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(0)Sabine Müller
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic tools or means of political legitimization in the past, the discourses about marital relationships changed and women expressed their demands more openly. Discourses about marriage in history...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
For centuries women and other "gendered minorities" had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies that intended to return to "old orders" or "good old times." The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship between gender and protest and analyze in detail how gender-related perspectives stimulated protests and initiated historical changes....
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Im Rahmen des griechisch-lateinischen Alexanderromans stechen die Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis des Iulius Valerius (frühes 4. Jh. n.Chr.) durch ihre hohen literarischen und stilistischen Ansprüche hervor. Die elf Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbands nehmen überwiegend Fragen der Erzähltechnik, sprachlichen Gestaltung und Intertextualität in den Blick, und verdeutlichen so Eigenart und literaturhistorischen Rang des oft vernachlässigten Werkes.
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Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers...