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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"matrimony"”.
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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
Marriage does more than unite individuals. It affirms existing social structures and promises to perpetuate them. Embedded within marital conventions are traces of a society's assumptions regarding race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and politics. Fictional marriages, therefore, traditionally …
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The Unholy Matrimony: Russia and Violent Non-State Actors
<p>Russia’s contemporary relationship with violent non-state actors has been at the forefront of news due to the conflict in Ukraine. Despite the international shock at this phenomenon, this is an age-old practice for Russia. Since the 17<sup>th</sup> century, the Russian state has developed a …
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Holy or unholy matrimony: does participation in a pre-college program influence the retention rate of African American males in college
Fifty percent of all students who enroll in college depart before earning their degree; this proportion is even higher among minorities during the first year of college (Tinto, 2006). Minorities have typically had fewer opportunities to gain a college education. Once enrolled in college, minorities …
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A meiosis-specific form of the Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome regulates the oocyte-to-embryo transition in Drosophila
… to identify interactors of Cortex. One hit was Matrimony, a potent inhibitor of Polo kinase during prophase 1. Cort and Mtrm can interact directly in vitro, while a mitotic APC/C activator, fzy/cdc20, cannot. Mtrm proteins levels are drastically reduced upon completion of meiosis, and this …
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Lack of discretion of judgment and inability to assume marital rights and obligations as grounds for a declaration of marriage nullity : a contemporary appraisal in Civil and Canon Law
… proportionate to the decisions to contract matrimony and the inability to assume marital obligations. An explanation concerning such obligations is also provided. Finally, given the nature of the grounds of nullity under examination, the last chapter deals with the role which the …
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La auto-modelación y el sujeto femenino en La Celestina de Fermando de Rojas y en La Farsa de la Costança de Cristóbal de Castillejo
… Catholic Church and ridicules the sacrament of matrimony. Finally, these authors follow the traditional misogynistic views conceived by the church fathers.
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… in relation to the depiction of Victorian matrimony and the sexual double standard. Under discussion will be the liminal position of the governess and the way in which these villainous and deviant women use masquerade and their position in ways that tend towards deception. The motivation …
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Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756
… ways in which women constructed and criticized matrimony both before and after their own marriages. Social historians have argued for the rise of companionacy in the eighteenth century without paying attention to women's accounts of the fears and uncertainties surrounding the prospect of …
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The individual and society in the novelas de la primera época of Benito Pérez Galdós
… toward the supremely social institution of matrimony. His thinking on this subject ranges from a distaste for the marriage of convenience, evidenced in his earliest novel, <em>La sombra</em>, to complete rejection of the institution as an abuse of authority, on the part of society, upon the …
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Poet in a hard hat: Stevie Smith and gender construction
… her cooption into a stable subject suitable for matrimony. In Over the Frontier, however, self-construction seems less ideal. It carries the potential for self-destruction. Smith reveals the failure of androgyny as a solution to the woes of femininity and shows that a woman impersonating a man …
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Still the Duchess: John Webster's use of rhetoric
… male siblings; she defies the social codes of matrimony; she negates the authority of the Church's representative, the Cardinal. Ultimately, she defies the rhetoric of her environment: its content, its structure, its rhythm, its style. In doing so, she becomes her own rhetor, creating and …
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Marriage and Brotherhood in Muscovite Russia
… joining together these two men, unites them in matrimony’. The dissertation shows that bratotvorenie was conceived of in premodern Russia as a form of same-sex union, and that it was through banning this tradition that churchmen came to express in a coherent way which kinds of partnership were …
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Monstrous Marriage: Re-Evaluating Consent, Coverture, and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Gothic Fiction
… consequences. An examination of courtship and matrimony in these Gothic novels demonstrates their challenge to existing laws governing marriage and coverture. Reform begins, these novels insist, with an audience that is aware of the impact of social institutions on the individual. Through these …
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Brides of Christ, royal marriage and the conversion of the English in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica
… that every Christian soul is united in holy matrimony to Christ, the true Bridegroom, is also evident in his accounts of people dedicated to the virginal life from love for their heavenly spouse, Christ. These different aspects repeatedly interlink, as without the physical marriages discussed …
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A Theological Appraisal of Marriage in Tiv Culture
… article 7 deals exclusively on the sacrament of matrimony, especially nos. 1601-1611 sets monogamy as the acceptable form of marriage in the Church.<a title="">[2]</a> Moreover, the Christian doctrine determined to obliterate all forms of polygamy long before its encounter with traditional …
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The early modern demographic dynamic : celibates and celibacy in seventeenth-century England
… in procreative intercourse outside the bonds of matrimony, while also considering the relative role of the church, the state and the community in the maintenance of sexual continence. Though there has been much debate as to whether religion or economics constituted the more significant element in …