Journal articles: 'Portrayal of women abuse'

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Chin, Ng Bee, and Kate Burridge. "The female radical." Language and Gender in the Australian Context 10 (January 1, 1993): 54–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aralss.10.04chi.

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Abstract The paper discusses the sexist portrayal of women in Mandarin Chinese. It begins with a study of asymmetries in the lexicon; e.g. naming conventions, address terms, abuse terms, etc. which exemplify the marginalisation of Chinese women. The focus of the paper is on the stereotyped depiction of women in the written script through an analysis of characters with the female radical. Our analyses indicate that 90% of words which co-occur with the female radical are either semantically negative or convey images of women steeped in damaging stereotypes. These sexist portrayals are further reinforced by the pervasive Yin-Yang cosmology, an ideology which has enormous impact on the Chinese way of life. We argue that despite popular belief, the Yin-Yang cosmology actively serves to maintain and fortify the gender imbalance. We also discuss the omission of language and gender issues from the agenda of past and current discourses on language reforms. Finally we advocate that language reform is a crucial impetus to ideological change.

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Sarac, Busra Nisa. "UK Newspapers’ Portrayal of Yazidi Women’s Experiences of Violence under ISIS." Journal of Strategic Security 13, no. 1 (April 2020): 59–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.13.1.1753.

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Although as of early 2019 ISIS has lost all of the territories it occupied, scholarly and media attention has continued to focus on its barbarity and brutal treatment of the women living in its former territories. The extremist group has committed a long list of severe human rights violations since it seized territories in Iraq and Syria. In this article, I aim to illustrate the reporting of this violence against the Yazidi women from 2014 to 2019 by the UK’s national newspapers because the media’s portrayal of these women shapes public opinion and policy towards this group in relation to the violence they have endured. The results indicate that while UK national newspapers give preferential treatment in their coverage of Yazidi women’s experiences of violence, abuse, and torture, they often ignore these women’s agency and activism in terms of the extent to which these women resisted and coped with the atrocities they endured.

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Matiza, Vimbai Moreblessing. "Women in newspaper cartoon straps during the ‘Operation Restore Legacy’ in The News Day and The Chronicle." DANDE Journal of Social Sciences and Communication 2, no. 2 (2018): 88–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/dande.v2i2.48.

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There is an existing trend of negativity in the portrayal of women through cartoons in local newspapers. This has led to the perpetuation of gender stereotypes against women aimed at demeaning and degrading the social status of women. Cartoons as works of art are expected to reflect on issues as they are happening in the societies. The two newspapers under study are The Chronicle and The News Day which are government owned and private owned respectively. The paper analyses these two newspapers in the manner in which represent women in cartoons and further interrogates circumstances surrounding such portrayal. The period under study is between November 2017 and April 2018. This is the period when Zimbabwe underwent leadership change, after thirty-seven years under one leader. Guided by the Africana womanist perspective the article concludes that women and men are given the same opportunities but if not disciplined women sometimes abuse their position.

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Yar Khan, Shahab. "Women as Heroes in Shakespearean Drama." MAP Education and Humanities 1, no. 1 (August 20, 2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.53880/2744-2373.2021.1.1.1.

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Shakespeare studies Nature in the context of human behaviour. His drama deals with transformations and he displays these changes on both social and personal levels through alternating the graphic images from characters to situation. In an authoritarian society where lives of women were governed by a belief system which resulted out of Nature’s disposition of preordained roles in society, the portrayal of dominating female voices would have bothered many. Shakespearean drama is a protest against the society which is always dominated by the destructive forces of male paranoia, egocentrism, patriarchal instinct of exploitation of the weak, male sexual anxiety and corrupt abuse of rules of justice by the powerful. A study of the female mind presented in Shakespearean drama is seen at its best in The Winter’s Tale. The following article is an attempt to explore some of the aspects of Womanhood in Shakespearean art.

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Sathishkumar, K., and Dr V. K. Saravanan. "Exile of Women in Anita Raw Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?" SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 6, no. 10 (October 10, 2018): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v6i10.5103.

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Anita Rau Badami is an Indo-Canadian writer who has written four exceptional novels. Her widely praised books are known for the honest portrayal of Indian families and solid disapproved of women. Woman exploitation is one of the disasters defying ladies everywhere throughout the world. This malice is additionally intensified in the event that they are put in precarious political social orders or occasions. Women being greatly defenceless are obvious objectives of any type of abuse, embarrassment, hardship and segregation. Segment writing investigates the sexual injury, sufferings and excruciating encounter of ladies amid and after the Partition. This from multiple points of view substantiates the way that imbalance of genders is neither a natural reality nor a perfect order yet a social develop. The paper deals with the exploitation of women and their horrible encounters through the viewpoint of a female in Anita Rau Badami’s in her novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? This novel focuses on the subject of the Partition of India and Pakistan.

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Nabutanyi, Edgar. "Powerful Men and Boyhood Sexuality in K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents." Matatu 48, no. 1 (2016): 33–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04801004.

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In Southern African postcolonial discourses, sexual violation is often deployed as an allegory for either patriarchal control or racial domination. This perhaps explains the huge archive of narratives of sexual violence in the Southern African literary canon. While this archive and its scholarship mainly concentrates on the experiences of women and girls, a substantial number of texts portraying the sexual abuse of boys from the region demand that scholarly attention is paid to this phenomenon. Does contemporary South African fiction’s privileging of the sexual violation of boys suggest that boys are as vulnerable to this form of violence in moments of national crisis as are girls and women? Reading K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents1 as a portrayal of the precarious intersection of post-apartheid familial dystopia on children’s bodies—articulated through under-age prostitution—I explore how fiction intervenes successfully to spotlight the susceptibility of boys to pederasty in moments of societal crisis. Additionally, I examine how homosexual prostitution is portrayed as a tool for survival for helpless boys, on the one hand, and exhibition of patriarchal power for the men that pay to have sex with these boys, on the other. I argue that the depiction of underage sex work of some boys in South African cities can help rescue these victims from being perceived as mere statistical footnotes to Southern African inequities and patriarchal power.

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Fitri, Nurliana, and Erni Suparti. "ANALYZING THE PORTRAYAL OF PATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION TOWARDS THE FEMALE CHARACTERS IN J.K. ROWLING’S THE CASUAL VACANCY: A REFLECTIVE POST-FEMINIST CRITICS." Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics (CaLLs) 2, no. 1 (February 24, 2017): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.30872/calls.v2i1.703.

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The oppression and subordination towards woman mostly happened because of the patriarchal system which exists in the society. The purposes of this study are to analyze the portrayal of patriarchal symbols in the society of Pagford Town in J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy and the patriarchal system abuse or oppression towards the female characters in J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. The results of the study show six symbols of patriarchy which is found in the novel. They are female as sex objects in public patriarchy, male as villain in public patriarchy, male as villain in private patriarchy, female as the faulty in private patriarchy, female as mother or angel in the house in private patriarchy and female as damsel in distress in private patriarchy. The study also shows the indication of abuse occurred to several female characters. The patriarchy system generated from the participation of the male and female is the main cause of the sustainability of female oppression and subordination in the society.Keywords: patriarchy, symbol, oppression, abuse, victimization, The Casual Vacancy

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Taljaard, G. H. "Die dialoog tussen die voorblad, die manneplot en die verhale in Dulle Griet van Riana Scheepers." Literator 22, no. 2 (August 7, 2001): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v22i2.365.

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The dialogue between image and text in Riana Scheepers's Dulle Griet This article examines the way in which the content and theme of Riana Scheepers’s Dulle Griet (1991) interact with the “manneplot” (traditional and/or stereotypical portrayal of female characters within novels) and with the cover illustration of the book – a detail of “Mad Meg” (as she is often referred to) from Pieter Brueghel’s Dulle Griet (1562). It explores how the women in Scheepers’s short stories are portrayed – not only as vulnerable, but also as evil and corrupt. They are abused victims; but they are also tyrannical abusers. They are innocent maidens and mothers, but also lovers, prostitutes, lesbians and murderers. The way in which the gradual degeneration of the anonymous central female character relates to Brueghel’s image of “Mad Meg” on her way to the jaws of hell is discussed in this article. But the article also demontrates Scheepers’s concern with feminist issues by using the cover as an ironic “frame”, and shows that the moral decline of the women portrayed in the text seems to be as a result of the actions of chauvinistic men, who appear in different forms throughout the text. Female degeneracy can thus be seen as a survival mechanism, in a world – and a text – dominated by the masculine paradigm, the “manneplot” of traditional male attitudes to women.

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Lake, Elise S. "An Exploration of the Violent Victim Experiences of Female Offenders." Violence and Victims 8, no. 1 (March 1, 1993): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.8.1.41.

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Female offenders are often portrayed as victims of violence, yet few studies have systematically examined such victimization. Violent experiences may both contribute to, and result from, crime - early family abuse may help propel a young woman into crime, and a criminal lifestyle may increase her risk of assault by strangers and intimate partners. Using data from 83 inmates, this study examined violent childhood and adult experiences, and explored possible linkages between victimization and offending. Although many women reported violent experiences, most striking was the high rate of assault by intimate partners. Early physical abuse was associated with earlier entry into crime, and with more diverse criminal activity. Attacks by strangers were more often reported by women who engaged in more frequent and diverse criminal activity. The data suggest that in order to understand female crime, additional research on the complex relationships between offending and victimization is warranted.

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Walker-Williams, Hayley J., and Ansie Fouché. "A Strengths-Based Group Intervention for Women Who Experienced Child Sexual Abuse." Research on Social Work Practice 27, no. 2 (August 3, 2016): 194–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731515581627.

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Purpose: This study evaluated the benefits of a “survivor to thriver” strengths-based group intervention program to facilitate posttraumatic growth in women survivors of child sexual abuse. Method: A quasi-experimental, one group, pretest, posttest, time-delay design was employed using qualitative methods to evaluate the benefits of the intervention with 10 purposively selected women with a history of child sexual abuse. Six group sessions were conducted as well as a delayed follow-up session. Qualitative data were collected using drawings, narratives, and transcriptions. Results: Qualitative thematic content data analysis portrayed enabling processes of PTG such as emotional awareness, decisive action, posttrauma identity, and a healing group context. Conclusion: These themes suggest growth outcomes. However, a longitudinal study is recommended to establish efficacy and to inform practice with replicable interventions.

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Hibberts, Stephen, Howell G. M. Edwards, Mona Abdel-Ghani, and Peter Vandenabeele. "Raman spectroscopic analysis of a ‘ noli me tangere ’ painting." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 374, no. 2082 (December 13, 2016): 20160044. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0044.

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The discovery of an oil painting in seriously damaged condition with an important historical and a heterodox detail with possible origins in the late fifteenth century has afforded the opportunity for Raman microscopic analysis prior to its restoration being undertaken. The painting depicts a risen Christ following His crucifixion in a ‘ noli me tangere ’ pose with three women in an Italian terrace garden with a stone balustrade overlooking a rural landscape and an undoubted view of late-medieval Florence. The picture has suffered much abuse and is in very poor condition, which is possibly attributable to its controversial portrayal of a polydactylic Christ with six toes on His right foot. By the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent, this portrayal would almost certainly have been frowned upon by the Church authorities or more controversially as a depiction of the holy. Raman spectroscopic analysis of the pigments places the painting as being consistent chronologically with the Renaissance period following the identification of cinnabar, haematite, red lead, lead white, goethite, verdigris, caput mortuum and azurite with no evidence of more modern synthetic pigments or of modern restoration having been carried out. An interesting pigment mixture found here is that of the organic dye carmine and cinnabar to produce a particular bright red pigment coloration. Stratigraphic examination of the paint fragments has demonstrated the presence of an orange resin layer immediately on top of the canvas substrate, effectively rendering the pigment as a sandwich between this substratal resin and the overlying varnish. The Raman spectroscopic evidence clearly indicates that an attribution of the artwork to the Renaissance is consistent with the scientific analysis of the pigment composition. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Raman spectroscopy in art and archaeology’.

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Avivi, Yamil. "Latina Muslim Producers of Online and Literary Countermedia." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 132–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v36i4.668.

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Since 9/11, US English and Spanish language media have reported on the rise in Latino/a conversion to Islam. Western(ized) media images I examined for this essay about Latinas converting to Islam raise suspicions overpossible forced conversions, brainwashing, or abuse. What is evident and salient in these media portrayals, whether deliberately or unintentionally created, are the binaries (Western vs. non-Western, Christian vs. Muslim, and Arab vs. Latino) that limit understandings of how these women are self-empowered and make choices for themselves in their everyday lives as Latina Muslim converts. In effect, Western imperial ideologies and discourses in these media portrayals reinforce and normalize rigid state identitarian notions of Christian/Catholic Latinas living in Union City, New Jersey, a traditionally Catholic/Christian-majority and urban Cuban-majority/Latino immigrant enclave since the 1940s-1950s. Now more alarming is this post-9/11 moment when “the Latino American Dawah Organization (LADO) estimated that Latina women outnumbered their male counterparts and reached 60 per cent,” as part of a changing religious and ethnic demographic that includes Muslim Arab and South Asian populations amidst Latino/a populations. In my research, it soon became evident that a variety of media sources perceived Union City as a prime site of Latino/a Muslim conversion post-9/11. This essay offers a specific look at the way newsmedia has portrayed Latina Muslims in Union City and how the cultural productions of these women challenge simplistic and Islamophobic views of Latinas who have converted to Islam post-9/11. To download full review, click on PDF.

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Avivi, Yamil. "Latina Muslim Producers of Online and Literary Countermedia." American Journal of Islam and Society 36, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 132–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.668.

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Since 9/11, US English and Spanish language media have reported on the rise in Latino/a conversion to Islam. Western(ized) media images I examined for this essay about Latinas converting to Islam raise suspicions overpossible forced conversions, brainwashing, or abuse. What is evident and salient in these media portrayals, whether deliberately or unintentionally created, are the binaries (Western vs. non-Western, Christian vs. Muslim, and Arab vs. Latino) that limit understandings of how these women are self-empowered and make choices for themselves in their everyday lives as Latina Muslim converts. In effect, Western imperial ideologies and discourses in these media portrayals reinforce and normalize rigid state identitarian notions of Christian/Catholic Latinas living in Union City, New Jersey, a traditionally Catholic/Christian-majority and urban Cuban-majority/Latino immigrant enclave since the 1940s-1950s. Now more alarming is this post-9/11 moment when “the Latino American Dawah Organization (LADO) estimated that Latina women outnumbered their male counterparts and reached 60 per cent,” as part of a changing religious and ethnic demographic that includes Muslim Arab and South Asian populations amidst Latino/a populations. In my research, it soon became evident that a variety of media sources perceived Union City as a prime site of Latino/a Muslim conversion post-9/11. This essay offers a specific look at the way newsmedia has portrayed Latina Muslims in Union City and how the cultural productions of these women challenge simplistic and Islamophobic views of Latinas who have converted to Islam post-9/11. To download full review, click on PDF.

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Rabinovich, Irina. "Hawthorne’s Miriam – a female enigma: A seductive femme fatale or a victim of abuse?" Ars Aeterna 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 16–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2021-0002.

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Abstract In his last published novel, The Marble Faun (Hawthorne, 1974), in spite of his seeming sympathy for Miriam’s plea for friendship, Hawthorne’s narrator relates to Miriam as a “guilty” and “bloodstained” woman, who similarly to the female Jewish models portrayed in her paintings, carries misery, vice and death into the world. The narrator’s ambiguity vis-àvis Miriam’s moral fibre, on the one hand, and his infatuation with the beautiful and talented female artist, on the other, stands at the heart of the novel. The goal of this paper is mainly addressed at examining Miriam’s position in Hawthorne’s fiction, through an analysis of his treatment of his other “dark” and “light” women. Furthermore, I enquire whether Miriam is to be perceived in terms of the popular stereotypical representations of Jewish women (usually, Madonnas or whores), or whether she is granted more original and idiosyncratic characteristics. Next, I discuss Hawthorne’s treatment of Miriam’s artistic vocation, discerning her distinctiveness as a female Jewish 19th-century artist. Finally, Hawthorne’s unconventional choice of Rome as the setting for his novel unquestionably entails reference to the societal, cultural and political forces at play.

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Dettleff, James. "Andean Female Representation in Peruvian Films from the Internal Armed Conflict." MEDIACIONES 14, no. 21 (October 29, 2018): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.26620/uniminuto.mediaciones.14.21.2018.1-16.

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This paper focuses on the representation of Andean female characters (indigenous) in Peruvian films set in the Internal Armed Conflict (IAC 1980–1999) and their relationship with male characters from the coast and from the Peruvian Andes. Using the discourse analysismethod, the paper shows how this is an uneven power representation, where the female indigenous character is portrayed as the lowest step of the social-economic scale, with no agency or any self-powerto free herself from her own situation. This work analyzes La boca del lobo (1988), the first Peruvian film set during the iac, in which Andean women have a secondary role, stripping away from them any possibility of being empowered subjects. This way of portraying the Andean women answers to a patriarchal and racist structure, which not only shows Andean females as powerless, as subaltern subjects, victims of psychological and sexual violence, but also makes invisible the role that they had during the iac. Women’s role mainly consisted in confronting both the abuses performed by the terrorist groups and by the Peruvian armed forces. This powerless portrayal was maintained in other audiovisual Peruvian productions—as analyzed in my ongoing PhD research—and has established a vision of the Andean female as a diminished subject and also contributed to build the Andean people—mainly women—as the “other” in the iac. To understand how non-indigenous people of Lima have built an image of the main victims of the IAC may help rebuild this war-torn nation, since race and gender differences are still problems Peru must resolve.

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Mudzi, Fennie, Paul Svongoro, and Josephat Mutangadura. "Victims and Survivors: An Exploration of Abuse against Women and Possibilities for Women Empowerment as Portrayed in Selected Zimbabwean Literary Texts." Journal of Literary Studies 37, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2021.1887655.

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., Mujiono, and Moh Zalhairi. "WOMEN RESISTANCE TOWARD DISCRIMINATIONS: A MODERN LITERARY WORK ANALYSIS ON FEMINISM REVIEW IN BEKISAR MERAH." Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature 15, no. 2 (February 22, 2016): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.24167/celt.v15i2.474.

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This study was conducted to discover the discriminations against women in the Bekisar Merah novel and how they formulate resistance to those discriminations. To address the above objective, this study used descriptive qualitative research design with a feminism approach. Source of the data in this study was the second edition of Bekisar Merah novel written by Ahmad Tohari. The data included were words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs on Bekisar Merah which portray womens discrimination toward Lasi, the women figure in the novel, and power types formulated by her who resisted the discrimination. To analyze the data, content analysis was applied. Triangulation was used to ensure the trustworthiness of the data. The result of the study showed eight forms of discriminations and three resistances. The discriminations were domestic abuse, molestation, gender harassment, seduction behavior, imposition, coercion, bribery, and subordination. The resistances were physically, mentally, and verbally.

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Shahid, Izzah, Fakhira Riaz, and Akifa Imtiaz. "Elements of Feminism in Language of Childrens Animations." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. IV (December 31, 2019): 217–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-iv).28.

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In todays modern globalized world, the power and impact of media in different aspects of human life are universally acknowledged. The elements of feminism in media have been widely researched in the past, but, how feminist ideas are portrayed in childrens media largely remains unexplored. The aim of this research is to explore the presentation of feminist concepts, notions, and ideas in a specific genre of childrens media – animations – through verbal and non-verbal language including verbal discourse, expressions, and overall communicative symbolism. The sample of the study consists of fourteen famous animations which are selected through purposive sampling. The results reveal that the feminist ideas and concepts presented deal with the empowerment and liberation of women, and hinted towards real-life womens issues such as education, adolescence, abuse, oppression, gender equality in work and employment, personal choice and other political, social and economic issues rather than presenting stereotypical image of women.

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Agustina, Hiqma Nur, and Tenia Ramalia. "Parvana’s Trilogy: A Study of Violence toward Afghanistan Women and Girls." PALASTREN Jurnal Studi Gender 10, no. 2 (July 2, 2018): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/palastren.v10i2.2664.

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Afghan women and girls became the portray of the victim of violence in the last years until the recent years. The issue of violence toward Afghan women and girls often arise and being the debate in the international public. The news about the tragedy spread through the newspaper, printed and online, and also in the literature world. The exposure of their sufferings as the impact of war, conflict among the ethnics, Talizam rezim reflected in the Parvana's Trilogy named The Breadwinner (2000), Parvana's Journey (2002), and Mud City (2003). These trilogy were wriiten by Deborah Ellis. How the women and girls became the most victim which received violence caused by all of the trigger displayed obviously show the social facts of violence and the structure of violence toward happened to them. Those will be discussed in this paper to get the deep comprehension about the woman and girls' impact after they get the violence. The theory of violence and framing analysis will be used to analyze in order to get the result of the cause by the viooence and abuse itself. The outcome of the study shows that many efforts done by women and girls to overcome their difficult lives, such as pretending being boys, human trafficking, and living as refugees are the ways to survive from the worst violence caused by the war, conflict between ethnics and Taliban rezime.

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Nwoga, CN, DD Dapap, AY Armiya'u, MD Audu, SG Goar, D. Mafai, and DB Jack. "Substance Use and Mental Illness among Women Admitted in a Rehabilitation Center in Jos, Nigeria: A 5-Year Profile." Journal of BioMedical Research and Clinical Practice 4, no. 2 (July 16, 2021): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46912/jbrcp.224.

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Substance use disorder are among the most common public health problems caused by using legal and/or illegal substances. Therefore, this study is aimed at reviewing a five-year profile of women admitted at a rehabilitation center in Jos, Nigeria for substance use and mental illness. This is a retrospective cross-sectional study carried out on 183 females admitted between 2012 and 2017 at a rehabilitation center in Jos, Nigeria. Data collection was carried out from documents note of these female participants. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 22. The mean age of the participants was 38.515.3 years. Almost half of the participants were within the age bracket of 20 – 29 years and married (45.9%). Depressive disorder (36.1%) was the commonest mental disorder in the studied participants. Among those abusing substances, multiple substance use (12.6%) was the most prevalent with alcohol use disorder (9.3%) the main diagnosis among those with substance use disorder. According to the result almost half of the studied participants were young, married and educated females. Depression and multiple substance abuse with alcohol the main drug of abuse was a cause for concern in this population. This portrays significant health and economic consequences and the need for urgent action.

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Stewart, Mary Lynn. "A Frenchwoman Writes about Indochina, 1931-1949: Andrée Viollis and Anti-colonialism." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18, no. 2 (June 11, 2008): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/018224ar.

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Abstract “A Frenchwoman Writes about Indochina, 1931-1949: Andrée Viollis and Anti-colonialism” examines investigative reporter Andrée Viollis’ journalistic career, especially her articles and books on French and other European colonies between 1922 and 1935, in order to challenge recent postcolonial critiques of her 1935 book, Indochine S.O.S, as immured in colonial ideology and rhetoric, including a kind of patriarchal feminism, despite being an exposé of colonial abuses and sympathetic to indigenous rebels against the colonial regime. Following the lines of recent critiques of postcolonial cultural approaches for inattention to the material conditions of colonialism, and feminist transnational scholars who attempt to link labour conditions in the “First World” to those in the “Third World,” The article establishes Viollis’ credentials as a liberal, not a maternal or patriarchal feminist, analyses her journalistic style, especially her use of indirect suggestion as a reporter in the popular daily press, and describes the interest in the colonies in the French public and press. Next the article describes Viollis’ colonial reporting and publications from the 1920s through 1935, with special attention to her exposés of economic exploitation in British and French colonies. Third, the article examines the evidence cited in postcolonial critiques of Viollis’ advocacy of equality between colonizers and colonized as mere equality between people of the same social class, her portrayal of indigenous Vietnamese as degraded, her belief that the French or French women should be moral tutors of the uncivilized natives, and finally her portrayal of indigenous peoples as degraded and animalistic, in light of a full analysis of her career and book. After a detailed analysis of her position on equality, morality, and the condition of peasants and workers up to and in the book, the articles rejects the evidence as partial and decontextualized, and the interpretation as unfamiliar with Viollis’ style.

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Kundi, Dr Minu. "Maya Angelou’s Growing Up Poor, Black and Female." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 6 (June 29, 2020): 50–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i6.10630.

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African American literature is the literature of pain and survival, of triumphs and defeats, of fears and dreams, and of struggle for freedom, equality and identity, produced by the oppressed ones. Black women have used life writing to discover or assert their identity. As they record their experiences they see the critical paths established by the oppressive forces of racism, classicism and sexism. In exploring what it means to be poor, black and female, they present mirror images of ‘self’ and the ‘other’ to the world. Within the marginalized blacks in America, women are at triple disadvantage. Being poor, black and female makes them most vulnerable and easy target for the male dominated community. Maya Angelou’s life writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) tells the story about a black female’s hard life growing up in the American South during the 1930s and 40s. In it Angelou recounts the events of her life in chronological order amidst the racist and sexist American society. She portrays most of her difficult life events from the age of three to sixteen in her life writing showing her hard upbringing, poverty, racism and sexual abuse.

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Urgessa Gita, Dinaol, Getachew Abeshu, and Berhanu NigussieWorku. "Street Children’s Drug Abuse and Their Psychosocial Actualities Synchronized with Intervention Strategies in South West Ethiopia." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 6, no. 5 (November 16, 2019): 682. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v6i5.1170.

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Today’s children in developing countries are growing up in an increasingly stressful circumstance. As consumption of substances is increased, the of age of beginning is falling. Hence, this research examined street children’s drug abuse, their psychosocial actualities synchronized with intervention strategies. Explanatory sequential research design was employed. A total of 150 street children and four key informants were selected through simple random sampling using lottery methods and purposive sampling technique respectively. Questionnaire, interview guide, FGD probes and observation checklist were employed as tools of data collection. The result of the study portrayed that sniffing glue and gasoline were becoming the drugs of choice for most children living on the street. Further, street children faced various psychological and social strainsfrom absence of meeting their basic social needs and services to certain disorders like depression, anxiety, and stress. Government bodies’ interventions were limited andinconsistentthat only undergoesinformal education thatcould not bring considerable change; it lacks solidity and incompatibility with the number of street children runway over a time in the study area. In conclusion, most of the street children in South west Ethiopia are at adversary peak of drug abuse and psychosocial challenges. Thus, South-West areas Women and Children Affairs Offices, Labor and Social Affairs Offices and GOs and NGOs working on these matters ought to take these issues into greater consideration and act accordingly. In collaboration with professionals, they also need to work on drug free child sensitive preventive and rehabilitation counseling and other psychosocial support.

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Dziewanski, Dariusz. "Femme Fatales: Girl Gangsters and Violent Street Culture in Cape Town." Feminist Criminology 15, no. 4 (April 5, 2020): 438–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085120914374.

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This article examines the ways that 21 girl gangsters perform violent street culture in Cape Town, South Africa. It examines their participation in the city’s township gangs, with a particular focus on female involvement in gang-related acts of aggression and violence. Research looks to move beyond portrayals of girl gangsters in Cape Town as either victims or accessories. It shows how they leverage street cultural performances in reaction to intersectional oppression, and in an attempt to empower themselves. Young women in this study joined gangs and took part in violence for many of the same reasons that men do—protection, income, status, and so on—as well as due to threats of sexual violence faced specifically by females. But street cultural participation for females in Cape Town also often perpetuates cycles of violent victimization, incarceration, and substance abuse that keep girl gangsters trapped in a life on the streets. In this way, females in this study broke from the binary view of girl gangsterism as either totally liberating or totally injurious, embodying both simultaneously.

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Ismael, Zaid Ibrahim, and Jinan Waheed Jassim. "Moving out of the Attic: Susan Glaspell and the American She-Tragedy." English Language and Literature Studies 8, no. 4 (November 28, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v8n4p1.

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Midwestern American dramatist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was one of the early voices in the American theater who explored gender issues and woman’s rights at the beginning of the twentieth century. She portrays women in distress, trying to find an outlet from the vicious circle of loneliness and abuse in which they live. Despite the fact that her characters resist oppression and degradation and try to defy the patriarchal authority that restrains them, they are often overwhelmed by this powerful male-dominated system. As a result, they grow defensive and resort to violence and murder in order to avenge themselves from the society that dehumanizes them. They ultimately fall prey to their tragic fate, not necessarily death, but psychological disintegration and incarceration. Glaspell’s tragic heroines are outsiders, living in a world that thwarts their dreams to have a free life beyond the prescribed roles and social demands of house management, domesticity, and social propriety. This study applies the feminist theory of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, introduced in their seminal work The Madwoman in the Attic, to two of Glaspell’s major plays, namely Trifles and The Verge. It also aims at tracing the elements of the Restoration ‘she-tragedy’ in these plays to prove to what extent Glaspell is a master of this form of writing.

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Aning, John, Confidence Gbolo Sanka, and Francis Elsbend Kofigah. "The Mythopoetics of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 6, no. 1 (January 31, 2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.6n.1p.36.

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The objective of this paper is to investigate how Chinua Achebe uses myth making as an attempt to address the leadership problem of his country, Nigeria. Many writers have identified leadership as the greatest problem of many countries in Africa. Consequently, Achebe uses symbolism and a language full of violence to portray the levels of corruption and abuse of power in the novel. In this paper, we present a myth criticism of Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah by looking at how the novelist deconstructs Biblical and traditional stories to show that women should be given a greater political role alongside men to chart a new course of development. Achebe’s novel is dominated by the myth of the Pillar of Fire which he takes from the Bible and the Idemili myth which he takes from the traditions of his people. At the end of the deconstruction of these two myths, the only viable alternative left is the all-inclusive group led by the priestess of Idemili and hope is finally enshrined in the baby girl Amaechina.

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KAUR, DIPPANJEET, and SHEETAL THAPAR. "Media portrayal of women." ASIAN SCIENCE 9, no. 1and2 (December 15, 2014): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15740/has/as/9.1and2/63-68.

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WELLS, JULIA C. "EVA'S MEN: GENDER AND POWER IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1652–74." Journal of African History 39, no. 3 (November 1998): 417–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853798007300.

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Quite possibly, Eva, born Krotoa, is the most written about African woman in South African historiography. Her name fills the journals of the Dutch East India Company almost from the very start of their little feeding-station at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. She is known as a Khoena girl taken into Dutch commander Jan Van Riebeeck's household from the age of about twelve, who later became a key interpreter for the Dutch, was baptised, married Danish surgeon, Pieter Van Meerhoff, but then died as a drunken prostitute after his death. Yet her persona remains an enigma. As Christina Landman put it, ‘Krotoa is a story-generator’.To conservative historians, Eva's life offers living proof that the Khoena were irredeemable savages. To black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, she personifies the widespread rape and abuse of black women by the invaders. Eva's chief biographer, V. C. Malherbe, forms a more neutral judgment by describing Eva as primarily ‘a woman in between’. Landman views her as an early synthesizer of African and Christian religious traditions. Carli Coetzee demonstrates how recent Afrikaans-speaking artists, poets and actors have constructed an image of Eva as the mother of the Afrikaner nation, a tamed African who acquiesced to Europeanness. She is often portrayed as yearning to return to her African roots, but without success.Virtually all of the representations of Eva construct her as a helpless victim of vicious culture clashes. Today's racial consciousness, laced with assumptions of inevitable African/European hostility, is often read back into the historical record. Frustratingly large gaps in that record leave room for a wide range of interpretations, depending heavily on the subjectivities of the historian. Virtually all previous writers, however, have judged Eva primarily by the tragic circumstances of her death, while minimizing the considerable achievements of her earlier years.

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Lux Lesley Kubjana. "Understanding the Law on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (through a Case Law Lens): A Classic Fool’s Errand." Obiter 41, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 88–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/obiter.v41i1.10550.

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Sexual harassment at the workplace has become commonplace in South Africa, as is the case elsewhere in the world. International study that investigated the prevalence of sexual harassment at workplaces points that although it affects both men and women, most reported incidents portray women as more prone than men. Similar outlook is reflected in South Africa. The author is of the view that these numbers provide an opportunity to reflect and review the status quo insofar as regulation of sexual harassment is concerned. While this article acknowledges the general will to combat sexual harassment in South Africa, it raises concerns about both the regulation of and the interpretation of the sexual harassment regulatory framework. These two components do not seem to complement one another as they should. This is evident from a reading of the Code of Good Practice on the Handling of Sexual Harassment Cases, both in its original and amended form, which have leanings towards a subjective and guilt-presuming inquiry in the determination of what constitutes sexual harassment. Irreconcilable CCMA and court decisions bear testimony to this claim. First, the article argues that a subjective approach is susceptible to abuse and provides a breeding ground for more inconsistencies in sexual harassment jurisprudence. Moreover, individual perception cannot be determinative. Secondly, it bemoans the pattern by courts and the CCMA of overlooking the grammatical meaning of the words used in the Code of Good Practice. This article argues for the adoption of a pragmatic and objective approach based on facts and logic when dealing with sexual harassment at the workplace.

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Jelley, Matthew, and John Owen. "Portrayal of women in advertisements." British Journal of Psychiatry 159, no. 4 (October 1991): 586. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.159.4.586b.

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ROGER, A. "IAN McEWAN'S PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN." Forum for Modern Language Studies XXXII, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/xxxii.1.11.

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Rudik, I. V., and O. F. Vykhor. "CONTEMPORARY BRITISH WOMEN SPEECH PORTRAYAL." Тrаnscarpathian Philological Studies 1, no. 17 (2021): 177–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.32782/tps2663-4880/2021.17-1.35.

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Soni, Pallavi. "The Portrayal of Women in Advertising." International Journal of Engineering and Management Research 10, no. 4 (August 8, 2020): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31033/ijemr.10.4.4.

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Carll, Elizabeth K. "News Portrayal of Violence and Women." American Behavioral Scientist 46, no. 12 (August 2003): 1601–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764203254616.

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Beard, Holly, and Brian K. Payne. "The portrayal of elder abuse in the national media." American Journal of Criminal Justice 29, no. 2 (March 2005): 269–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02885739.

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Lachover, Einat. "Signs of change in media representation of women in Israeli politics: Leading and peripheral women contenders." Journalism 18, no. 4 (June 23, 2016): 446–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884915610991.

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The study seeks to examine gender portrayal of Israeli women politicians, and specifically that of candidates for Israel’s parliament on televised news and in print in the elections of 2013. The study is based on an interpretive analysis of all news items wherein the women candidates are mentioned during the month preceding the elections. This study joins recent studies that point to a change in how women politicians are portrayed in the media. Leading contenders succeed in influencing their coverage, and commensurately usually enjoy nonstereotypically gendered portrayal. Moreover, they occasionally seek to make use of hegemonic cultural norms to benefit what they perceive as structuring their positive gendered portrayal. In contrast, the coverage of peripheral contenders suffers from traditional patterns of sidelining. It emerges that peripheral contenders who gain relatively high exposure are portrayed as exceptional based either on their extraordinary other-ness or on the newsworthiness of their campaigns.

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Duwadi, Eak Prasad. "Portrayal of Women in Major World Religions." Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6 (December 3, 2013): 50–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v6i0.9245.

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Yunjuan, Luo, and Hao Xiaoming. "Media Portrayal of Women and Social Change." Feminist Media Studies 7, no. 3 (September 2007): 281–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680770701477891.

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Kaul, Shashi, and Shradha Sahni. "Portrayal of Women in Television (TV) Serials." Studies on Home and Community Science 4, no. 1 (April 2010): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09737189.2010.11885293.

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Karim, Lubna Naz. "Portrayal Of Violence Against Women On Media." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 3, no. 1 (March 8, 2010): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v3i1.368.

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This study will review the role of media in portraying women and prevalence of violence in various forms like verbal, psychological, physical and symbolic against them. Technology has made media a powerful tool of communication, as well as a motivating force. Media directly or indirectly affects the minds of masses. The role of media in a society is incredible and unmatchable because the society depends on media for various reasons. This dependence on media is not only personal but social as well and it plays an important role in political, social, educational, religious and family institution at societal level. It is very much responsible for the transference of moral and social heritage from generation to generation, imposing even greater effects on the lives of ordinary citizens. Media claims to provide the masses with knowledge and information through entertainment programs. However, portrayal of violence against women on media in the form of different characters is contrary to ethical policies. Woman is an integral part of human society. She is a source of peace and contentment not only the whole family but for society on the whole. This study will explore that through entertainment; the negative feelings are induced into audience regarding violence against women, and where as mass media can play a significant role in reflecting social realities.

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Subuhi., Sumera. "PORTRAYAL OF CHILD ABUSE AND SOCIAL CRIME IN OLIVER TWIST." International Journal of Advanced Research 5, no. 5 (May 31, 2017): 1463–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/4268.

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Arora, Veenat, and Anil Kumar Mishra. "Women and Religion: Portrayal of Women in Christianity and Islam." Samajbodh 6, no. 1 (2016): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2321-5860.2016.00009.6.

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Wiergacz, Kara J., and Jennifer L. Lucas. "Wonder Women: The Portrayal of Women in Television Soap Operas." Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research 8, no. 2 (2003): 70–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.24839/1089-4136.jn8.2.70.

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Atkinson, Stacey. "Abuse of women." Learning Disability Practice 17, no. 9 (October 29, 2014): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ldp.17.9.15.s17.

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Heslop, Louise A., Joni Newman, and Sharon Gauthier. "Reactions of Women to the Portrayal of Women in Magazine Ads." Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration 6, no. 2 (April 8, 2009): 9–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-4490.1989.tb00509.x.

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Albashir Mohammed Alhaj, Ali. "The Portrayal of Women in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley." مجلة کلیة الآداب بقنا 22, no. 39 (September 1, 2012): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/qarts.2012.113778.

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Malik, Samina. "A Portrayal of Women Educational Leadership in Pakistan." i-manager’s Journal on Educational Psychology 5, no. 2 (October 15, 2011): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.5.2.1613.

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Alajmi, Nouf. "Overcoming Obstacles: Portrayal of Saudi Women through Art." Art and Design Review 07, no. 02 (2019): 55–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/adr.2019.72006.

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MALABA, MBONGENI Z. "The Portrayal of Women in Stanley Nyamfukudza’s Works." Matatu 34, no. 1 (2007): 107–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205665_008.

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Gupta, Charu. "Portrayal of Women in Premchand's Stories: A Critique." Social Scientist 19, no. 5/6 (May 1991): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3517875.

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