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Published: 16 March 2012
... and the utilization of family labor. It shows that class position corresponded with distinctly different patterns of intergenerational and gender relations in rural families. abandoned farms Broome County New York capital intensive farming commercial farming mortgage loans off farm labor Young Ralph Young...
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Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening
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Rodney Hessinger
Published online: 18 May 2023
Published in print: 15 December 2022
... allure and making concessions to the desires of the people. Opening their own hearts to new religious impulses, some religious visionaries offered up radical dispensations—including new visions of how God wanted them to reorder sex and gender relations in society. A wide array of churches, including...
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Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires
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Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcamp;a
Published online: 18 May 2023
Published in print: 15 October 2022
..., gender relations, and religion. The book develops a comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories....
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Published: 16 March 2012
... County Grange cream fertilizer lime mutuality family farms Nanticoke Valley gender division of labor farming families gender relations intergenerational relations intergenerational partnerships marital partnerships rural women What shaped the gender division of labor in farming families? How...
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Confronting the Specter of Sodomy
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Kenneth Loiselle
Published: 03 July 2014
... further light on gender relations within the fraternity and the underpinnings of male friendship within this particular institutional milieu. It shows that women were introduced into Masonry via the adoption format mainly to defend Freemasons against accusations of sodomy that were frequently leveled...
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Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India
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Reena Kukreja
Published online: 19 January 2023
Published in print: 15 April 2022
... of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India. The book reveals how predatory capitalism links with patriarchy...
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Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History
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R. Scott Appleby (ed.) and Kathleen Sprows Cummings (ed.)
Published online: 18 August 2016
Published in print: 25 October 2012
... together American historians of race, politics, social theory, labor, and gender to address this lacuna, detailing in cogent and wide-ranging essays how Catholics negotiated gender relations, raised children, thought about war and peace, navigated the workplace and the marketplace, and imagined their place...
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Introduction: Berlin’s Bourgeois Whores
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Jill Suzanne Smith
Published: 28 February 2014
... narratives laden with judgments. The chapter also explains how Berlin, as a quintessential modern European city in early twentieth century, inspires rich discourses on prostitution. While certain authors treat prostitution as a symptom of a corrupt bourgeois economic order and exploitative gender relations...
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Sex, Money, and Marriage: Prostitution as an Instrument of Conjugal Critique
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Jill Suzanne Smith
Published: 28 February 2014
...This chapter examines the similarities and differences between the bohemian playwright, the urban sociologist, and the socialist politician in their assessments of prostitution, gender relations, sexuality, and respectability. Challenging bourgeois norms both from the outside and from within...
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Putting the Barn Before the House
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Grey Osterud
Published: 16 March 2012
... Americans. Freeman recognized that her story's portrait of gender relations, as shown in the interaction between husband and wife, was self-contradictory. Rural women, for their part, did not see power within marriage as a zero-sum game. The narrative of the immigrant woman, Josie Sulich Kuzma, articulates...
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Conclusion
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Rodney Hessinger
Published: 15 December 2022
.... The radical reordering of sex and gender relations proposed by some enthusiastic groups was only kept alive by protecting them within isolated religious communities. Ultimately, the act of religious containment not only staved off sex and gender disruption; it also served to shape the values of middle-class...