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Helen Daviesl perspectives implied in the (Sunni) Islamic outlook on the juridical phenomena and the Western concept of law, with particular reference to constitutionalism. The volume adopts a wider and comprehensive viewpoint, comparing the different ways in which the Islamic sharīʿa and Western legal categori

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Mixing (re)Memory and Desire: Constructing Sarah Baartman,o her date of birth, date of death, and her name – are still contested.. She was a Khoikhoi woman born during the mid-1770s in South Africa.. Sarah spent much of her childhood living and working on colonial farms and also as a domestic servant. Whilst in the employment of Hendrik Cesars,. she had be

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Separation Anxieties: Sex, Death, and Chang and Eng Bunker, connected at the sternum by a small band of cartilage. In 1829, a British merchant named Robert Hunter ‘discovered’ the brothers and paid their mother to allow him to take the boys abroad to be exhibited in a series of freak shows. After successfully breaking the oppressive terms of their contract,

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,Excessively Feminine? Anna Swan, Gendering Giantesses, and the Genre of the ‘True Life Story’ Pamphmer turned trapeze artist, Jack Walser repeatedly invokes the vocabulary of largeness, noting her ‘vast, blue, indecorous eyes’ and her ‘six inches of false lash’ (Carter, 1985, p. 7). Walser views Fevvers as a ‘marvellous giantess’ (Carter, 1985, p. 42), and he experiences a certain sexual attracti

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The Strange Case of Joseph and Jack: Joseph Merrick and Spectacles of Deviance, continental Europe. Born in Leicester in 1862, Merrick was of ‘normal’ physical appearance for the first few years of his life, but began to develop thickened skin on his body and large growths over his face and flesh during childhood. After attempting to make a living by rolling cigars in a factor