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Journal articles on the topic "Women in rabbinical literature. Sex"

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Hacker, Daphna. "Religious Tribunals in Democratic States: Lessons from the Israeli Rabbinical Courts." Journal of Law and Religion 27, no. 1 (January 2012): 59–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0748081400000527.

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In democratic countries where the law might be influenced by religious communities, family law cases can present one of the most sensitive and complex challenges. Religious laws governing personal status and the supervision of family relations are vital components of many religions and, in some cases, crucial to the cultural survival of the religious community. However, the family laws of some religions are discriminatory towards women, same-sex couples, people of other religions, and other groups. Currently, there is heated political and scholarly debate about the tension between the norms of multiculturalism, which dictate that religious communities be allowed to preserve their values and culture, including through autonomy over family law, and liberal norms prohibiting the discrimination that religious family law can perpetrate.One of the best known liberal advocates for restricting discriminatory cultural practices of minority groups was Susan Moller Okin. Okin maintained that many cultural minorities are more patriarchal than the surrounding culture and that the female members of the patriarchal culture might be much better off were the culture into which they were born to become extinct, if, that is, it could not be altered so as to uphold women's equality. She pointed to religious personal law as one example of a sphere in which patriarchal cultures strive to maintain autonomy at the cost of women's and girls' freedom and basic rights. Consistent with her view, nation states should not give legal autonomy over family matters to patriarchal minorities unless these minorities reform their religious laws so as not to discriminate against or impair the rights of women and girls.
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Baskin, Judith R. "From Separation to Displacement: The Problem of Women in Sefer Hasidim." AJS Review 19, no. 1 (April 1994): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009400005341.

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A gender analysis of some of the representations of women in Sefer Hasidim and related texts finds that the German-Jewish pietiests of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries express a profound ambivalence toward women. While Sefer Hasidim places great importance on happy marital relations, its authors also see potential adulteries at every turn. Moreover, in their mystical yearning to transcend the physical pleasures of the material world, they go beyond rabbinic norms in their displacement of women in favor of devotion to the divine. This essay suggests that situating this ambivalence, and the frequent objectification of women which results from it, within the larger context of medieval social history can expand and enhance our knowledge of Jewish social norms, family life, and spirituality in medieval Ashkenaz.
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Rodríguez-Otero, Luis Manuel. "Literature review on studies of women who have sex with women." Medwave 20, no. 03 (April 28, 2020): e7884-e7884. http://dx.doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2020.03.7884.

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Seal. "Chaucer's Women: Sex and the Scholarly Imagination." Chaucer Review 56, no. 4 (2021): 322. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.4.0322.

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Brodsky, David. "Jesus, Mary, and Akiva ben Joseph." Journal of Ancient Judaism 9, no. 1 (May 19, 2018): 101–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/21967954-00901006.

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Early parallels to and commentaries on Massekhet Kallah (a rabbinic text from the Talmudic Period) read the story in it about a woman and her ill-conceived son as being about Jesus and Mary. While some modern scholars have shied away from this reading, I argue in this paper that Massekhet Kallah should be read as engaging its cultural context, particularly its Syriac Christian milieu. In the passage under discussion, Rabbi Akiva tricks the woman into revealing the circumstances under which her son was conceived by falsely promising her life in the world-to-come. False oaths, however, are strictly forbidden in rabbinic literature, which leaves scholars scrambling to justify Rabbi Akiva’s behavior. Read as an anti-Christian polemic, this and other anomalies begin to make sense and seem to be crafted to counter Christian ideology. If the narrative is read through this lens, it appears that the author is attempting to establish that Jesus is not the son of God, but the product of adulterous and impure sex; that the “true” revelation is of Jesus’ lowly birth rather than his divine conception; and that rabbis, rather than Jesus, have the power to grant a person eternal life. Typical of polemical literature, certain passages, like the one about the child and his mother, attack central Christian tenets, and the broader themes of Massekhet Kallah do appear to be wrestling with its Christian counterparts over the definitions of holiness and sexual asceticism; however, other passages present stories that can be read as consistent with those proliferating in the Christian monastic literature of the Egyptian desert fathers popular in Syriac Christianity. Taken together, the evidence suggests that Massekhet Kallah is a text that is engaging with its Christian milieu – at times striving with it and at times consonant with it. This article, then, is an experiment in reading Massekhet Kallah in that Christian context.
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Regev, Shaul. "‘Woman of valor’ : The character and status of women in jewish philosophy of the sixteenth century." European Journal of Jewish Studies 4, no. 2 (2010): 241–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/102599911x573350.

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AbstractResearchers of Jewish History dealing with the topic of women’s character and status in Medieval Jewish texts drew their information mainly from Rabbinical Responsa and tended to neglect other types of literature: sermons and Biblical commentaries. Responsa were a primary source for two reasons—convenience and availability of the material. However, this type of literature was written out of necessity and dealt with the problematic situations in a woman’s life, whether with regard to her private life (as for instance in matters of marriage or divorce), her financial situation or other difficult issues. It may be possible to put together a clearer picture of women and their position in the Middle Ages, including their treatment by the men of their immediate surroundings, by examining and researching the vast literature of sermons and Biblical commentaries.Using an interpretation of Chapter 31 of the book of Proverbs (“Woman of Valor”), the preacher draws an image of the ideal woman and uses it to present his opinion on women, their shortcomings and their virtues. The main topic that preachers and interpreters discussed was the question of the perfection of women’s intellectual souls. As women did not usually acquire great intellectual learning, it stands to reason that they could not achieve perfection. Therefore, replacements were created that allowed women’s perfection to surpass that of men’s.
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Lanser, Susan S., and Rita Goldberg. "Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot." SubStance 16, no. 3 (1987): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685202.

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Duque, Cristina, Steven Feske, and Farzaneh Sorond. "Cerebrovascular Hemodynamics in Women." Seminars in Neurology 37, no. 06 (December 2017): 679–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1608881.

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AbstractSex and gender, as biological and social factors, significantly influence health outcomes. Among the biological factors, sex differences in vascular physiology may be one specific mechanism contributing to the observed differences in clinical presentation, response to treatment, and clinical outcomes in several vascular disorders. This review focuses on the cerebrovascular bed and summarizes the existing literature on sex differences in cerebrovascular hemodynamics to highlight the knowledge deficit that exists in this domain. The available evidence is used to generate mechanistically plausible and testable hypotheses to underscore the unmet need in understanding sex-specific mechanisms as targets for more effective therapeutic and preventive strategies.
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Mirzaii Najmabadi, Khadigeh, and Farangis Sharifi. "Sexual Education and Women Empowerment in Health: A Review of the Literature." International Journal of Women's Health and Reproduction Sciences 7, no. 2 (October 19, 2018): 150–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15296/ijwhr.2019.25.

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Objectives: Women constitute almost 50% of the world population and play a number of roles in the community. The present study aimed to assess the relationship between sex education and women empowerment in health. Methods: Based on the aim of the study, the data were obtained reviewing the related literature on electronic and non-electronic websites and using equivalent keywords published until the last week of February 2018. In addition, mesh terms and key words were included in this research. Inclusion criteria were articles published from 2005 to February 2018. All the observation or interventional studies including ten articles which met the search criteria were studied. Results: The results revealed that sex education has different effects on sexual attitudes or activities of women. Further, it was effective in increasing the sexual autonomy of female college students. Furthermore, health providers’ contribution may improve sexual autonomy. In the current study, sex education programs were effective at increasing HIV/AIDS ( Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) knowledge and condom use, reducing the risk of unprotected intercourse and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), as well as unplanned pregnancy and abortion. Finally, abstinence-plus sex education programs increased health knowledge while they reduced risky sexual behaviors. Conclusions: In general, sex education is a critical method of women empowerment in health through increasing their health knowledge and related behaviors. Therefore, a compilation program of sex education is more useful. Accordingly, seeking to place sex training in the educational curriculum in accordance with the culture of the countries is a necessity.
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Conley, Katharine, and Naomi Sawelson-Gorse. "Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity." SubStance 28, no. 3 (1999): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685442.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women in rabbinical literature. Sex"

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Ravel, Edeet. "The application of biblical laws to women by the Rabbis of the Tannaitic period." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39322.

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In Hebrew, as in English, the masculine form takes precedence over the feminine, and consequently many masculine terms can serve both generic and sex-specific functions. Almost all biblical laws, whether formulated in the imperative or in the third person, appear in singular or plural masculine form, and therefore present a major difficulty in terms of gender interpretation. The position of women in the legal covenant is thus rendered highly ambiguous.
The tannaitic sages, Jewish biblical exegetes of the first post-Christian centuries, were acutely aware of the problem and wrote numerous midrashim which interpreted ambiguous terms of gender in the biblical legal corpus. They determined the extent to which the various gender references referred to women.
These interpretations have been almost totally neglected in modern biblical and rabbinic scholarship, and are here collated and carefully analyzed for the first time. It is shown that though the sages operated within an ideological framework, their exegetical procedures played a major role in their legislation.
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Radwin, Ariella Michal. "Adultery and the marriage metaphor rabbinic readings of Sotah /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1383469791&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Sherman, Miriam. "A well in search of an owner using novel assertions to assess Miriam's disproportionate elaboration among women in the Midrashim of late antiquity /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3251376.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Jacobs, Jessica. "The literature of sex tourism and women negotiating modernity in the Sinai." Thesis, Open University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396937.

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Mullally, Erin Eileen. "Giving gifts : women and exchange in Old English literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061960.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-271). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Slowe, Martha. "In defense of her sex : women apologists in early Stuart letters." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39756.

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This study explores the problem of female defense in relation to the constitution of women as disempowered speaking subjects within the dominant rhetorical structures of early Stuart literature. The discourse of male rhetoricians defines a subordinate place for women in the order of language. The English formal controversy arguments over the nature of women in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries similarly deploy tropes of male precedence and female subordination to restrain women in the symbolic order and to inhibit any form of female discourse. In order to construct an effective defense a female apologist must reconstitute herself by working within and subverting these constraints. Early Stuart drama provides numerous instances in which women confront and contest the pre-established limits for female speech in their efforts to defend themselves and/or their sex. However, in the dramas selected for this scrutiny, despite the forceful defense strategies that female characters use in their attempts to negotiate their negative positions in language, they are ultimately marginalized. My final chapter therefore examines the rhetorical strategies whereby in her life and writing one woman author, Elizabeth Cary, successfully appropriated and transformed the gendered tropes into compelling female defenses.
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Johnson, Kara A. James Henry. "Living picture, living voice : the public performance of women in Henry James's The Bostonians /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/207.pdf.

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Mizue, Yuko. "Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity and Women in Kankyo no Tomo." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/335/.

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Chanda, Geetanjali. "Indian women in the house of fiction : place, gender, and identity in post-independence Indo-English novels by women /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19736617.

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Swartwout, Susan White Ray Lewis. "Being human a nonoppositional sex-difference approach to twentieth-century American short fiction by men and women /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9633428.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.
Title from title page screen, viewed May 25, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ray Lewis White (chair), James M. Elledge, Cythnia A. Huff. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-155) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Books on the topic "Women in rabbinical literature. Sex"

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Wisdom of love: Man, woman & God in Jewish canonical literature. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2008.

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Boyarin, Daniel. Carnal Israel: Reading sex in Talmudic culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

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Boyarin, Daniel. Carnal Israel: Reading sex in Talmudic culture. Berkeley: Univivesity of California press, 1995.

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Peskowitz, Miriam. Spinning fantasies: Rabbis, gender, and history. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

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Androgynous Judaism: Masculine and feminine in the dual Torah. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1993.

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Faḥṣ, Hānī. al- Tahwīd al-thaqāfī: Al-marʾah mithālan. Bayrūt: Dār al-Amālī, 1988.

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On women & Judaism: A view from tradition. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1998.

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Rothenberg, Naftali. Be-ʻiḳvot ha-ahavah: ʻal ahavah ṿe-zugiyut bi-meḳorot ha-Yehudiyim. Yerushalayim: Karmel, 2000.

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Sex variant women in literature. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1985.

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Valer, Shulamit. Women and womanhood in the Talmud. Atlanta, Ga: Scholars Press, 1999.

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Capo, Beth Widmaier. "Extreme Sex: Contemporary American Women Writers at the Margins." In Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature, 283–302. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73851-2_18.

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Jessee, Margaret Jay. "“The Third Sex”: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces." In Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature, 165–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73851-2_11.

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Bach, Rebecca Ann. "The Homosocial King Lear: Sex, Men, and Women before the Valorization of Lust and Greed." In Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality, 25–47. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230603639_2.

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Wisker, Gina. "Speaking the Unspeakable: Women, Sex, and the Dismorphmythic in Lovecraft, Angela Carter, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Beyond." In New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature, 209–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95477-6_11.

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Bryan, E., E. Kato, and Q. Bernier. "Gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices in Bangladesh." In Gender, climate change and livelihoods: vulnerabilities and adaptations, 123–42. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247053.0010.

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Abstract This chapter focuses on a range of practices that have been identified as climate-smart and appropriate for adoption at the family farm level in the context of Bangladesh, based on input from stakeholders and a review of the literature, as well as a review of ongoing agricultural interventions aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity and climate resilience in the country. Sex-disaggregated data from two communities in Bangladesh are used to assess the gender differences in access to different sources and types of agricultural and climate information. The gender dimensions of awareness and adoption of these CSA practices are then explored in order to understand the extent to which information and knowledge gaps contribute to the adoption patterns of female and male farmers. Given that awareness is likely not the only determinant of adoption of CSA practices, a Heckman selectivity regression model was used to examine the correlates of adoption of specific CSA practices, taking into account the endogeneity of awareness. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of the results and the need for increasing awareness and adoption of CSA practices by both women and men.
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Gollance, Sonia. "The Choreography of Acculturation." In It Could Lead to Dancing, 16–41. Stanford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503613492.003.0002.

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The prohibition on men and women dancing together was derived from biblical precedent and Jewish laws regulating sexual behavior. While even traditional communities had varied interpretations of what mixed-sex dancing entailed, in literature such boundaries were frequently transgressed. Where rabbinic condemnations of mixed-sex dancing before 1780 emphasize the connection between dancing and forbidden sexual behavior, later and more literary texts use dance to discuss influences from outside of the Jewish community. Writers utilized dance as a metaphor for Jewish modernity, which communicates their concerns with society while entertaining their readers. German Jewish and Yiddish literature targeted readerships that often differed in terms of class background and knowledge of Jewish tradition, yet they shared a fascination with literary dance scenes.
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Zwinger, Lynda. "Straight sex, queer text: American women novelists." In The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature, 576–89. Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9781107001374.031.

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Pittaro, Michael. "Pornography and Global Sex Trafficking." In Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women, 121–33. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2472-4.ch008.

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The primary purpose of drawing international attention to this chapter is to truly understand and subsequently address the abhorrent role that pornography and prostitution play in transnational sex trafficking operations. Pornography, especially when coupled with prostitution unquestionably perpetuates sex trafficking particularly in the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls across the world, yet the exact role pornography and prostitution play remains largely misunderstood and mostly speculative within the practitioner and scholar literature. This chapter will address those concerns as well propose plausible recommendations based on the research to date in order to assist and support those who are dedicated and committed to eradicating sex trafficking by infiltrating pornographers who create, disseminate, and participate directly and indirectly in the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children on a global-scale. Also, this chapter will emphasize the need for TJ as a form of Court Innovation in the United States.
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Smith, Leslie Dorrough. "Sex." In Compromising Positions, 77–112. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190924072.003.0004.

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Evangelicalism has long provided American culture with the vocabulary through which to talk about sex and who can appropriately engage in it. This chapter briefly discusses six general presumptions of evangelical thinking about sex, gender, and race inspired by feminist theorist Gayle Rubin; these elements help frame specific excerpts of evangelical marriage and sexual advice literature, which naturalize hypersexual men and their passively sexual women. The chapter discusses the substantial racial subtexts at work in these excerpts that tacitly connect whiteness (and white sexuality, in particular) with moral virtue, and describes how these have become American ideals. To see these ideals at work, a case study compares the scandals of Anita Hill (versus Clarence Thomas) and Paula Jones (versus Bill Clinton). Both Hill and Jones were deemed sexual failures by the American public according to the evangelical standards for female sexuality that were used to define their credibility.
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Hainline, Brian, Lindsey J. Gurin, and Daniel M. Torres. "Women and Concussion." In Concussion, edited by Brian Hainline, Lindsey J. Gurin, and Daniel M. Torres, 141–46. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190937447.003.0023.

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Most of the concussion literature is devoted to concussion and men, and this literature focuses primarily on American football and ice hockey. Yet women appear to be more prone to sport-related concussion than men, and may manifest with more concussion-like symptoms both at both baseline and post-concussion. There may be both endocrinologic and biomechanical reasons why women’s concussive symptoms are different from men’s, but this remains incompletely understood. There may also be sex-based and gender-based differences in how men and women experience and describe concussion. It is important to understand these distinctions when managing concussion in women.
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Abdullah, Md Abu Shahid. "“Indeed, the King has a Cunt! What a Wonder!”: Sex, Eroticism and Language in One Thousand and One Nights." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.1-1.

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One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to as early as the 9th century, is probably the greatest introduction to Arabic culture through literature. This colossal and diverse book has drawn the attention of scholars, researchers and students to classic Arabic literature as well as influenced many prominent authors and filmmakers. It is not just a book of careless and unconnected stories but rather a piece of esteemed literature which has been read and analysed in many countries all over the world. However, it is also true that this book has been criticised for its sexual promiscuity and degraded portrayal of women. The aim of the presentation is to prove that underneath the clumsy and seemingly funny structures of One Thousand and One Nights, there is a description of overflowing sexuality. Through the sexualised or erotic description of female bodies, the book gives agency to women but at the same time depicts them derogatively, and thus fulfils the naked desire of the then patriarchal society. The presentation will highlight how sexual promiscuity or fathomless female sexual craving is portrayed through figurative and grammatical language, which objectifies the female characters but at the same time enables them to be playful with the male characters, and thus motivates them to become more powerful than the males. Finally. the presentation will focus on language or narrative as an act of survival from the perspectives of the female characters, which is most evident in the case of Scheherazade who saved not only her life but also lives of countless maidens by her mesmerizing storytelling talent.
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