Bodies, borders, and law: Tanja Ostojić: Looking for a Husband with a EU Passport by Hilary Robinson

“…Bodies, borders, and law: Tanja Ostojić: Looking for a Husband with a EU Passport…”
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Bodies, borders and law: Tanja Ostojić’s <i>Looking for a Husband with EU Passport</i> (2000–2005) by Hilary Robinson

“…Warranting recognition for its potential to unsettle Art History's privileging of masculinist avant-garde activities, Looking for a Husband with EU Passport is also especially noteworthy for its activism – its seeking to make significant changes in women's lives.…”
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Women publishers of puritan literature in the mid-seventeenth century: three case studies by Maureen Bell

“…This thesis looks beyond the stereotypes of women as transmitters and caretakers of businesses by focussing on the careers of three women, one a widow who remarried, one a woman with no apparent family connection with the trade, and the third another widow who carried on the business for almost ten years after the death of her husband. …”
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The End and the Beginning: The Book of My Life (PDF) by Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Lionel Gossman

“…After five years on her German husband’s estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. …”
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Out of context: an intersection between domestic life and the workplace, as contexts for (business) talk. by Paul Drew

“…This is explored through close examination of a conversation, the beginning of which happens to offer a kind of ‘natural laboratory’: the failure by a husband to recognise his wife’s voice when she calls him at work affords us the opportunity to see how each manages the talk as being, respectively, ‘workplace’ or ‘domestic’.…”
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The Song Of The Whole Wide World On Motherhood, Grief, and Poetry by Tamarin Norwood

“…An extraordinary memoir of anticipatory grief, seventy-two minutes of life and a silent maternity leave, from artist and academic Tamarin Norwood. …”
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Interpreting gender in Islam: a case study of immigrant Muslim women in Oslo, Norway by Line Nyhagen

“…The analysis suggests that immigrant Muslim women use Islam as a flexible resource for interpreting gender relations. …”
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Between depression and zeal: conceptions of masculinity in the wartime letters of SS Hauptsturmführer Maximilian Guttenbrunner, 1939–1943 by Franziska Karpinski

“…This identity was constructed in the context of his upbringing in Nazi Germany, his experiences as an SS member during the Second World War and his participation in the perpetration of the Holocaust, as well as his personal life as husband, son, and invalid. …”
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Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (PDF) by Patricia Auspos

“…In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married women were not supposed to have careers, and career women were not supposed to marry. …”
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Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (XML) by Patricia Auspos

“…In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married women were not supposed to have careers, and career women were not supposed to marry. …”
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Atiya's journeys: a Muslim woman from colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Sunil Sharma

“…More than a century ago, Atiya Fyzee, a Muslim woman of the renowned Tyabji clan, set out from colonial Bombay to study in Edwardian London. …”
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Drawing (out) the evil (m)other of the family court by Penny Davis

“…With reference to research on single mothers, the impact of COVID-19 and the underlying culture of misogyny, mother blaming, and postseparation legal abuse in the UK family courts, I consider how an autoethnographic approach to my art practice activated drawing as a maternal battle cry, disarming the attacks in legalese and re-armouring my body in preparation for the final hearing. …”
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Social Change by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…It is often so difficult because many people don’t understand the social changes that we’re talking about, for example, violence in the family was always seen as a private matter, and a personal issue, but then we started to talk about it and people start to understand it as a social change.Some of the ups and downs happen because of the resources, time and money, economic and social- cultural practices, caste, disasters. …”
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‘A girl's love’: Lord Alfred Douglas as homoerotic muse in the poetry of Olive Custance by Sarah Parker

“…This article explores the relationship between the poet Olive Custance and her husband Lord Alfred Douglas, arguing that Custance constructed Douglas as a male muse figure in her poetry, particularly the sequence ‘Songs of a Fairy Princess’ (Rainbows 1902). …”
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The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951) (PDF) by Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Lionel Gossman

“…Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. …”
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The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951) (XML) by Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Lionel Gossman

“…Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. …”
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Qualitative feasibility of using three accelerometers with 2-3-year-old children and both parents by Silvia Costa, Sally E. Barber, Paula Griffiths, Noel Cameron, Stacy Clemes

“…This study assessed mothers' opinions about the feasibility and acceptability of using the ActiGraph GT3X+, Actiheart, and activPAL3 with their 2- to 3-year-old children, as well as with themselves and their husbands/partners, for an 8-day period. …”
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The burdens by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…Because over the years we’ve been adding things to our agenda, for example recently I’ve heard about climate change and mental health, and so we take it on.This object is part of the Metaphors for Un/Making CSC Collection.Created in Zomba, Malawi, 2023…”
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Exploring domestic violence experiences from the perspective of abused women in Malaysia by Mariny Abdul-Ghani

“…From other aspect, the women also struggled to avoid negative labels given for being disrespectful to their men. In addition, the findings revealed four main themes related to the underlying issues on the needs and support of domestic violence service provisions that women drew on in their accounts: theme 1, unpleasant experiences when accessing the services; theme 2, the problems with procedures in disclosing and in the help-seeking process; theme 3, the usefulness of services and theme 4, women s needs and support mechanisms. …”
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Picking up the pieces: (re)framing the problem of marriage breakdown in the British Armed Forces by Lynda Nicholson

“…Attention to the effects of service life on families is therefore embedded in policy directives, and framed by concerns over the retention and recruitment of military personnel as implications for operational effectiveness. By re-focusing attention to the implications of marriage breakdown for service families this thesis constructs new problem frames, a key question being: what is problematic about marriage and marital breakdown for military wives? …”
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Collaborative team reflective practice in trauma service to improve healthcare by Hilary McDermott, Alaina Husbands, Lisa Brooks-Lewis

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Concerns with Ofsted inspections of ITT - justified or just "grumpy old teacher educators"? by Lorraine Cale, Jo Harris

“…According to the current Ofsted framework, the main purposes of the inspection of ITT are "to ensure public accountability for the quality of ITT; stimulate improvement in the quality of provision; provide objective judgements on providers for public information; inform policy; enable the statutory link to be made between funding and quality; and check compliance with statutory requirements" (Ofsted, 2005, p. 1). Other proposed purposes of ITT inspection include for comparison or compliance (Blake et al., 1995). …”
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