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Adam Rasmussen deposited Basil of Caesarea’s Uses of Origen in His Polemic against Astrology in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoBasil of Caesarea, in his polemic against astrology (Homiliae in hexaemeron 6,5−7), makes direct, creative uses of Origen’s anti-astrological treatise (Philocalia 23). My argument is based on an identical context, namely the interpretation of Gen 1:14b, and five close similarities in content, some verbatim, between Basil’s sermon and Orige…[Read more]
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Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas deposited A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoA family tale inspired the author to explore seemingly minor, but related details of the Saint-Domingue, French, and American Revolutions, including the population movements to and from the United States. “A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions” is a documented historical and personal narrative through cultures and continents, as…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Hijab as Commodity Form: Veiling, Unveiling, and Misveiling in Contemporary Iran,” Feminist Theory in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article considers how state-mandated veiling and unveiling reinforce modern capitalism. State regulations regarding veiling incorporate the female body into the political economy of the commodity form. In addition to serving as an empty signifier to be filled with exchange value for the male observer, the veil operates as an ideological…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi” (Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhile the cosmopolitan turn in political and literary theory encourages us to move beyond national frameworks, the Caucasus remains mired in ethno-national categories from the Soviet past. This essay examines how these categories are being mobilized in the service of a nominally cosmopolitan agenda in the contemporary memorialization of the writer…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Theorising Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions (MA level) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoHow does colonial violence generate anticolonial resistance? Is violence ever justified, whether as an end or as a means? What aesthetic strategies do writers deploy to legitimate the exercise of violence? What is the relationship between militant insurgency and literary form? Posing these and other questions, this course offers an introduction to…[Read more]
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Michael Miller deposited Folk-Etymology, and its Influence on Metatron Traditions in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis paper takes a new approach to the contentious area of the etymology of Metatron, applying the lessons learnt from biblical folk-etymologies which have been shown to actively influence the writing of narratives. In the first section one such possible folk-etymology is proposed, based around the sequence TTR as a Divine Name in Metatron, along…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited Isaiah 1-12: Presentation of a (Davidic?) Politics in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn this essay I sketch an outline of how the book of Isaiah presents its politics, working from the assumption—based on the research of Peter Ackroyd and others—that the presentation of Isaiah, the prophet, in the book’s opening chapters is key. I end up arguing that the book advocates for Davidic politics, as others have claimed, but that its d…[Read more]
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simeon chavel deposited Knowledge of the Lord in the Hebrew Bible in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoApplies theory of literature as simulation speech to argue that knowledge of the Lord is not reflected in texts of the Hebrew Bible but created by them.
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “Sembène, Ousmane (1923-2007)” in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoEntry on Senagelese filmmaker and writer Ousmane Sembène.
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Tyler Bilton deposited An examination of hockey: identity, gender construction, hegemonic masculinity, women’s hockey, and Turkey in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThe purpose of this study was to examine hockey’s identity, how the game constructs identity, and how the increasing participation of females in hockey in Canada and Turkey is altering identity. Through qualitative research and personal experience it is revealed that in order for hockey and Turkey to modernize, a new male identity needs to e…[Read more]
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Maia Kotrosits deposited Penetration and Its Discontents: Greco-Roman Sexuality, The Acts of Paul and Thecla and Theorizing Eros Without the Wound in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe notion that sexuality in the Greek and Roman periods was predicated on a social-sexual hierarchy that casts relationships in the binary terms of active/passive and penetrator/penetrated has been both influential and controversial over the last 30 years. Both the articulation of this hierarchy and its critique have been haunted by various…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s creation and renewal of religious rituals: A strategy for addressing their marginality in traditional societies in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהדרת נשים מהמרחב הציבורי הדתי היא תופעה נרחבת ומוכרת. מתחילת שנות האלפיים אלפי נשים יהודיות, חילוניות, מסורתיות, דתיות וחרדיות, מרקעים סוציו־אקונומיים מגוונים, מתמודדות עם הדרה זו. הן יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים דתיים, וכך מפלסות מקום במרחב שהיה סגור בפניהן. השאלה הניצבת בבסיסו של מאמר זה היא מה הן האסטרטגיות שנשים משתמשות בהן כדי ליצור לעצמן ולחדש…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited “Amen meals are so feminine”: Women’s creation and renewal of rituals in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמחקר זה מבקש לתאר ריטואלים הקשורים לאוכל שנשים יוצרות ומחדשות לעצמן. שאלת המחקר היא כיצד ומדוע נשים יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים. התשובה מבוססת על ניתוח דוגמאות של טקסים הקשורים באוכל שהתפתחו בישראל והתפשטו בקרב נשים יהודיות ברחבי אירופה וארה”ב מאז שנת 2000: “סעודות א ֵמנים” וטקסי הפרשת חלה ציבוריים. המתודולוגיה שננקטה היא איכותנית אתנוגרפית, ומבוס…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Being the wife of a Torah scholar in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis paper examines how ultra-orthodox women perceive the socio-economic reality of contemporary ultra- orthodox society in Israel. In practice most ultra-orthodox women work, and they play an important role in the financial support of their family. The ultra-orthodox press, a major socialization mechanism, has a dualistic approach to this…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Open spaces? Perceptions of the internet among Ultra-Orthodox women working in computerized environments in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoWe analyze patterns of rejection and adoption of new technology in a closed and conservative community through the study of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women working in computerized environments, and their perceptions and uses of the Internet. These women stand in the intersection between orthodoxy and modernity. Their workplaces are populated by…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Forum of their own: Studying discussion forums of Ultra-Orthodox women online in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהחברה החרדית בישראל היא חברה מסורתית המנסה לשמור על גבולותיה ולהתנהל כתרבות מובלעת בקרב החברה הישראלית-חילונית. אחד האתגרים ש ִאתם עליה להתמודד הוא חדירתן של טכנולוגיות תקשורת חדשות. האינטרנט הוא מן הטכנולוגיות השנויות ביותר במחלוקת במגזר החרדי, והוא מציב בפניו אתגרים ייחודיים. בשל תכונותיו של המדיום החדש קיים חשש כבד מחשיפת הציבור…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s images in the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) press: 1948-2008 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמאמר זה עוסק בדימויים ובייצוגים של נשים, כפי שהם משתקפים מטקסטים עיתונאיים שראו אור בישראל ונועדו לנשים חרדיות מאז קום המדינה.1 השאלות המרכזיות המוצגות כאן הן: כיצד משתקפת דמותה של האישה בעיתונות החרדית? האם היא נוכחת בה במרחב הפרטי ו/או הציבורי? כיצד כותבים העיתונים על נוכחותה במרחבים אלה? כדי לענות על שאלות אלה נבחן קורפוס רחב של מאות…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited “At ‘Amen Meals’ It’s Me and God” Religion and Gender: A New Jewish Women’s Ritual in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoNew ritual practices performed by Jewish women can serve as test cases for an examination of the phenomenon of the creation of religious rituals by women. These food-related rituals, which have been termed ‘‘amen meals’’ were developed in Israel beginning in the year 2000 and subsequently spread to Jewish women in Europe and the United States.…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited A forum of their own: Views about the internet among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women who browse designated closed forums. in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe paper studies attitudes towards and perceptions of the Internet by ultra–Orthodox women who are members of closed online forums. The forums constitute a unique environment for ultra–Orthodox women, where they can talk amongst themselves anonymously on issues that may be illegitimate in their community.
Findings show that the ult…[Read more]
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