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Teresiah Muthoni

Equal Right to Property for Women under International Human Rights Law

An Analysis of the Legal Protection in Kenya

Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft

The study is inspired by the general situation of women with regard to property and particularly land in Kenya. To date, discrimination and inequality with regard to property and land in particular continue to be pervasive whereby the disparity of ownership of land between men and women stands at Seventy Five…

Veronica Jemanyur Rop

Human Dignity – Participation of Women in Integral Human Development

A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

The title of this book is Human Dignity- Participation of Women in Integral Human Development and the subtitle is A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya.

The dignity of the human person is central to the integral human development (IHD) of any community. The…

Sun Young Kim

Emotion Management Experiences of Korean Nursing Workers in Germany

Emotional Labor, Emotion Work and Global Women

Schriften zur Arbeits-, Betriebs- und Organisationspsychologie

Emotion management as emotion work is closely related to emotive experiences in an emotion system. In each emotion system, feeling rules and display rules are differently revealed depending on the social and cultural environment and the occupational and organizational environment. As emotion management sold for the…

David Beck

Women and Power in Fantastic Societies

Femininity and Power in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, and Anne Bishop’s The Black Jewels

POETICA – Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft

Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich die moderne Fantasy als eines der kommerziell erfolgreichsten Genres innerhalb der Popkultur etabliert. Autoren wie Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman und J. K. Rowling trugen maßgeblich dazu bei, die Fantasy dauerhaft im mainstream zu verankern. Peter Jacksons Filmadaption von J.R.R.…

Michaela Schmidt

Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

During a career that lasted for forty years, nineteenth-century American woman writer Rose Terry Cooke (1827 – 1892) published short stories, poems, and essays in such different magazines as prestigious literary monthlies, religious weeklies and childrens magazines. She was a multifaceted author, and yet only a…

Leyla Aydemir (ed.)

Migration, Politics, Violence and Women‘s Studies

SOCIALIA – Studienreihe soziologische Forschungsergebnisse

The development of science, research and technology depends on international knowledge transfer. Because of that, the studies that technical and natural sciences have done in collaboration with social and human sciences are inevitable in order to find solutions to the current social problems and to meet the…

Victoria Yiwumi Faison

Protecting Victims Within Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the European Union

Schriften zum ausländischen Recht

Over the years, the response of international law to trafficking has witnessed several reforms. The last of these, adopted in 2000, has been quite influential on the reformation and the adoption of trafficking regulations within the EU and its Member States. However, legislating against trafficking within the EU…

Julie Spergel

Canada‘s ‘Second History‘: The Fiction of Jewish Canadian Women Writers

Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

In Anne Michaels’s novel „Fugitive Pieces?, seven-year-old Shoah survivor Jakob Beer is reborn, given a „second history? when he emerges out of a Polish bog. As Jakob builds a new life with his adoptive father Athos, the Greek archaeologist who finds him, the two are consumed by a need to uncover the hidden,…

Josephine Ndagire

National Redress for ‘Gendered’ International Crimes

Uganda, Germany and the International Criminal System

Strafrecht in Forschung und Praxis

On the premise that the duty of states to prosecute international crimes is a fairly new development, this book assesses the extent to which Uganda is meeting this obligation, using the international criminal justice system as a benchmark and the German criminal justice system as a ’best practices’ case study. The…

Chukwuemeka Emmanuel Umeh

African Theology of Solidarity

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

The broad aim of African Theology of Solidarity is to establish that any symbiotic dialogue of the Christian faith with African cultures and the precarious social realities in Africa require the theological unification of the two major theological trends in Africa: Inculturation and Liberation. The need to…