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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sexual Morality"”.
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A pound of flesh
… Islam and Christianity in a globalised world and sexual morality through the eyes of a girl who is not only coming of age but is also coming to terms with the sociopolitics of modern Britain.
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Rape in Revolutionary America, 1760-1815
… their assaults. Women had to prove their sexual morality, that penile penetration and male ejaculation occurred, and that they sought help immediately after the assault to prosecute their attackers. During the war, rape became an important metaphor. Wartime publishers and propagandists …
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Sex and Motivation in the American Morale Campaigns of the First World War
… States War Department assiduously regulated the sexuality of soldiers and many citizens residing in the vicinity of training camps—a task that it accomplished largely through an organization called the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA). Historians have generally focused on the …
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The Love Ethic in Selected Works of Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence
… relating topics: the solution of gender roles, sexual morality, reproductive practices, and the psychology of love. The three writers present their love ethics both directly and indirectly. However, we can always deduce their ideas and attitudes towards the concepts of femininity and …
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Reproductive Politics, Religion and State Governance in the Philippines
… has developed, policymaking on reproduction, sexuality and health answers to both development goals and religious norms. At the same time, women's everyday frameworks of (reproductive) meanings are also inextricably bound with state policies and popular culture. My ethnographic study examines …
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Thomistic feminism.
… four, I argue that a traditional natural law sexual morality as developed by Aquinas provides no moral basis for our gendered experience of erotic love. In chapter five, I argue that law and custom in Aquinas are cultural modes of promulgating the natural law; where these are flawed, the …
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A corpus-based analysis of the discursive construction of gender identities via abusive language
… to politics and religion). On the other hand, sexual morality is discursively constructed as the most integral component of female gender identity.
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Family Talk: Irish Women Across Generations Negotiate Single Motherhood
… Despite protestations of change and openness to sexual freedoms in Irish society, the research identified discourses of progress and social change alongside discourses of chastity and sexual morality. Drawing on these discourses, single mothers and their families used complex strategies to …
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Epistemologies of Imperial Feminism(s): Violence, Colonization, and Sexual (Re)Inscriptions of Empire.
… systems. I argue that when situated within the sexual matrices of coloniality, feminist moral regulation knowledge production in Canada institutionalizes hierarchical social ordering through the de-mediation of non-secular agency and sacred Indigenous self-consciousness. This dissertation warns …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… way black women's femininity is judged: their sexual activity. In this chapter, I explore one facet of Octavia Butler's narrative examination of sexual co-option and her subsequent implied challenge to definitions of feminine morality through the character Lilith who appears throughout Butler's …
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Feminism and education in post-war New Zealand: a sociological analysis
… contradictory expectations with respect to their sexual morality: while the dominant ideology of family and school emphasised pre-marital virginity, the permissive anarchy of the ‘sexual revolution’ stressed freedom of sexual expression. These women believed that education could provide a vision …
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Entre a palavra, a cruz e a espada: tessitura discursiva de homotransfobia parlamentar em uma audiência pública na Câmara dos Deputados
Sexual and gender dissent, which have always been part of concrete life, are existential manifestations as legitimate as cisheterossexuality. Nevertheless, the LGBTQIAPN+ community, has been discriminated against since ages, due to sociohistorical worldviews that produced the abomination, …
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Revolutions and 'Rough Cuts': Bodily Technologies for Regulating Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
Studies on the regulation of sexuality in the Islamic Republic of Iran are often focused on the regulatory tool of criminalization in relation to sex and sexuality. More recently, popular academic debates have centered on the revolutionary sexual practices among a subculture of upper-middle class …
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“Alles, was ich schreibe, steht im Dienst der Frauen.” Zum essayistischen und fiktionalen Werk Hedwig Dohms (1833-1919)
… century, the contemporary discussion on sexual morality and finally, her belief in the necessity of an international women’s peace initiative. The third part of this thesis comprises a detailed analysis of Hedwig Dohm’s fictional work, much of which survives today in only a few libraries …
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Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution
… as men’s and women’s conceptions of their own sexual identities were fundamentally reshaped by violence and defeat. At the same time, consumer culture, exemplified by American GIs and expanding continuously through the 1950s and 1960s, encouraged the emergence of a new kind of man, only for …