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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Virgins"”.
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The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania's 'Sworn Virgins'
… of masculine identities by burrneshat (‘sworn virgins’) in northern Albania: biological females who have become ‘social men’. Unlike other documented ‘third genders’ (Kulick 1999), burrneshat are not motivated by considerations of personal identity or sexual desire, but rather by the need to …
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Saints, virgins, and the Devil: Witchcraft, magic, and healing in the northern coast of Ecuador
This dissertation presents the ways by which people experience and express social and economic change through rituals and narratives in Muisne, a town in the northern coast of Ecuador. Change is mediated through a complex cosmology based on the opposition between the domain of the divino, centered …
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Virgins, Mystics, and Reformers: The Creation of Female Constructed Identites in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
During the medieval and early modern periods in England, women were not expected to enter into the realm of politics or to comment on religion, and yet many women did find ways of entering into discourse on these topics. For these women the creation of public identities that would protect them from …
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Reluctant virginity: the relationship between sexual status and self-esteem
… differences between sexual status (reluctant virgins, satisfied virgins, and non-virgins) in college students. Specifically, this study explored differences between groups in self-esteem (global, social, and body), dating (length of relationship and number of dating partners), and the beliefs …
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Causal attributions, self-monitoring, and gender differences among four virginity status groups
… to vignettes of female Regretful Non-virgins than to vignettes of female Adamant virgins. 5) Regretful Non-virgin subjects attributed significantly more stability to vignettes of Regretful Non-virgins than to vignettes of Adamant virgins. 6) Male subjects attributed significantly more …
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My Sister, My Bride: The Liturgical Rites of Monastic Profession and Consecration of Virgins in the Usage of Monastic Women from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century
… monastic profession and the consecration of virgins. The contents of each rite are presented from a variety of liturgical sources, facilitating their comparison. The sources are divided geographically (England and the Continent) and according to type (pontificals are treated in chapters 2 and …
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Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
… It argues that both Greek and Christian virgins and their families made use of societal traditions, in the form of the otherworldly bridegroom, in an effort to handle the problem of a girl’s denied or problematized status transition within the social structures of the community. The image …
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"Virgin" as Secondary Gender Identity in 1 Corinthians 7 and Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Background
… they might add to Paul’s statements about virgins in his paraenesis. It proposes a newer, alternative approach that is not beset with the weaknesses of prior approaches, and suggests that the perspective on the identity of virgins gained from the previous chapter resolves some well-known …
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A Model for HIV/AIDS Risk Behaviors of Students in Armenia
… predictors of intentions for males and non-virgins, peer norms for virgins, and parent and peer norms for females. HIV/AIDS knowledge, however, was not a significant predictor of risk behaviors in any group except for virgin males, implying that knowledge-based educational programs alone are …
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"Ostracized as we are with God": Mina Loy's Anti-career and the Search for Originality
… three of Loy's literary works, her poems "Virgins Plus Curtains Minus Dots" (1914) and "Apology of Genius" (1922), and her novel <em>Insel</em> (1930s), to establish Loy's unique concept of originality and how it developed over time amid complex artistic moments.</p>
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The Roles of Patrician and Plebeian Women in Their Religion in the Republic of Rome.
… and power were basically limited to the Vestal Virgins.</p>
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A sense of place in selected African works by Doris Lessing read in conjunction with novels of education by contemporary white South African women writers
… The Lying Days (1953)', Jillian Becker's The Virgins• (1976), Carolyn Slaughter's Dreams of the Kalahari (1981), Lynn Freed's Home Ground (1986), E.M. / MacPhail's Phoebe and Nio (1987), and Menan du Plessis's A State of Fear (1983).
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Structure, distribution and innervation of sensilla on the ovipositor of the spruce budworm Choristoneura fumiferana, and electrophysiological reponses from type II sensilla
… oviposit in the presence of host waxes whereas virgins are not. The response of Type II hairs to waxes in solution from their most preferred host, white spruce (Picea glauca), revealed no differences between unmated and mated insects. Mated and unmated females' sensilla responded differently to …
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A Culture in Denial: The Roman Cultural Relationship with Human Sacrifice
… BCE but also the living entombment of the Vestal Virgins; the military self-sacrificial ritual of devotio; the drowning of hermaphroditic children; the allegations of human sacrifice that permeated the Late Republic; and the examination of assassinations as to whether human sacrifice under the …
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Heavenly choirs in early medieval England: A study of topoi in their contexts
… heaven by psychopomps, and the new song of the virgins. Chapter four, a case study of hagiographies produced at Canterbury in the late tenth and late eleventh centuries, examines the relationship between angelic and monastic choirs. The thesis as a whole illuminates the complexity and diversity …
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Knowledge, attitudes and risk behaviours regarding sexually transmitted infections among learners at a selected high school in Collins Chabane Municipality
… going to church every Sunday and sleeping with virgins respectively. 95.6%) were sexual active and 29% of the respondents had poor knowledge on risk sexual behaviours. Respondents had adequate knowledge regarding treatment as 56% of the respondents reported knowing where to seek treatment. …
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Emerging 21st-Century Educational Challenges and Opportunities: An Appreciative Inquiry of Public Education In The U.S. Virgin Islands
… in K–12 public education in the U.S. Virgins Islands (USVI). Specifically, this study sought to understand the USVI education leaders’ experiences in their public education system as a whole, the challenges and opportunities they faced, their perceptions of the institution’s greatest …
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Mating behavior of the alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal)
… virgin and non-virgin females, mated with non~virgins in a ratio of 7:1. Nondiapausing pairs mounted fewer times .for longer durations per mounting than the postdiapausing. Crowding by other weevils appeared to reduce mating efficiency, but not mating initiation. Sight was found to play a role …
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Writing the Visual in "Baroni: un viaje" and Other Recent Work by Sergio Chejfec
… Baroni, whose extraordinary wood carvings of Virgins, saints and other figures are described in key passages. Third, as a bridge between these two parts, I reflect on the related critical discourses of ekphrasis and translation and on the task of translating <em>Baroni: un viaje</em>.</p> …
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The Function of the Church in Warfare in the Book of Revelation
… the two witnesses (11:3-13), the 144,000 male virgins (14:1-5), and the judgment army (19;11-21) ecclesiologically. From those images, this chapter also renders a working definition of the essence of the church. Chapter 6 considers how each of the passages and images discussed in chapter 5 …
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