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2025, Culture, Health & Sexuality

This paper examines women's movement between sex work and intimate economies, with a specific focus on how non-Chinese women in Hong Kong leverage intimacy as a means of managing legal and socio-economic precarity within various institutional and individual constraints. To capture the diversity of women's experiences, we use the term 'intimate-material exchanges' to broadly refer to compensation or material support provided in exchange for sexually intimate relations. We ground our analysis of the interactional processes involved in intimate-material exchanges in 39 interviews with ethnically non-Chinese women and men in Hong Kong. For the women in this study, intimatematerial exchanges were shaped by migration and distinguished by pragmatism, strategy and intentionality that involved adapting, improvising and experimenting with sexual scripts in an ambiguous legal space in order to derive maximum material benefit. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of migration and intimate-material exchanges for sex worker rights.

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The article focuses on new developments in Meiji literature in response to the tension existing between the spoken and the written narrative styles. It points to the tradition of gesaku bungku popular fiction, the influence of foreign novels and the practice of translating literary texts into Japanese as important factors shaping novelistic language and narrative strategies. The analysis includes the texts of San'yūtei Enchō's

2025, Gender and Behaviour

Nigeria's participation on issues that related to the position and empowerment of women has been a recurring phenomenon for the past two decades as gleaned from her involvement in national and intemational conferences on women development since the era of the 1995 Beijing conference. This fact clearly underscores the seriousness of the dilemma women suffer in terms of the promotion of their rights to equal participation and representation in decision making at all levels particularly in the niral society. The paper argued that the context for understanding the position and empowerment of women in rural Nigeria has its primary base on the continued entrenchment and perpetuation of traditional cultures as characteristic of the various stereotypes of women which permeate many ethnic groups in Nigeria. The paper further contend that many women have suffered varied traumatic experiences arising from this categorization which have manifested itself in gender inequality and discrimination that has far reaching implications for the empowerment of rural women in Nigeria. The paper concludes by examining the changes that women's status had undergone in the light of current socioeconomic and political development in Nigeria.

2025, Social Science Research Network

2025, Feminist Formations

putting these materials in the context of a larger nineteenth-century discourse culture on American narratives about identity, class, whiteness, and gender. Focusing specifically on Western's role as the educator of wives for home missionaries and its particular location in the Midwest, the article argues that Western's public materials relied on, and in the process helped to create, a complicated gendered logic, in that its public relations campaign and institutional governance documents and operating strategies made appeals to both masculine and feminine idioms. As demonstrated through the discourses housed in the Western College archive, the Western Female Seminary offers one piece of evidence in a much larger schema for seeing the temporal, contextual, and spatial specificity of the workings of gender in relation to the education of women.

2025, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

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Previous research on grandparents as kinship care providers demonstrated that grandparents are confronted with both challenges and rewards. Using qualitative research methods, I examined the lives of 35 black aunts who served as kinship care providers for nieces and nephews. I found that grandparents and aunts experienced increased time demands, financial burdens, and family stress. However, this study demonstrated that aunts’ experiences differ from grandparents’, due to the younger age of aunts and the fact that aunts are of the same generation as the biological parents. Moreover, I found that aunting, or the care and nurture of children by aunts and great-aunts, is gendered and invisible work that, at the most basic level, salvages children’s lives. Salvaging children’s lives involved three non-linear stages: making the decision to become a kinship care provider, transitioning from aunting to parenting, and parenting nieces and nephews. I utilized a synthesis of symbolic interact...

2025, A CIRCLE OF OUR OWN

2025, Vallesia 78/79

Il y a un peu plus de 500 ans, dans la nuit du 30 septembre au 1er octobre 1522, mourait à Rome le cardinal Mathieu Schiner, évêque de Sion. Cet anniversaire est une excellente occasion de s'intéresser de plus près à ce personnage fascinant, mais aussi mystérieux à bien des égards. Depuis l'ouvrage d'Albert Büchi dont le premier volume parut il y a près de 100 ans , peu de recherches lui ont été consacrées, si ce n'est le collectif publié pour les 450 ans de sa mort et la notice à son sujet dans le volume d'Helvetia Sacra sur le diocèse de Sion. Dans le présent article, nous adopterons un point de vue quelque peu différent, puisque c'est à travers la lunette d'un protestant, le Zurichois Josias Simler (1530-1576), que nous considérerons ce champion de la papauté. Simler écrit en effet une biographie de ce personnage dans le second livre de sa Vallesiae Descriptio («Description du Valais»), parue en 1574.

2025, Writing and/as Performing from a Third World Queer Feminist Artist

2025, Revista Europea de Historia de las Ideas Políticas y de las Instituciones Públicas

RESUMEN: En la antigua Roma, las sacerdotisas femeninas, al igual que los masculinos, estaban sometidas a estrictas normativas religiosas establecidas por el colegio pontifical y los viri sacris faciundis. Errores en los rituales,... more

2025, Film, Fashion & Consumption

In 2012 I started a series of paintings of Marilyn Monroe's white dresses. While painting, it became apparent that they were more about the body inside them than about the dresses themselves. Since her tragic and much speculated-over death, Monroe has been infantilized and cast as a victim by many biographers, while at the same time being used as a figurehead for a multiplicity of ideas around sexuality, whiteness, 'otherness' and feminism by theorists and artists. In the article I look at how Monroe's image, despite, or maybe because of, her efforts to control it during her lifetime, has continued to be influential. I refer to specific examples of her film roles and her costumes to unpick why she is still such a fascinating figure and why my paintings, while not actually featuring Monroe, manage to convey a powerful essence of her through the trace of her body. Working with white paint on a black ground is like projecting light in a shadowy room. As I build up and wipe away layers of oil paint, a tantalizing insubstantial something starts to appear. My aim is to fashion the image of a dress, but strangely it is a body that emerges from the darkness. And this not-reallythere body, defined by its white wrappings, is unmistakably the exaggerated feminine form of Marilyn Monroe.

2025, Administrative Sciences

This paper constructs a culturally appropriate model for Muslim women’s empowerment in management and leadership positions that addresses sustainability goals of quality education, gender equality, economic growth and reducing inequalities, as well as national and cultural differences from Western women’s empowerment models. The approach to model building begins with two sources of evidence for women’s empowerment—first, the empowerment of women recognised in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and in the historical-biographical record, particularly in the early Islamic period that draws to some extent on hermeneutics. This is followed by identifying four approaches that can be used in constructing a comprehensive model of Muslim women’s empowerment: Bourdieu’s social, cultural and intellectual capital theory; multiple modernities theory that recognises societal diversity; cultural security arguments for the preservation of cultures; and postcolonial critiques that argue for diversity through de...

2025, Middle East Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Purpose: This study investigates the prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) in Somalia, a scourge which has silently consumed the social fabric of the Somali society and Somali women in particular. The study argues for the need to train and recruit professional community social workers and psycho-trauma counsellors to assist survivors of the GBV menace. Methodology: The study conducted a systematic review of select secondary sources on GBV which included reports, book chapters, journal articles and books. These sources were clustered into three main thematic areas: (1) Prevalence of GBV in the Somali society; (2) The cultural burden on GBV survivors; and (3) The need for qualified community social workers and psycho-trauma counsellors to combat GBV. Results: The findings show the social contexts in which GBV occurs, how cultural practices impede GBV interventions, and the need to deploy qualified community social workers and psycho-social counsellors to provide psycho-social support to GBV victims and implement GBV interventions across country. Conclusion: Gender-based violence is national problem which requires a multisectoral approach to combat. State and non-stake actors, religious organizations, non-governmental organizations and the international community need to develop joint interventions to battle GBV in Somalia. There is need for a national GBV policy legislation and effective enforcement of the ensuing laws in order to address the GBV scourge in Somalia.

2025, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The SME sector nowadays plays an extremely important part in modern economy. Hence, SMEs are considered a way to bring improvement in terms of socio-economic development, respectively. This study aims to investigate the role of small and medium enterprises in providing jobs in Oman. It will also focus on the challenges facing SMEs. For this study, purposeful sampling methodology has been adopted. Using a well-defined questionnaire, 100 samples were collected from all over SMEs operated in Oman. The collected data are recorded, tabulated, and summarized. In addition, statistics of the Public Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises Development were mentioned. It indicates the number of registered SMEs from 2015 to 2019. In addition, the interview conducted with the Head of Auditors Services Department at the General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises Development, to identify a clear perspective related to the topic of research that is aiming to determine the challenges facing small and medium enterprises in Oman. The findings suggest statistical study carried out at Oman level confirmed the previous theoretical results, as it highlighted the important contribution of small and medium enterprises in providing job opportunities, as the authorized category of workers in this type of institution constituted a large percentage of the total group employed.

2025, Gerontologist

Background and Objectives: People with dementia are critically dependent on their carers when accessing and utilizing health care. To inform health care development and delivery, we aimed to explore carers' perceptions of their role in caring for a family member with dementia and to identify carers' skills and attributes and factors impacting on care. Research Design and Methods: We used semistructured interviews to collect data from 25 carers supporting older adults with dementia. Data were thematically analyzed and the paradigm model was used to guide theory development. Results: "Constructing normalcy" was central to all carers did, impacted by stage of life and relationship status and driven by a holistic focus on their care-recipient's quality of life. Goals guiding care were: keeping the peace; facilitating participation, happiness and independence; and ensuring safety. Enablers included: social contact; knowledge; and quality social services. Barriers included health and legal issues; symptoms of dementia; and reduced knowledge. These goals kept the peace and reduced stress for the cared-for person, but often at the cost of unrelenting responsibility and loss of carers' original roles. Discussion and Implications: As carers are so critical to the access and uptake of health care of those with dementia, health professionals and services need to support carers in their quest to construct normalcy. Our findings provide guidance to assist in ensuring appropriate support and understanding of carers work in order to optimize dementia health care delivery.

2025, DergiPark (Istanbul University)

Society is a harmonious whole that different elements which come to existence around the social norms and values have built by coming together. Inside this structure various sanctions including killing have been developed for the crimes committed against 'honour' conception that includes values such as nobility, dignity and esteem. In this study, why they have opted to restore their honour with blood will be analysed with the guidance of the data obtained via the semi-structured interview method applied to the prisoners convicted of honour issue in Mardin jailhouse and with the assistance of questions such as how the honour is perceived by the prisoners, whether their family or the neighbourhood put them under pressure, if they regret the crime they have committed and how much the law is deterrent in preventing this kind of events.

2025

The Meninas Digitais Project aims at attracting girls to Computer Science area. This work presents the conduction of a workshop at the LNCC (National Computer Science Laboratory) in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, for two public elementary school classes. After a talk about the project, we conducted a practical experience in a (re) design of Human-Computer Interaction scenario. In this experience, the students would have to understand the customer's need and present possible solutions to the problems presented.

2025, Economic and Political Weekly

Considering the multipletranslations of the word dukkha in Mukta Salve’s 1855 essay titled “Mang Maharanchya Dukkhavishayi Nibandh,” this article makes the claim that the term dukkha ought to be translated as “suffering.”Translating “dukkha” as “suffering” allows us to revisit the genealogy of Salve’s essay. By focusing on this genealogy, one can recognise this essay as a pivotal point within an ongoing intellectual tradition that traces its inspiration back to the Buddha and beyond.

2025, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage

According to official reports, the divorce rate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is very high. Such a high rate is attributed to many factors. This study investigates factors and causes leading to separation and divorce in Al Ain, UAE. The article uses a descriptive approach to analyze data collected from 114 participants, including 70 women and 44 men. Findings of the study indicated that family intervention is the main and most obvious factors causing divorces in the UAE, followed by the negligence of spouses. Surprisingly, age, educational level, and employment do not play a key role in divorce. Although the findings of the study cannot be generalized, this article highlights important implications for local authorities, educational institutions, and social activists in reducing the number of divorces in the UAE.

2025, Research in African Literatures

am not an African." The British-Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips was hit with this seemingly simple but forceful realization in early 2003, while sitting inside a one-story house surrounded by a snowy American landscape (Phillips, "Out of Africa" 206). Prior to this moment of clarity, Phillips had been in conversation with the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, into whose living room he had been welcomed; the subject of their exchange had been Joseph Conrad's controversial novella, Heart of Darkness (1902). During this encounter, which took place almost three decades after Achebe first delivered his famous lecture on Conrad's book-a talk entitled "An Image of Africa"-the Nigerian writer uncompromisingly stood by his verdict: Conrad, whose novella presented Africans as "rudimentary souls" and "savages clapping their hands and stamping their feet," was a "thoroughgoing racist" ("Image" 19, 7, 11). Phillips, who had always rather viewed Conrad's narrative as an indictment of the European colonial enterprise in Africa, took the opportunity of his conversation with Achebe to respectfully voice his disagreement with his elder, upon which the Nigerian writer emphatically replied, "you cannot compromise my humanity in order that you explore your own ambiguity. I cannot accept that. My humanity is not to be debated, nor is it to be used simply to illustrate European problems" (Phillips, "Out of Africa" 206). It is at this point that Phillips became fully aware that he, born to African-Caribbean parents in St Kitts and brought up in England, had an interest in probing "the health of European civilisation" ("Out of Africa" 206) that Achebe did not share. While the younger British-Caribbean writer was willing to engage with Conrad's tale about the "infamy" of colonialism ( ), even if it meant putting up with "a certain stereotype of African barbarity that, at the time, was accepted as the norm" (205), his older Nigerian colleague was most definitely not ready to make such a concession. Eventually understanding the validity of Achebe's

2025, Civilizar

En Eurípides se halla la tesis del carácter humano de la culpa y el castigo, convirtiendo la responsabilidad en un asunto inmanente a la vida de los hombres a pesar de las creencias religiosas. En este sentido la ley, las pasiones humanas, la racionalidad y la fe entran en una tensión que no ha dejado de darse empero la renovación moral de la modernidad. Este artículo se estructurará siguiendo algunos temas morales fundamentales de varias tragedias de dicho pensador desde una perspectiva principalmente genealógica y hermenéutica, haciendo un análisis intra e intertextual que permita poner en consideración la importancia de la sabiduría trágica para el aleccionamiento de una conciencia moral falible e histórica.

2025, International Journal of Law in Changing World

The intersection of women, law, and digital technologies is a burgeoning area of study with profound implications for societal structures and individual rights. This paper examines the multifaceted relationship between women, legal systems, and digital technologies, exploring the opportunities and challenges presented by the integration of technology into legal frameworks. It investigates topics such as gender biases in algorithmic decision-making, cybersecurity concerns affecting women, legal responses to online harassment and genderbased violence, women's representation in digital law spaces, and the impact of emerging technologies on women's rights and access to justice. By synthesizing existing research and offering insights into future directions, this paper contributes to a deeper understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping the landscape of law and its impact on women. Furthermore, it underscores the importance of addressing gender disparities and promoting inclusivity in the design and implementation of legal and technological systems.

2025, Journal of Contemporary Philology

Macedonian's tripartite article system (proximal, neutral, and distal) aligns with similar systems found in other Balkan Slavic varieties, but also exhibits parallels with non-Slavic languages, such as Wolof, which feature deictic definite articles. This paper investigates the morphosyntactic and semantic features of these articles in Balkan Slavic, aiming to clarify their status within the broader typology of definiteness and deixis. We show through the study of the Macedonian spoken corpus that there are significant differences between the articles regarding their relative frequency. Cross-linguistic comparison further informs the typological status of these articles. In both Balkan Slavic and Atlantic languages like Wolof, definite articles are enclitics, with one form generally occurring significantly more frequently than the others. While interesting secondary functions such as nominal tense have been proposed for these articles, these features are not diagnostic of their "articlehood" and may be expressed by demonstrative pronouns in other languages.

2025, The Catholic Historical Review

2025, Medicina

Background and Objectives: The first inquisitorial processes were developed against Muslims and Jews. Then, they focused on women, especially those dedicated to care. Progressively, they were linked to witchcraft and sorcery due to their great assistance, generational and empirical knowledge. The health historiography of the 15th–18th centuries still has important bibliographic and interpretive gaps in the care provided by women. The main objective was to analyse the care provided by midwives in the legislative and socio-sanitary context of New Castile, in the inquisitorial Spain of the 15th–18th centuries. Materials and Methods: A historical review was conducted, following the Dialectical Structural Model of Care. Historical manuals, articles and databases were analysed. Results: The Catholic Monarchs established health profession regulations in 1477, including midwives. However, all legislations were annulled by Felipe II in 1576. These were not resumed until 1750. Midwives assume...

2025, Healthcare

In Spain, the wet nurse had a prominent place in the Court of Philip II (1540–1580), suckling princes. The aim of this review is to identify the role of wet nurses in the Spanish monarchy and the survival of the infants, who were children of Philip II (16th century). A scoping review is presented, studying documents on wet nurses in the Spanish monarchy. The dialectical structural model of care (DSMC) is applied, and three thematic blocks are used to make up the historical-cultural model. Books, chapters and databases were analysed from Cuiden, Pubmed, Scopus, Science Direct and Google Scholar, from January–September 2021. These wet nurses were treated as ladies, as they came from wealthy families related to royalty. The services of wet nurses from neighbouring localities to the court were used. They had to be of good appearance and in excellent health. They were hired because of the need for survival of the infants, children of Philip II. The functions of the four wives of Philip I...

2025, Sociologia Ruralis

Public protest actions by farm women, while remaining isolated, have become a conspicuous feature since late 1960s. If they are examined in the context of the dispute or campaign of which they formed part, the orchestrated nature of the actions studied ‐ which is confirmed by the description of the conditions under which they took place ‐ is revealed and makes it possible to analyse the contradictions among the practices and the presentation of the identity and issues involved. The paper attempts to explain the place of this type of action in the strategy adopted by farm women in entering the political sphere and to examine their role in challenging the social categories of gender. From the research that has been done, it seems that these actions express more a strategy of resistance and defence of the family farm than an autonomous feminine social movement in agriculture.RésuméLes actions de protestation publiques ?agricultrices, tout en restant ponctuelles, acquièrent depuis la fi...

2025

Open-access publication (see link) on the forms of women's leadership in the musical field

2025

Investigations on alternative control methods to chemicals including usage of plant extract for plant fungal disease take important place in current researches. Plant extracts are generally deemed to be less hazardous than synthetic compounds and could be alternative to antifungal treatments. In this study, the purpose was screening of some plant extracts against Fusarium culmorum causing foot and root rot on different small-grain cereals, in particular wheat and barley. In total 6 plant species including levander (Lavandula angustifolia), common mullein (Verbascum thapsus), common sorrel (Rumex acetosa), wood avens (Geum urbanum), poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) consisted the materials in the study. The antifungal effects of three different concentrations (20%, 40%, and 80%) of each extracted plant, obtained from dried plant parts in methanol, were evaluated on growth of F. culmorum by dual test technic on PDA (Potato Dextrose Agar). The maximum in vit...

2025, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal

2025, Revista Circe de clásicos y modernos

Tabla de contenidos EDITORIAL Rodríguez Cidre, Elsa y Paiaro Prefacio ARTÍCULOS i. Gallego, Julián El(des)orden de la política: τὸν δῆμον πράττειν ὃ ἂν βούληται. La asamblea ateniense y el juicio de las Arginusas ii. Paiaro,... more

2025

Esta nota de divulgación describe la estrategia de comunicación científica desarrollada en el marco del proyecto PAPIIT IN302122 "La capacidad de resiliencia de las democracias: política y elecciones en contextos de crisis". Nuestra... more

2025, Revista de Derecho Electoral

Resumen: Tras cuatro décadas de democratización, el debate actual tiene que ver con el estado en el que se encuentra la democracia en el mundo. Si bien la literatura comparada se encuentra dividida entre pesimistas y optimistas, resulta... more

2025

This dissertation marks the end of a beautiful journey that I am very proud of. It is the fruit of a restless effort to research on women managers from a far different culture and context from Europe. It is a life journey for me as a woman from the Arab world to pursue a calling ambition. I hope my dissertation would carry you to that part of the world where women are perceived as different from women in Europe. Leading a managerial career over there has its various contexts and peculiarities. This experience has given me the chance to know brilliant people who have influenced me along the way. My deepest gratitude goes to my supervisor Professor Luisa Pinto who has shared all the milestones of this journey with me. Her inclusive knowledge and support are everything any student can wish for. I admire her as an academic and a person, and I have been privileged to work with her. As this doctoral journey is about to end, I hope that there will be many more journeys to share with Professor Luisa. As an institution, I want to express my appreciation to the Faculty of Economy at the University of Porto. It has been the perfect place to meet such honorable professors and respectful colleagues. This research would not have happened if it was not for those marvellous Emirati ladies willing to share their professional managerial experiences. I thank them sincerely. The doctoral journey has been enjoyable because of the friends and colleagues who have shared it with me. From my Ph.D. class, Joao Alvim and Fabia Esteves, who were the source of enthusiasm and happiness. My Portuguese class sister Maria Viterbo and Prof. Marcia Natividade always showered me with their sweet words and smiles. My family and friends in Porto: Ahmad Naser-Eddin, I owe him a great deal, as he took the part of the IT specialist all the way through. Sana Ayadi, Peter and Knox, Islem Ben Majdouba, Maher Ahmad, and Ibtihal Biad, who were there to color my life in Porto ever since we all came here. Finally, I would like to express my deep gratitude and warm appreciation to my family. My children, Kinda, Kinan, and Mohannad, have tolerated my irresponsiveness sometimes when being overwhelmed with work. My sister, who many times I was short in vi asking about her while she is in Syria passing some hardships, and my brothers who were always in touch to give the emotional backup, which helped me feel they are all around. I am blessed; they greatly supported all ups and downs I encountered throughout the doctoral journey.

2025, American Jewish History

2025, Revista de Literatura Medieval

Reseña en Revista de Literatura Medieval 37 (2025) de CHIRIATTI, Mattia C. y TRILLO SAN JOSÉ, Carmen (eds.) (2024), In and Out of the City. Female Environments, Relations and Dynamics of Space (400-1500). Paderborn: Brill/Schöningh. 249... more

2025, Bharatiya Prajna: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Indian Studies

Mahabharata, the outstanding sacred text of India, is a preamble to the Indian social philosophy. This prehensile text encompasses all sorts of contemporary feminist agendas like gender discrimination, sexuality, female body politics, women disposition, marriage, kinship and so on. Dharma, being the focal point of Mahabharata, acts as a catalyst in outlining the epical structure of this sacred text. Anthropological elements like marriage, sexuality, lineage, motherhood etc. somehow maintain interlink with dharma, particularly with the streedharma. Thus, the symbiotic relationship of sexuality, marriage and streedharma helps in formulating the code of conduct for women of that era. The present paper intends to analyze the aforementioned anthropological issues through the lives of minor female characters who by dint of their courage and dedication change the track of the epic. Though the epical minor females are somehow nugatory or unrecognized due to politics of gender politics, but they are the most viable for situational decision of royal as well as epical design. Therefore this paper tries to justify their strong epical presence and hidden epical politics bestow upon them.

2025

Communication Design for Refugee Women: An Applied Research Project for Sammartini Polyfunctional Centre in Milan SMT VOLUME 15 Communication Design: Material Artefact, Immaterial Influence Designers are increasingly called on to put ‘human experience’ at the centre of their act: in the design process the user needs, (explicit or latent) become more relevant than the configuration of artefacts. This design perspective, strictly connected to emotional and existential values, has as a result the production of tools and artefacts that are able to influence or transform real life (the material) and human relationships (the immaterial). The issue of women refugees’ reception, their practical needs and the problem of multilingualism constitutes the core of our project for the Sammartini Polyfunctional Centre of Milan. The final output of the research project (communicative artefacts designed to support the refugees throughout their period of stay at the centre) is the result of a combinat...

2025, Convergência Lusíada

Em meados do século XIX, Ana Plácido e Camilo Castelo Branco tinham--se tornado o casal adúltero mais conhecido de Portugal. Camilo era igualmente famoso pela sua produção novelística, mas Plácido, embora também fosse escritora, era considerada "apenas" a amante adúltera de um grande romancista. Contudo, ambos escreveram prolificamente acerca do adultério, do amor e da mulher. Neste artigo, procuraremos analisar as diferenças entre as obras de ambos os escritores quanto à construção e interpretação do adultério e do comportamento sexual e social feminino. Partimos da convicção de que o género sexual tem uma influência relevante sobre a perspectiva social de um/a autor/a e de que o Romantismo português só ficará completo quando as vozes femininas que para ele contribuíram forem ouvidas. Procuraremos, acima de tudo, dar visibilidade à esquecida obra de Ana Plácido.

2025, Journal of Vocational Behavior

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2025, International journal of human resource development practice, policy & research.

There are questions about the extent to which individuals now largely own and control their career development pathways with a much-reduced role for the organization. This background provides the context for the story of one individual's career development over a period of 14 years. Leaving school at 16 with GCSEs but little career focus a chance event three years later kick starts career development in a large international organization. Subsequently, and of some real importance, is the decision -with organizational support -to undertake a work-related Masters. The interplay between Masters based learning, work, and organizational progression provides a valuable, context specific, insight into career development practice.

2025, Donato, S., Corradi, C., & Di Maggio, U. (2025). Rethinking Women’s Return Migration: Evidence from Tunisia and Morocco. Societies, 15(7), 180.

Return migration is frequently associated with failure, particularly in the context of women returnees from the global south. This research challenges this notion, focusing on women returnees from Italy to North Africa. It aims to analyze return migration by focusing on women who returned to Morocco and Tunisia in the last 15 years, and the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, emphasizing the transformative potential of migration experiences for themselves and the local community. Women returnees not only redefine their roles in society but also foster socioeconomic development, community building, and political changes in the countries of return. The study employs thematic analysis to examine 25 semi-structured interviews conducted with returnees aged 25-60, where women shared insights into their migration, re-adaptation experiences, and challenges upon return. Returnees utilized skills gained abroad to achieve economic empowerment, often starting businesses or finding new jobs. However, they faced cultural challenges, particularly societal expectations of traditional gender roles. Nonetheless, migration empowered many returnees to question these policies and norms, and contribute to societal change.

2025, QVAESTIONES ROMANICAE XII

Abstract: (Eugenio Coseriu: Online Biographical Corpus) In the present article, our initial hypothesis is that, despite the publication and translation of numerous studies written by Eugenio Coseriu, part of his linguistic work is still largely unexplored. Moreover, unpublished Coserian studies have recently been published, such as Semántica y metodología (García Hernández&Penas Ibáñez 2016), analysed in Varga (2020) and Principalele probleme ale limbii române (Bleorțu&Kabatek&Munteanu 2023), indicating that there are aspects of the great linguist's biography and bibliography that are still to be discovered. The present research focuses on less studied aspects of Eugenio Coseriu's biography, namely on the online documents accessible on the virtual platforms Coseriu online (https://coseriu.ch/ro/coseriu-online-ro/) and DileCos (https://coseriu.uzh.ch/static/home.xml). These platforms are the result of the efforts carried out by Professor Johannes Kabatek over the last decade and not only provide scholars with access to the biographical data and to the linguistic work of Eugenio Coseriu, but also constitute a virtual biographical corpus concerning the great Romanian linguist. Having online access to Coseriu's texts and correspondence represents an excellent opportunity to explore and better understand his life and linguistic work through the use of computer tools.
Keywords: Eugenio Coseriu, corpus linguistics, online biography, linguistic geography, scientific correspondence.

2025, Theory and Practice in Language Studies

Space is man-made socially constructed locations, without which they cannot have a comfortable life. Reflecting on the life experiences of the people who exist in the margins of the society, autobiography appears to be the appropriate genre that reflects the lived experiences of the characters as they live through them. It reflects not only the author's personal experiences but also the people whom they meet in their lifeworld. In other words, it is a narration of both individual and collective lived experiences. Dalit writing in Indian literature has become the most controversial topic in recent times, taking autobiography as its predominant form of writing. This paper attempts to explore Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke as a self-reflexive narrative. The characters experience extreme humiliation in the public and private spheres of their lives. The purpose of the paper is to categorise their absolute humiliation experience using Van Manen’s lifeworld existentialism and self-...

2025

Revue du groupe de recherche en histoire du service social Nouvelle série n° 30 -juin 2025 Le SSI a 100 ans Edito Le 16 décembre 2024, le CEDIAS accueillait une journée d'études pour commémorer le centenaire de la création du SSI (Service social international) 1 . Après un rappel de la création du SSI, a été mis en avant le rôle essentiel joué par le SSAE (Service social d'aide aux émigrants) dans le développement du SSI en France. En 1921 est créé à Londres le département de la World's young women's christian association qui, dans un contexte de fortes migrations de familles de l'Europe vers les USA, s'engage dans la protection des femmes et des enfants dans leurs voyages et leurs exils. Le SSI est né d'un rêve de femmes, dans les 1 ères écoles de service social. Cet engagement, ce travail bénéficient alors autant aux femmes aidées qu'aux femmes qui se lancent dans la création de cet organisme car les femmes sont exclues de la citoyenneté. L'engagement social représente une alternative à la privation de droits. Le SSI se développera massivement dans l'entre-deux guerres, puis après la 2°g uerre mondiale. Les champs d'intervention sont l'aide à l'enfance, l'adoption internationale, l'assistance aux réfugiés, les mineurs non accompagnés, les enlèvement d'enfants, la recherche des origines. À l'heure de cette commémoration les problématiques traitées par le SSI -et le SSAE-continuent d'être dans l'actualité. Mais si le SSI continue son activité, le SSAE a lui cessé de fonctionner en 2005. Aujourd'hui son absence fait cruellement défaut pour accompagner les mineurs, les solliciteurs d'asile et autres populations exilées qui hantent nos rues 2 . Dans ce dossier, nous partageons avec vous ce retour sur la création du SSI et du SSAE avec les articles d'une chercheuse italienne, Francesca Piana et de Lucienne Chibrac autrice d'une histoire du SSAE 3 et, issu de sa thèse un entretien réalisé avec Melle Mourgues, assistante sociale du SSAE à Marseille pendant la 2° guerre mondiale. Enfin un article d'une revue juridique de 1949 où la présidente fondatrice du SSAE et sa directrice nous présentent les « perspectives d'avenir » pour le service. N. Blanchard 1 Une exposition retraçant l'histoire du SSI a été réalisée et présentée au siège à Genève. 2 Après la fermeture du SSAE, la branche française du SSI a été reprise par la Fondation Droit d'enfance 3 Lucienne Chibrac, Les pionnières du travail social auprès des étrangers. Le Service social d'aide aux émigrants, des origines à la Libération (Éditions de l'École nationale de la santé publique, 2005

2025, Australian Feminist Studies

Abandonment of women in transnational marriages can be understood in the context of specific social milieus of community and kinship relations and legal jurisdictions associated with specific cultures of law. As a sociological-legal category that dismantles the myth of 'flexible citizenship' in transnational migration, abandonment must be seen in an experiential matrix constituted by the graded/differentiated diaspora, legal frameworks, and institutional structures, which frame the gendered citizen. This article attempts to read stories of abandonment in legal documents where testimonies are mediated by legal practitioners for ameliorative justice through the court, in tandem with personal narratives of abandonment as reported to the authors. Through such a reading, the article explores the manner in which particular narratives of personal hurt and 'personal/private' identity drawing from membership in the family and community relate with the public identity of the legal citizen, the public governance of marriage by the protective/paternal state, and the 'promise of happiness' in marriage. This article studies the abandonment of Indian women in transnational marriages in the context of the social milieus of community and kinship relations in which abaondonment occurs, and the cultures of law and justice delivery systems within which abandoned women seek justice. The article locates abandonment in an experiential matrix framed by a graded/differentiated diaspora, and the legal frameworks of domestic and private international law which produce gendered legal subjects. Through a reading of stories of abandonment in legal documents where testimonies are mediated by legal practitioners for ameliorative justice in tandem with personal narratives of abandonment, the article weaves together narratives of personal hurt with those structured by the quest for justice and recompense. Both the narratives, it is argued, draw from the 'promise of happiness' as an appropriate/desired affect associated with marital bliss (Ahmed 2010). They also direct our attention to the ways in which issues of justice in marriage are addressed in public policies, laws and institutions. This article is based on a series of interviews conducted by the authors among 57 women from the states of Punjab, Gujarat and Delhi in India -states which have a history of outmigration from India -who experienced abandonment in their marriage with Non-Resident Indian (NRI) men, i.e., Indian men who either resided abroad or men of Indian origin who were citizens of their adopted countries of residence. 1 Of these, 28 women had been married to NRI men from the UK, 8 to NRI men from Italy, and 4 each to NRI men from Australia and USA, with smaller numbers to NRI men from other countries including Hong Kong and Kuwait. The women interviewed were residing in India with their natal family, having been left behind in India by their husbands after marriage or brought back to India after having moved abroad with their husband following marriage. Successive Indian governments, and the governments of states, have sought to address abandonment in transnational marriages through 1 The study was conducted between December 2013 and May 2015.