(redirected fromRole of women) Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Encyclopedia. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1.gender role- the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness; "your gender role is the public ...
Throughout the early modern period, few pictorial themes — even when they were not directly linked to a text as in illuminated manuscripts or captioned wood-cuts — did not develop from a written base. It was words, whether those of the Bible, or an Ovid or a Petrarch, or those of ch...
Emperor Rani Rudrama Devi ruled Warangal, the capital of the Kakatiya kingdom that held sway over the entire Andhra Pradesh during the 13th century.†She was one of the most prominent rulers of the Kakatiya dynasty. She died in a war at the age of 80 years. Her father, King Ganapati...
Reduced to Bad Sex: Narratives of Violent Women from the Bible to the War on Terror 来自 deepdyve.com 喜欢 0 阅读量: 54 作者:Sjoberg, L., Gentry, C. E. 摘要: Whenever stories of women's violence in global politics are presented in mainstream media, their authors explain away the ...
For the eyes of the Lord search back and forth across the whole earth, looking for people whose hearts are perfect toward him, so that he can show his great power in helping them. (2 Chronicles 16:9 (The Living Bible) God is always on the alert, constantly on the lookout for people...
and light romance attracted a large readership from women. At its peak in the post-War years more than 50% of women were readers of the magazine, and it was successfully exported to New Zealand and to Pacific island nations. Following theWeekly'smodel, the most successful magazines have been...
Some ascribe the beginnings of slavery to war and the consequent subjection of one group by another. Slavery as a result of debt, however, existed in very early times, and some African peoples have had the custom of putting up wives and children as hostages for an obligation; if the ...
out of Egypt. Not so well known, however, is the fact that after his army conquered its enemy, Moses ordered the captive male "little ones" killed, as well as all of the women who weren't virgin; the virgin "women children" were to be kept by his men as a prize of war. ...
Understanding the contexts in which women in the Bible lived out their faith gives us new insight into their actions and behavior. For example, knowing that some ancient marriage contracts stipulated that after a bride had been barren for a specific number of years she would be expected to give...
In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are...