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Return to Iran
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Mahnaz Afkhami
Published: 04 October 2022
... these conversations, she realized that the role of women is the pillar that holds up the entire edifice of culture, religion, and tradition, and that once this pillar is shaken, the entire structure begins to tremble. She also realized that real change must come from women themselves. They will have to assert...
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Squaring the circle: demographic outlook and social development as determinants of ageing in the Mediterranean
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Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz
Published: 21 August 2013
... been already analyzed by using ten areas for consideration: rationalization and performance orientations, professionalization, control and security assurance, migration, religious affiliations, family dynamics, health and care, changing role of women, media and telecommunications impact...
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Overview
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James R. Lewis
Published: 02 September 2009
..., the Overview states, deals with issues that have consumed the most academic activity in this field—conversion, the role of women, the brainwashing debate, and millennialism. Japan Lester Toby Melton J Gordon new religious movements NRMs “Oh Gods!” Lester Pentecostal movement shin shukyo cargo cults...
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Conclusion: Gender Equality and Democratization
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Iija A. Luciak
Published: 01 April 2007
... they had endured. The revolution was frayed but no credible alternatives were in sight. Although the revolution brought about a change in the perceived public and societal role of women, women at some point were always subjected to some forms of discrimination. While Cuba has policies that targeted...
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Introduction: Setting the Table
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Rebekah E. Pite
Published: 01 April 2013
... and background. This is a story inspired by the tremendous popularity of a cookbook and the woman behind it. This is not a biography. This story allows us to consider the dynamics of daily life in twentieth-century Argentina and the leading role of women within it. Cooking Afro Argentine influence Ecónomas vs...
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Published: 09 April 2010
.... A section on the intricate connection between private property and poverty is included, as well as a discussion on Rousseau's view on the role of women in society. His ideas on education and the concept of an ideal society are examined carefully. Aristotle Hobbes Thomas human nature ix Rousseau Jean...
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Published: 01 March 2016
...This chapter describes the role of women and feminism within the scope of the Catholic Enlightenment. While mainstream secular Enlighteners restricted women’s positions to those of wife and mother, a more positive proto-feminism emerged among reform minded Catholics which stressed equal rights...
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Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 17 December 2023
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Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Published online: 16 March 2015
Published in print: 11 August 2011
...The role of women in Iran has commonly been viewed solely through the lens of religion, symbolized by veiled females subordinated by society. This book aims to explain how the role of women has been central to national political debates in Iran. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
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Women in Mormonism
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Claudia L. Bushman
Published: 10 December 2015
... recognizing necessary exceptions. Smith Emma Hale Smith Lucy Mack Relief Society Snow Eliza R woman suffrage contradictions Equal Rights Amendment equality Proclamation on the Family “I’m a Mormon” campaign role of women Mormon women Joseph Smith domestic labor Lucy Mack Smith Emma Hale Smith...
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Irreconcilable differences? The fraught relationship between women and the Catholic Church in Ireland
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Sharon Tighe-Mooney
Published: 06 May 2017
... Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Ranke Heinemann Uta Celtic Tiger Galway Kenny Mary MacCurtain Margaret Pope in Ireland Addresses and Homilies The Moore Christy Tóibín Colm Role of women in the church Referenda Child abuse scandals Gender equality In the introduction to From ...
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The Clash of Ignorance
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Manlio Graziano
Published: 11 April 2017
... ayatollahs caesaropapism Catherine II “the Great” Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor Iran Khomeini Ruhollah Ayatollah Safavid Empire Safavid era Shiite Islam Sadat Anwar Holy texts Religious violence Economic curse Religion and demography Sharia Role of women Jihad Koran Sunna Christian fights...
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Published: 24 August 2017
... cultures and periods; and the insights it offers into wider intellectual, cultural and political debates within a community or culture. The chapter further suggests three potential avenues for future research: the role of women as producers and agents of historical culture; the nature and operation...
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“When the Will of the Wife is the Other Way”
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Paul C. Gutjahr
Published: 02 March 2011
... position in Kentucky. When Mary got pregnant, Sarah Hodge made the long trip to Kentucky to help with the baby’s arrival. She did this against Hodge’s wishes, and in so doing illustrated the tension between Hodge’s biblical views on the role of women and the realities of having powerful women in his life...
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Epilogue
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Published: 11 August 2011
... Mourning Mothers of Iran role of women Iranian women Iran patriarchy Islamic Republic It is because of men's lack of interest in promoting the enlightenment of women that today our sisters have been deprived of all humanistic progress. —Rawshanak Naw‘dust To disregard women and bar them from active...
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The Human Dignity of Embryos? The German Case
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Anja J. Karnein
Published: 14 June 2012
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Published online: 24 May 2012
Published in print: 01 November 2011
... patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As it explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, the book finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool...
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Healing Iran: Hygiene and Social Change in the Qajar Era
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Published: 11 August 2011
... hygiene charter pharmacies political parties Qum Society of the Seekers of Advancement of Iran abuse motherhood politics Tabataba'i Sayyid Zia’ al Din motherland role of women Iranian women disease hygiene motherhood female patriots In 1831, a serious plague epidemic swept through...
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Celedonio and Angelita, the Poet and his Muse
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Walter Aaron Clark
Published: 15 June 2018
... of Celedonio Romero Pepe José Luis son of Celedonio Ambassador Auditorium Los Angeles Concierto de Aranjuez Rodrigo Lady of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Moreno Torroba Federico Sonatina Moreno Torroba Celedonio Romero Poetry Emotional nature Angelita Romero Role of women...
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Conversations with Zapatistas: The Revolutionary Law of Women and Military Occupation
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Lynn Stephen
Published: 02 January 2002
...This chapter examines interviews with Zapatista comandantes, insurgents, and base members in order to profile the distinct origins, visions, and goals of Zapatista struggles. It also provides a critical assessment of the role of women in the EZLN and the struggle to maintain the Zapatista vision...