Book review:
 Taylor, Dianna. Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. 128 pages. ISBN 9781138581432. Pbk. N.p.

The discussion on Chinese cultural heritage started to emerge as a result of inspiration coming from foreign travels scholars-officials and protective measures against looting artifacts in the 19th 20th centuries. most spectacular robberies were carried out by Anglo-French forces Old Summer Palace (Yuanming Yuan) during Second Opium War 1860. That event became one cornerstones “century humiliat...

The word aphrodisiac has its origin in Greek Mythology, most precisely from the goddess of love, Aphrodite. It has been used to define the products applied with proposal of increasing desire and drive associated with sexual instinct. Besides they have represented a passion of man, since historically, in all cultures, the sexual potency is considered as a significant part of the male ego and the...

How French people tried to make sense of their childhood and adolescence in past centuries remains something of a mystery. That this should be the case for the medieval and early modern periods is hardly surprising, given that so few contemporaries chose to write about their formative years. For centuries, the majority of clerics maintained a low opinion of the young. St Augustine (354–430) led...

BACKGROUND This study concerns the occurrence of various forms of mistreatment by staff and fellow students experienced by students in the Faculty of Medicine and the other four faculties of the University of Oulu, Finland. METHODS A questionnaire with 51 questions on various forms of physical and psychological mistreatment was distributed to 665 students (451 females) after lectures or exami...

The first year of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s second term has been disastrous. A series of crises has occurred, from the assassination of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny in May 2004, to the widespread demonstrations against the government’s seriously flawed attempt to replace social and other benefits with cash payments. Fighters staged raids in Grozny and Ingushetia, the gove...

Amputation of the nose was practiced as a sign of humiliation to adulterers, thieves, and prisoners of war by certain ancient populations. To erase this disfigurement, numerous techniques were invented over the centuries. In India, where this injury was common, advancement cheek flaps were performed (around 600 BC). The forehead flap was introduced much later, probably around the 16th century. ...