Dissertations / Theses: 'Portrayal of women abuse'

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Mills, Christine Elizabeth. "The portrayal of women in history textbooks." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/885.

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Algebali, Salma Ibraham. "The portrayal of women in the Libyan short story." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1987. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28536/.

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This thesis sets out to examine the portrayal of women as an important literary aspect of the Libyan short story. An attempt has been made to identify the main features of such portrayals and to point out the degree to which major short story writers in Libya are conscious, in one way or another, of the importance of the problems confronting Libyan women and the need for their emancipation. The method adopted for this purpose is to discuss the varying levels of consciousness of the problem against a background of modern literary criticism which, although not fully developed in Libya, is nonetheless becoming increasingly important. As a corollary, it has been possible to discuss various ideological attitudes only in relation to the formal and structural issues which are often raised regarding the short story as a literary genre. Among these issues are the organic interdependence of form and content, success or failure in attempting to objectify human experience in an adequate artistic form, and the degree to which ideological considerations or commitment can be regarded as relevant to our appreciation of the Libyan short story as an art-form. The degree of ideological commitment to the problem of female emancipation is not, in itself, a determinant of artistic success, but it may pave the way for literary creation in which a progressive role for women in Libyan society is combined with fuller consciousness of the importance of the formal elements of the Libyan short story.

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Lupica, Erica D. "Survivor: A Qualitative Analysis of the Portrayal of Women." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1144156514.

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Trezek, Danielle. "Media's portrayal of women : impact on aggressive attitudes and beliefs /." View online, 2007. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131494848.pdf.

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Cabrera, Schaaf Vannia, Marín Guillermo Hernández, Briceño Gustavo Huaiquinao, Pedreros Karina Ramírez, González Sergio Rebolledo, and Muñoz Fernanda Saldía. "The portrayal of women in 1885 in The Chilian Times." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/170350.

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Diferentes investigaciones han sido realizadas en relación con la Colonia Británica en Chile, poniendo un especial énfasis en los paradigmas culturales que desafiaba la llegada colonial británica a Valparaíso (Pinochet-Valdivieso, 2012). Sin embargo, la carencia de estudio del rol del inmigrante en la construcción de la sociedad chilena refleja ser producto de una cultura masculina-dominante, la cual ha moldeado las visiones en que las investigaciones han sido llevadas a cabo durante las últimas décadas. El propósito de esta investigación es el de describir, desde una perspectiva de género, el cómo la mujer fue retratada en diferentes ediciones de The Chilian Times, 1885. Para ello, hemos decidido trabajar desde la Lingüística Sistémico Funcional propuesta por Halliday (1982). Una metodología de investigación mixta fue utilizada para el análisis particular de tres meses del año 1885, con el propósito de estudiar el desarrollo de la figura femenina en el periódico. De acuerdo con los resultados principales, las diferentes evaluaciones hacia la figura femenina revelan el funcionamiento de los roles de género en la sociedad como un producto fuertemente cargado de prejuicios, que no sólo entregan una construcción viciada a la identidad de la mujer en los medios masivos, pero que también ha afectado a su representación en la esfera pública. Adicionalmente, esta investigación provee abundantes aspectos relacionados con la Colonia Británica, que nos permiten estudiar cómo la representación femenina en los medios masivos era solo una parte del problema estructural que significa la constante lucha por la validación en la sociedad chilena.
Some research has been done in relation to the relevance of the British colony in Chile, placing emphasis on the cultural paradigms that were challenged in Valparaíso with the arrival of the British (Pinochet-Valdivieso, 2012). Nevertheless, there are still some gaps in the study of the immigrants’ role in the construction of Chilean society as a result of a male-dominant culture that has shaped the way research has been approached during the last few decades. The purpose of this piece of research is to provide a gender perspective on the portrayal of women in 1885 in the British newspaper’s The Chilian Times by means of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (1982) approach to language. A mixed research methodology was applied for the analysis of the three months selected from 1885 in order to study the progressive development of the female figure in the newspapers. According to some of our main findings, the different evaluations of the female figure unveil the operation of gender roles as a product of deeply rooted prejudices that did not only give rise to a biased construction of women’s identity in the mass media, but also affected their representation in the public sphere. Additionally, this piece of research also provides several aspects of the British colony that allow us to study how female representation in mass media was only one side of a more structural struggle for recognition in the Chilean society.

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Suadicani, Isabella. "THE PORTRAYAL OF SEX OFFENDERS IN GERMAN NEWSPAPERS : A qualitative content analysis." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för kriminologi (KR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45809.

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The current thesis examines how sex offenders are portrayed in newspapers in Germany with the use of a qualitative content analysis. Utilized were 49 articles both from a German tabloid called “Bild-Zeitung” and a broadsheet called “die Zeit”. Three main themes were identified and analyzed. Initially, the focus was on the portrayal of the sex offenders, followed by the portrayal of the victims and lastly which agencies and how they were mentioned. For each main theme several subthemes were formulated in order to examine the main themes in more depth. Findings suggest that most articles emphasized the previous criminal history of the offenders and stressed negative personality traits, leaving a stereotypical image. Findings of the second theme indicate that victims are rarely blamed for the offenses, while empathy establishment was emphasized through the use of the detailed description of the brutality of the offenses, especially for cases with underaged victims. The analysis of the last theme showed that police and investigators were portrayed mostly as doing a good job and working effectively in investigations, whereas experts like social workers, psychologists or lawyers were interviewed in less articles. The opinion of politicians and the public opinion mostly emphasized the demands for harsher punishment and longer incarceration. Therefore, the majority of articles examined showed a stereotypical image of the offenders, portraying them as recurrently reoffending,opportunistic and brutal.

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Boots, Sabine. "Comparing Women In Substance Abuse Treatment Who Report Sexual And/Or Physical Abuse With Women Who Do Not Report Abuse History." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9967.

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This descriptive study explored whether women in substance abuse treatment who report a history of sexual and/or physical abuse have different drug use profiles than women who do not report such abuse. The data originated from a NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) study designed to evaluate the effects of different treatment modalities in inpatient substance abuse treatment for women. The study compared the drug profiles of women in four areas: drug of choice, frequency of use, problem severity, and level of psychological problems. The following groups were compared: 1) women who did not report abuse, 2) women who reported physical abuse only, 3) women who reported sexual abuse only, and 4) women who reported physical and sexual abuse. The study did not find significant differences in either drug choice, problem severity, or frequency of drug use. In the area of psychological problems, the study did find a significant difference in interpersonal sensitivity between participants who reported a sexual abuse history vs. the other abuse groups. This finding suggests that women with a sexual abuse history are more mistrustful in their relationships with others, and this may suggest that group treatment will be more difficult for sexually abused women than individual treatment. Overall, the findings may also suggest abused women do not need different drug or alcohol treatment approaches than non-abused women although it does not preclude attention to the effects of their abuse.
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Rowell, Jenny. "The Women Behind the Magnolia : An Exploration of Flannery O'Connor's Portrayal of Southern White Women." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-5475.

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Warren, Ann Marie. "Partner abuse: Health consequences to women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5534/.

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Intimate partner violence is endemic in the United States. According to the American Medical Association (1992), one-fifth to one-third of women will sustain violence from a partner or ex-partner in their lifetime. The relevant literature was organized by ICD-9-CM categories. This study examined the health consequences of partner abuse in a sample of community women using a sample consisting of 564 women in three ethnic groups. Because prior research has failed to account for variations by type of abuse on health consequences, this study assessed psychological abuse, violence and sexual aggression by women's partners. To determine whether or not different types of abuse had an effect on women's health, hierarchical regression analyses were conducted. The regression equations were calculated for women within each ethnic group to facilitate identification of similarities and differences and to control for ethnic differences in risk for specific diseases. The results were consistent with past research on health consequences of abuse and extended the prior literature by showing that psychological abuse had a pervasive effect on health conditions, distress and use of health care resources. Additionally, ethnic differences emerged. As expected, ethnicity appeared to function as a moderator. Clinical implications and recommendations are made for future research, suggesting the development of a new assessment tool for partner abuse screening.

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Wright, Michele E. "Power suits her : an arts-based portrayal of women and power." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79813.

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This arts-based study examines how three women, who hold senior positions in development organizations, perceive of power. Emphasis is placed not only on how the participants describe their power identities, but also on how those identities can be portrayed. Based on data collected in interviews and drawing on the metaphors of portraiture, the power suit and the feminist conception of "voice", the women's power identities are represented in three ways: textually (in the form of "power identity profiles"), visually (in the form of "power suit" costume designs) and aurally (in the form of dramatic monologues). Through notes, descriptions, outlines and explanations the entire process of this aesthetic/interpretive inquiry is documented.
While not being offered as a generalizable or even representative sample, the three women in this study illustrate the importance of diverse, individualized inquiry approaches in order to appreciate and represent the nuance and contradiction inherent to women's thoughts and feelings about power.

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Chung, Hilary. "The portrayal of women in Mao Dun's early fiction 1927-1932." Thesis, Durham University, 1991. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6244/.

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It is the prevailing critical assessment of Mao Dun's early creative writing that he displays a singular insight in his portrayal of women. This thesis seeks not only to challenge this assessment by a predominantly male body of criticism but also the assumptions on which it is based, namely that an intellectual sympathy for the women’s cause necessarily implies a transcendence of the patriarchal attitudes with which society is imbued. The major short stories and novellas written between 1927 and 1932 are analysed systematically to identify Mao Dun's underlying attitudes towards women. His portrayal of women is assessed from the following perspectives:~ his autobiographical accounts of his encounters with women in his political and personal life and his deliberate association of his female comrades with his creative inspiration;- traditional Chinese perceptions of women and gender roles as these are manifested in the classical tradition;-- Mao Dun's numerous articles and essays on the women's question written during the nineteen twenties and his work in the women's section of the Party in Shanghai;- Mao Dun's attempt to reconcile his conflicting sympathies for feminism and socialism. This thesis relies for its methodology on Western feminist criticism. While the approach is maintained, in its application to the context of early twentieth century China, its eurocentrism in terms of cultural assumptions and perceptions of gender has been replaced by a definition of Chinese values. Since a fundamental prerequisite, of feminist criticism is the assessment of the writer in his/her own cultural context, a historical survey of the portrayal of women in traditional literature is provided to serve as a standard against which to measure Mao Dun’s portrayal.

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Krook, Ann Sofi. "The portrayal of women in Irish hagiography to circa 900 AD." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326342.

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Overley, Amy. "Overcoming abuse." Santa Clarita, CA : The Master's College, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.091-0031.

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Lau, Ying. "Intimate partner abuse in Chinese pregnant women." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31972846.

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Hoke, Valerie Rose. "Gender, Tragedy, and Representation: The Portrayal of Women in 9/11 Literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579286.

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This thesis examines how works of 9/11 literature, both fiction and nonfiction, reflect a revitalization of gender roles in American culture among their characters or subjects, and uses feminist theory to address why this process was such an immediate reaction of American society in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11ᵗʰ, 2001. In order to conduct support this argument, nonfiction texts by Dean E. Murphy and Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn, works of fiction by Jay McInerney, Jonathan Safran Foer, Frédéric Beigbeder, and Claire Tristram, and texts of feminist theory by Susan Faludi, Judith Butler, and Betty Friedan are analyzed and brought together in discussion.

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Miller, Jennifer Anne. "The Politics of Nazi Art: The Portrayal of Women in Nazi Painting." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5157.

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The study of Nazi art as an historical document provided an effective measure of Nazi political platform and social policy. Because the ideology of the Third Reich is represented within Nazi art itself, it is useful to have a good understanding of the politics and ideology, surrounding the German art world at the time. Women were used in this study as an exemplification of Nazi art. This study uses the subject of women in Nazi painting, to show how the ideology is represented within the art work itself. It was first necessary to understand the fervorent "cleansing" of the German art world initiated by the Nazis. The Nazis too effectively stamped out all forms of professional art criticism, and virtually changed the function of the art critic to art editor. The nazification of the German artist was "necessary" in order for the Nazis to enjoy total control over the creation of German art. With these three steps taken in the "cleansing" of the German art world, the Nazis made sure that the creation of a "true" Germanic art would go forth completely unhindered. In order to comprehend the subject of Nazi art regarding women, the inherent ideology must be studied. The "new" German woman under National Socialism, was to be the mother, the model of Aryan characteristics, healthy and lean. Nazi political doctrine stated that women were inherently connected with the blood and soil of the nation, as well as nature itself. Women were to be innocent and pure, the bearers of the future Volk and the sustenance of that Volk. Once this political ideology is understood, the depiction of the German woman as mother, as nature, as sexual object, can be placed within Nazi historical context. Political art provided the Nazi state, the historical legitimization the government needed. It provided the means by which the state could be visually validated, politically, and historically.

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Faleni, Mzukisi Welcome. "Hagar: case study of abuse of women." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2008. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1551_1254303991.

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According to modern standards, the narratives about Hagar in Genesis 16 and 21 are stories of abuse, as many feminist commentators have pointed out. Some of them, however, argue that the narrator condones what happened to Hagar, seeing it as perfectly normal. This thesis aims to investigate whether and how Hagar was abused according to the narrator of Genesis 16 and 21: 8-21.

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Baker, Lynne M. "Domestic abuse : coping strategies of Christian women /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060714.113732/index.html.

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Hughson, E. Anne. "Women & abuse, their meaning of safety." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/nq21581.pdf.

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Lau, Ying, and 劉櫻. "Intimate partner abuse in Chinese pregnant women." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31972846.

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Feicht, Kimberly Jane. "Sexual abuse prevention for developmentally disabled women." Scholarly Commons, 1993. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2773.

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The purpose of the present study was to evaluate a program designed to teach developmentally disabled women the self-protective skills necessary to prevent sexual abuse. Twenty developmentally disabled women participated in the study and were randomly assigned to either the control or experimental group. Both groups were given a pretest to measure any preexisting self-protective skills. The experimental group participated in a seven session program. The training program used the following behavior modification techniques to teach the self-protective skills: modeling, role-playing, and verbal and physical prompts. To test the self-protective skills learned, both groups were given a posttest. The experimental group's role-play mean increased from pretest to posttest while the control group's role-play mean decreased. The predicted testing by treatment interaction effect was significant. To test the retention of the self-protective skills learned, a follow-up role-play test was given to the experimental group 3 weeks later. There was no significant difference between the group's pretest mean and their follow-up mean which shows that there was no retention of the skills learned.

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Bell, Frances Lynn. "Emotional Cutoff In Women Who Abuse Substances." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35024.

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This exploratory study was based upon Bowen Family Systems theory and investigated emotional cutoff in women (n = 168) who entered a substance abuse treatment program. Three questions were explored: First, the degree of emotional cutoff in this sample was compared to a non-clinical sample of women. Secondly, the relationship was explored between the variable of emotional cutoff and the following variables: substance abuse variables, individual psychological functioning variables, and marital and family relationship variables. Finally, the relationship was explored between dropout from substance abuse treatment and emotional cutoff.Results indicate that the degree of emotional cutoff was significantly higher in this clinical sample of women who abused substances than in two comparison samples - one was a non-clinical sample of women balancing multiple roles and responsibilities and one mixed sample of divorced men and women. Emotional cutoff was found to have a significant positive relationship with the following variables: behaviors characteristic of substance abusers, behaviors of a highly defensive person, symptoms of depression, anxiety, hostility, psychoticism, somatization, obsessive compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, and a global assessment of psychological dysfunction. Emotional cutoff was found to have a significant negative relationship with denial of substance abuse. No significant relationship was found between emotional cutoff and marital satisfaction, health or distress in family functioning, dropout from treatment, severity of substance abuse, and symptoms of paranoia or phobia. These results have implications for further research based on Bowen theory and the understanding of the emotional process of addicted family systems.
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Irwin, Lillian Rosell. "Impact of sexual abuse on women prisoners arrested for substance abuse related crimes." Thesis, Kaplan University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1546523.

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Research suggests that sexual abuse (SA) increases the likelihood of alcohol/drug use (AOD), and that AOD increases criminality. As such, in this study 50 women completed a survey reporting their histories of SA, AOD, and criminality. Fifteen related hypotheses were formulated: age at which drug abuse began would be lower; total number of drugs used, higher; age of first crime, lower; age of first incarceration, lower; and cumulative time in prison, greater, for those with SA vs. those without, for those who did not report their SA vs. those who did, and for those who did not receive treatment for SA vs. those who did. Thirteen of 15 hypotheses trended as predicted, significantly different from chance using Chi square. Trends for those who did not report SA vs. those who did, and for those who did not receive treatment for SA vs. those who did, were universally in line with hypotheses. Hypotheses regarding those with SA vs. those without remain less clear, with three of five outcome measures trending as expected. Together, these findings suggest that it may not be an SA history in itself that predicts earlier and greater severity of AOD, earlier criminal behavior, and greater prison time; but that the lack of treatment for SA and lack of reporting of SA may predict earlier and more severe behavioral disruptions. This underscores the importance of supporting girls and women who experience SA with access to reporting and treatment to reduce the emotional and behavioral sequellae of SA.

Keywords: substance use, sexual abuse, criminality, alcohol use

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Reinders, Gretchen 1976. "Women's reactions to a realistic rape portrayal and the influence of feminst identity and rape myth acceptance." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4482.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (May 1, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Dwomoh, Nana Kwabena. "Women as Other: Hemingways portrayal of females in To Have and Have Not." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24209.

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This essay explores Hemingway’s depiction of women in the novel To Have and Have Not. In To Have and Have Not , the novel explored in this essay, traits of Hemingway’s renowned sexist depiction of women have been investigated, and the purpose of the essay was to illuminate that the women of To Have and Have Not are reduced to roles which resembles Simone de Beauvoir’s observations, namely the perception of women as the Other, assuming subordinate roles. In order to achieve this task, a close reading has been done on Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not , and his portrayal of five female characters in the novel has been analyzed. Simone de Beauvoir’s theory has been applied for an understanding of these female characters in order to see if these women were portrayed in a manner resembling de Beauvoir notions, that is, marked by patriarchal perspectives. The conclusion drawn in this essay is that all the women in the novel are portrayed as “absolute sex”, subordinated to men. Thus, the depictions of the women in the novel To Have and Have Not were found to correspond to patriarchal gender roles as described by Simone de Beauvoir.

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Dwomoh, Nana Kwabena. "Women as Other: Hemingway's portrayal of females in To Have and Have Not." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24360.

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This essay explores Hemingway’s depiction of women in the novel To Have and Have Not. In To Have and Have Not, the novel explored in this essay, traits of Hemingway’s renowned sexist depiction of women have been investigated, and the purpose of the essay was to illuminate that the women of To Have and Have Not are reduced to roles which resembles Simone de Beauvoir’s observations, namely the perception of women as the Other, assuming subordinate roles. In order to achieve this task, a close reading has been done on Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not, and his portrayal of five female characters in the novel has been analyzed. Simone de Beauvoir’s theory has been applied for an understanding of these female characters in order to see if these women were portrayed in a manner resembling de Beauvoir notions, that is, marked by patriarchal perspectives. The conclusion drawn in this essay is that all the women in the novel are portrayed as "absolute sex", subordinated to men. Thus, the depictions of the women in the novel To Have and Have Not were found to correspond to patriarchal gender roles as described by Simone de Beauvoir.

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Luo, Jingyi. "THE GROWTH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MAGAZINE AND MEDIA PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN CHINA." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/254.

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With the trend of media globalization, international women's magazines have extended the Chinese market with Chinese editions that reflected the local situation; while at the same time they inherited some global characteristics from their global editions. In addition, international women's magazines also influenced the Chinese local women's magazines through their reliance on advertising, as well as the presentation of content, style and cultural values. As a media genre, media portrayals of women on the covers reflect the economic, social and cultural development of a society. One purpose of this study was to examine how women were presented through the comparison of popular global and local women's magazine covers in China. The sample for the study included a Western magazine, a Japanese magazine and a Chinese local magazine: Cosmopolitan, Rayli-Fashion and Beauty and City Beauty. Findings in this study suggested women's identities were portrayed with preferred angles, dress styles, beauty ideals and connected to peculiar topics of cover stories and cultural values on the covers. Further, finding also suggested that the local women's magazine presented a hybrid of cultures which were influenced by both global cultural influx through global women's magazine and local cultural traditions of Chinese people.

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Mntanga, Overman Mziwakhe. "A critical analysis of the portrayal of women in some selected Xhosa dramas." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1030.

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This thesis entitled “a critical analysis of the portrayal of women in some selected Xhosa dramas”, endeavours to examine the effect of gender inequality. Women who are iv submissive toward some cultural aspects. It endeavours to give a critical analysis of women’s self assertion in some selected Xhosa dramas. According to the findings in this study, in African tradition women like to enforce patriarchy upon younger women. Older women feel that they have the duty of passing on cultural practices from generation to generation. Everything from manner of dress, posture, appropriate seating positions, eating patterns, performance of household chores, sexual expression, and voice tone and infection, self-esteem and self-concept, flows from the gender one is assigned at birth. From birth then, women and men are set on different physically based psychological paths. Of all the obstacles that limit the advancement of women, those touching upon knowledge and values are the most difficult to remove. When a woman lacks the independent capacity to assert her own positive truths and values, she is unable to contribute her insights and experiences to the various fields of human knowledge. When denied opportunities for higher forms of self expression, women may out of frustration attack the modes of understanding upheld by men. In this study theories such as black criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism and African womanism are relevant for discussing the portrayal of women. The descriptive method of research has been applied. Both observation and participation have been used for exposing barriers that block the development of women. This study will enable literature students and researchers to view culture in a broader perspective. It will enable them to consider conventions which determine the way human experience is presented in literature. Chapter one provides literature students and the researchers with a broad overview about how to develop an introductory perspective. Chapter two aims at developing a theoretical framework which serves as the basis of this study. Chapter three examines the effect of gender inequality. It opens an area of extensive examination that differentiates sexual practice from the sexual roles assigned to women and men. Chapter four examines women who are submissive or radical in some cultural aspects. Chapter five discusses women’s self assertion. Chapter six concludes this study.

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Davis, Brandon Lee. "Relationship of attachment to abuse in incarcerated women." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1287.

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Four adult attachment styles that have been extensively reported in the literature have been labeled secure, dismissing, preoccupied, and fearful. Unfortunately, there are no existing published studies that measure attachment styles of incarcerated women. This study used responses from 158 women incarcerated at a federal prison on the Relationship Questionnaire, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III), and Record of Maltreatment Experiences to examine several facets of the association of attachment styles with childhood abuse and scales on the MCMI-III. The inmates who survived abuse endorsed the fearful and preoccupied attachment styles more, and the secure style less, than did the women who did not acknowledge a history of abuse. There was no statistically significant finding among attachment styles based on physical or sexual abuse. Inmates who were abused by a family member were more likely to endorse the fearful attachment style. The depressive, sadistic, and dependent MCMI-III scales were determined to be more highly associated with fearful or preoccupied attachment styles than with dismissing or secure styles. Finally, the inmates endorsed the anxious/ambivalent (fearful and preoccupied) attachment style more, and the secure style less, than non-incarcerated individuals as reported in the literature.

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Lucknauth, Christeena. "Racialized Immigrant Women Responding to Intimate Partner Abuse." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30663.

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This exploratory study investigates how racialized immigrant women experience and respond to intimate partner abuse (IPA). The American and European models of intersectionality theory are used to highlight structural constraints and agentic responses as experienced and enacted by racialized immigrant women. Eight women described their experiences through semi-structured interviews, revealing an array of both defensive and pro-active types of strategies aimed at short- and long-term outcomes. Responses included aversion, negative reinforcement or coping strategies like prayer or self-coaching, and accordingly varied by the constraints under which the women lived as newcomers to Canada. Policy recommendations promote acknowledgement of women’s decision-making abilities and provide a model in which women can choose from a selection of options in how to respond, rather than strictly interventionist models. Study results can help to challenge stereotypes of abused women as passive victims, and empower the image of immigrant women as active knowers of their circumstances.

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Glaister, Judy Alane. "Experiences of women healing from childhood sexual abuse /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Koch, Meghan. "Women of Intimate Partner Abuse: Traumatic Bonding Phenomenon." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5738.

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Researchers indicate women succumb to relational abuse as seen with maladaptive attachment, identity enmeshment, and implicit maltreatment. Implicit violence and nonviolence, bonding victims to victimizers remains unstudied, although the domestic abuse phenomenon continues. Intimate partner abuse was examined through qualitative inquiry. There is much to learn about female victim perspectives describing attachment bonds, identity conflicts, and implicit maltreatment experiences. Traumatic bonding theory served as the lens through which female participant responses were examined in this study. Research questions were developed to focus on female attachment bond perceptions, views concerning self-esteem, self-identity, or self-reference, and implicit aggression, coercive control, or manipulation experiences. The foundation for the qualitative research design was phenomenological constructivism. The Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory served as the standardized assessment instrument for data collection. Participant responses from the questionnaire and semistructured interview questions were organized through analytic coding, resulting in meaningful, composite categories for thematic conclusions. Data from 10 female participants who previously experienced intimate abuse were collected and analyzed. Thematic coding resulted in survivor experiences categorized by caustic, deceptive, emotional, implicit, and oppressive traumatization. Themes involved psychological entanglement with the abuser due to humiliation, or physical entrapment by the abuser due to opposition. Victim perspective and experience can potentially improve how the law, law enforcement, or health care professionals, view, treat, and protect abuse victims.

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Rabothata, Thambatshira Tannie. "Women abuse as expressed in Tshivenda female songs." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/892.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (African Languages)) --University of Limpopo, 2005
This study investigates the expression of women abuse through female songs. Groups of singers from twenty-two communities were listened to during the study. A qualitative analysis was undertaken. Songs obtained from secondary sources, were compared and analysed in the same way in which those obtained from the singers themselves were analysed. In particular, the usefulness of these singing groups was examined. It was found that most of the women who are experiencing abuse of some kind, derive perceived social support from fellow singers. All the women in the different singing groups declared that they were not singing for the sake of singing but that they were sending messages to the perpetrators of abuse in the expectation that a change will be realized. Singing groups were found to be effectively providing assistance in dealing with emotional abuse. The study thus illuminates the subjective use of referential expressions in expressing abuse. This emphasizes the challenge for singers to check whether or not the manner in which they present their pleas is appropriate.

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Barrios, Yasmin V., Sixto E. Sánchez, Christina Nicolaidis, Pedro J. Garcia, Bizu Gelaye, Michelle A. Williams, and Qiu-Yue Zhong. "Childhood Abuse and Early Menarche Among Peruvian Women." Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/345745.

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The authors wish to thank the dedicated staff members of Asociacion Civil Proyectos en Salud (PROESA), Peru, and Instituto Materno Perinatal, Peru, for their expert technical assistance with this research
Purpose: Childhood abuse has been associated with age of menarche in some studies, but not all, and few have assessed the independent associations of sexual and physical abuse with early menarche. We examined the association between childhood abuse and early menarche among pregnant women in Lima, Peru. Methods: Multinomial logistic regression procedures were used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for early menarche ( 11 years) in relation to any physical or sexual childhood abuse, physical abuse only, sexual abuse only, and both physical and sexual abuse in a cohort of 1,499 pregnant (first trimester) women. Results: Approximately 69% of participants reported experiencing physical or sexual abuse in childhood. The frequencies of physical abuse only, sexual abuse only, and both physical and sexual abuse were 37.4%, 7.7%, and 24.5%, respectively. Compared with women who reported no childhood abuse, those who reported any childhood abuse had a 1.38-fold increased odds of early menarche (95% CI, 1.01e1.87). Compared with no abuse, the odds of early menarche was 1.60-fold among women with childhood sexual abuse only (OR, 1.60; 95% CI, .93e2.74) and 1.56-fold for those with both physical and sexual abuse (OR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.07e2.25) during childhood. Isolated physical abuse was weakly associated with early menarche (OR, 1.23; 95% CI, .87e1.74). There was no clear evidence of association of childhood abuse with late menarche ( 15 years). Conclusions: Childhood abuse, particularly joint physical and sexual abuse, is associated with early menarche. Our findings add to an expanding body of studies documenting the enduring adverse health consequences of childhood abuse.
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Guimaraes, Estefania. "Talking about violence : women reporting abuse in Brazil." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14108/.

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This thesis reports the findings of conversation analytic studies exploring women's experiences reporting abuse to the police and to professionals working in a care centre for abused women. The focus of the thesis'is on the women's interactions with the police and, more specifically, on instances in which difficulties in reporting become apparent. Research suggests that only a minority of cases of violence against women are reported. Women's Police stations were created in Brazil to address the problem of women not being taken sed,ously when reporting domestic violence and to encourage women to report. However, reporting rates of this violence are still low and the experience of reporting abuse has not become unproblematic. Drawing on a naturalistic data set of over 36 hours, this studyÃ‚Â· contributes to the understanding of women's experienced difficulties in reporting their abusers, covering issues which range from them being denied a police report even when their case is considered to be 'policeable' (Chapter 4); difficulties regarding how the police interactions are conducted which reveal a problem about how.women are not informed about the police procedures nor the consequences of their report (Chapter 5); and clashes of perspectives (between officers and complainants) and how those misalignments are addressed in interaction (Chapter 6). Moreover, it discusses methodological issues (such as translation and ethics) with the aid of fragments of actual instances of interactions (Chapter 2); shows culture is manifest in talk by presenting clashes between the 'world' presupposed in the official forms and the 'world' of the complainants (Chapter 2), and in the way that references to the abusers show the cultural understanding that women suffer violence at the hands of men in close relationships with them (Chapter 7). In technical terms, this thesis contributes to responses to yIN Interrogatives in Brazilian Portuguese (Chapter 3) and to the study of repair and of technologies for dealing with misunderstandings and misalignments in interaction (Chapter 6). Overall, ~his thesis conn:ibutes to the, understanding of problems of women reporting abuse in Brazil, to the services or abused women in Brazil by providing some suggestions to improving the interactions, and to conversation analysis.

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Sabatke, Sharon. "Training in domestic abuse volunteer programs." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002sabatkes.pdf.

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Chan, So-tuen Caroline. "Unravelling the dynamics and meanings of wife abuse : the personal accounts of women /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17539006.

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Karceski, Julie Wilkins Lee. "Smart, sultry and surly a textual analysis of the portrayal of women scientists in film, 1962 - 2005 /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6663.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 10, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Lee Wilkins. Includes bibliographical references.

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Menzies, Erica L. "The portrayal and function of relationships between women in selected Erzählungen by Ingeborg Bachmann /." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81505.

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This thesis provides an analysis of the portrayal and function of relationships between women in the following Erzahlungen by Ingeborg Bachmann: "Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha," "Das Gebell," and "Drei Wege zum See." The major research questions include whether there is a similar representation of female-female interactions and a common conception of gender and identity construction arising from these interactions. In addition to offering a unique perspective on relationships between women, this analysis presents "Das Gebell" as the story of two women, rather than one that focuses on the relationship between a mother and her son, which has predominately been the interpretation in the previous literature. Findings indicate that parallels exist in the way women are portrayed in the above three Erzahlungen and that the female-female interactions serve certain common narrative functions in each of these texts.

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Ratti, Anna. "European and Chinese legislation regulating the portrayal of women in television advertising: A comparison." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8880/.

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This dissertation has two main purposes. On the one hand, it aims at comparing the gender stereotypes presented in the television commercials in China and in Europe. Considering the cultural, historical and socio-economical differences between these two contexts, it is interesting to examine the gender role models offered and used by the advertising industry in European Union and China in order to see if the gender stereotypes are similar and to evaluate to which extent they reflect, challenge or reinforce the gender roles of the society where they are broadcasted. On the other hand, the objective of this dissertation is to establish the degree of adequateness and effectiveness of the existing regulatory framework through an analysis of the positive and negative aspects of the regulatory acts issued to safeguard a fair representation of genders in the EU Member States and in China.

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Utiuzh, Anastasiia. "The Portrayal of Women in the Oldest Russian Women’s Magazine “Rabotnitsa” From 1970-2017." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7237.

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This study focuses on the portrayal of women images in Russia, particularly the transformation from Soviet woman to modern woman based on the analysis of one of the oldest Russian women’s magazine- “Rabotnitsa”. The sample for this study covers two periods: three decades of Russia during the era of the Soviet Union period (1970-1990) and two decades of the Post-Soviet period (1991-2017). A total of 586 relevant images were identified; 311 images by Rabotnitsa over the three decades during the Soviet Union’s period by random sampling of 20 issues published by Rabotnitsa between 1970- 1990, and 275 images by Rabotnitsa by random sampling of 20 issues published in the Post-Soviet Union period. The study was analyzed using a quantitative content analysis and grounded in framing research. Goffman’s six categories of Gender Analysis guided this research with one category being appropriated from a study by Kang (1997). The findings displayed that the images of women in the Post-Soviet Union period did not significantly change from the images discovered among the last three decades of Soviet Union period in the fifth category by Goffman. However, circulation of stereotypical portrayal of women did change in two categories- “Licensed Withdrawal” and “Independence”.

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Vera, Kristi Marie. "Athletic Women in Fiction and Fact: The Portrayal of Women involved in Athletic Activity in Novels from 1890-1920's." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625710.

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McNenly, Kelly. "Wounds women wear, validating the effects of emotional abuse." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0007/MQ45374.pdf.

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Heal, Laurel. "God concepts among women who experience childhood sexual abuse." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0017/MQ47160.pdf.

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Thompson, Grant. "The 'comfort women' : war time abuse and postwar silence /." Title page and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09art4745.pdf.

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Scandrett, Jillian. "Prevalence of sexual abuse and psychopathology in imprisoned women." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7122.

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The present study aimed to describe the prevalence of sexual abuse and psychopathology in a group of imprisoned women. Subjects (N-6) were assessed on the Diagnostic Interview Schedule and interview schedules designed to elicit details concerning prior episodes of sexual abuse. Seventy-three percent of the women had experienced at least one instance of intrafamilial/extrafamilial sexual abuse or both. Only one measure obtained a significant result and that was for high self-esteem in victims of intrafamilial sexual abuse, a finding contrary to that reported in the literature.

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Harris, Lucy. "Speaking about the unspeakable : women who sexually abuse children." Thesis, University of East London, 2010. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3687/.

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'Women who sexually abuse children' is a topic that has historically been silenced within society, including within the discipline of clinical psychology (Denov, 2003). The current study aimed to explore this silence, through the question 'how do we talk about women who sexually abuse children?' Through the analysis of newspaper articles (documenting the case of Vanessa George) and focus group data, this study paid particular attention to the culturally shared sense-making practices available regarding the study topic. Drawing on principles of membership categorisation (Sacks, 1995) and discursive psychology (Edwards & Potter, 1992), the moral and accountable nature of 'description' was demonstrated. The analysis showed that there are aspects of the study topic we are able to talk about, such as the construction of victims, and category memberships that define protective adults and those who are a risk to children. The notion that women might pose a (sexual) risk to children, however, was much more challenging to describe. The moral dilemma posed by the study topic was defined in the analysis as a 'category puzzle'. Participants attempted to construct explanations for this phenomenon, but it is argued that no satisfactory 'solution' was reached. The difficulty in resolving the 'puzzle' presented by this study was understood through a redefinition of the challenge, posed as a 'puzzling category puzzle'. This enabled us to see just how challenging a female who sexually abuses children is, not only to 'what we know' about women, or even to dominant and trusted institutions, but to society as a whole. In the end, we are left with a woman who is constructed as outside of our usual, ordinary and moral reality and therefore one that we do not have a moral obligation to engage with. Implications of the 'difficulty with talking' demonstrated throughout the study and the resulting de-humanisation of women who sexually abuse children are discussed in some detail. I have made suggestions as to how, at various levels, we can try to 'keep talking' about the study topic. I argue that this is essential if we are to construct women who sexually abuse as 'real' and if we are to offer as a discipline (and society) support to those affected by such occurrences.

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Banerjee, Dipti, Bizu Gelaye, Qiu-Yue Zhong, Sixto E. Sanchez, and Michelle A. Williams. "Childhood abuse and adult-onset asthma among Peruvian women." Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/624658.

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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.
Objective: Childhood abuse has been found to be associated with adult-onset asthma; however, this association has not been studied in low- and middle-income countries with a high burden of gender-based violence, including childhood abuse. We examined the odds of asthma diagnosed at age 18 or older in relation to history of physical and sexual abuse among Peruvian pregnant women. Methods: This cross-sectional study collected demographic characteristics, history of abuse and asthma diagnoses from 3081 pregnant women. Logistic regression procedures estimated adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (aOR, [95% CI]) for asthma diagnoses in relation to abuse. Results: Overall, 71% of the women reported a history of abuse (<18 years), and asthma was diagnosed among 2.6% of the cohort participants. The prevalence of physical only, sexual only and both physical and sexual childhood abuse was 38, 8 and 25%, respectively. The history of physical only (1.16, [0.63–2.17]), sexual only (2.11, [0.92–4.84]) or both physical and sexual childhood abuse (1.75, [0.94–3.29]) was positively associated with increased odds of asthma, although the associations were not statistically significant in the multivariate analysis. However, the odds of asthma increased with increasing numbers of abuse events (ptrend = 0.01). Women who reported ≥3 abuse events had an increased odds of asthma (1.88, [1.06–3.34]). Conclusion: Our results do not provide convincing evidence that childhood abuse is associated with asthma among pregnant Peruvian women; however, we were able to demonstrate that an increased number of abuse events are associated with asthma. Further research is required to better understand the effects of abuse on asthma.
This research was supported by an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01-HD-059835). The NIH had no further role in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. The authors wish to thank the dedicated staf f members of Asociacion Civil Proyectos en Salud (PROESA), Peru, and Instituto Especializado Materno Perinatal, Peru, for their expert technical assistance with this research.
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Patrick, Rachel Lynn. "The Impact of Altered Self-Capacities on Revictimization in College Women." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1259708133.

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Preston, Lynn Kathleen. "Women constructing identities around alcohol use : the narratives of older and younger women." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323211.

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