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In the first part of this century, the traditional common law jurisdiction of England and Wales and the civil law jurisdiction of Taiwan simultaneously gave increased legal recognition of the homemaker’s non-financial contributions to the marriage relationship, albeit using quit…

This dissertation examines the problematic location of home, the traditional female activity of homemaking, and the representation of female subjectivity in contemporary cinematic, (auto)biographical, and fictional texts by several contemporary French and Francophone women artis…

This study is about "place making" in a gecekondu neighborhood in Istanbul--both in the literal and metaphorical sense. Place making unveils the migrants' multiple meanings of "home." It is a polyvalent activity realized through home, work, stories, and ceremonies. Gecekondu mea…