"The shame of men is at their backs ..." The gender implications of discrepency between proverbial wisdom and the law
A culture's proverbs point to the matrix of beliefs and values in which its people's lives are embedded. Interventions to empower women can backfire when this matrix is not sufficiently factored in. The wisdom and legal traditions of the Ancient Near East were aligned in the boundaries the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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| In: |
Journal for semitics
Year: 2006, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 385-405 |
| Further subjects: | B
Cultural proverbs
B Beliefs B Values B Gender B Woman B Empowerment |
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