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Book Review: Women’S Spiritual Leadership In Africa. Tempered Radicals And Critical Servant Leaders, Priscilla Wamucii
Book Review: Women’S Spiritual Leadership In Africa. Tempered Radicals And Critical Servant Leaders, Priscilla Wamucii
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women’s Spiritual Leadership in Africa. Tempered Radicals and Critical Servant Leaders by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
Occupational Health And Safety Of Women Workers: Viewed In The Light Of Labor Regulations, Jinky Leilanie Lu
Occupational Health And Safety Of Women Workers: Viewed In The Light Of Labor Regulations, Jinky Leilanie Lu
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article is an analytic and discursive review of data and studies about women workers in the manufacturing sector in the Philippines in the light of labor regulations. The analyses focus on the following: occupational health and safety, health and safety programs, provision of facilities at work, and labor issues pertaining to women workers. Policy and advocacy work implications are recommended based on the discursive analysis.
Women In Administration In India, Jayasheela George
Women In Administration In India, Jayasheela George
Journal of International Women's Studies
Administration is the performance of the executive functions of the state and it differs from legislature and judiciary. In the present research study, administration refers to Managerial view of administration and here the study is on women administrators of All India Services - Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS). Though the services were in existence from the Britishers Period, the entry of women into these services was very late and in two of these services, women got in only after few decades of independence. This article is written based on the primary data …
Book Review: Chaste Wives And Prostitute Sisters: Patriarchy And Prostitution Among The Bedias Of India, Harasankar Adhikari
Book Review: Chaste Wives And Prostitute Sisters: Patriarchy And Prostitution Among The Bedias Of India, Harasankar Adhikari
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters: Patriarchy and Prostitution among the Bedias of India, edited by Anuja Agrawal
Antecedent And Sequalae Issues Of Nepalese Women Trafficked Into Prostitution, Chandra Kant Jha, Jeanne Madison
Antecedent And Sequalae Issues Of Nepalese Women Trafficked Into Prostitution, Chandra Kant Jha, Jeanne Madison
Journal of International Women's Studies
Using a qualitative descriptive methodology, this study explored the experiences of Nepalese women trafficked into prostitution in India. The study found that poverty and lack of awareness about being at risk for trafficking are the major precursors for their trafficking experience. Abduction, fake marriages and the seduction of a better job were the major approaches adopted by pimps to traffic the women. The study also showed that after returning from the Indian brothel(s), they were rejected by their family and community. Such rejections occurred as family and community perceived these young women as at high risk for HIV infection. Strategies …
When The Sex Market Rejects, Harasankar Adhikari
When The Sex Market Rejects, Harasankar Adhikari
Journal of International Women's Studies
This study examines brothel-based Female Sex Workers (FSWs) after their retirement/withdrawal from the sex trade. 100 FSWs above 40 years of age from the Bowbazar red light area of Kolkata were selected through random sampling. A census survey methodology and participant observation was employed for the study. The study reveals that FSWs are further stigmatized and marginalized after retirement. Outside society does not allow them to re-enter. Support schemes from the government and non-profit sector do not exist. Family relations provide little to no support. And while the FSW community can be relied upon to provide some support, housing and …
Finland Lies About A Historic Suffrage Achievement. Really? Finland? Yup., Mark W. Powell
Finland Lies About A Historic Suffrage Achievement. Really? Finland? Yup., Mark W. Powell
Journal of International Women's Studies
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A Conversation With Michèle Roberts, About Novels, History And Autobiography, M. Soraya García-Sánchez
A Conversation With Michèle Roberts, About Novels, History And Autobiography, M. Soraya García-Sánchez
Journal of International Women's Studies
Michèle Roberts is a contemporary feminist writer born in England in 1949. Brought up with two languages and cultures, she was educated at a religious school and she later lived in a convent for a long time. The conversation presented below took place in London in August 2010. The purpose of this interview was to talk with Michèle Roberts about her writing and the link between her novels and her memoir. The contemporary and feminist writer talked about Virginia Woolf, Marion Milner, about personal and public spheres, about exploring when writing and about being an artist, among other topics. The …
Book Review: Challenging Identities: Muslim Women In Australia, Peliwe P. Mnguni
Book Review: Challenging Identities: Muslim Women In Australia, Peliwe P. Mnguni
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Challenging Identities: Muslim Women in Australia, edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh.
Book Review: In The Public Eye, Susan Iverson
Book Review: In The Public Eye, Susan Iverson
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of In the Public Eye by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Book Review: African Women & Icts: Investigating Technology, Gender And Empowerment, Karen Keifer-Boyd
Book Review: African Women & Icts: Investigating Technology, Gender And Empowerment, Karen Keifer-Boyd
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of African Women & ICTs: Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment, edited by Ineke Buskins & Anne Webb
Writing As Resistance: Assia Djebar’S Vaste Est La Prison, Joyce Lazarus
Writing As Resistance: Assia Djebar’S Vaste Est La Prison, Joyce Lazarus
Journal of International Women's Studies
This essay examines contemporary Algerian women’s condition, as it is articulated in Djebar’s autobiographical novel, Vaste est la prison (1995). After giving an overview of modern Algerian history, I offer a reading of Djebar’s novel that takes account of its potential to produce social change. This essay demonstrates that Djebar blurs the boundaries between autobiography, fiction and history in order to fully utilize the subversive potential of writing. Using the perspective of new historicism, I show how Djebar responds to her country’s unilateralism in language and its exclusion of women by her unique rhetorical strategies, in order to restore women’s …
Determinants Of Living Arrangements, Health Status And Abuse Among Elderly Women: A Study Of Rural Naogaon District, Bangladesh, Ahmed Mohammad Munsur, Ismail Tareque, K. M. Mustafizur Rahman
Determinants Of Living Arrangements, Health Status And Abuse Among Elderly Women: A Study Of Rural Naogaon District, Bangladesh, Ahmed Mohammad Munsur, Ismail Tareque, K. M. Mustafizur Rahman
Journal of International Women's Studies
In this study, the socio-economic backdrops, living arrangements, health status and abuse of the women aged 60 years and older in the rural Naogaon district of Bangladesh are examined. The data were collected from seven villages by using probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling and the results show that an overwhelming majority of the elderly women in the age group 60-69 years who are widowed, illiterate, have no education and income, economically dependent, living with married children, unhealthy, suffer from arthritis related illness and are taking treatment from village doctors. Furthermore, the study shows that, nearly 35 percent elderly women …
Book Review: Everybody’S Family Romance: Reading Incest In Neoliberal America, Kristen Lambert
Book Review: Everybody’S Family Romance: Reading Incest In Neoliberal America, Kristen Lambert
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America by Gillian Harkins
From Discovery To Dissidence: Honduran Women’S Conceptions And Claims Of Human Rights, Christine Gervais
From Discovery To Dissidence: Honduran Women’S Conceptions And Claims Of Human Rights, Christine Gervais
Journal of International Women's Studies
In recognition of the profound benefits of women’s engagement with their rights, this article presents an experiential account of how Honduran women comprehend, articulate, experience and advocate human rights and gender equality through non-governmental educational initiatives. Through the triangulated analytic among human security, post-victimization and citizen-based advocacy approaches, the article traces the women’s journeys from their moments of discovery of human rights towards instances of dissidence. In so doing, the women’s demonstrations of empowerment, agency, resistance and solidarity are brought to the fore. By featuring their voices, this study demonstrates how Honduran women are able to shape their own expectations …
Power, Structure, Gender Relations And Community-Based Conservation: The Cawswe Study Of The Sariska Region, Rajasthan, India, Maria Costanza Torri
Power, Structure, Gender Relations And Community-Based Conservation: The Cawswe Study Of The Sariska Region, Rajasthan, India, Maria Costanza Torri
Journal of International Women's Studies
Most current community development projects have a built in gender component. Despite the WID, WED and GAD schools of thought there is still however a long way to go in order to effectively implement these principles in conservation projects. Merely getting women a place on the policy-making agenda is not enough, especially if it comes at the cost of promoting a simplistic and often wildly inaccurate picture of gender-environment relations. This article analyses the repercussions of community-based conservation on women in terms of use, access, and control of natural resources. The area chosen is the Sariska region of Rajasthan, India. …
Gender Analysis Of Women In The Philippine Agriculture And Their Occupational Issues, Jinky Leilanie Lu
Gender Analysis Of Women In The Philippine Agriculture And Their Occupational Issues, Jinky Leilanie Lu
Journal of International Women's Studies
Feminist research shows how gender, in interaction with other socioeconomic differentiation theories on class and ethnicity, influences agrarian transition, health patterns, and economic development. In the highland community where this study was conducted, women play a very important role in the production of vegetables and crops. At the same time, there are hazards facing these women predisposing them to certain occupational health issues. As such, this research study aimed to look into occupational issues of women, as well as certain cultural, political, socio-economic perceptions and attributes that affect women’s occupational issues. 251 women farmers from identified communities using cluster sampling …
She Dresses To Attract, He Perceives Seduction: A Gender Gap In Attribution Of Intent To Women’S Revealing Style Of Dress And Its Relation To Blaming The Victims Of Sexual Violence, Avigail Moor
Journal of International Women's Studies
Victims of sexual violence are often blamed for precipitating their own assault with their so-called “provocative” body-revealing style of dress, which is viewed as conveying consent for sexual advances. To explore some of the grounds for this allegation as well as its accurateness, the present study examines the attributions made by both sexes regarding the motivation for women’s sexualized appearance. The factual connection between revealing clothing and actual occurrences of sexual invasions is examined as well. The results demonstrate a gender-based attribution gap wherein men report perceiving the sexualized look as indicating an interest in sex and intent to seduce, …
Contradiction And The Role Of The ‘Floating Signifier’: Identity And The ‘New Woman’ In Italian Cartoons During Fascism, Efharis Mascha
Contradiction And The Role Of The ‘Floating Signifier’: Identity And The ‘New Woman’ In Italian Cartoons During Fascism, Efharis Mascha
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper addresses the issue of political cartooning during Italian fascism, with specific reference to the role of women, as it is symbolised in the cartoons (i.e.the woman-mother/care-taker/fascist/worker). The latter will be revealed through a careful study of the contradictions generated by fascism and the representation of this ‘New Woman’ in political satire. The caricatures I will examine belong strictly to the Left discourse. They received high circulation figures and characterised Italy’s popular culture during the 1920’s. Whilst fascism did not provide any space for women to join the high ranks of the PNF (Partito Nazionale Fascista), the Left similarly …
Upscaling Community-Arranged Preparedness For Preventing Maternal Mortality In Ghana: A Case Study Of Keta And Akatsi Districts Of Volta Region, Chuks J. Mba, Irene K. Aboh
Upscaling Community-Arranged Preparedness For Preventing Maternal Mortality In Ghana: A Case Study Of Keta And Akatsi Districts Of Volta Region, Chuks J. Mba, Irene K. Aboh
Journal of International Women's Studies
The main objective of the study is to assess maternal health in Ghana using empirical evidence from Akatsi and Keta districts of the Volta Region. Interviews were conducted from a sample size of 6,250 respondents within the reproductive age group of 15-49 years drawn from both districts in 2007. The results show that most of the women had only basic education and were generally petty traders, farmers and fishmongers. Overwhelming majority of the women stated that there was no community-arranged preparedness to aid them in times of emergency obstetric care. A significant proportion of the women (about 30%) relied on …
A Survey Of Osteoporosis Risk Factors And Practices Among Jordanian Women, Lubna Abushaikha, Suha Omran
A Survey Of Osteoporosis Risk Factors And Practices Among Jordanian Women, Lubna Abushaikha, Suha Omran
Journal of International Women's Studies
The aim of this study was to explore osteoporosis (OP) risk factors among Jordanian women. Osteoporosis (OP) is a chronic complex health problem for millions of women worldwide, 80% of whom are postmenopausal women. Unless prevented or treated, this silent disease will continue to limit both the quantity and quality of life of many older women and significantly add to the health care cost for this group. A sample of Jordanian women in different settings in Jordan (N=192; mean age=43years). The study was descriptive and data were collected over a two month period in 2005 with the use of a …
A Feminist Struggle? South African Hiv Activism As Feminist Politics, Katarina Jungar, Elina Oinas
A Feminist Struggle? South African Hiv Activism As Feminist Politics, Katarina Jungar, Elina Oinas
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper is a feminist reading of HIV activism in South Africa, of a social movement that does not describe itself as a women’s movement: it advocates both women’s and men’s, trans, hetero- and homosexual peoples’ rights for adequate health care and antiretroviral medication. Like many others, Chandra Talpade Mohanty suggests that today’s powerful feminism is found in anti-globalization movements that do not necessarily call themselves feminist. These critiques maintain that the theory, critique and activism of grass-root women across the globe, for example around anti-globalization, should also inform academic feminist discussions. This article studies discourses on HIV in Africa …
Book Review: Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women’S Voices, Azza Basarudin
Book Review: Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women’S Voices, Azza Basarudin
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women’s Voices, edited by Wahida Sahffi
Book Review: Servants Of The Dynasty: Palace Women In World History, Julia Landweber
Book Review: Servants Of The Dynasty: Palace Women In World History, Julia Landweber
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, edited by Anne Walthall
Book Review: Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism And Iran, Melissa Autumn White
Book Review: Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism And Iran, Melissa Autumn White
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran by Nima Naghibi
Book Review: Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency And Rights Are Not Enough, Connie Oxford
Book Review: Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency And Rights Are Not Enough, Connie Oxford
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are not Enough by Leah Briones
Book Review: Crossing Borders: International Women Students In American Higher Education, Susan Iverson, Yu-Hui Chou
Book Review: Crossing Borders: International Women Students In American Higher Education, Susan Iverson, Yu-Hui Chou
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Crossing Borders: International Women Students In American Higher Education by Dongxiao Qin
Book Review: Gender And Hiv/Aids: Critical Perspectives From The Developing World, Cassandra R. Warren
Book Review: Gender And Hiv/Aids: Critical Perspectives From The Developing World, Cassandra R. Warren
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Gender and HIV/AIDS: Critical Perspectives from the Developing World, edited by Jelke Boesten amd Nana K. Poku
Poverty Among Women In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Of Selected Issues, Hazel M. Mcferson
Poverty Among Women In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Of Selected Issues, Hazel M. Mcferson
Journal of International Women's Studies
Gender discrimination resulting in greater poverty among women is widespread throughout the developing world. However, the incidence of women poverty, as well as its depth and their vulnerability, is particularly marked in Sub-Saharan African countries of the tropical belt, albeit with significant rural-urban differences. The article reviews the interaction of traditional restrictions on women property rights, weak governance and violent civil conflict in perpetuating gender discrimination and women poverty in those countries. Statistics show some progress in women development indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, partly associated with improvements in governance and the end of civil war in …
Book Review: Racialized Migrant Women In Canada: Essays On Health, Violence, And Equity, Sarah Rudrum
Book Review: Racialized Migrant Women In Canada: Essays On Health, Violence, And Equity, Sarah Rudrum
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health, Violence, and Equity, edited by Vijay Agnew