, native colonial populations are represented primarily as exploitable labor forces and assessed in terms of their degree of “civilization,” that is, conformity to French social and cultural norms. Moise then compares those interwar representations of the
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Introduction
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- 1–9
Anton Jansson, Kai Vogelsang, and Nele Kuhlmann
method and to develop a method with this preparatory knowledge. Foucault himself states three conditions: nihilism (questions norms), nominalism (questions universals), and historicism (focuses on historical transformations) (compare to p. 52). The
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Book Review
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- 107–110
Mirrors for Margraves
Peter Damian’s Models for Male and Female Rulers
Alison Creber
. Instead he warned Godfrey against behaving like a priest. Damian’s use of gender paradoxes and his references to “Duke” Adelaide and her “virile strength” suggest that, for him, male power was the norm and that partaking of masculinity, if only
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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Joanna Bourke
environments (which may include forced sex or exploitative accumulation of material resources), but also by sexual selection (including taking into account the preferences of the opposite sex) and group selection (such as adhering to reproductive norms or
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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- 104–116
Elizabeth S. Leet
’s loquacious and predatory sexuality and the Charybdis of the fairy mistress’s mystical and discreet femininity. Silence, therefore, reveals many of Marie’s subversions of gender norms. In her book Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature , Jane
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 75–87
Women and Family Law in Byzantium
Some Notes
Niki Megalommati
one Christ and one universal church, which was implied by the council’s commitment to absolute monogamy as the norm and raison d’être of Christian marriage. 50 Marriage is pure because it symbolizes the union of Christ and church; it is also holy and
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 19–32
Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature?
Violence in Classical Athens
Matthew Trundle
fought battles on behalf of their communities. 22 Herodotus also records stories that are abominations against the norms of the day. Cleomenes shocked the Greek world when he burned to death six thousand Argives in a sacred grove. 23 The story was no
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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The Complexity of History
Russia and Steven Pinker’s Thesis
Nancy Shields Kollmann
—Western norms of etiquette and Enlightenment humanitarian ideals—emerged late and complemented what was already going on. The pacifying impulse of commerce hardly played a role: Russia was a resource-poor society with a serf-based autarkic economy where the
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 41–53
Niklas Olsen, Irene Herrmann, Håvard Brede Aven, and Mohinder Singh
legal norms, such as the subsequently fertile popularization of the notion of “crimes against humanity,” scrutinized by Kerstin von Lingen, to various endeavors described in part IV. Here again, one of the striking features of all charities and
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Book Review
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- 113–130
Amanda H. Littauer
-differentiated sexual relationship. As Alix Genter discusses in her article on butch-fem lesbian culture, young lesbians had to learn how to navigate the gendered landscape of postwar lesbianism, which included specific sexual practices, expectations, and norms. 20 In
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 95–108