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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 160–197.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Sara Pursley Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 The Stage ofAdolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq Sara Pursley Modem understandings ofchildhood and adolescence, as a number ofschol ars haveshown...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
... articulates sex confounds our usual habits ofthought. Typically we think ofreligion and sex as discreet domains sequestered respectively within houses ofthe gods and the bedrooms ofthe world. How have we come to take this organization ofecstasies for granted? As a concept and as a practice, theogamy, marriage...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 197–218.
Published: 01 October 2017
..., talaq" was the culmination of a process of undoing their marriage and setting up the conditions of their divorce; in this sense the couple, and their families, had been undergoing divorce for some time and the utterance merely marked the end of this process.No state apparatus was involved. According...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 212–219.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., in some sense, radically reconfigured, if not simply overturned. As an examplefrom the realm ofjurisprudence, the claim of a right to "same-sex" marriage would have been almost entirely unrecognizable as a legitimate constitutional claim in 1988 {the year of pub lication of The Sexual Contract) , and yet...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
... to this. One can see this in the two competing notions of marriage in the tale. The conjugal couple, united in a consensually agreed-upon marriage, was the source of the virtuous family in nineteenth-century America. What is striking about Beane's "marriage" is that there was no sign of coercion. "Naturally...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 October 2013
.... But this was not the case : the individuals subscribing to the social contract were only men, and only men could become citizens and enjoy the benefits of civil society. Civil society, in turn, was heavily dependent on rules regulating the family which, on the one hand, were defined in the "marriage contract...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... and the original contract is a fraternal contract:'3 The point, for Pateman, is not simply that the social contract presupposes a sexual contract, but that the socialcontract is a sexualcontract. The social contract is propped up by a whole genre of supporting narratives, which include the marriage contract...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 October 2017
... ofplural marriage also marked a differently conse quential sort ofsurrender. In what follows I will be considering polygamy what the Mormons called "patriarchal plural marriage"-as a devotional 220 HI STORY ofthe PRESENT practice that set the Mormons violently at odds with the codes of piety proper...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... not let him in. To cover up this sexual weakness, Cyril became a domineering nasty person. He was much that Stan detested in others. Cyril was a very mixed-up person, but would not admit it. Stan wants Cyril to be “killed” so that Stan can have a chance to be Stan. Stan wants a strong marriage, a happy...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
... eloquence, he too insisted that if we want to learn how to be free, we must attend to excess; we must claim it as our own.In The Marriage ofHeaven and Hell, completed in London in 1793, he wrote that "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom:' For Blake, the liberation of desire, the emancipation...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
... place? Of course, September 11 did play a crucial role in this story-ifonly because 2001 was also the year when the 2 67 I N T E RV E N T I O N Fassio Netherlands became the first country to open marriage to same-sex couples. In 1993, Samuel Huntington had already produced an argument about"the clash...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... out before graduating when her father could no longer afford to pay for rent or support her education financially. After returning from the south, Rawan entered and left two bad marriages with violent husbands and then lived on her own with her son. In 2013 Rawan joined in sulāliyāt activism because...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
... ofCritical History, Vol.9, No.1, Spring 2019 Copyright© 2019 University of Illinois Press A "Special"Difference Foucault also provides a critical genealogy ofhow Augustine appropriates the concept libido to reinscribe the "fallen nature" ofsex within the sacred precincts ofChristian marriage: "the libido...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 142–165.
Published: 01 October 2019
... offinancial lives left intestate by a spouse's absence or passing. Yetfemescovert were tasked with positive financial roles inthis era aswell. Under the law ofcoverture, marriage dispossessed women ofthe power to engage in credit contracts. Even those who traded on credit accounts with merchants did so...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): i–iii.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., and the Study of the Past in Nineteenth-Century France Zrinka Stahuljak The Stage ofAdolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq Sara Pursley 119 140 160 ROUNDTABLE: CAROLE PATEMAN'S THE SEXUAL CONTRACT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER Rereading a Classic Text Anna...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., not to be defined by it. None ofthis has changed much since Foucault wrote, although the types ofregulation and the definition ofnorms have been adjusted (around issues ofsexual harassment, abortion, contraception, HIV/AIDS, gay marriage and adoption, and the like) differently, depending on the outcomes of specific...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2011
... clause:'13 Kabeer's fieldwork in Bangladesh, where sweatshops commonly employ female workers, reveals that despite exploit ative conditions, womenuse "their newly foundearningpower to renegotiate their relations within marriage, others to leave abusive marriages, and others to help their parents...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 155–183.
Published: 01 October 2016
... encouraged marriage and procreation, they organized their community not around families, but into what they called "choirs;' same-sex cohorts ofpeople at the same stage of life. There were separate choirs for girls and boys, for Single Sisters and Single Brothers, for Married Sisters and Married Brothers...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... horizontally, binding the two halves together: "Marriage keeps life going/death ends it/ Marriage can be planned/ but no one can predict death /Blitar 1948;' and, "A marriage is nurtured by and bears forth life and continual growth-human beings should not end their own lives or those of others/Blitar 1951...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
... shows how the enslaved would frequently use canon or natural law's respect for marriage against Castilian or positive law's concernfor propertyrights bymarryingfreepeople or people held by different masters and then demanding leavefromtheir own master in order to consummate and sustain their marriage...
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