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Feminization of equity deserving work in the third sector Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Mia Tulli-Shah, Ghada Sayadi, Aisha Giwa, Myra Kandemiri, Nat Hurley, Bukola Salami
Non-profit work plays a vital role in connecting policy and community, as well as providing essential services in Canada. However, evidence suggests that despite being often engaged in equity seeking work, many non-profit organizations remain sites of inequity and marginalization among service provider staff. In this qualitative study, researchers conducted interviews with representatives from 60 organizations
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Institutional challenges to delivering domestic violence services in Ghana: A case of structural violence? Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Alice Pearl Sedziafa, Eric Y. Tenkorang
In Ghana, institutional support for victims of domestic violence is provided by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), a specialized unit of the Ghana Police Services. We conducted in-depth interviews with 16 women with a history of domestic violence and 10 DOVVSU personnel in Greater Accra, Ashanti, and North regions. The purpose was to document institutional challenges to delivering
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A thematic content analysis of views regarding sexual assault disclosure and the #MeToo/WeToo movements for CALD Japanese women in Australia Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Kaoru Sato, Lynlee Howard-Payne
Women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia may be unlikely to disclose sexual assault, due to the social norms in their home countries. Due to varying degrees of acculturation, Japanese residents of Australia may be influenced by Japanese norms. The Australian government acknowledges that targeted responses may be needed to support CALD women disclose sexual assault
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Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Vimala Asty F.T. Jaya, Yanghee Kim, Minah Kang
Female genital cutting (FGC) in Indonesia is still prevalent, and it is increasingly prevalent in urban than in rural areas. This study analyzed the prevalence of FGC in Indonesia and the urbanization and medicalization of FGC practices. Specifically, it addresses the critical questions of how urbanization affects the prevalence of FGC, why the medicalization of FGC became prevalent in urban areas
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Maternity protection and work-family balance support policies: A Korean case study Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Kyu-Hyoung Jeong, Seoyoon Lee, HyoJoo Lee
More Korean women participate in economic and social activities, but also more of them decide not to work or to delay childbirth. This study used data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women & Families (KLoWF) between 2010 and 2018 to examine changes in awareness of the policies on maternity protection and work-family balance support, and the factors behind them. We selected 972 female workers
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Not in the mood for gender and feminism. Exploring affect and expertise through Spanish anti-gender movements Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Marcel Obst
This article explores the use of affect in the study of anti-gender movements – a loosely connected network of actors that seeks political goals through their opposition to women's and LGBTQ+ rights and lives. Drawing on ethnographic data from Spain, it examines ‘anti-gender’ moods and the collective attunements that underpin these movements. Through this affective turn, it suggests that these moods
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Self help groups and politics: A complex relationship Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Annabel Dulhunty
Despite a large body of literature investigating the impact of self-help groups (SHGs) on women, less detailed attention has been paid to the complicated relationship between SHGs and politics, beyond political ‘awareness’. Based on qualitative on the ground research in West Bengal, this article shows that the relationship between politics and SHGs is highly complex, since political involvement in
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Clarice and the sweet pea of her sexual desires Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Maedeh Tajalli
In the aftermath of Iran's Islamic revolution, the representation and expression of women's sexuality have undergone stringent official censorship. Zoya Pirzad stands out among Iranian female authors for subtly challenging the Islamic regime's censorship of Iranian women's bodies and sexuality in her writings. In (2012), while articulating the sexual desires of her protagonist, Pirzad adeptly employed
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“Syrian second wives”: Polygyny, gender relations, and the experiences of Syrian and Turkish women Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Nurgül Certel, Reyhan Atasü-Topcuoğlu
Although banned in Turkey in 1926, the number of cases of polygyny has increased in the country as a result of forced migration from Syria. This patriarchal practice, which exposes women to violence before and during marriage, deepens gender inequality. This article seeks to better understand the experiences of women involved in polygynous marriages initiated by Turkish men, and to make gender-based
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Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Carolina Villacampa
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (known as the Istanbul Convention) imposes on States Parties the need to address holistically all forms of violence against women, including honour-based violence not only by prosecuting such conduct, but also by preventing it and, above all, protecting its victims. While some northern European
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Gender mainstreaming in Albanian higher education institutions Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Denisa Titili, Viola Dolani, Lorena Margo
Gender equality is a fundamental human right and the foundation for a sustainable, peaceful, and prosperous world. Achieving gender equality and women's empowerment is integral to each sustainable development goal. Higher education and research institutions must create a working environment and organisational culture based on equal opportunities and the promotion of good relations based on protected
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Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jiyea Park
South Korean Millennials have exceptional educational, cultural, and professional backgrounds compared to other generations, but they are overqualified and underemployed in the country's competitive job market. Moreover, Korean Millennial women face more complex forms of discrimination than Korean men. Thus far, most empirical studies have illuminated the problem of unemployment rather than that of
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Partner's contribution to housework and couple bonding activities among Korean working women: Heterogeneity by socioeconomic status Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Gum-Ryeong Park, Hyunseo Rim, Jinho Kim
The present study investigates: (a) how a partner's contribution to housework is associated with couple bonding activities among Korean women in dual-earner couples and (b) whether this association varies by socioeconomic status. Using eight waves from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women & Families ( = 5758), we estimated fixed effects models to account for individual-level heterogeneity. Engagement
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Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies: The case of Hungary Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Andrea Pető, Borbála Juhász
This study will show how the Hungarian ruling FIDESZ government has built its so-called family-friendly system, which has both nationalized and privatized the process of reproduction together. First, we discuss the demographic discourse and family mainstreaming as the basis of “righteous motherhood” producing more children together with hate campaigns, second, we argue that one of the reasons why most
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Japan's new anti-harassment law and the ironic legitimation of workplace harassment against women managers Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Swee-Lin Ho
This paper examines the conflicts and challenges faced by women managers in Japan following the introduction of a new law in 2020 which merely obliges employers to take preventive measures against workplace bullying and (power harassment), but does not stipulate any criminal punishment for corporations or individuals responsible for workplace harassment, or the specific grounds for victims to have
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Sexism and women's access to justice: Feminist judging in Indonesian Islamic judiciary Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Iim Halimatusa’diyah, Windy Triana
Sexism in the judicial system is a persistent problem in countries where women frequently are held to a different moral standard than men. As such, some advocates and legal experts argue that feminist judging practices are necessary for ensuring women's access to justice. While many studies focus on the effect of sexism on gender inequality in politics, the extent to which sexism may lead to further
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The Missing White Woman Syndrome on the Turkish Twitter Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Bahar Muratoğlu Pehlivan, Gül Esra Atalay
Despite extensive research on media representation in feminist studies, the inequality in media visibility of femicide victims remains a relatively less discussed aspect. This study investigated the Missing White Woman Syndrome of domestic and foreign femicide victims on the Turkish Twitter. Data on femicide cases was collected from the Monument Counter () platform and Twitter between January 2018
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Polarization, religiosity, and support for gender equality: A comparative study across four Muslim-majority countries Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Berfin Çakın, Saskia Glas, Niels Spierings
This study focuses on links between religion, political polarization, and support for gender equality, empirically studying Turkey, Indonesia, Tunisia, and Malaysia. These four Muslim-majority electoral democracies include different degrees of polarization between secularists and Islamists, whereby Islamists vilify secularists' supposed Western ideals as gender equality. We explore whether regional
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From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Sita Hidayah
This article explores “Asian values” and conflicts purported by normative pluralism in Asia from an anthropological approach. Instead of a zero-sum narrative of culture wars, this article proposes a narrative of social order through public reasoning that takes value plurality into account. This article contextualizes the concept of value in a specific social and cultural context as a query to the abstract
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The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Sonia Núñez Puente, Diana Fernández Romero, Laura Martínez Jiménez
Anger has been a part of the public debate in Spain, especially since the 8 M feminist mobilization. This article analyzes whether the mediatized rage surrounding the discursive dispute on Twitter between supporters of the so-called (Trans Law) and those that oppose the proposed legislation can open up cracks in the affective injustice suffered by the trans collective in Spain. To this end, we will
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Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Minakshi Keeni, Nina Takashino
The Rohingya crisis has disrupted lives and changed gender norms among female refugees in Nepal. In contrast to the encampment strategy adopted by Bangladesh, Nepal's open integration policy has allowed for better assimilation of Rohingyas into local communities, offering them informal work opportunities. The interaction with Nepal's unique social and religious landscape has transformed the refugees'
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The hegemony tax: Performing masculinities and femininities by Egypt's Mubarak and Mrs. Mubarak Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mustafa Menshawy
Hegemonic femininity has previously been defined as a static entity describing the behaviour of women as they oppress other women for the sake of reinforcing hegemonic masculinity. In return, those women are paid limited and marginal benefits, alongside heavy “taxes” (), including entrenching the subordination of all women as a group to men. This article makes a number of arguments. First, the benefits
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Reconceptualizing resilience and vulnerability in liberal feminist discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Yumeng Jing
The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted the growing recognition and reevaluation of vulnerability theory as proposed by Fineman (2008), which emphasizes the central role of the state in protecting citizens from their ‘vulnerability’ by providing their access to ‘resilience’. It challenges the traditional construction of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’ in liberal discourse, which has typically emphasized
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The meaning of abuse for young Arab women in Israel: Gender, social, and cultural mechanisms of control and supervision Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Haneen Elias, Raghda Alnabilsy, Shira Pagorek-Eshel
Abuse in childhood and adolescence has negative long-term consequences, intensified among young women in Arab society in Israel. The aim of the current study was to better understand the meaning that Arab young women ascribe to abuse experiences in childhood and adolescence and their long-term consequences from a gender, social, and cultural perspective, and how the abuse and its implications affect
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Beyond masculinist ideals of resistance: Exploring the ambiguities of women's experience in resistance and revolutionary movements Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Maša Mrovlje, Jennet Kirkpatrick
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Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Cigdem Kentmen-Cin, Yasemin Akbaba, Burcu Saracoglu
This article assesses gender research patterns among Ph.D. students in International Relations (IR) discipline in Turkey with a particular focus on women. We examined 622 IR doctoral dissertations accepted by institutions of higher education in Turkey between 2009 and 2019. We found a statistically significant gender-based pairing among students and advisors, in addition to a higher number of male
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Feminist constitutional narratives, the pandemic and hyper-presidentialism in Turkey Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Zülfiye Yılmaz-Yamaç
Constitutional resilience has been tested by various crises worldwide, and the COVID-19 pandemic constituted another litmus test for global constitutionalism. In Turkey, the pandemic came three years after a constitutional revision introduced hyper-presidentialism in 2017, which undermined the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. This article looks at the period that begins with
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Religious pressures on women's rights in Southeast Asia: Examining the right to an abortion in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 George B. Radics
This article aims to interrogate the “cultural wars” in Asia brought upon by rapid changes in gender roles in the world and the reactionary “return” to heteronormative families in Asia. For this article, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam were chosen for their diverse religious, cultural, and political definitions of the family and openness to global human rights discourses. As the article will
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Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Adelyn Lim
This article examines parenting advice to fathers published in the state-regulated English newspaper, The Straits Times, in Singapore. In November 2020, The Straits Times introduced ST Smart Parenting, with articles written as instruction guides for parents and autobiographical narratives. What is distinct about ST Smart Parenting are the articles written by and for fathers. Fathers are rarely the
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Girls just wanna have fun! South Asian women in the UK diaspora: Gradations of choice, agency, consent and coercion Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Kalwinder Kindy Sandhu, Hazel Barrett
Much literature views South Asian women in the UK through the prism of arranged marriage and, when discussing gender-based violence, forced marriage. Little attention is paid to South Asian women's experiences of dating, with no commitment to marriage. This paper is based on qualitative research using the theoretical framework of Black Feminist Theory and Intersectionality to analyse how women, who
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Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency: Muslim girls re-generating politics in India Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Saba Hussain
Drawing on ‘voices’ of Muslim girls reported in a purposive sample of media, this research presents Muslim girls' responses to the impossible choice between right to education and vs. religion, following the hijab ban in the colleges in Karnataka, India. Their narratives do not fit conventional understandings of ‘being’ political or ‘doing’ politics. Instead, they are situated in a continuum of new-forms
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Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Kingsley Ikechukwu Okere, Stephen Kelechi Dimnwobi, Chukwunonso Ekesiobi, Favour Chidinma Onuoha
In a rapidly changing world marked by environmental degradation and governance disparities, understanding their impact on African women's participation in the labour force remains a critical puzzle. This research seeks to unveil the intricate connections between pollution, governance quality, and women's economic engagement in Africa, shedding light on vital pathways to empower women, mitigate pollution's
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Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Şule Akdoğan
In this article, I compare the literary representations of women care workers in Maggie Gee's My Cleaner, Ece Temelkuran's Muz Sesleri and Leïla Slimani's Lullaby through the concept of borderlands which, especially since Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, has come to represent a space surpassing geographical borders in ways to bring attention to crossroads of challenging yet
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“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Filipa Salgado, Sara Isabel Magalhães
This research sought to understand the reality of childfree women by exploring their representations and experiences in a society still marked by binary and traditional gender roles anchored in motherhood as a marker of adulthood and femininity. For this purpose, a qualitative study was held in which semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with eight women, aged between 23 and 45, born
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Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Akanksha Misra
This essay urges transnational feminist scholarship and pedagogy to move beyond gender as a social, discursive construct and conceptualize it instead as lived temporality of the body. Through a phenomenological reading of the lives of three cis-gendered female teachers in future-oriented neoliberal school regimes in India and Turkey, it shows how normative ‘gender’ is the sedimentation of histories
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Swings and merry go rounds: Transgression and opportunities for fatherhood in pandemic Britain Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Patricia Hamilton
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on parenting and family life in Britain. While a gendered analysis reveals that mothers have been especially burdened by pandemic mitigation policies, some have suggested that lockdowns have provided a unique opportunity to transgress gendered parenting roles, allowing fathers to spend more time caring for their children. In this paper, I draw from
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Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Michaela Honelová, Lucie Vidovićová
Modern society gives great importance to the body and physical appearance. The fascination with youthfulness and physical attractiveness in Western societies has led (among other things) to a proliferation of cosmetic/aesthetic products, services, and surgical procedures. Today, many women seeking to conform to contemporary standards of beauty ideals choose to use various rejuvenation procedures and/or
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Defensive racism and Christian righteousness in the time of Trump Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Katie Gaddini
This paper interrogates the relationship between Christianity, race and politics in the US through what I call ‘defensive racism’ — a multi-modal form of anti-Black racism that displaces racism, denies its existence toward Black Americans, and deflects racism away from white people. Drawing on ethnographic data, including qualitative interviews and participant observation data, collected in the US
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The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Babli Mallick
This paper aims to focus on the different shades and ambivalences in the marital relationship between celebrity writers and their better halves. It's an effort to see the real life beyond the reel life of these famous personalities. It is universally known that there is a woman behind each man's success. But exactly what cost does one pay for cementing this age-old ‘truth’? There is a need to know
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Gender differences in risk aversion: Evidence from private pension system in Türkiye Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Nursel Durmaz Bodur, Selda Dudu, S. Cihan Bozkuş, Adem Y. Elveren
Evidence on gender differences in risk aversion is ambiguous. Using actual data of participants in the Individual Pension System in Türkiye, this study provides some evidence of the gender differences in investment decisions. The findings show that men are 17.6 % less likely to exhibit high-risk tendencies compared to women. Age demonstrates a positive association with risk-taking behavior. Also, married
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Beauvoir and Lorde confront the honorary man trope: Toward a feminist theory of political resistance Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Maša Mrovlje, Jennet Kirkpatrick
Feminist historians of political resistance have drawn attention to the ‘honorary man’ tradition—the belief women resisters must overcome their feminine bodies and act like their male counterparts to be taken seriously in resistance movements. Yet they have not fully explored the resources of feminist theory to counter it. Building a bridge between history and theory, we address this gap by turning
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The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Jocelyn Elise Crowley
Sexual harassment is a serious problem that continues to affect primarily women in the United States workforce today. The modeling industry within cultural economy—which focuses on the production of goods and services chiefly for their aesthetic value—presents significant challenges in this area as predominantly young girls are working in a field dominated by powerful men. Female fashion models must
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Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 C.R. Farnworth, G. Fischer, J. Rugalabam, Z.S. Islahi
Gender transformative change in agrifood systems involves understanding gender dynamics and norms and intentionally strengthening or shifting structures, practices, and relations towards equality. An important research issue is how to spark critical reflection and action that foster transformative change among participants and programme staff alike. Household Methodologies (including the Gender Action
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Attitudes of different religions towards breast milk bank: Analysis of 17 countries with data mining Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Metin Yıldız, Roseline Florence Gomes, Ezomo Ojeiru Felix, Olugbenga Ademiju, Muhammad Tayyeb, Tajudeen Oluwafemi Noibi, Abraham Tanimowo, Ram Bahadur Khadka, Andrianirina Rhino, Rabia Yildiz, Siti Khuzaiyah, Mehmet Salih Yildirim, Ebru Solmaz, Çiğdem Müge Haylı, Aylin ŞENGAN, Berkay AKTURK, Monir Hossen, Nada Hweissa, Kumaran Gengatharan, Vicky Kumar, Sara Muçaj
Breast milk is considered the best source of nutrition for infants. The establishment of breast milk banks for infants who cannot consume breast milk has always been a subject of debate from the past to the present. Religious orientations and cultures have shaped positive or negative attitudes towards these debates. This study aimed to determine and compare the attitudes towards breast milk banks in
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Reductionist attitudes towards theatre and women as tools of modernity in the Ottoman Empire’s Tanzimat period Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Refika Altıkulaç Demirdağ
The study is explored from two perspectives to show that women's relationship with the theatre was an important element and tool in the modernisation process that took place in the Ottoman Empire, starting with the Tanzimat reforms initiated by the Gülhane Rescript of 1839. The first is women's restricted freedom of going to the theatre, and the other is how women were portrayed in plays. Although
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Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Karen Cuthbert
Amidst a proliferation of popular and academic interest in the celibacy and abstinence practices of men, women's sexual abstinence has not received the same attention. This paper is one of the only papers to empirically address women's sexual abstinence, and the first in almost thirty years. I provide a context of how, in early feminist thought, women's sexual abstinence had been theorised - and practiced
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Infant feeding as a transgressive practice in the context of HIV in the UK: A qualitative interview study Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Tanvi Rai, Bakita Kasadha, Shema Tariq, Sabrina Keating, Lisa Hinton, Angelina Namiba, Catherine Pope
HIV transmission risk via breastfeeding is greatly reduced by antiretroviral therapy but is not zero. Current UK guidelines recommend exclusive formula feeding; however, women can breastfeed if they meet certain criteria. We examine the narrative accounts of mothers with HIV (pregnant or recently given birth) who navigated divergent cultural and national policy norms regarding infant feeding. Mothers
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Talking about sexual desire: Social work practice with marginalized young women Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Adva Berkovitch Romano, Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Michal Krumer-Nevo
Feminist scholarship on young women's desire, sexual subjectivity, and agency, presents a challenge to social workers working with marginalized young women. These young women—positioned, and often governed by the intersectional impact of gender, social, and material inequality—often experience encounters of serious sexual abuse. Previous research indicates that in these situations, social workers tend
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Women's political power: Global progress, persistent challenges Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Zuzana Fellegi, Lenka Hrbková, Joshua Dubrow
This special issue provides a broad examination of the barriers to women's political representation across a spectrum of nations, highlighting the uneven progress despite a global rise. It critically evaluates the limitations of formal legal reforms, such as quotas, and probes into the persistent challenges women face in their pursuit of political power, including gender stereotypes, role conflicts
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The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Casey Michelle Haining, Hilary Bowman-Smart, Anne O'Rourke, Lachlan de Crespigny, Louise Anne Keogh, Julian Savulescu
Despite abortion being decriminalised in Victoria, Australia, access remains difficult, especially at later gestations. Institutions (i.e. health services) place restrictions on the availability of late abortions and/or require additional requirements to be satisfied (e.g. Hospital Termination Review Committee approval), as a consequence of local regulation (i.e. policies and processes determined at
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‘I felt I had no-one to depend on but myself’: Examining how women with insecure migration status respond to domestic and family violence in Australia Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Stefani Vasil
Feminist research that takes an intersectional approach has highlighted how a woman's migration status can influence their ability to disclose domestic and family violence (DFV) and access formal support in the countries where they live, work and study. In recent years, research in Western multicultural societies such as Australia has shed light on the ways that restrictive state policies work against
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Immunisations and imagining imperilled fertility: Women's trials of COVID-19 vaccines and reproductive/citizenship transgressions in pandemic times Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Kaveri Qureshi, Anna Dowrick, Tanvi Rai
Drawing from a narrative interview study with people who had, and recovered from COVID-19, this paper examines participants' concerns regarding imperilled fertility, which featured in many narratives about immunity to COVID-19 and decisions over COVID-19 vaccines, especially women participants. Approaching these vaccine anxieties from an intersectional perspective, we explore narratives of imagined
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The call-up from women to healthcare professionals: The experiences and expectations during self-injection in fertility treatment Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Sevcan Özöztürk, Merlinda Aluş Tokat, Neşe Bağardı
This study aimed to assess the patient experiences and expectations related to self-injection during in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, and determine the recommendations of women for improving the quality of self-injection process. The data were obtained from 18 women who were in fertility treatment process at an IVF clinic between March 2020–March 2022 through in-depth and semi-structured interviews
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Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Mehmet Zanbak, Sezer Soycan
The main purpose of this study is to identify the factors that affect the probability of being poor by a measurement method that includes the social dimensions of “women” in Antalya, the southern city of Türkiye. For this purpose, a field study was conducted among 400 working women in Antalya and the data set obtained from this study formed the basis of the analysis. In the study, the ordinal logit
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Beyond intensive motherhood: Performing online cross-border motherhood on social media Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Inbal Izhak, Matan Aharoni
Mamatzhik (Funny Mom) was founded as a closed Israeli maternal community on Facebook, available only to women for dealing with conservative patriarchal social demands. It became the largest online community in Israel, whose main preoccupation is young motherhood. A thematic analysis of in-depth interviews and posts posted on their Facebook page was conducted. Seeking to understand and explain the content
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Marriage murders and anti-caste feminist politics in India Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Sreerekha Sathi
This paper investigates the complex nexus between inter-caste marriages and escalating caste politics in India. While much literature justifiably focuses on rising Islamophobia in the country, this paper considers the ‘love jihad’ phenomenon and extreme forms of violence against individuals in inter-caste or inter-religious marriages, particularly since 2014. The politics and practice of inter-caste
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Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 P.E. Digeser
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the common law of England solidified a masculine ideal of feminine resistance that required women to resist if they were to be recognized as victims of rape. This essay seeks to understand this conception of resistance that is racialized, largely violent, normative, and patriarchal. It also attempts to explain why this conception of resistance would be adopted as
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Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Anat Herbst-Debby, Noa Achouche
This study adopts a cultural gendered perspective to examine policy in two financially risky periods in women's life course: when raising young children and in post-employment in old age, when income is mainly from pensions. Specifically, we look at the intersection of social policy and cultural schemas of motherhood in relation to two policy axes: family policy and old age policy. The analysis is
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‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders Women's Studies International Forum (IF 1.736) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Denise Cuthbert, Robyn Barnacle, Leul Tadesse Sidelil, Nicola Henry, Kay Latham, Ceridwen Spark
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) leaders are expected to drive change towards gender equality. Little is known, however, about their capacity to do so. Drawing on 20 in-depth interviews with STEMM leaders, this article investigates how they resist gender equality efforts through disavowal within STEMM workplaces. By adopting a discourse analysis-based approach, we