Feminevil: The Chechen Black Widows’ Symbolic Terrorism

Clause combining in Chechen

Chechen exhibits three major strategies for the combination of clauses: coordination, chaining, and subordination. The major formal characteristics of these three traditional categories of clause linking are discussed with reference to their basic syntax and semantics as well as to more particular syntactic characteristics, including constituent order and behaviour with respect to negation and ...

Widows' Pensions

Aposematic signals in North American black widows are more conspicuous to predators than to prey

The iconic red hourglass of the black widow spiders (genus Latrodectus) is traditionally considered an aposematic signal, yet experimental evidence is lacking. Here, we present data that suggest that black widow coloration may have evolved to be an aposematic signal that is more conspicuous to their vertebrate predators than to their insect prey. In choice experiments with wild birds, we found ...

Adjustment to violent and natural deaths in later and earlier life for black and white widows.

OBJECTIVES This study explored the role of mode and unexpectedness of death, age, race, and marital status on psychological symptoms for widows approximately 6 months after their husbands' deaths. METHODS Midwestern samples were drawn from death/divorce records for 276 Black and White women aged 19-74 whose husbands had died from homicide, suicide, or accidental death; 276 matched natural dea...

Ultimate Causes and Consequences of Coloration in North American Black Widows by

Ultimate Causes and Consequences of Coloration in North American Black Widows by Nicholas C. Brandley Department of Biology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Sönke Johnsen, Supervisor ___________________________ Stephen Nowicki ___________________________ Susan C. Alberts ___________________________ Daniel McShea ___________________________ H Fre...