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9 results for "Human Sexuality"

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Rethinking Wartime Rape

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Recent evidence gathered by Harvard’s Dara Kay Cohen suggests a new paradigm is necessary. What drives wartime sexual violence? Conventional wisdom points to the sudden breakdown of government, primordial ethnic hatreds, or even patriarchal society writ...

What Others Think of Us

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Social Esteem and Participation in Contentious Politics Taking a look at recent episodes of social unrest, public protest, and other forms of contentious politics around the globe will tell you a lot about 2014. The year opened with violence in Kiev as...

Rare Films from Socialist Yugoslavia

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One room. One locked-down camera. One roll of film. A group of famous directors from the 1960s took the challenge: they would make a short film with these parameters plus one more—their dialogue must include the sentence “I Miss Sonia Henie.” The result...

The Pro-Life Movement Foments “Moral Panic” in Latin America

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Shortly after the passage of a total abortion ban in 1997, El Salvador became the first Latin American nation to routinely incarcerate poor women experiencing stillbirths and other obstetrical emergencies for the crime of “homicide.” Sociologist Jocelyn...

Armed Groups Are Watching You: Life in the Borderlands

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Over a period of ten years, Annette Idler conducted fieldwork along the volatile borderlands of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador to better understand how life proceeds in a gray zone, where the government has abandoned you, and where the rule of law does...

Tracking Insecurity across Time and Space

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Annette Idler sees conflict as a dynamic and shifting phenomenon. From her extensive field work, she has given local officials and civilians tools to prepare for violence before it arrives in their villages. By Michelle Nicholasen This is the second of a...

Who Is a Citizen in Contemporary India?

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Four scholars contextualize India’s controversial citizenship amendments within the history of imperial rule, mobility, and itinerancy in South Asia. By Swati Chawla, Jessica Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, Lydia Walker In the second week of December 2019...