Women Architects in Portugal: Working in Colonial Africa before the Carnation Revolution (1950–1974)

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

the u.s. policy in central asia and its impact on the colored revolutions in the region (the case study of tulip revolution in kyrgyzstan)

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The Revolution in Portugal

Chiefly women and women’s leadership in pre-colonial southern Africa

In intellect the women are inferior to the men, but this is doubtless attributable to the drudgery imposed on them. To feelings of self respect and sensitiveness under wrongs, characteristic of their more highly-favoured sisters in Christian lands, they are strangers. As a rule they patiently submit to their lot, unless tortured beyond endurance by despotic husbands; but their life at the best ...

Christians in Colonial Africa

Using information on the precise locations of Catholic and Protestant mission during Africa’s Colonial period, I examine the long-term impact of Protestant and Catholic missionary activity on religious conversion, education, civic participation and attitudes towards democracy. Examining variation across ethnicities and villages within 17 sub-Saharan African countries, I provide evidence that Pr...