Research Brief: "Out From The Shadows: Female Student Veterans And Help-Seeking",
2016
Syracuse University
Research Brief: "Out From The Shadows: Female Student Veterans And Help-Seeking", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
This study explored what happened when female veterans brought three military-cultural contexts (responsibility, worth, and pride) into their transition to civilian life and help-seeking attitudes in college. In practice, student veterans exhibiting components of military culture should use these military cultural components to their benefit, and student veterans struggling to adjust to the type of thinking often required of college students should feel comfortable seeking support at their university student veteran center. In policy, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) might continue offering their campus toolkit, which has been found to be a great resource for many IHEs, offering them …
Film Review: Maestra,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Film Review: Maestra, Lobna Ismail
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Maestra (2011), documentary, directed by Catherine Murphy.
Book Review: Gut Feminism,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Gut Feminism, Carolyn Laubender
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Gut Feminism by Elizabeth A. Wilson. Duke University Press, 2015.
Book Review: Provocations: A Transnational Reader In The History Of Feminist Thought,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Provocations: A Transnational Reader In The History Of Feminist Thought, Maia L. Butler
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought, edited by Susan Bordo, M. Cristina Alcalde, and Ellen Rosenman. University of California Press. 2015.
Book Review: Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands, Lara Watkins
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands by Debra Majeed, University Press of Florida. 2015.
Book Review: India's Working Women And Career Discourses: Society, Socialization And Agency,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: India's Working Women And Career Discourses: Society, Socialization And Agency, Jayne Howell
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of India’s Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization and Agency by Suchitra Shenoy-Packer. Lexington Books. 2014.
Book Review: Domestic Violence And The Islamic Tradition,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Domestic Violence And The Islamic Tradition, Esraa Osama
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition by Ayesha S. Chaudhry. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Book Review: Cora Dubois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Cora Dubois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, Robert A. Mcmanus
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Cora DuBois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) by Susan C. Seymour. University of Nebraska Press. 2015.
Book Review: Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, And Rebellion Before The Sixties,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, And Rebellion Before The Sixties, Lauren Rackley
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties by Amanda H. Littauer. University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
The Term, Chick Lit,
2016
Bridgewater State University
The Term, Chick Lit, Carol Smallwood
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Discovering My Own Black Feminism: Embarking On A Journey To Explore Kenyan Women's Oppression,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Discovering My Own Black Feminism: Embarking On A Journey To Explore Kenyan Women's Oppression, Glory Joy Gatwiri, Helen Jaqueline Mclaren
Journal of International Women's Studies
All Black women have experienced living in a society that devalues women of African descent. Control of Black women ideologically, economically and in political life functions perfectly to form a highly discriminative but effective system that is designed to keep Black women in a submissive and subordinate place. As a PhD student, in a reflective journey with my research supervisor, I engage in a struggle to define my own Black feminist perspective in preparation for exploring the oppression, disadvantage and discrimination experienced by Kenyan women who are living with vaginal fistula. I maintain that women’s gender oppression is not incidental …
Multilevel Analysis Of State Variations In Women's Participation In Household Decision-Making In Nigeria,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Multilevel Analysis Of State Variations In Women's Participation In Household Decision-Making In Nigeria, Esther O. Lamidi
Journal of International Women's Studies
Although the past two decades featured burgeoning research on issues affecting women’s lives in Nigeria, the existing studies of women’s status and decision-making autonomy in the country leave important gap in their representations of the high level of sociocultural heterogeneity in the country. Using a nationally representative survey data, the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS, n = 26,306), this study examines variations in women’s decision-making autonomy across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria. A series of multilevel linear regression models revealed that Nigerian women’s levels of participation in household decision-making varied significantly across states …
The Changing Patterns And Lived Experiences Of Women Pursuing Higher Education Post-Marriage In India,
2016
Bridgewater State University
The Changing Patterns And Lived Experiences Of Women Pursuing Higher Education Post-Marriage In India, Satarupa Dutta
Journal of International Women's Studies
This study explores from a phenomenological stand point, the lived experiences of thirty Indian women and struggle to pursue higher education post marriage. It encompasses the life-worlds of two distinct generations—women who had achieved higher education post-marriage, at least 20 years ago (pre-1994); and married women who are currently enrolled with a university. Using the life course perspectives’ concept of time and social ecology, the experiences of these women have been analysed thematically to understand the changing patterns in these women’s perception of a) self which includes identification with oneself, individual behaviour, motivational level, multiple roles management, concept of space …
Taking Action: The Desiring Subjects Of Neoliberal Feminism In India,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Taking Action: The Desiring Subjects Of Neoliberal Feminism In India, Hemangini Gupta
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper reflects on an emergent brand of feminist activism in India that responds to everyday sexual violence against women in public. I focus specifically on the efforts of middle class women who organize through online media to conduct interventions in urban Indian public spaces. I review these recent feminist interventions and locate them within a historical review of the women’s movement in India to suggest that contemporary feminist organizing embodies and reflects India’s turn to neoliberalism in the 1990s. While neoliberal reforms have been analyzed within the terms of political economy, this paper extends existing research to consider how …
Resisting The Male Gaze: Feminist Responses To The "Normatization" Of The Female Body In Western Culture,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Resisting The Male Gaze: Feminist Responses To The "Normatization" Of The Female Body In Western Culture, Diane Ponterotto
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper attempts to present a feminist critique of the social and political promotion in Western culture of a univocal model of female corporeity imposed on women, and consequently detrimental to female subjectivity and agency. Starting from the Foucauldian position concerning social oppression determined by the disciplinary gaze of power structures, the paper discusses perspectives of resistance to the patriarchally-motivated scrutiny of the female body, and to the mass-media induced coercion of conformity to the normatized model for the female body in contemporary society.
Development Paradoxes: Feminist Solidarity, Alternative Imaginaries And New Spaces,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Development Paradoxes: Feminist Solidarity, Alternative Imaginaries And New Spaces, Elora Halim Chowdhury
Journal of International Women's Studies
In his seminal work Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995), post-development scholar Arturo Escobar likens development to a chimera. My work builds on a sophisticated body of post-development and transnational feminist theory drawing on conceptions of the relationship of representations of development in the Third World to the interconnected webs of various transnational patriarchal and economic dominations that affect, and are affected by, the realities of marginalized communities in the Global South. In particular, I am concerned with how development discourses interlock with global systemic hierarchies of race, gender, class as well as structural oppressions, …
The Globalization Of The Rural Swazi Weaver: Lavumisa Women In The Commercial Handicraft Industry, 1981- 2013,
2016
Bridgewater State University
The Globalization Of The Rural Swazi Weaver: Lavumisa Women In The Commercial Handicraft Industry, 1981- 2013, Goodwill Nkosinathi Matsenjwa, Estella Musiiwa
Journal of International Women's Studies
From the Women and Development (WAD) theory perspective, this study explores the development of women’s handicraft industry in Lavumisa, a drought prone area in southeastern Swaziland. Women-dominated handicraft production in Lavumisa occurred within the context of land alienation and male labour migration under colonialism, and later, economic and HIV related problems in post-colonial Swaziland. State controlled marketing of handicraft started in 1962. The prevalence of faith-based non-governmental organizations and the United States Peace Corps during the 1980s witnessed the introduction of women’s group handicraft production as well as the expansion of the handicraft industry. Meanwhile, the economic recession of the …
Grassroots Women And Peer Learning: Home-Based Caregiver Networks And Health Mutual Funds,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Grassroots Women And Peer Learning: Home-Based Caregiver Networks And Health Mutual Funds, Pamela Ransom
Journal of International Women's Studies
Universal access and financial risk protection are identified as health targets in global negotiations for post 2015 development goals although these represent difficult challenges for countries burdened by overstretched budgets and growing populations with increasingly complex health care needs. In many parts of Africa health financing is characterized by weak, under-resourced systems, high out of pocket contributions and lack of donor will. The paper gains insight from small scale, creative financing strategies for health emerging among the very poor through innovations of grassroots women’s networks. We explore the influence of peer learning and information exchange in women’s home-based caregiver networks …
Multi-Architecture In Saudi Arabia: Representing The History Of Women,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Multi-Architecture In Saudi Arabia: Representing The History Of Women, Salwa Nugali
Journal of International Women's Studies
The purpose of this research project is to put into context the role of women in Saudi Arabia through reading of symbols and signs of the physical shape of the first sky scrapers: AlMamlakah (Kingdom) and AlFaisalia. The paper analyses perceptions of modern Saudi Arabian architecture and the significance of our visual perception to gender codification is what this project attempts to analyze. The project uses three interlaced lines of investigation. The first is the relationship of architecture to the culture and the population. The research paper will study the architecture of the two skyscrapers. The second line of investigation …
Trauma, Shame And Performance: Towards A New Topography Of Affects In Black Queer Identities,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Trauma, Shame And Performance: Towards A New Topography Of Affects In Black Queer Identities, Maite Escudero-Alías
Journal of International Women's Studies
Haitian American feminist and lesbian activist MilDred Gerestant has become one of the most acclaimed gender performers who best illustrates the malleability of gender, race and sexuality in the reconstruction of black queer identities. Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, queer theory and affect theory, my contribution analyses MilDred’s gender performances as creative attempts to surpass negative affects often attached to minority identities. By exploring the affect of shame as a productive enactment of transformation and hope, rather than as a source of numbness and suffering, this article aims to offer an alternative epistemological paradigm of feminist feeling …
