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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"illegitimacy"”.
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Judicial activism in South Afica's Constitutional Court : minority protection or judicial illegitimacy?
This study examines the effect of judicial protection of minority rights on the Constitutional Court’s legitimacy. The framing of the Marriage Act shows that Parliament intended marriage to be between a man and a woman. By nullifying section 30(1) of the Act and making the order above, the Court …
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The historical geography of illegitimacy in the Gurk Valley, Austria, c. 1868 to 1945
… of this valley have a long history of high illegitimacy, partly produced by the restrictions placed on peasant marriage prior to 1868. However, the focus of this research is on ,~hy it was twenty years after the national abolition of such restrictions that illegitimate births reached their …
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A social history of illegitimacy in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
This study is an examination of illegitimacy in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It has been undertaken against a backdrop of shifts in social policy in the United Kingdom where the single mother and the child 'born out of wedlock', to use an archaic phrase, have …
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The impending revolution : the prospect for openness in Korean-American adoptions
… reduced the stigmas surrounding adoption and illegitimacy. Changes in domestic adoptions affect international adoptions because both international adoptees and their adoptive parents are exposed to the adoption rights movements in this country. It seems probable that international adoptees …
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An investigation into attitudes towards illegitimate birth as evidenced in the folklore of South West England
… cross-generic, study of attitudes towards illegitimacy as evidenced in folksong and folk narrative genres. It is a regionally based study, focusing specifically on oral materials collected from the counties of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, in the South West of England since 1970. Hence …
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The legitimacy of Jesus : an Afrocentric reading of the birth of Jesus
… down the tradition that Jesus, charged with illegitimacy, was, in fact, conceived legitimately. The charge only served to defame Jesus. In other words, that charge had a social and not a biological value. An investigation of the understanding of Jesus's birth in the Mediterranean world in …
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The Social Construction of Black Fatherhood in Responsible Fatherhood Policies
… as deadbeats. Primary themes included serial illegitimacy and parental abandonment. Members of congress also disrupted cultural formula stories by constructing welfare fathers as dead broke. </p> <p>The second article addresses the same question, but it is asked of the first Black President of …
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The Ethics of Animal Advocacy: Towards Biocentric Individualism
… with the ethical underpinning of notions of the 'illegitimacy of animal use' extrapolated from normative animal advocacy perspectives, my proposition is that these shortcomings can be ameliorated and that such an alignment forms a<br/>complimentary and useful fusion. Biocentrism as a value theory …
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Inheriting Nietzsche: The Frankfurt School and Foucault on the Foundation of Critique
… to the distorting effects of illusion, error, or illegitimacy, and would thus cast liberation from domination as a return to a metaphysical foundation. In this light, Horkheimer's critique of instrumental reason ultimately fails insofar as it invokes a rational, human essence in need of liberation …
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Risky business : the negotiation and management of work-related risk by patient-attendants and prostitutes
… institutional legitimacy in the hospital versus illegitimacy and stigma on the street, provide an interesting context in which to study the effects of occupational organization on risk management by workers. This study applies a qualitative and quantitative analysis to the study of occupational …
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An ideological criticism of David Duke's rhetoric of racism and exclusion
… as white exclusion, welfare as a bastion of illegitimacy, and immigration as the downfall of American culture. Attempting to exclude minorities from society, Duke moves beyond Rojo's concept of demonization and uses scapegoating to blame minorities for America's social ills. By using people …
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Women before the kirk : godly discipline in canongate, 1640-1650
… sex and its issue – adultery, fornication and illegitimacy – were a common and serious concern for the Reformed Kirk, and their persecution was more of a national preoccupation than in England or other parts of Europe. This concern is reflected in the large number of fornication and adultery …
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"Seeking and saving": the reform of prostitutes and the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham, 1860-1914
… prostitution: immoral behaviour, unemployment, illegitimacy, homelessness and mental deficiency. This thesis focuses on the parts played by gender, class and religion in these organisations and suggests that whereas the methods employed by the preventive groups differed from the reform groups …
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Examining organizational legitimacy: an empirical analysis of organizational legitimacy, issue legitimacy, legitimacy gaps, and factors affecting the legitimacy regarding the issue of direct-to-consumer advertising in the pharmaceutical industry
… trend of issue legitimacy of DTC-ads: moderate illegitimacy - illegitimation - increasing legitimation, and confirm the gap between issue legitimacy of DTC-ads in media coverage and organizational issue advocacy of the pharmaceutical industry. From the findings from Study 2, five measurement …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
… exchange, the regulation of the market, the illegitimacy of women as economic rivals, the cultural value of communal eating, and the power of patriarchs to enforce their law."
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Permanent Solution: Contraceptive sterilization policies and practices in the U.S. from 1960-1979
… felt pressure to broaden sterilization access, illegitimacy rates steadily increased, which many believed posed an economic threat. Upon examination of public policy regarding family planning, it becomes clear that in the early 1970s federally funded and state-operated clinics intended not only …
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Using and abusing children in Greek tragedy
… children, or in circumstances of abandonment or illegitimacy, the relative power and influence of the divine and human is brought under conclusive and central scrutiny. From this the Conclusion pinpoints the importance of children in Greek tragedy in (i) showing the family capable of repairing …
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