Afghanistan: public flogging of woman, 2015 (also video clip) Australia: public flogging of David Sheridan (q.v.) on board sailing ship Endeavour, 2001 Bangladesh: youth caned on hands at village court, 2015 (also video clip) Benin (formerly Dahomey): preparations for a whipping, possibly c...
Why is there such resistance to women’s inclusion in civic life, along with rights and economic freedom, across the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa? Some contemplate that it may be religion. Some think it must be the nature of the Eastern woman. Some have come to believe it ...
. Yet, Browne’s construction of motherhood also displays an aspect of adult address (in this case dual address), which is often overlooked: the didactic and ideological messages that his books convey not only to children but also to adult readers. As Elizabeth Bullen and Susan Nichols (2011,...