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 …
A Grounded Theory Investigation Into The Experiences Of African Women Refugees: Effects On Resilience And Identity And Implications For Service Provision,
2012
Bridgewater State University
A Grounded Theory Investigation Into The Experiences Of African Women Refugees: Effects On Resilience And Identity And Implications For Service Provision, Katie Sherwood, Helen Liebling-Kalifani
Journal of International Women's Studies
The current study aims to explore African women’s experiences of violence during conflict. The research was undertaken in 2009 in part fulfillment for a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology. Previous research on women refugees’ experiences has focused on the negative impact on psychological functioning despite indications that they show great strength and resilience. Using qualitative methods the study sought to identify the impact of violence on mental health as well as develop a greater understanding of the roles of resilience, coping and identity. Women from Somalia and Zimbabwe who attended a refugee centre in the UK were interviewed; analysis of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: 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: 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.
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
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: 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: 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 …
Winning And Short-Listed Entries From The 2010 Feminist And Women’S Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Winning And Short-Listed Entries From The 2010 Feminist And Women’S Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition, Nadine Muller, Srila Roy
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
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 …
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 …
Gendered Performance Performing Gender In The Diy Punk And Hardcore Music Scene,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Gendered Performance Performing Gender In The Diy Punk And Hardcore Music Scene, Naomi Griffin
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article considers the relevance of geographical theories about gender roles and how gender is performed, to the situated context of a local DIY (‘Do It Yourself) punk scene. It draws on an auto-ethnographic study carried out by the author between September 2008 and May 2009, which explored the themes of the body, gendered performativity and gendered spatialities. The study was based on the author’s observations, reflections and conversations with other participants at live music events (‘shows’) in a particular region of the UK, but also revealed how DIY punk offers an example of an imagined community, crossing temporal, spatial …
The Influence Of Cognitive-Perceptual Variables On Patterns Of Change Over Time In Rural Midlife And Older Women's Healthy Eating,
2012
University of Nebraska Medical Center
The Influence Of Cognitive-Perceptual Variables On Patterns Of Change Over Time In Rural Midlife And Older Women's Healthy Eating, Bernice C. Yates, Carol H. Pullen, Jonathan Bruce Santo, Linda Boeckner, Patricia A. Hageman, Paul J. Dizona, Susan Noble Walker
Psychology Faculty Publications
Although studies demonstrate that dietary interventions for healthy adults can result in beneficial dietary changes, few studies examine when and how people change in response to these interventions, particularly in rural populations. The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of change over time in healthy eating behaviors in midlife and older women in response to a one-year health-promoting intervention, and to examine what predictors (perceived benefits, barriers, self-efficacy, and family support for healthy eating) influence the changes during the intervention and follow-up. Data for this secondary analysis were from the Wellness for Women community-based trial. Women (N ¼ …
When The Mainstream Met The Second Wave: Media Representations Of Women & Feminism In 1970s America,
2012
Connecticut College
When The Mainstream Met The Second Wave: Media Representations Of Women & Feminism In 1970s America, Annie Anderson
American Studies Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
