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'A modern woman, born 1689' : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the early feminist and women’s suffrage movement Ghent University
This article examines the early suffragist and suffragette revival of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762). Studying Montagu’s representation in prominent suffrage journals and the writing of leading women’s rights activists, this essay argues that she was celebrated as both a remarkably progressive New Woman-prototype and as an early example for women’s militant tactics. In doing so, this paper sheds new light on the complex recovery history ...
Representing women: A globally-informed and locally-situated interpretation of the All-China Women’s Federation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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‘Mar gayā hai śaihanśāh-e-hind’ : an Indian woman commemorates King Edward VII in the Hindi women’s periodical Strī Darpaṇ Ghent University
Nomen est omen : David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the reign of the Turks Ghent University
This essay presents a survey and careful re-reading of some of David Ayalon’s work, with a particular focus on his 1990 “Baḥrī Mamluks, Burjī Mamlūks — Inadequate Names for the Two Reigns of the Mamlūk Sultanate”. It aims to explore the wider dimensions of Ayalon’s discussions and to reflect on the meanings of naming patters in particular for understandings of this polity’s dynamic history. It endeavors to show how —contrary to common ...