... Chapter 5 analyzes the rationale behind and the results of the colony’s policy to allow married convicts to petition for their spouses and dependents to join them in exile. They also permitted some convicts to marry in exile and still others live in heterosexual consensual unions. Commanders...

... In this chapter, the author describes his meeting with a man who had put him on a hit-list. This man, Mr. Barotia, was a member of an ultra-right-wing Hindu group, and offended that the author had married a Muslim. Mr. Barotia was proud of the killings of Muslims in Gujarat. The author disliked...

... not pay the required dowry and so never married Mapfumo’s mother. Cecil John Rhodes Zimbabwe African Christianity Thomas Mapfumo mbira ...

... to widows and orphans of officers who married with prior permission at the rank of captain or higher, reforms extended eligibility to dependents of officers who served a minimum of ten years and reached at least the rank of second lieutenant. During periods of political reconciliation, moreover, presidents...

..., for example, led to a documents regime that lasted from 1881 to 1947. Applicants’ gender led to a regime based on marriage certificates for U.S.-born women who married foreign men between 1907 and 1922, and decades longer for wives of Chinese and Japanese nationals. In their implementation of documents...

... for reclassification between 1965 and 2006. We analyze data generated from participant observation, ethnography, and in-depth interviews. The incongruities in the legal sex designation for trans people help us understand the larger processes that marry territory to people, link state with nation, and connect...

... always be reminders of past life in it. Helene writes of Fred’s birthday party, then Fred’s throat cancer, says it should have got her, not him. Both wish they could “step over” Christmas, then say Happy New Year; Helene sends love to Lisa, who will marry in January. It’s cold; Helene suggests Hettie...

... serials registered and facilitated the transition between two world systems. They married the gendered values of late socialism with postsocialist nationalism’s reinvestment in traditional femininity and bourgeois values, on the shared ground of demonizing feminism. The serials foreground both...