The Jamu System In Indonesia: Linking Small-Scale Enterprises, Traditional Knowledge And Social Empowerment Among Women In Indonesia,
2012
Bridgewater State University
The Jamu System In Indonesia: Linking Small-Scale Enterprises, Traditional Knowledge And Social Empowerment Among Women In Indonesia, Maria Costanza Torri
Journal of International Women's Studies
Medicinal plants have been used extensively in numerous countries, Indonesia included, in the domain of traditional medicine and of natural product industry. Few studies have focused on the commercial aspects of medicinal plants in local communities and on its potential impact on gender development in urban and peri-urban areas. This article aims to analyze the impact of women enterprises active in the traditional herbal sector (jamu) in Indonesia in terms of household revenues and social status. The paper emphasizes how, despite the important socio-economic results of small-scale enterprises in the jamu sector in the city of Jogjakarta, some challenges of …
Book Review: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories And Gendered Memory,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories And Gendered Memory, Desire Chilwane
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Palestinian Women: Narrative histories and gendered memory by Fatma Kassem
Book Review: Girls Of The Factory: A Year With The Garment Workers Of Morocco,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Girls Of The Factory: A Year With The Garment Workers Of Morocco, Catherine Ogunmefun
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco by Cairoli Laetitia
Dazai's Women: Dazai Osamu And His Female Narrators,
2012
Portland State University
Dazai's Women: Dazai Osamu And His Female Narrators, Jamie Walden Cox
Dissertations and Theses
Dazai Osamu (born Tsushima Shûji) was a post-WWII writer who wrote a number of works using a female narrator. This thesis research focused on the reasons as to why Dazai may have written using female narratives, taking into consideration the time period and social milieu in which he was writing, as well as his own personal history with women. In addition, the history of male authors utilizing female narratives was explored, as well as the ideas of gender in the Japanese arts. Dazai works were also compared with Tankizaki Junichirô's to see how the roles of women in their works …
The Invisible Challenge To Hiv/Aids Prevention: Clandestine Prostitution In Senegal,
2012
Bridgewater State University
The Invisible Challenge To Hiv/Aids Prevention: Clandestine Prostitution In Senegal, Gisele Maynard Tucker
Journal of International Women's Studies
Clandestine prostitution has become a way of survival as many women struggle economically without family or governmental aid. Clandestine or survival sex is practiced when women are facing an economic dilemma. These women are non-literate and have no job skills. Further, they do not see themselves as sex workers because they only “go out” (colloquial for prostituting) occasionally. In light of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is important to reach these women as they are exposed to HIV infection and violence. Based on literary research, observations, focus groups and interviews with the personnel working with registered and clandestine sex workers in …
Women And Post-Conflict Society In Sierra Leone,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Women And Post-Conflict Society In Sierra Leone, Hazel M. Mcferson
Journal of International Women's Studies
Gender inequality in Sierra Leone, after colonialism among the worst in Sub-Saharan Africa, has been heightened further by the civil war of 1992-2002—which was related in part to the struggle for control of “blood diamonds” but also to long-standing social and regional disparities, and to collapse of formal institutions and widespread corruption. Sierra Leonean women are today among the most marginalized in the world, socially, economically and politically. However, there are differences among three groups: the better educated, comparatively richer “Krios” (descendants of the original freed slaves); relatively enlightened tribes; and the more traditional patriarchal tribes. The main route to …
Women, Occupation, Collective Loss And Support: The Experience Of “From A Bereaved Woman To Another”,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Women, Occupation, Collective Loss And Support: The Experience Of “From A Bereaved Woman To Another”, Sohail Hassanein
Journal of International Women's Studies
This study derives its force from experiences of Palestinian women, occupation and loss project that aims at describing and understanding the role of holistic intervention based on the mutual support approach “from a bereaved woman to another.” The qualitative method has been utilized, with a view to reaching an integrated description, analysis and explanation of the experience that has been documented in details, through using special documentation forms. The results reveal that changes have taken place to bereaved women and supportive bereaved ones, as a result of participation in support and through training meetings. The findings demonstrate that women have …
Fear Of Crime And Victimization: Retracing Women’S Risk Perceptions In Private Spaces In The Urban City Of Kolkata,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Fear Of Crime And Victimization: Retracing Women’S Risk Perceptions In Private Spaces In The Urban City Of Kolkata, Piyali Sur
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article uses qualitative methodology to explore women’s fear of crime in intimate relations, an area until now uncharted. The rich scholarship on fear of crime has exclusively dealt with fear of crime on the streets, ignoring the threat of crime within private spaces. The study conducted in Kolkata, capital of West Bengal, India, demonstrates that for women there is a sexualization of risk whereby women participants express their overwhelming fear of sexual harm in public spaces and deny any kind of fear of crime in private spaces. The article argues that women recast the meanings of danger and risk …
Identity, Hospital, And Cancer: The Story Of Lucy Grealy,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Identity, Hospital, And Cancer: The Story Of Lucy Grealy, Florina Catalina Florescu
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Women Of The Conquest Dynasties: Gender And Identity In Liao And Jin China,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Women Of The Conquest Dynasties: Gender And Identity In Liao And Jin China, Elmé Vivier
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China by Linda Cooke Johnson.
Present But Absent: Women In Business Leadership In South Africa,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Present But Absent: Women In Business Leadership In South Africa, Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke-Uzodike
Journal of International Women's Studies
Women constitute forty six (46) percent of the economically active population in South Africa. Although both South African, African men and women are well represented in the economically active population, questions arise when it comes to their presence and effective representation at higher decision-making levels. Indeed, while African men and White women are present, White men dominate in top management. Through a gender analysis of current data on the labour force, this paper examines women’s representation in top decision-making for all employers (government and business) in South Africa. In discussing the trends, the paper highlights gender disparities in the advancement …
Book Review: Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, Annarina Koivu
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, compiled and edited by Carol Smallwood and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Book Review: Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science: Power In Knowledge,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science: Power In Knowledge, Susanne Pohlmann
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, edited by Heidi E. Grasswick
Book Review: Microfinance And Its Discontents: Women In Debt In Bangladesh,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Microfinance And Its Discontents: Women In Debt In Bangladesh, Adlai S. Davids
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Microfinance and its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim
Book Review: Women Writing On Family: Tips On Writing, Teaching And Publishing,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Women Writing On Family: Tips On Writing, Teaching And Publishing, Vera Gubnikskaia
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing, Carol Smallwood and Suzann Holland, editors.
Book Review: Migration, Domestic Work And Affect: A Decolonial Approach On Value And The Feminization Of Labor,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Migration, Domestic Work And Affect: A Decolonial Approach On Value And The Feminization Of Labor, Ronnie Mmotlane
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: a Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor, edited by Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez
Tension In Intersectional Agency: A Theoretical Discussion Of The Interior Conflict Of White, Feminist Activists’ Intersectional Location,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Tension In Intersectional Agency: A Theoretical Discussion Of The Interior Conflict Of White, Feminist Activists’ Intersectional Location, Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg
Journal of International Women's Studies
In this article I question the wholeness of the agency of white, feminist activists. Drawing on intersectional theory, I problematise the multiplicative character of their location in order to be able to understand how intersectional agency operates. This location reveals three layers of intersectionality; the junction of axes of social signification (gender and race); the junction of manifestations on these axes (female and white); and the junction of, subsequent, positions in power relations (disadvantaged and advantaged). I argue that this is specifically important and complex when we explore how whiteness can operate intersectionally. This results in three observations. First, this …
Intersectionality Queer Studies And Hybridity: Methodological Frameworks For Social Research,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Intersectionality Queer Studies And Hybridity: Methodological Frameworks For Social Research, Aristea Fotopoulou
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining their common methodological tasks and by tracing some similar difficulties of translating theory into research methods. Intersectionality is the systematic study of the ways in which differences such as race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and other sociopolitical and cultural identities interrelate. Queer theory, when applied as a distinct methodological approach to the study of gender and sexuality, has sought to denaturalise categories of analysis and make normativity visible. By examining existing research projects framed as ‘queer’ alongside ones that use intersectionality, I consider the …
Healthy Choices And Heavy Burdens: Race, Citizenship And Gender In The ‘Obesity Epidemic’,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Healthy Choices And Heavy Burdens: Race, Citizenship And Gender In The ‘Obesity Epidemic’, Jeanne Firth
Journal of International Women's Studies
The ‘obesity epidemic’ is widely accepted as a major public health threat in the United States. This paper provides a critical examination of the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity’s action plan that is foundational to First Lady Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move!’ campaign. The report reveals ideological anxieties about race, American citizenship, changing gender roles and women’s bodies. The framing of obesity as a personal problem and individual failing reflects the merger of American individualism and neoliberalism. Self-regulation and responsibility (and the mother’s responsibility for her children) are key in prescriptions to manage obesity, reflecting biopolitical techniques of governance …
Punching Like A Girl: Embodied Violence And Resistance In The Context Of Women’S Self-Defense,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Punching Like A Girl: Embodied Violence And Resistance In The Context Of Women’S Self-Defense, Emilia Aaltonen
Journal of International Women's Studies
This essay explores the way discourses of gender and aggression can be combined in the female body. Traditionally, the female body has been seen as that of a victim and the man’s body as that of an aggressor. Although the behaviours are absorbed through learning and repetitive action, these essentialist discourses of the gendered body have become naturalized. I suggest that gendered behaviours are not fixed and, just as they are learned in the first place, they can also be unlearned and replaced by new ones. Using the example of women’s self-defense, the essay investigates how women can train their …
