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McAvoy, Liz. "Women's saints' lives in old english prose." Women's Writing 9, no. 2 (July 1, 2002): 325–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699080200200415.
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Felch, Susan. "English Women's Devotional Writing: Surveying the Scene." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 24, no. 1 (March 28, 2011): 118–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0895769x.2011.540545.
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Rees, Emma L. E. "Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England by Patricia Demers." Renaissance Studies 20, no. 4 (August 8, 2006): 587–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2006.00218.x.
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Hallward, Maia, and Hania Bekdash-Muellers. "Success and agency: localizing women’s leadership in Oman." Gender in Management: An International Journal 34, no. 7 (September 26, 2019): 606–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-11-2017-0162.
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Purpose This study aims to examine women’s leadership in Oman, seeking to empirically determine whether and how local perceptions of “success” and lifestyle preferences are related to women’s agency and propensity for leadership. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the literature, this paper qualitatively analyzes 32 semi-structured interviews of diverse Omani women leaders, identifying their conceptions of success as predominantly subjective or objective. At the same time, the study uses Hakim’s (2006) lifestyle preference model to explore women's agency. Findings Contrary to the literature on the central importance of domestic responsibilities for Arab Muslim women, more women in leadership positions are identified as career-centered (14/32, 44%); those who did identify as family-centered (6/32, 19%) did not cite Islam to justify that preference, and success is envisioned more subjectively (19/32, 59%). Research limitations/implications The sample has an urban bias and does not claim to be representative of all Omani women. Interviews were conducted in English; most women leaders in Oman are required to speak English. Practical implications By analyzing work-life balance preferences as a proxy for agency and interrogating Omani women's own conceptions of success, the study may lead to more robust and culturally aware policies to support women’s leadership. Social implications Defining in subjective terms suggests that success is not necessarily equated with achieving a high level position for Omani women. Further, only 6/32 were identified as home-centered, thus indicating the critical importance of domestic support from hired labor or family members. Originality/value This study contributes new empirical findings on women leaders in Oman that illustrates the role of personal agency and lifestyle preference in contrast to many studies that treat culture as a constant.
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Waha, Kristen Bergman. "SYNTHESIZING HINDU AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN A. MADHAVIAH'S INDIAN ENGLISH NOVELCLARINDA(1915)." Victorian Literature and Culture 46, no. 1 (March 2018): 237–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150317000419.
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The novels of Indian writerA. Madhaviah (1872–1925) are deeply ambivalent toward British Protestant missions in the Madras Presidency. The son of a Brahmin family from the Tirunelveli District in what is now the state of Tamil Nadu, Madhaviah had the opportunity to form close intellectual relationships with British missionaries and Indian Christian converts while studying for his B.A. at the Madras Christian College, completing his degree in 1892. Although he remained a Hindu throughout his life, Madhaviah's first English novel,Thillai Govindan(1903), praises some missionaries for their moral characters, naming in particular the Madras Christian College's principal, William Miller (1838–1923); however, the same novel also criticizes other unnamed Madras missionaries for extravagant lifestyles that squandered the money of unsuspecting supporters in Britain (64). Madhaviah's deep commitment to late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Indian women's reform movements, including widow remarriage, the abolition of child marriage, and women's education, meant that he often agreed with British missionaries championing similar reforms in Indian society. However, his early novels also criticize the proselytizing activities of missionaries, particularly in educational settings. In his Tamil novelPadmavati Carittiram(1898, 1899) and English novelSatyananda(1909), Madhaviah exposes missionary attempts to take advantage of a young pupil's inexperience in an educational setting or to exploit a quarrel between pupil and family members to secure a conversion. Yet in contrast, Madhaviah's final English novel,Clarinda: A Historical Novel(1915), offers perhaps the most positive depiction of an Indian Christian conversion in his fiction. A historical novel that reimagines the life of a renowned eighteenth-century Marathi Brahmin woman convert living in Thanjavur, Madhaviah'sClarindaoffers Christian conversion as a liberating decision for the young Clarinda. Her conversion allows her as a widow to escape the patriarchal control of her abusive husband's family and to contribute to her community as a philanthropist and an early social reformer. While Madhaviah remained critical of certain conversion tactics, which could transgress ethical boundaries, Madhaviah also acknowledged that missionary goals for women's improved lot within society often intersected with his own convictions.
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Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "The First English Novel: Aphra Behn's Love Letters, The Canon, and Women's Tastes." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 8, no. 2 (1989): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463735.
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McCants, Anne E. C. (Anne Elizabeth Conger). "Women's Work: The English Experience 1650-1914 (review)." Victorian Studies 43, no. 1 (2000): 167–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vic.2000.0115.
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Sousa, Josueida de Carvalho, Danielli Gavião Mallmann, Nelson Miguel Galindo Neto, Natália Oliveira de Freitas, Eliane Maria Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, and Ednaldo Cavalcante de Araújo. "Health promotion of lesbian woman: nursing care." Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem 35, no. 4 (December 2014): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1983-1447.2014.04.45308.
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The aim of this study was to analyze national and international scientific literature on nursing care for lesbian women. An integrative approach was adopted to review studies from MEDLINE, LILACS, BDENF and SCOPUS databases and SciELO and Cochrane libraries using the keywords: female homosexuality, nursing care, health promotion and women's health. Studies published between 1990 and 2013 in English, Portuguese or Spanish were considered for analysis. After analyzing data, four international studies were selected, being that three were from the United States and one was from Canada. This study revealed a scarcity of Brazilian and international studies and the importance of increasing scientific literature on this topic.
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Scherer, E., Z. Scherer, F. Pessoa, and N. P. Scherer. "Violence suffered by women before her incarceration: Integrative literature review." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): s906—s907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1860.
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IntroductionThe complex phenomenon of violence against women is determined by gender relations that, from a historical and social construction of female and male, and the biological differences which gives unequal power between men and women. This results in increased vulnerability of women, exposing them to physical, psychological and sexual violence. The history of violence in the early life of trapped women can contribute to their involvement in crimes and misdemeanors.ObjectiveTo review the production of national and international scientific knowledge about the effects of violence on women's health before her incarceration.AimsMeet the publications about the consequences of violence on women's health before she was imprisoned.MethodIntegrative review of scientific literature to answer: “What are the implications of violence on women's health before their incarceration?” Studies of the last 5 years delimited in the databases LILACS, PUBMED and PsycInfo. Selected primary studies with women incarcerated people over 18 years, in Portuguese, English and Spanish language. Excluded studies that addressed violence inside the prison and wife as perp. An instrument for identification of studies and their categorization was used.ResultsSixteen selected articles that have addressed the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide, drug abuse, sexual abuse and re-victimization (where the abuser was usually a family member or intimate partner).ConclusionThere is a lack of a specific instrument to investigate the occurrence of violence against women before being arrested. Scientific and policy initiatives are required to develop specific intervention strategies for women incarcerated victimized before prison.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Ilan, Tal. "Notes on the Distribution of Jewish Women's Names in Palestine in the Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods." Journal of Jewish Studies 40, no. 2 (October 1, 1989): 186–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.18647/1472/jjs-1989.
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Lootens, Tricia. "BENGAL, BRITAIN, FRANCE: THE LOCATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF TORU DUTT." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 2 (August 25, 2006): 573–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150306051321.
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To a far greater degree than many of us have yet realized, late-nineteenth-century women's poetry may be a poetry of alien homelands: of cultural spaces, that is, in which the domestic proves alien, even as technically alien territory comes to represent some form of home. And partly for this reasosn, to explore poetry in English may require moving not only beyond Britain, but also beyond English itself. Think, for example, of Christina Rossetti, who composed poems in Italian; of Mathilde Blind, with her German accent and translation of the French edition of theJournal of Marie Bashkirtseff; of Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Darmesteter Duclaux, whose poetry preceded a long, successful career of writing in great part in and for the French; of Louisa S. Bevington Guggenberger, with her German home and husband; or, for that matter, of nineteenth-century India's first influential English-speaking woman poet, Toru Dutt. As generations of Indian critics have stressed, as early anthologizer E. C. Stedman made clear, and as certain editors of recent nineteenth-century poetry collections have also acknowledged, Dutt's writing played a suggestive role within late-century understandings of “British literature.” Indeed, even now, growing attention to her work is helping extend our conception of the geographical origins of “Victorian” poetry from Britain to Bengal. Still, if we are to develop a full exploration of Dutt's cultural presence, we may need to move further as well, connecting Indo-Anglian literature to that of France.
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Jasper, Alison. "Michèle Roberts: Female Genius and the Theology of an English Novelist." Text Matters, no. 1 (November 23, 2011): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-011-0005-8.
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Since Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex in 1949, feminist analysis has tended to assume that the conditions of male normativity—reducing woman to the merely excluded "Other" of man—holds true in the experience of all women, not the least, women in the context of Christian praxis and theology. Beauvoir's powerful analysis—showing us how problematic it is to establish a position outside patriarchy's dominance of our conceptual fields—has helped to explain the resilience of sexism and forms of male violence that continue to diminish and destroy women's lives because they cannot be seen as questionable. It has also, I would argue, had the unintended consequence of intensifying the sense of limitation, so that it becomes problematic to account for the work and lives of effective, innovative and responsible women in these contexts. In order to address this problematic issue, I use the life and work of novelist Michèle Roberts, as a case study in female genius within an interdisciplinary field, in order to acknowledge the conditions that have limited a singular woman's literary and theological aspirations but also to claim that she is able to give voice to something creative of her own.
The key concept of female genius within this project draws on Julia Kristeva's notion of being a subject without implicitly excluding embodiment and female desire as in normative male theology, or in notions of genius derived from Romanticism. Roberts' work as a writer qualifies her as female genius in so far as it challenges aspects of traditional Christianity, bringing to birth new relationships between theological themes and scriptural narratives without excluding her singular female desires and pleasures as a writer. This paper—as part of a more inclusive, historical survey of the work of women writers crossing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and Christian theology over the last several centuries also asks whether, in order to do proper justice to the real and proven limitations imposed on countless women in these fields across global and historical contexts, we need, at the same time, to reduce the Christian tradition to something that is always antithetical or for which women can take absolutely no credit or bear no responsibility.
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Norwood, Janice. "Picturing Nineteenth-Century Female Theatre Managers: the Iconology of Eliza Vestris and Sara Lane." New Theatre Quarterly 33, no. 1 (January 10, 2017): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x16000592.
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Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797–1856) and Sara Lane (1822–99) were two pioneering women in nineteenth-century theatre history. Both were accomplished singers who made their names initially in comic and breeches roles and, during periods when theatrical management was almost exclusively confined to men, both ran successful theatre companies in London. Despite these parallels in their professional activities, there are substantial disparities in the scrutiny to which their personal lives were subjected and in how their contemporaries and posterity have memorialized them. In this article, Janice Norwood examines a range of portraits and cartoons of the two women, revealing how the images created and reflected the women's public identities, as well as recording changes in aesthetic practice and social attitudes. She argues that the women's iconology was fundamentally shaped by the contemporary discourse of gender difference. Janice Norwood is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Drama, and Theatre Studies at the University of Hertfordshire. She has published on various aspects of nineteenth-century theatre history and edited a volume on Vestris for the Lives of Shakespearian Actors series (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011).
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Tripaldi, Ciara. "Sexual function after stoma formation in women with colorectal cancer." British Journal of Nursing 28, no. 16 (September 12, 2019): S4—S15. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2019.28.16.s4.
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Background: stoma formation is performed on many women with colorectal cancer. The physical effects of this are well known and explained to patients by health professionals. Stoma formation also affects sexual function for a variety of emotional and physical reasons, but this appears to be inadequately discussed. Aim: this literature review examined women's experience of sexual function after stoma formation. Method: five electronic databases were searched for peer-reviewed studies in the English language. Ancestry searches were also performed on the reference lists of the literature identified in this search. Findings: three themes emerged from the review: bodily disturbance; intimate relationships; and devaluation of sexuality. Body image is significantly disturbed by stoma formation, affecting self-esteem and satisfaction with the self. Altered bodily function, with odour and sounds from the stoma bag, is distressing to women. Women find a stoma difficult to accept, and partners'/husbands' acceptance of it has a large impact on how they feel about themselves. Sexual function is commonly overlooked in clinical settings, with health professionals prioritising physical and mental health over sexuality. Conclusions: stoma formation commonly has negative effects on women's sexual function and these should be more thoroughly addressed in healthcare settings. All the publications the author found examined heterosexual relationships and the experience of homosexual women should be studied.
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Green, Laura. "Rethinking Inadequacy: Constance Maynard and Victorian Autobiography." Victorian Literature and Culture 47, no. 3 (2019): 487–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150319000111.
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In 1881 two women who were to become part of the history of Victorian feminism met: Constance Maynard (1849–1935), graduate of one of the first cohorts of women to enter Girton College and founder in 1882 of Westfield College for Women, and Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc (1829–1925), friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the “Langham Place” group of feminists, and former editor of the feminist English Women's Journal. In 1873 Maynard became the first woman in England to receive a degree in “moral sciences,” from Girton, and subsequently worked for six years as a headmistress and schoolmistress at two groundbreaking girls' schools, Cheltenham Ladies' College and the new St. Leonard's School in Scotland. When she met Belloc, she was living in London with her brother, taking art classes at the Slade School, and beginning discussions that would lead to the foundation of Westfield College, formed as an explicitly Evangelical-identified parallel to ecumenical Girton and also as the first college to prepare women for the examinations and degrees offered by the University of London.
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Rocha, Juliana Schaia, Letícia Yumi Arima, Renata Iani Werneck, Samuel Jorge Moysés, and Márcia Helena Baldani. "Determinants of Dental Care Attendance during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review." Caries Research 52, no. 1-2 (2018): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000481407.
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Despite the fact that dental care attendance during pregnancy has been recommended by guidelines and institutions, the demand for dental services is still low among pregnant women. The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the determinants of dental care attendance during pregnancy. We performed a systematic literature search in the electronic databases PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Brazilian Library in Dentistry, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Medline using relevant keywords. Studies were filtered by publication year (2000-2016) and language (English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French). The included studies were assessed for quality. Their characteristics and statistically significant factors were reported. Fourteen papers were included in the review. The prevalence of dental service usage during pregnancy ranged from 16 to 83%. Demographic factors included women's age, marital status, parity, and nationality. The socioeconomic factors were income, educational level, and type of health insurance. Many psychological and behavioral factors played a role, including oral health practices, oral health and pregnancy beliefs, and health care maintenance. Referred symptoms of gingivitis, dental pain, or dental problems were perceived need. Demographic, socioeconomic, psychological, behavioral factors and perceived need were associated with the utilization of dental services during pregnancy. More well-designed studies with reliable outcomes are required to confirm the framework described in this review.
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Bulut, Sefa. "The History and Function of Sisterhood in Turkey: Bacıyan-ı Rum Organization in Medieval Era." Sawwa: Jurnal Studi Gender 16, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.21580/sa.v16i1.7591.
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Bacıyan-ı Rum (Anatolian Sisters Organization) is known as the world's first women's organization in history, but very few pieces of literature exist about this medieval organization. Thus, the aim was to reach up to all available historical documents about the topic and systematically analyze the nature and function of such an organization in the medieval era. Preliminary findings show that no written documents existed in English nor other languages except the Turkish language. It was also observed that this topic has emerged as an exciting area for many disciplines in recent times, leading to a sudden development of recent write-ups on such a topic. Therefore, this paper aims to introduce and explore the historical antecedent and functions of Bacıyan-ı Rum Organization to readers and other professionals interested in history, ethics, women, and gender studies. Kinds of literature were reviewed across history, economics, politics, travelogues, art, sociology, and anthropology to provide an extensive and detailed understanding of such a remarkable phenomenal women organization that existed in the Islamic world of the Medieval Era in Anatolia, Turkey.
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Iordăchescu, Diana-Antonia, Corina-Ioana Paica, Elena Otilia Vladislav, Ana-Ilinca Ilie, Corina Gică, Gheorghe Peltecu, Anca Maria Panaitescu, and Nicolae Gică. "PRENATAL MATERNAL SLEEP." Romanian Medical Journal 68, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 169–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.37897/rmj.2021.2.7.
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Pregnancy affects women's sleep in many ways. Physical and emotional difficulties, especially towards the end of pregnancy, can lead to sleep disorders. Several studies suggest associations between sleep quality and high blood pressure, diabetes and depression. Sleep deprivation affect both mother and fetus. Sleep disorders are associated with low birth weight, intrauterine growth restriction, premature birth and cesarean births. This paper is a review based on information from the literature. The analysis was limited to articles and guidelines in English published between January 1, 2000 and May 1, 2020 on PubMed, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar using the following keywords: sleep, pregnancy, depression, anxiety, mental health, sleep disorders, pregnant women, interventions, treatment. In this review, we discuss the characteristics of prenatal maternal sleep, hormonal changes during pregnancy and their effects on sleep, the effects of changing sleep patterns on the pregnant woman, and the interventions needed to optimize sleep quality. According to the literature, sleep disorders are significant risk factors for mood disorders. Knowing sleep changes and their effects is useful for informing mothers. Consideration of non-pharmacological treatments and interventions such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness therapy and relaxation exercises can be effective in optimizing the quality of sleep in pregnant women.
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Meschino, Danielle, Daniel Lindsay, Grace H. Tang, Paula D. James, and Michelle Sholzberg. "A Major Knowledge Gap in Women's Health: The Combined Effect of Antifibrinolytics and Estrogen on Risk of Thromboembolism - a Scoping Review." Blood 136, Supplement 1 (November 5, 2020): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2020-142175.
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Background:Up to 30% of women of reproductive age will seek medical attention for heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), which negatively affects health-related quality of life. Both estrogen-containing oral contraceptives and antifibrinolytic agents are essential first-line treatments for HMB. Anecdotally, these agents appear synergistically effective when used in combination. Despite the strong evidence for the independent efficacy and safety of these agents for HMB as well as the use of antifibrinolytics in other high-estrogen states such as the post-partum state, prescribers are frequently uncomfortable prescribing them in combination due to the theoretical increased risk of thrombosis. Objective:To systematically evaluate the literature that explores the combined effect of pharmacologic or high physiologic estrogen and antifibrinolytic agents on risk of thromboembolism in women of reproductive age when used for heavy menstrual or post-partum bleeding. Methods:A literature search was performed on Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Scopus from inception to July 2020. References of included articles were screened and a grey literature search was conducted to identify additional sources. Studies written in English that explored the risk of thromboembolism in women of reproductive age prescribed antifibrinolytic agents alongside estrogen-containing contraceptives or with a physiologic high-estrogen state were included. A thromboembolic event was defined as formation of a blood clot/thrombus in any arterial or venous structure with or without travel to a site distal to its point of origin, confirmed by appropriate diagnostic imaging/testing (including but not limited to deep vein thrombosis, superficial vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction, mesenteric ischemia, ischemic colitis, kidney/spleen/liver infarct, or critical limb ischemia). Screening and data abstraction were performed by two independent reviewers (DM, DL) and conflicts were adjudicated by a third reviewer (MS). Results:A total of 2389 title and abstracts were identified from the literature. Of those, a total of 33 studies with 27933 participants were extracted for full text review. Of these studies, 31 investigatedantifibrinolytic use for post-partum bleeding: 22 randomized controlled trials (RCT), 3 retrospective cohort studies, 1 combined prospective-retrospective cohort study, 2 case series, and 3 case reports. Almost all (29/31) of these studies found no increased rate/risk of thromboembolism. However, only 4 of these studies were powered to make this assessment, all of which were RCTs. The 2 studies that described thromboembolism with antifibrinolytic use in the postpartum period were a case report and case series (N=18), respectively. We found only 2 case reports published describing thromboembolism withconcomitant estrogen-containing contraceptives and antifibrinolytic use, both of which reported thromboembolism in women using both agents for less than 3 months. Conclusions:We found no clear evidence that intermittent use of antifibrinolytics in either high physiologic or pharmacologic estrogenic states results in higher rates of thromboembolism. Prospective studies are warranted, particularly in the area of combined estrogen-containing contraceptive and antifibrinolytic use, to provide an accurate assessment of risk and properly inform prescribing practices. Disclosures James: Shire/Takeda:Research Funding;Bayer:Research Funding;CSL Behring:Research Funding.Sholzberg:Amgen:Honoraria, Other: Scientific Advisory Board, Research Funding;Octapharma:Honoraria, Other: Scientific Advisory Board, Research Funding;Takeda:Honoraria, Other: Scientific Advisory Board, Research Funding;Novartis:Honoraria, Other: Scientific Advisory Board;NovoNordisk:Honoraria, Other: Scientific Advisory Board.
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Arya, Sumedha, and Michelle Sholzberg. "Are There Inequities in Access to Care Amongst Women with Inherited Bleeding Disorders? a Systematic Review." Blood 132, Supplement 1 (November 29, 2018): 5813. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-99-111725.
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Abstract Introduction: Despite the manifold symptoms women with inherited bleeding disorders experience, whether they receive timely screening and specialist referral remains unclear. While literature on this topic is sparse, studies have found that, irrespective of the hemostatic challenges women face, they are often unlikely to be referred to hematologists, subsequently remaining undiagnosed and under-treated. Recognition and early diagnosis remain paramount for management and avoidance of complications, particularly as women with bleeding disorders are at increased risk for heavy menstrual bleeding, anemia, post-partum hemorrhage, and decreased quality of life. However, to our knowledge, no studies have systematically assessed whether women face unique barriers to receiving specialist care and timely treatment. This systematic review sought to better characterize literature on access to care for women with inherited bleeding disorders. Methods: A systematic review was conducted to assess the literature on access to care for women with inherited bleeding disorders. This was conducted following the Cochrane Handbook, and reported as per Preferred Reporting for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. In consultation with a health services librarian, we designed a search strategy in order to identify published papers reporting on all forms of bleeding diatheses. Inclusion criteria included all studies examining bleeding disorders and equity of care in women after the year 2000; exclusion criteria included studies written in a non-English language or only enrolling men. Two review authors independently extracted data and assessed included studies for risk of bias. Risk of bias was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa guidelines. The GRADE approach was used to assess quality of evidence. If required, additional data was sought from study authors. Results: Of 526 screened abstracts, only a small subset (N=12) explicitly focused on women's health, with the majority focusing on gynecologic and obstetric complications associated with von Willebrand Disease (VWD). There was significant heterogeneity in study methodology and populations enrolled. Only two studies explicitly studied self-reported barriers to hemophilia care, with one study largely enrolling men with hemophilia A of moderate-severe severity. Within the literature investigating barriers to care, themes that emerged included greater difficulties surrounding access to treatment for women, a tendency for hemophilia carriers to encounter dismissive healthcare provider attitudes, and ignorance around bleeding disorders in women. These studies proposed that unmet needs, particularly for women with inherited bleeding disorders, require further evaluation. However, risk of bias was found to be high, and grade of evidence low. Discussion: We sought to better characterize the literature on access to care for women with inherited bleeding disorders, and found that literature on this topic is particularly sparse. Given our lack of understanding of women's experiences, and particularly the experiences of hemophilia carriers, ongoing efforts are needed to appreciate where inequities in care may exist. Using qualitative research methodology, we will explore the experiences of women, as well as other understudied populations, who live with bleeding disorders. By identifying possible demographic, geographic, and systems level factors hindering patients' access to care, we hope to increase healthcare provider awareness around existing barriers and, through targeted interventions, promote patient self-advocacy. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Davies, Nicola, and Teresa Burdett. "Would integrating women's professional care of pelvic organ prolapse improve the symptoms and quality of life: an integrative literature review." Journal of Integrated Care 28, no. 2 (April 4, 2020): 119–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-07-2019-0032.
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PurposeIntegrated healthcare is a central tenant of the NHS Long Term Plan (NHS, 2019). NICE in 2019 published guidelines; advising the integration of multidisciplinary professionals which may lead to an improvement in conservative treatment methods of pelvic organ prolapse. Therefore, current literature on the conservative treatments for pelvic organ prolapse needs to be reviewed to ascertain if an integrated approach would improve the symptoms and quality of life for women.Design/methodology/approachA systematic review of the literature between 2013 and 2018 was implemented. Papers included were written in English, peer-reviewed and consisted of treatments of pelvic organ prolapse in women. Papers containing surgical interventions, postpartum participants, reviews, evaluations, guidelines, follow-up studies, focusing on cost effectiveness, sexual function were excluded.FindingsSeven studies in total were included, and two overarching themes were identified: quality of life after treatment and the effect of conservative treatment on pelvic organ prolapse symptoms. The literature suggested that integrating care had a more positive outcome on pelvic organ symptoms and quality of life.Research limitations/implicationsTo develop a robust enhanced model of care for conservative treatment of pelvic organ prolapse through more mixed method or qualitative research, that incorporates integrative treatment methods with collaboration from multidisciplinary professionals.Practical implicationsThe practical implications of integrating the conservative management of pelvic organ prolapse is the communication between the multidisciplinary team must be exceptional to ensure everyone understands and agrees the treatment that is being provided to patient. Also, effective teamwork is important to ensure the patient receives the best care with input from the correct disciplines. The multi-professional team will need to have regular meetings to discuss and implement care plans for patients that might prove difficult to schedule due to differing commitments and priorities. This must be overcome to insure a successful and effective integrated approach to pelvic organ prolapse is delivered.Social implicationsThe social implications of integrating the professional approach to women's care of pelvic organ prolapse involves reducing the severity of the symptoms therefore, increasing the quality of life. This may result in the reduction of surgical intervention due to the patient being satisfied with the conservative management. Through integrating the management of the prolapse the patient will receive an accessible individualised care plan pathway that focuses on treating or reducing the impact of the symptoms that are bothersome to the patient whilst managing patient expectations. Patients will also, be reassured by the number of multi-disciplinary professionals involved in their care.Originality/valueGlobal integration of conservative treatments and multidisciplinary-professionals specialising in pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction is needed.
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Harrington, Emily. "The Expiration of Commitments in Adelaide Procter's “Homeward Bound”." Victorian Literature and Culture 48, no. 2 (2020): 435–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000042.
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It has been a long time since the poetry of Adelaide Anne Procter, a favorite of Queen Victoria, captured much interest from readers of poetry, whether they be anthology aficionados, scholars, or students. Now considered a minor poet of the period, she was nevertheless a quintessential poet activist of her day, raising money for and working with the Providence Row Night Refuge, editing and contributing to the English Women's Journal alongside the Langham Place Feminists and the Society for the Employment of Women. She published volumes of her own poems, one of which ran to as many as nineteen editions between 1858 and 1881, and her work was featured regularly in Charles Dickens's periodical Household Words. Her legacy stands as a powerful testimony to the way ideas and tastes change over time. Full of angels, Christmases, quietly suffering children, and pious nuns (she converted to Catholicism in 1851), her poetry is often dismissed as sentimental and clichéd. A glance at her forms reveals many straightforward tetrameters with expected alternating, end-stopped rhymes, an easiness that seems to ally form and content. If Adorno had ever taken the time to read her poetry, he probably would have hated it, not just for its Catholic faith and its frequent focus on sin and redemption, but for its attempt “to work at the level of fundamental attitudes,” typical of committed art. Consider these lines from her frequently anthologized “Homeless,” which asks readers to recognize that their society takes better care of animals, criminals, and commodities than of the homeless poor: For each man knows the market valueOf silk or woolen or cotton…But in counting the riches of EnglandI think our Poor are forgotten.
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Peyre, Henri. "1960: Facing the New Decade." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 115, no. 7 (December 2000): 1862. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463587.
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If ours is a young man's world, it is also a woman's world. Some of us who are fortunate to have women among our graduate students and as young colleagues are extraordinarily impressed by the high level of their work. Indeed, we often wonder if criticism will not make substantial strides forward, blending the cognitive and the affective values, taste and a rational approach, the logic of the intellect and that of the heart, only when women take over a large share of it, as they are now out-numbering men as teachers of English and of languages in many schools. This country witnessed a bold feminist movement several decades ago. The second sex then conquered all the rights and courageously accepted corresponding duties. College presidents in women's colleges were in many cases women. In anthropology, archeology, psychology several American women have been outstanding. So have they been in journalism. Why not to the same extent today in philology, medieval studies, literary history, criticism? Are men to blame, wary of these potential rivals, preferring to utilize women's generosity and their capacity for devoted attachment by keeping them as secretaries and obedient confidents of their profound male cogitations? Have women put so much energy in once winning equality and security that they are now content to enjoy these rights, and to look upon maternity and procreation without tears and without anesthesia as their sole vocation? Men in any case have the duty to make room for them, to incite them to express themselves more boldly, to elect them to more positions of power in this Association and in others, to ask them for the healthy challenge which our duller brains need to receive from their keener perceptiveness in matters of art and literature.
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Jacobs, Elizabeth. "Shadow of a Man: a Chicana/Latina Drama as Embodied Feminist Practice." New Theatre Quarterly 31, no. 1 (January 30, 2015): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x15000056.
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One of the most important influences on the development of Cherríe Moraga's feminist theatre was undoubtedly the work of Maria Irene Fornes, the Cuban American playwright and director. Moraga wrote the first drafts of her second play Shadow of a Man while on Fornes's residency programme at the INTAR Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Laboratory in New York, and later Fornes directed the premiere at the Brava-Eureka Theatre in San Francisco (1990). The play radically restages the Chicana body through an exploration of the sexual and gendered politics of the family. Much has been written on how the family has traditionally been the stronghold of Chicana/o culture, but Shadow of a Man stages one of its most powerful criticisms, revealing how the complex kinship structures often mask male violence and sexual abuse. Using archival material and a range of critical studies, in this article Elizabeth Jacobs explores Moraga's theatre as an embodied feminist practice and as a means to displace the entrenched ideology of the family. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, as part of the 2014 International Women's Day events. Elizabeth Jacobs is the author of Mexican American Literature: the Politics of Identity (Routledge, 2006). Her articles have appeared in Comparative American Studies (2012), Journal of Adaptation and Film Studies (2009), Theatres of Thought: Theatre, Performance, and Philosophy (2008), and New Theatre Quarterly (2007). She works at Aberystwyth University.
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Amaro, Hortensia, Nancy Felipe Russo, and Jose A. Pares-Avila. "Contemporary Research on Hispanic Women: A Selected Bibliography of the Social Science Literature." Psychology of Women Quarterly 11, no. 4 (December 1987): 523–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1987.tb00922.x.
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One of the difficulties in developing a new area of research in any field is the lag time between the interest in the area on the part of researchers and the interest in publishing on the part of editors. Initial work may appear in books or publications outside the disciplinary mainstream and be overlooked in literature searches that focus on established journals. Further, work appearing in mainstream journals may be constrained by traditional paradigms and reflect Anglocentric and sexist biases of traditional research. This has been true for work on Hispanic women, which has been hallmarked by Anglocentric and sexist bias (Senour, 1977). This 134-item bibliography addresses the difficulty of identifying the diverse work on Hispanic women in the U.S. and Puerto Rico by bringing a large part of it together in one place. We have three goals. The first is to facilitate the integration of material on Hispanic women into the curriculum of psychology. The second is to promote and disseminate research on the psychology of Hispanic women. The third is to recognize contributions of early researchers who have pioneered in developing and articulating knowledge about this neglected group. We want to emphasize that this bibliography is not comprehensive. The focus is on scholarly work in the English language that advances understanding of Hispanic women's uniqueness and diversity as a group. Studies that included Hispanic women in their sample but did not specifically focus on Hispanic women or did not conduct gender or gender/ethnicity analyses were not included.
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Frye, Susan C. "Michelle Dowd. Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. Early Modern Cultural Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xv + 254 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978–0–230–61345–4." Renaissance Quarterly 63, no. 4 (2010): 1425–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/658619.
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Sheikhtaheri, Abbas, Azin Nahvijou, and Esmat Mashoof. "Information Needs of Women with Breast Cancer: A Review of the Literature." Frontiers in Health Informatics 9, no. 1 (March 25, 2020): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.30699/fhi.v9i1.216.
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Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and a serious concern for women's health. Providing sufficient information to these patients increases the level of their participation and improves the quality of their care. Therefore, given the high survival rate of this cancer, it is necessary to understand their information needs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the information needs of women with breast cancer.Material and Methods: The study is a systematic review of the literature. A search of the databases of PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct and ProQuest has been conducted on studies published in English over the period 2010-2017. 2881 articles were retrieved and evaluated for title, abstract and full text and after eliminating duplicate and unrelated cases, 18 articles related to the purpose of the study were selected. The articles were then analyzed using content analysis.Results: Of the 2881 retrieved articles, 18 studies on the information needs of patients with breast cancer were finally reviewed. According to these studies, most information needs were in the areas of diagnosis and treatment (first rank), daily activities (second rank), disease acceptance and self-image (third rank), personal and family life (fourth rank) and sexual health (fifth rank). The most important information needs in the field of diagnosis and treatment was outcomes and side effects of treatment, in the area of daily activities on the impact of disease on social activity, in the area of disease acceptance and self-image was breast reconstruction, body appearance and need for consultation, in the area of personal life, cancer risk for the family and in the area of sexual health was the effect of cancer on sexual attraction were the most cited needs.Conclusion:Providing information to patients is one of the most important factors in supporting cancer care and understanding the information needs is the first step in seeking information. Patients with breast cancer are interested in receiving information that will help them understand cancer, make decisions about it, and manage their treatment.
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Maryati, Ida, Nur Rifa Fatmia, Okta Sri Rahmayani, Raden Roro Widiastuti, Lia Yulianti Yulianti, Reni Rohaniah, Rery Yuliani Pratiwi, and Riana Hendra. "A Systematic Review of Intervention on Improving Cervical Cancer Screening Rates." International Journal of Nursing and Health Services (IJNHS) 3, no. 4 (August 20, 2020): 525–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.35654/ijnhs.v3i4.340.
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Cervical cancer is a disease that can be prevented through early detection. However, cervical cancer is the fourth leading cause of death for women globally due to the low coverage of cervical cancer screening. An intervention is needed to increase the coverage of cervical cancer screening. This study aimed to provide current evidence of effective interventions to improve cervical cancer screening coverage, especially with low socio-economic conditions. This study uses a systematic design review to review the literature that has been evaluated in a structured, classified, and categorized based on evidence-based previously. The study's inclusion characteristics are as follows: all article searches are limited to those in English or Indonesian only, and scan bibliography to identify relevant articles, method design is RCT studies, or quasi-experiments. The study results found the characteristics of the article as follows: the majority of studies were conducted in the Americas, two studies in Asia, and one in Europe. The respondents' age varied from> 18 years to 75 years; the number of samples ranged from 102 to 12,061 respondents. Interventions were grouped into three types, namely: health education, self-testing, and reminders of the screening schedule. Among the three types of interventions most recommended is counseling with video media, because providing information with exciting media will increase knowledge which will increase women's interest in screening. Independent screening interventions can also increase the coverage of cervical cancer screening in women with low socio-economic conditions because this method allows more savings in funding
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Carapico, Sheila. "Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt." American Journal of Islam and Society 13, no. 2 (July 1, 1996): 269–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v13i2.2321.
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Over the past five years or so, the considerable western interest inthe role played by nongovernmental voluntary associations in Egypt hasbeen reflected in a growing English-language literature on the subject.Researchers tackle the question from a range of perspectives.One approach, relatively state-centered and legalistic, focuses on howCairo manages to control, co-opt, or "corporatize" autonomous organizationsincluding labor and professional syndicates, agricultural and othercooperatives, and private not-for-profit groups. The principle tool for reiningin private voluntary and community associations is the notorious Law32 of 1964. Under Law 32, the Ministry of Social Affairs can interferedirectly in all aspect of associational life-articulation of goals, election ofofficers, pursuit of projects, allocation of funds, and so on. Among the wellknownsecular nonprofit groups with international linkages that have beendenied licenses from the Ministry are the Egyptian Organization of HumanRights and the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. In this legal and policymilieu, many scholars and human rights activists argue that no registeredassociation in Egypt can properly be deemed "nongovernmental."Other analysts, however, accept Cairo's position that the threat of radicalIslam justifies authoritarian restrictions on independent organizations.The second group of studies is inspired partly by these concerns over theradicalization of Islamist associations. Scholars familiar with social, economic, and political circumstances in the Nile Valley usually try to counteracthysterical mass media portraits of "Muslim terrorists" with inquiries intothe structure, function, membership, activities, and ideologies of a range ofIslamist institutions including welfare and charitable associations. The particularstrength of politicized Islam in the 1990s, this research suggests, restson the capacity of Islamist charities to provide a crucial layer of social servicesto a burgeoning, underemployed, increasingly impoverished population.Opinion is divided, however, on the question of whether this circumstancefavors containment and stability or frustration and insurrection.A third set of studies, sometimes overlooked by scholars, comes fromwithin the Cairo-based donor community, the "development practitioners" ...
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Vishnuvajjala, Usha. "Women’s Contributions to Middle English Arthurian Scholarship." Journal of the International Arthurian Society 7, no. 1 (September 1, 2019): 91–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jias-2019-0005.
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Abstract This article examines the history of scholarship of both Middle English Arthurian literature and its afterlives to argue that the marginalisation of such literature has slowly diminished – often through the work of women. The increasing numbers of women in academia coincided with the advent of new methodologies in literary studies in the late-twentieth century to produce a wide range of scholarship on English Arthurian literature, including on texts that had long been considered beneath serious study. This work continues now, with recent studies considering English Arthuriana through postcolonial theory, queer theory, affect theory, adaptation studies and many other methods.
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Aydın, Nihal, and Hatice Yıldız. "Effects of traumatic birth experience and transmission intergenerationalTravmatik doğum deneyiminin etkileri ve nesiller arası aktarımı." Journal of Human Sciences 15, no. 1 (March 31, 2018): 604. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v15i1.5175.
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The birth is an individual and also important expression for women life. This experience can be perceived in a different way by each woman that can be defined by different feelings such as positive, negative or mixed. Some women perceive birth experience as a traumatic event. Traumatically perceived birth is considered an event that may trigger Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) reaction. It is stated that traumatic birth experience may cause permanent or long-term negative consequences in women's life, may negatively affect future health, subsequent birth experiences and family relations. It is reported that birth is part of the continuity from past to future and the effects are not limited to the woman giving birth, but also that the subsequent generations, and even the other women around it, can influence the birth perceptions and experiences. There are many studies shows that the effects of traumatic events are transmitted to the next generation. This genetic transmission suggests that traumatic birth is a serious problem not only affecting the women who will give birth to nowadays but also having long-term consequences. From today's women to future generations, obstetrics and gynecology nurses have important responsibilities to prevent of reaching traumatic experience of birth, is a natural part of women's life. In this article, it was aimed to investigate the importance of traumatic birth concept, risk factors, existing effects and future generations in the context of literature and to draw attention to the responsibilities of the obstetrics and gynecology nurses.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetDoğum bireyseldir ve kadın için çok yönlü önemli bir yaşam deyimidir. Bu deneyim her bir kadın tarafından farklı algılanabilmekte, olumlu, olumsuz ya da karışık farklı duygularla tanımlanabilmektedir. Bazı kadınlar ise doğum deneyimini travmatik bir olay olarak algılayabilmektedir. Travmatik olarak algılanan doğum, Posttravmatik Stres Bozukluğu (PTSB) reaksiyonunu tetikleyebilecek bir olay olarak kabul edilmektedir. Travmatik doğum deneyiminin kadının hayatında kalıcı veya uzun vadeli olumsuz sonuçlar doğurabileceği, gelecekteki sağlığını, sonraki doğum deneyimlerini ve aile içi ilişkilerini olumsuz etkileyebileceği belirtilmektedir. Doğumun geçmişten geleceğe giden devamlılığın bir parçası olduğu belirtilmekte ve etkilerinin doğum yapan kadınla sınırlı kalmayıp, onunla birlikte çevresindeki diğer kadınların ve hatta sonraki nesillerin doğum algılarını ve deneyimlerini de etkileyebildiği bildirilmektedir. Travmatik olayların etkilerinin sonraki nesillere aktarıldığını gösteren pek çok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Bu genetik aktarım travmatik doğumun da sadece günümüzde doğum yapacak kadınları etkilemeyip daha uzun vadeli sonuçları olabilecek ciddi bir sorun olduğunu göstermektedir. Kadın hayatının doğal bir parçası olan doğum eylemini günümüz kadınlarının ve gelecek nesillerin travmatik bir deneyim olarak hatırlamalarının önlenmesinde kadın doğum hemşirelerine önemli sorumluluklar düşmektedir. Bu makalede travmatik doğum kavramı, risk faktörleri, ortaya çıkan mevcut etkileri ve gelecek nesiller açısından önemini literatür bağlamında irdelemek, konuya ve kadın doğum hemşiresinin sorumluluklarına dikkat çekmek amaçlanmıştır.
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Schabert, Ina. "No Room of One's Own: Women's Studies in English Departments in Germany." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 1 (January 2004): 69–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x22909.
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Women's studies in english departments in germany have developed in a special and, when seen from an Anglo-American perspective, rather peculiar way. The irregularity, which seems to have been overlooked up to now, is caused by institutional and ideological conditions characteristic of German universities.
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Hartman, Michelle. "“Zahra’s Uncle, or Where Are Men in Women’s War Stories?”." Journal of Arabic Literature 51, no. 1-2 (April 6, 2020): 83–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341401.
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Abstract Scholarship in modern Arabic literary studies has treated the literature of the Lebanese Civil War, particularly novels written by women, in some depth. One of the most important texts used in both scholarship and teaching about this war is Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s Ḥikāyat Zahrah, translated as The Story of Zahra. This article focuses specifically on the one chapter in the novel narrated from the point of view of the protagonist’s uncle in order to explore how the English translation dramatically changes a number of elements in the original text. It uses insights from translation studies to show how significant changes to the novel in translation produce a text that serves particular ideological functions in English, consistent with a horizon of expectations that constructs Arab women as oppressed and passive victims of war. The article analyzes specific translation choices—most notably the extensive editing out of words, sentences, and passages—to demonstrate how the character of Zahrah’s uncle is changed in English and depicted as an unsavory and abusive man with little background, context, or history that would help the reader to better understand the character’s actions and motivations. It also shows how cutting out elements of the uncle’s story serves to depoliticize the text in English, divesting it of its local political context and changing its meaning and function as a novel about the Lebanese Civil War. The article is grounded in postcolonial, feminist translation studies, especially those dealing with Arabic fiction, to argue that the English-language novel The Story of Zahra functions within an ideological field that recycles stereotypes and tropes about Arab women. It will propose that the translation changes here depict Arab men against Arab women, rather than in relation to them, and subordinate the analysis of politics and communal relations to a more individual and individualized story of one exceptional woman.
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Johns, Alessa. "Anna Jameson in Germany: ‘A.W.’ and Women's Translation." Translation and Literature 19, no. 2 (September 2010): 190–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2010.0004.
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The German translator of Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) was not Adolph Wagner but Amalie Winter. This prompts reflection on networking within English-German translating activity of this era, and underscores the significance of female translators within it.
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Damsma, Alinda. "Women’s Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge." Journal of Jewish Studies 69, no. 2 (October 1, 2018): 398–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.18647/3379/jjs-2018.
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Singh, Dr Abha. "Space and Identity of Women in Indian English Writings." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 11 (November 28, 2019): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10134.
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The women’s studies have been receiving increasing academic and disciplinary recognition throughout the globe. The writers are determined to narrate, respond and react to the place of women in society. The purpose of the present paper is to redefine the image of women in post colonial Indian English literature. The post colonial Indian English writers focus on major issues relating to woman such as her awakening to the realization of her individuality, her breaking away with the traditional image. The transformation of the idealized women into an assertive self willed woman, searching and discovering her true self is described by various Indian Writers like Anita Desai, Sashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Bharati Mukherjee, Kamla Markandaya, Manju Kapoor and many others have depicted females who are not silent sufferers but have learnt to fight against injustice and humiliation.
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Harris, Mary N. "Beleaguered but Determined: Irish Women Writers in Irish." Feminist Review 51, no. 1 (November 1995): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1995.31.
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A growing number of Irish women have chosen to write in Irish for reasons varying from a desire to promote and preserve the Irish language to a belief that a marginalized language is an appropriate vehicle of expression for marginalized women. Their work explores aspects of womanhood relating to sexuality, relationships, motherhood and religion. Some feel hampered by the lack of female models. Until recent years there were few attempts on the part of women to explore the reality of women's lives through literature in Irish. The largely subordinate role played by women in literary matters as teachers, translators, and writers of children's literature reflected the position of women in Irish society since the achievement of independence in the 1920s. The work of earlier women poets has, for the most part, lain buried in manuscripts and is only recently being excavated by scholars. The problems of writing for a limited audience have been partially overcome in recent years by increased production of dual-language books. The increase in translation has sparked off an intense controversy among the Irish language community, some of whom are concerned that both the style and content of writing in Irish are adversely influenced by the knowledge that the literature will be read largely in translation. Nevertheless, translation also has positive implications. Interest in women's literature is helping to break down the traditional barriers between Irish literature in Irish and in English. The isolation of Irish literature in Irish is further broken down by the fact that women writers in Irish and their critics operate in a wider international context of women's literature.
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Thompson, Jessica R., Lauren R. Risser, Madeline N. Dunfee, Nancy E. Schoenberg, and Jessica G. Burke. "Place, Power, and Premature Mortality: A Rapid Scoping Review on the Health of Women in Appalachia." American Journal of Health Promotion 35, no. 7 (April 28, 2021): 1015–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08901171211011388.
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Objective: Appalachian women continue to die younger than in other US regions. We performed a rapid scoping review to summarize women’s health research in Appalachia from 2000 to 2019, including health topics, study populations, theoretical frameworks, methods, and findings. Data Source: We searched bibliographic databases (eg, PubMed, PsycINFO, Google Scholar) for literature focusing on women’s health in Appalachia. Study Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria: Included articles were: (1) on women’s health in Appalachia; (2) published January 2000 to June 2019; (3) peer-reviewed; and (4) written in English. We excluded studies without reported data findings. Data Extraction: Two coders reviewed articles for descriptive information to create summary tables comparing variables of interest. Data Synthesis: Two coders co-reviewed a sub-sample to ensure consensus and refine data charting categories. We categorized major findings across the social-ecological framework. Results: A search of nearly 2 decades of literature revealed 81 articles, which primarily focused on cancer disparities (49.4%) and prenatal/pregnancy outcomes (23.5%). Many of these research studies took place in Central Appalachia (eg, 42.0% in Kentucky) with reproductive or middle-aged women (82.7%). Half of the studies employed quantitative methods, and half used qualitative methods, with few mixed method or community-engaged approaches (3.7%). Nearly half (40.7%) did not specify a theoretical framework. Findings included complex multi-level factors with few articles exploring the co-occurrence of factors across multiple levels. Conclusions: Future studies should: 1) systematically include Appalachian women at various life stages from under-represented sub-regions; 2) expand the use of rigorous methods and specified theoretical frameworks to account for complex interactions of social-ecological factors; and 3) build upon existing community assets to improve health in this vulnerable population.
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Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna. "Witch-hunt or women’s oppression? The secularization and re-enchantment of the witches of Ashkelon tale by contemporary spiritualities’ leaders." Journal of Jewish Studies 72, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 164–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.18647/3487/jjs-2021.
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McKenzie, Gemma, Glenn Robert, and Elsa Montgomery. "Exploring the conceptualisation and study of freebirthing as a historical and social phenomenon: a meta-narrative review of diverse research traditions." Medical Humanities 46, no. 4 (May 2, 2020): 512–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011786.
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Freebirthing is a clandestine practice whereby women intentionally give birth without healthcare professionals (HCPs) present in countries where there are medical facilities available to assist them. Women who make this decision are frequently subjected to stigma and condemnation, yet research on the phenomenon suggests that women’s motivations are often complex. The aim of this review was to explore how freebirth has been conceptualised over time in the English-language academic and grey literature. The meta-narrative methodology employed enables a phenomenon to be understood within and between differing research traditions, as well as against its social and historical context. Our research uncovered nine research traditions (nursing, autobiographical text with birthing philosophy, midwifery, activism, medicine, sociology, law and ethics, pregnancy and birth advice, and anthropology) originating from eight countries and spanning the years 1957–2018. Most of the texts were written by women, with the majority being non-empirical. Empirical studies on freebirth were usually qualitative, although there were a small number of quantitative medical and midwifery studies; these texts often focused on women’s motivations and highlighted a range of reasons as to why a woman would decide to give birth without HCPs present. Motivations frequently related to women’s previous negative maternity experiences and the type of maternity care available, for example medicalised and hospital-based. The use of the meta-narrative methodology allowed the origins of freebirth in 1950s America to be traced to present-day empirical studies of the phenomenon. This highlighted how the subject and the publication of literature relating to freebirth are embedded within their social and historical contexts. From its very inception, freebirth aligns with the medicalisation of childbirth, the position of women in society, the provision of maternity care and the way in which women experience maternity services.
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Davey, E. R. "Reviews : English and General Studies Literature, Education and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice 1780-1832. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 8.) By Alan Richardson. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 327. £35.00. Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England 1790-1820. By Edward Copeland. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 9.) Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii + 291. £35.00. Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Edited by Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 329. £15.95 (p/bk." Journal of European Studies 26, no. 1 (March 1996): 079–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004724419602600106.
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Yongbai, Tao. "Off the Margins." positions: asia critique 28, no. 1 (February 1, 2020): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7913054.
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This article offers a chronological survey of the development of women’s art in China between 1990 and 2010. Outlining the historical circumstances that first resulted in the dearth of a female consciousness in Chinese art until the end of the twentieth century, this article touches on the divergent roots of the women’s liberation movement and western feminism, the Maoist era’s negation of femininity, and the lingering patriarchal structure of art institutions. It was only after a series of groundbreaking exhibitions exploring the female psyche in the 1990s that women artists found a space to voice their female subjectivities, and still they struggled to resist the slippery essentialism of a “women’s art” fad. The new millennium saw women artists expanding their thematic horizons, breaching important political and social issues as well as such subjects as ecology, astronomy, gemology, and urbanization, with many forgoing the label of feminist—or even women’s—art. Each sought to transcend the limitations of personal experience and achieve a greater human resonance. This study examines the work of thirteen women artists whose careers are relatively unknown in the English language, ultimately delving into the complex relationships among sex, gender, humanity, and art in contemporary China.
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Nolan, Melanie. "The ‘Playful Pluralist’: The Pioneer Genre-Roaming of ‘Crypto-Feminist’ Coral Lansbury." Literature & History 28, no. 2 (September 14, 2019): 175–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197319870370.
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Coral Lansbury wrote in a number of different registers and genres. Serially, she was an Australian radio script and ‘soaps’ writer, studied in New Zealand as an expatriate, became a Distinguished Professor of English specialising in British Victorian Studies in the USA and then a novelist. As well as boomeranging between writing careers and countries of the Anglosphere, the thrice-married Lansbury experienced widowhood, unmarried motherhood and divorce; she abandoned her child to her husband and later reconciled with her son. Her life reads like a plot from one of her novels. Lansbury was not active in women’s associations or the organised feminist movement. Her radio work, lectures and book tours in which she expounded her ‘crypto’ and, then later, ‘economic’ and ‘conservative-anarchist’ feminism were ephemeral. I argue that she should be repatriated into the history of postwar Australian feminism because, while mercurial and living in the USA, she pursued an expatriate professional strategy successfully and consistently sought to extend women’s vocation through kinds of popular literature. Her work reveals pluralism as much as contradiction.
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Ralston, Elizabeth R., Priscilla Smith, Joseph Chilcot, Sergio A. Silverio, and Kate Bramham. "Perceptions of risk in pregnancy with chronic disease: A systematic review and thematic synthesis." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (July 19, 2021): e0254956. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254956.
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Background Women with chronic disease are at increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Pregnancies which pose higher risk, often require increased medical supervision and intervention. How women perceive their pregnancy risk and its impact on health behaviour is poorly understood. The aim of this systematic review of qualitative literature is to evaluate risk perceptions of pregnancy in women with chronic disease. Methods Eleven electronic databases including grey literature were systematically searched for qualitative studies published in English which reported on pregnancy, risk perception and chronic disease. Full texts were reviewed by two researchers, independently. Quality was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Qualitative checklist and data were synthesised using a thematic synthesis approach. The analysis used all text under the findings or results section from each included paper as data. The protocol was registered with PROSPERO. Results Eight studies were included in the review. Three themes with sub-themes were constructed from the analysis including: Information Synthesis (Sub-themes: Risk to Self and Risk to Baby), Psychosocial Factors (Sub-themes: Emotional Response, Self-efficacy, Healthcare Relationship), and Impact on Behaviour (Sub-themes: Perceived Risk and Objective Risk). Themes fitted within an overarching concept of Balancing Act. The themes together inter-relate to understand how women with chronic disease perceive their risk in pregnancy. Conclusions Women’s pregnancy-related behaviour and engagement with healthcare services appear to be influenced by their perception of pregnancy risk. Women with chronic disease have risk perceptions which are highly individualised. Assessment and communication of women’s pregnancy risk should consider their own understanding and perception of risk. Different chronic diseases introduce diverse pregnancy risks and further research is needed to understand women’s risk perceptions in specific chronic diseases.
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Brodzki, Bella. "History, Cultural Memory, and the Tasks of Translation in T. Obinkaram Echewa's I Saw the Sky Catch Fire." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 114, no. 2 (March 1999): 207–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463392.
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Across a range of disciplines and discourses, translation has become a central concern for many scholars working in the humanities. Indeed, the notion of translation has begun to inflect the most compelling and consequential debates on meaning and representation. My essay gives attention to Walter Benjamin's redemptive and generative notion of translation as survival and to postmodern currents in translation studies alongside a contemporary Nigerian diasporic novel written in English, I Saw the Sky Catch Fire. Framed by a passing on of the story of the Women's War (the Igbo women's tax revolt against the British in 1929), Echewa's narrative critiques the complicitous practices of translation, colonialism, and anthropology. In this exemplary instance of a type of hybrid postcolonial textuality, processes of intergenerational and intercultural transmission, conceived as both acts of translation and instruments of historical consciousness, perform as well as disrupt the work of cultural memory.
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Mengesha, Zelalem Birhanu, Tinashe Dune, and Janette Perz. "Culturally and linguistically diverse women’s views and experiences of accessing sexual and reproductive health care in Australia: a systematic review." Sexual Health 13, no. 4 (2016): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh15235.
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The proportion of women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds is growing in Australia. Synthesising existing evidence concerning the views and experiences of these women in accessing sexual and reproductive health care is crucial to future policy and service development. A systematic review of scientific articles and grey literature published in English between 1990 and 2015 was conducted to identify the barriers and facilitators in accessing sexual and reproductive health care in Australia experienced by culturally and linguistically diverse women. The search strategy covered seven electronic databases (ProQuest, PubMed, EMBASE/Elsevier, SCOPUS, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Infomit) and websites. Thematic analysis methodology was used to analyse and interpret the data extracted from individual studies. From the 1401 potentially relevant articles identified, 22 articles that represent the views and experiences of 1943 culturally and linguistically diverse women in accessing sexual and reproductive health care in Australia were reviewed. The main barriers and facilitators identified were grouped into three major themes. These include personal level experiences of accessing health care, women’s interaction with the healthcare system and women’s experience with healthcare providers. Implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed based on the findings of the review.
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Thwaites, Annette, Anh B. Tran, and Sue Mann. "Women’s and healthcare professionals’ views on immediate postnatal contraception provision: a literature review." BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health 45, no. 2 (April 2019): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2018-200231.
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ObjectivesProvision of immediate postnatal contraception, including long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods, is increasingly identified and endorsed as a key strategy for reducing unplanned and rapid repeat pregnancies. This literature review aims to evaluatethe views of women and healthcare professionals regarding the receipt, initiation or delivery of these services.MethodsDatabases (Embase, Medline, CINAHL, HMIC) were searched for relevant English language studies, from January2003 to December 2017. In addition, Evidence Search, Google Scholar and Scopus (citation search) were used to identify further literature. Other relevant websites were accessed for policies, guidance and supplementary grey literature.ResultsThere is clear guidance on how to deliver good-quality postnatal contraception to women, but the reality of service delivery in the UK does not currently meet these aspirations, and guidance on implementation is lacking. The available evidence on the provision of immediate postnatal contraception focuses more on clinical rather than patient-centred outcomes. Research on postnatal women’s views is limited to receptivity to LARC and contraception counselling rather than what influences their decision-making process at this time. Research on views of healthcare professionals highlights a range of key systemic barriers to implementation.ConclusionsWhile views of postnatal women and healthcare professionals are largely in support of immediate postnatal contraception provision, important challenges have been raised and present a need for national sharing of service commissioning and delivery models, resources and evaluation data. Provider attitudes and training needs across multidisciplinary groups also need to be assessed and addressed as collaborative working across a motivated, skilled and up-to-date network of healthcare professionals is viewed as key to successful service implementation.
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Tosadori, Luca. "Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English, edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Gilberta Golinelli." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 62 (January 25, 2021): 207–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20205161.
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Bruhina, E. V., A. G. Mamontova, and Elena N. Usoltseva. "Melatonin in menopausal metabolic syndrome formation." Clinical Medicine (Russian Journal) 96, no. 2 (April 27, 2018): 116–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.18821/0023-2149-2018-96-2-116-122.
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Women’s life has changed considerably during the last decades. Often it can be characterized by hypodynamia, high-energy, refined diet, disturbance of circadian rhythms (working in shifts, staying for a long time in front of the TV screen or computer). All these factors, as well as, hormonal changes, which are connected with reduction of women’s reproductive function, increase the risk of metabolic syndrome. Thus, search of new therapeutic agent is currently taking place. Such medicament should effect on all symptoms of metabolic syndrome, and at the same time should be well co-administered with other drugs. Probably, one of such drugs is melatonin. The literature search was held in Russian (elibrary, cyberleninka.ru) and international (pubmed, wiley online library) data bases for the last seven years. Free access to the full document was of top-priority. The choice was limited by two languages: Russian and English. The article contains information about the metabolic syndrome frequency in a population, and metabolic changes in women’s organism in post-menopause. The article focuses on the role of melatonin in the menopause metabolic syndrome formation. Mechanisms of the melatonin influence on all the metabolic syndrome components: obesity, arterial hypertension, blood lipids changes, and insulin resistance are studied. The correlation between the melatonin secretion decrease and the atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus type II formation is observed. The article contains data about animal experiences and the melatonin use for its management in biological models. It is proved that melatonin has positive influence on metabolic syndrome symptoms in animal studies.
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Khabibullina, Lilia F. "Postcolonial Trauma in the 21st-Century English Female Fiction." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 15 (2021): 89–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/24099554/15/5.
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The postcolonial fiction of the 21st century has developed a new version of family chronicle depicting the life of several generations of migrants to demonstrate the complexity of their experience, different for each generation. This article aims at investigating this tradition from the perspective of three urgent problems: trauma, postcolonial experience, and the “female” theme. The author uses the most illustrative modern women’s postcolonial writings (Z. Smith, Ju. Chang) to show the types of trauma featured in postcolonial literature as well as the change in the character of traumatic experience, including the migrant’s automythologization from generation to generation. There are several types of trauma, or stages experienced by migrants: historical, migration and selfidentification, more or less correlated with three generations of migrants. Historical trauma is the most severe and most often insurmountable for the first generation. It generates a myth about the past, terrible or beautiful, depending on the writer’s intention realized at the level of the writer or the characters. A most expanded form of this trauma can be found in the novel Wild Swans by Jung Chang, where the “female” experience underlines the severity of the historical situation in the homeland of migrants. The trauma of migration manifests itself as a situation of deterritorialization, lack of place, when the experience of the past dominates and prevents the migrants from adapting to a new life. This situation is clearly illustrated in the novel White Teeth by Z. Smith, where the first generation of migrants cannot cope with the effects of trauma. The trauma of selfidentification promotes a fictitious identity in the younger generation of migrants. Unable to join real life communities, they create automyths, joining fictional communities based on cultural myths (Muslim organizations, rap culture, environmental organizations). Such examples can be found in Z. Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty. Thus, the problem of trauma undergoes erosion, because, strictly speaking, with each new generation, the event experienced as traumatic is less worth designating as such. Compared to historical trauma or the trauma of migration, trauma of self-identification is rather a psychological problem that affects the emotional sphere and is quite survivable for most of the characters.