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087177
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2009.
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The curtailment of women's rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran has received a great deal of scholarly attention. Among the legal changes that have profoundly affected women's lives are divorce laws. If the legal arena has not given women much room for maneuver, the realm of cultural representation, particularly cinematic production by women, has provided a fertile ground for self-expression and resistance. Through an analysis of Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Kim Longinotto's ethnographic documentary, Divorce Iranian Style (1998), and two feature films, Blackboards (2000) by Samira Makhmalbaf and Ceasefire by Tahmineh Milani (2006), this article explores representations of the ways in which women work within and against the grain of the dominant structures of power.
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122487
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2013.
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While most nationalised enterprises have been privatised and made subject to the market, the Church of England, with considerable but not complete autonomy, remains ultimately a state controlled and governed organisation. The growth of secularism and religious diversity has demonstrated that the Church has failed in its mission to be the Church of all the people of England. Its share of the marriage market has shrunk to one in four and most weddings are now secular. It retains a monopoly of UK state religious ceremonial but in attempting to adjust to contemporary forms of religiosity it has become, in contradiction of its founding 16th century articles, the leader of official state interfaith activities and the arbiter and broker for the participation of a restricted range of other religious denominations in state activities. Releasing the Church from state control and creating a more open market for religion and belief will create a level playing field for all denominations and a better correspondence between citizen attitudes and public actions.
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185932
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As the first basic law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the launching of the Marriage Law on May 1, 1950, was the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempt to construct institutionalized and standardized criteria for social governance. However, tension between official reports and internal, confidential documents suggests that the implementation of the Marriage Law in Northeast China in the early 1950s confronted a series of difficulties. Due to the geographical and geopolitical distinctiveness of the region, the two priorities of the Northeast Bureau were the construction of heavy industry and support of the military during the Korean War (1950–1953). Within this context, frustrations with the Marriage Law were not simply a result of stubborn traditional opinions but reflected a conflict between different dimensions of modernity. Drafted before the founding of the PRC, the Marriage Law was representative of the party’s legislative project on women’s liberation, but local experiences eventually led to the Northeast Bureau’s pragmatic operation on women’s roles in the socialist regime. Under the varying forces constantly vying for control of women’s bodies, the liberation of Chinese women was not so much the purpose as a means of achieving the CCP’s project of nation-building.
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