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Women Who Dared is featured in the #UPWeek reading list:

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Women Who Dared
Women Who Dared
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Family Ties and Political Power: Governing Kūfa under ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān | Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
This article examines the governors of Kūfa appointed by the caliph ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān during his twelve-year rule, arguing that kinship ties to a province played a decisive role in both governors’ appointments and dismissals. Prosopographical data shows that ʿUthmān strategically selected g...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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'Dead Loss: Freud and the Aesthetics of Mourning' by Thomas Waller offers an original and rich rereading of Freud's theory of mourning.

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Dead Loss: Freud and the Aesthetics of Mourning | Paragraph
This article rereads the aporia in Freud's theory of mourning as a problem for representation and aesthetics. Drawing a parallel with Kant's account of the disinterested nature of aesthetic judgement, I argue that the mourner's stubborn willingness to persist in the reproduction of images of the los...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM