic law to gain honour from gentile Christians. From a Judean emic perspective, the Mosaic law gains them righteousness. This righteousness is not only a social …
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