Resonating with British and American audiences inspiring many later pirate stories, Byron’s The Corsair (1814) participated in a transatlantic conversation about female responses to violent masculinity. In an 1869 Rhode Island newspaper article, woman recalled reading as child debating whether name her favorite doll Medora, the wife of pirate, or Gulnare, who kills their captor rescue pirate. W...


 Menstruation has many faces. This Essay will discuss competing narratives relating to menstruation as portrayed in Jewish law and culture, assess the implications of such for modern legal systems. These depict all its contradictions — taboo power, health imperfection, reflecting biological difference but not inequality. Each narrative be discussed from a textual, legal, communal and, occ...

Roma women face multiple inequalities at the intersections of ethnicity, gender, and class. Framed by Romani feminism, studies have explored women’s own perspectives experiences, drawing attention to diversity within this group specificities their social position due complex forms discrimination they face. Drawing on interviews with Spanish women, article contributes extends strand research exp...