Understanding The Transgender Patient,
2019
LA County and USC
Understanding The Transgender Patient, Hudson Tibbetts, Msn, Rn
St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA. Evidence Based Practice Conference
No abstract provided.
Transgender Health Care Needs: Can We Improve The Care Of Our Lgbtqia Patient Population?,
2019
Providence St. Joseph Health
Transgender Health Care Needs: Can We Improve The Care Of Our Lgbtqia Patient Population?, Christine Marshall, Rn, Msn, Cen, Cn Iv
St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA. Evidence Based Practice Conference
No abstract provided.
Barren Lands And Barren Bodies In Navajo Nation: Indian Women Warn About Uranium, Genetics, And Sterilization,
2019
Santa Clara University
Barren Lands And Barren Bodies In Navajo Nation: Indian Women Warn About Uranium, Genetics, And Sterilization, Marie Bolton, Nancy C. Unger
History
Founded by Native American women in 1974, "Women of All Red Nations (WARN) insisted that the ongoing Indian public health crisis could not be properly understood exclusively within the context of the exploitation and pollution of the physical environment. It required as well an understanding of the larger context of Indian health issues evolving out of past and present cultural and political changes. This article focuses on selected health, threats affecting the Dine, or "the People," as Navajo Indians call themselves, living in Dine Bikeyah (Navajo Nation) during the mid to late 20th century. Navajo history is marked by …
Tracing Trans Bodies In Neobaroque Literature,
2019
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Tracing Trans Bodies In Neobaroque Literature, Huber David Jaramillo Gil
Publications and Research
This document briefly explores the ways in which trans people have been written through Baroque aesthetics in the social and cultural imaginary of Latin America, despite the various unjust forces that have attempted to make them invisible and exclude them from the national narrative. The differences between Severo Sarduy’s Neobaroque, Néstor Perlongher’s Neobarroso, and Pedro Lemebel’s Neobarrocho are analyzed, while exploring their individual limitations and potentialities for voicing the joys and pains of being trans in an exclusionary society.
An Insight To Women In Construction For Fostering Female Careers In Sri Lankan Construction Industry,
2019
Bridgewater State University
An Insight To Women In Construction For Fostering Female Careers In Sri Lankan Construction Industry, Srivishagan Vijayaragunathan, Thalpage Rasanthi
Journal of International Women's Studies
The construction industry is one of the largest sectors in Sri Lanka. Since, there is rapid growth of new technologies in today’s global market, there is a need to foster human skills and knowledge related to employment in the sector. However, the Sri Lankan construction industry is facing technical and managerial skill shortages as well as worker capacity issues. Further, the industry is facing industrial issues such as delivering timely project completion, within budget and for desired quality. ‘Women in construction’ has been a topic of concern by many nations, for many years. Given the rapid growth and demand in …
Lifestyle Change Of Female Farmers Through Cpec’S Coal Power Plant Project Initiative,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Lifestyle Change Of Female Farmers Through Cpec’S Coal Power Plant Project Initiative, Komal Niazi, Guoqiang He, Shakir Ullah
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper focuses on the impact to women engaged in agriculture specific to the construction of Sahiwal Coal Power Plant project in Qadirabad, Punjab, Pakistan. The power plant was developed in relation to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative. This plant was built on private [agricultural] lands. This study, relies on data collected via a field survey, judgmental sampling, and case study methods. Observations and data collected surface the changing occupational roles of women, who prior to the development of the coal plant had been employed primarily as agricultural workers. A noted adjustment of female labor to domestic service and …
Roll Up Your Sleeves: Why Is It Important To Highlight Gender In Agriculture?,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Roll Up Your Sleeves: Why Is It Important To Highlight Gender In Agriculture?, Mariela Mamaril, Jinky Leilanie Lu
Journal of International Women's Studies
Gender and poverty combine to put a burden on the status of women farm workers. On top of that, women’s contribution in agriculture, albeit important to the overall agricultural chain, is commonly overlooked. This study looked into the time-use of women in agriculture, relative to men in the largest rice producing community in the Philippines. The methodology included key informant interviews of nine women, a survey questionnaire to a total of 159 individuals form the farming household, and a time-motion study of women’s work in raising livestock during a whole day. The data revealed that women are involved in all …
Pluralizing Discourses: Multinationals And Gender Equality,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Pluralizing Discourses: Multinationals And Gender Equality, Marianna Leite
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article investigates the impact of multinational corporations with respect to the concept of gender equality. According to legal pluralism theory, in every society, two or more legal systems not belonging to a single ‘system’ coexist. It is, however, unknown to what extent non-state actors contribute to the ‘bending and breaking’ of rules in legal systems that are inherently pluralistic in the juristic sense. Although, the use of the language of rights has grown rapidly amongst development policy and practice, the rhetoric of formal rights as advocated by international development bodies has not always improved the everyday reality. This is …
Focus On Domestic Violence In Bangladesh: A Study From Criminological Perspectives,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Focus On Domestic Violence In Bangladesh: A Study From Criminological Perspectives, Khandaker Farzana Rahman
Journal of International Women's Studies
Bangladesh is a patriarchal society where powerlessness and vulnerability are associated with women’s lives, as they are often found in positions where they are dominated and subjugated by men. Women are often controlled by their father, husband and son at different phases of their lives, and due to this reason a woman commonly has risk of experiencing domestic violence within her family. Though Bangladesh is experiencing a relatively high level of gender equality for South Asia, it is still not very surprising that a husband is more likely to assault and/or batter his educated/financially solvent wife if she fails to …
Early Marriage In Nepal: Prospects For Schoolgirls,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Early Marriage In Nepal: Prospects For Schoolgirls, Nub Raj Bhandari
Journal of International Women's Studies
Nepal has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world; the prevalence is even higher in Terai region. There has been an observable correlation between marriage and education leading to the general assumption that girls attending school are less likely to be married at an early age compared with counterparts that have either dropped out of school or have not been in school. This paper assesses the causality between school attendance and likelihood of marriage. The study relies on a qualitative assessment conducted at 5 schools in Dhanusha, a district in Province 2 of Nepal. Participants in the …
The Taboo Of Sex Within Gender Based Violence Prevention: Localising The Gender And Development Paradigm In Cambodia,
2019
Bridgewater State University
The Taboo Of Sex Within Gender Based Violence Prevention: Localising The Gender And Development Paradigm In Cambodia, Elena Robertson
Journal of International Women's Studies
The Gender and Development (GAD) paradigm emerged out of decades of concerted effort by theorists, practitioners and feminists. GAD has attempted to bring women as individuals into the development institution and while this has no doubt contributed to considerable advances in women’s access to education, health care and employment, it has yet to greatly affect gender-based violence (GBV). GBV continues to plague development despite GAD’s best efforts. Recent research suggests that this may be linked to the paradigm’s inability to address female sexuality in and of itself. Female sex and sexuality continue to be taboo at global and local levels …
Deconstructing Theory-Practice: Re-Thinking Methodology,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Deconstructing Theory-Practice: Re-Thinking Methodology, Swarnima Kriti
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper is based on an ‘action research’ work (in Mardapoti, a largely Gond Adivasi village in Chhattisgarh, India) on the ‘gender-labor continuum in household spaces’, where I, along with a group of young women and men (who are within the age group of sixteen to twenty-two) re-thought research as ‘co-research with community’ (and not on community) and methodology (as actioning research and researching action) in the context of transforming the extant structure of the sexual division of labor in the village and the household. Together, we worked towards a deconstructive relation with the problem of the scarcity of water …
Widows And Concubines: Tradition And Deviance In The Women Of Raja Rao’S Kanthapura,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Widows And Concubines: Tradition And Deviance In The Women Of Raja Rao’S Kanthapura, M. E. P. Ranmuthugala
Journal of International Women's Studies
Raja Rao’s 1938 novel Kanthapura depicts the impact of Gandhian thought on women and men, and this research focuses on the novel’s fashioning of female identities in terms of nationalism as espoused by Mahatma Gandhi. This analytical research paper hypothesises that although women constitute a considerable part of the narrative and have political agency, their identity is moulded by men to serve men’s nationalist interests: The paper contends that women must undergo transformation and refashioning of their identities for nationalism. The novel provides a strong argument for Mahatma Gandhi’s political ethic of empowering people and engages with diverse issues such …
Sacks Of Mutilated Breasts: Violence And Body Politics In South Asian Partition Literature,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Sacks Of Mutilated Breasts: Violence And Body Politics In South Asian Partition Literature, Antonia Navarro-Tejero
Journal of International Women's Studies
The partition narratives of South Asian authors are testimony to the fact that women of all ethnic and religious backgrounds were the greatest victims of the newly created border between India and Pakistan in 1947. Women’s bodies were abducted, stripped naked, raped, mutilated (their breasts cut off), carved with religious symbols and murdered to be sent in train wagons to the “other” side of the border. Taking Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice Candy Man/Cracking India (1988) as a narrative example of the importance of women’s point of view and as central figures of the violent conflict, we will examine the symbol …
Violence As A Site Of Women’S Agency In War: The Representation Of Female Militants In Sri Lanka’S Post-War Literature,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Violence As A Site Of Women’S Agency In War: The Representation Of Female Militants In Sri Lanka’S Post-War Literature, T. N. K. Meegaswatta
Journal of International Women's Studies
The increasing visibility of armed women in violent conflicts in the modern world has unsettled conventional beliefs of inferiority, weakness, innocence, and the resultant fragility and victimhood of women. Although in theory it is possible to conceptualize armed woman and violence as empowerment, in practice, the temporal realities that inevitably haunt any discussion of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorists’ in conflict ridden polarized societies severely curtail the terminology available to frame militancy in general and the ‘terror’ it generates as ‘liberatory’. However, fictional and non-fictional literary work that were published in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s war (1983-2009) between the state forces …
Monster To Monster: Masculinity As An Invisible Major Theme In Hunter’S Run,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Monster To Monster: Masculinity As An Invisible Major Theme In Hunter’S Run, Petra Fišerová
Journal of International Women's Studies
Taken for granted, normalized as a non-category, and thus invisible, masculinity is a topic that largely escaped public and much academic attention until the birth of men and masculinity studies. It is my belief that this discipline will play an important part in the future of gender studies, which is why my paper doubles as an appeal for more scholars to join me and learn more about this lesser known side of gender theory. In my analysis of Hunter’s Run (2007), an American sci-fi novel for mature audiences authored by George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham, I …
Representations Of Women’S Role In Pakistan: A Critical Analysis Through Drama Serials,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Representations Of Women’S Role In Pakistan: A Critical Analysis Through Drama Serials, Anam Fatima
Journal of International Women's Studies
The concept of honour and the resulting discourses have always affected women’s lives in Pakistan. This paper will utilize Butler’s theory of performativity and insights from feminist film theory and women’s history in Pakistan to critique and evaluate women’s representation in Pakistani popular cultural texts, and thus engage with the politics of gender in Pakistan. The methodological tools of content analysis and discourse analysis will be used to investigate the central research question that is: to what extent does the representation of women’s roles in contemporary Pakistani drama serials include traditionalist discourses of honour?’ It will thus examine that ‘how’ …
Introduction: Selected Papers From The 4th, World Conference On Women’S Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2018,
2019
Bridgewater State University
Introduction: Selected Papers From The 4th, World Conference On Women’S Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2018, Madhavi Venkatesan
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Robinson, Betty,
2019
University of Southern Maine
Robinson, Betty, Johnna Ossie
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Betty Robinson was raised in Maryland and attended Colby College, the University of Maryland, and Boston University for her Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degree, respectively. She worked for many years in workers rights, for the Massachusetts Nurses Association and for the Maine State Employees Union. She worked briefly for the Massachusetts Battered Women Coalition before laying herself off from the position because the program's federal funding was cut. During this time she became involved in the Boston women's movement. After being involved in union work for many years, she decided she needed a change and applied for a teaching position …
Reckitt, Lois Galgay,
2019
University of Southern Maine
Reckitt, Lois Galgay, Johnna Ossie
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Lois Galgay Reckitt was born and raised in Massachusetts. She attended Brandeis University and then Boston University for her graduate degree. After college, she married a man who was in the Coast Guard. They moved to South Portland to the house she still lives in today. She came out at age 33 when she was deeply entrenched in the growing women's movement. She had a rocky divorce with her self-proclaimed feminist husband who blackmailed her when he found out she was a lesbian. In 1971 she became the treasurer for the first National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter in Maine. …
