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Highlights

  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

prisoners

data and analysis relating to prisoners and inmates, and prisons and jails

incarceration of child-support debtors in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Probate and Family Court incarcerated about 800 child-support debtors per year from 2009 to 2011. Incarceration was highly gender-biased. … Read the post incarceration of child-support debtors in Massachusetts

false accusations of rape in world literature

False accusations of rape, prevalent in historical world literature, provide insight into human sociality and communication across millennia. … Read the post false accusations of rape in world literature

anchoresses warding off beastly, devious, desperately importuning men

In the book Ancrene Wisse, a 13th-century English friar instructed anchoresses on dangers of men, figured as beasts, dogs, false friends, and the enemy. … Read the post anchoresses warding off beastly, devious, desperately importuning men

Mann Act criminalized men's sexual activity

A Mann Act violation was typically charged against only the man, and not the woman, involved in a consensual, non-commercial sexual affair. … Read the post Mann Act criminalized men's sexual activity

self-punishment in the genealogy of forgiveness

The Christian Gospels show through descriptions of brutal bodily self-punishment developing self-consciousness for forgiveness. … Read the post self-punishment in the genealogy of forgiveness

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