Recently added articles from Journal of International Women's Studies:
Experiences of women war-torture survivors in Uganda: implications for health and human rights.
May 01, 2007; Liebling-Kalifani, Helen ... The effect of the aggressive rapes left me with constant chest, back and abdominal pain. I get some treatment but still, from time to time it starts all over again. It was terrible (Woman discussing the effects of civil war during a Kamuli Parish focus group). Amongst the issues ...
The task of being content: expatriate wives in Beijing, emotional work and patriarchal bargain.(Report)
May 01, 2007; Arieli, Daniella ... Abstract Based upon an ethnographic study of western expatriate (expat) wives in Beijing, this paper describes these women's 'patriarchal bargain' and the emotional labor it involves. Relocation entails pressures to support the husbands' careers in various ways, interruption of ...
Integration, clarification, substantiation: sex, gender, ethnicity and migration as social determinants of women's health.(Report)
May 01, 2007; Vissandjee, Bilkis ... Abstract The aim of this paper was to examine, via a scoping review, how the literature focusing on immigrant women's health, based on selected criteria, has been able to capture not only sex and gender differences but also the other socially grounded determinants of health. ...
Family law reform and the feminist debate: actually-existing Islamic feminism in the Maghreb and Malaysia.(Report)
May 01, 2007; Archer, Brad ... Abstract For an increasing number of Muslim women and women's rights activists, the stark disparity between the principles of justice and equality guaranteed by international and domestic legal norms on the one hand, and the oppressive environment of their homes that is ...
Gender bias after death: the case of the clergical cemetery, St. John's Orphanage, Thurgoona, NSW, Australia.(Company overview)
May 01, 2007; Spennemann, Dirk H.R. ... Abstract Cemeteries are commonly seen as reflective of the historic environment in which they were created and therefore form a unique interpretive tool for the cultural heritage manager. As this case study of clergical cemetery documents, physical heritage of a cemetery may ...
Pathologizing the female body: phallocentrism in Western science.(Report)
May 01, 2007; Libbon, Stephanie E. ... A woman's body reaches to the end of the world Deeper than any meaning, further than what she knows, Long, endless, yearning, unappeasable, profounder Than our touches, unconquerable, never to be mastered-- Theodore Holmes "Woman's Body" Introduction The ...
Gender, information technology and health: the case of women workers in export zones in the Philippines.(Report)
May 01, 2007; Lu, Jinky Leilanie ... Abstract This study tried to look into the intricate relationship between work, gender, health and technology in the micro-organizations and in the context of a globalized economy. The study also showed that technology has intensified work as evident in the results of focus ...
Economic empowerment of women through information technology: a case study from an Indian state.(Report)(Case study)
May 01, 2007; Prasad, P.N. ... Abstract It is universally accepted that Information Communication Technologies (ICT) offer immense opportunities for the comprehensive social and economic development of the people all over the world. Without its adoption, there is little chance for countries or regions to ...
Women and informal credit: lessons from Moretele, South Africa.(Report)
May 01, 2007; M, Kongolo ... Abstract Informal credit plays an important role in the development of rural and urban areas in South Africa. It is about giving the disadvantaged poor people and women access to needed financial services to increase their earning opportunities, to meet their needs and to deal ...
The fortunes and misfortunes of women rice producers in Ndop, Cameroon and the implications for gender roles.(Report)
May 01, 2007; Fonjong, Lotsmart N. ... Abstract In most communities in Cameroon, traditional norms mandate that rural women fulfill the reproductive roles of child bearing, home management and food provision for the family. Thus, these women are unable to exercise any influential economic voice-they can hardly earn ...
Male gender roles and sexuality: implications for University girls' HIV/AIDS awareness in a Nigerian University.(Report)
May 01, 2007; Momoh, S.O. ... Abstract This study was conducted to examine the implications of male gender roles and sexuality for University girls' HIV/AIDS awareness. Information was elicited from 2399 randomly selected undergraduate students, from the nine faculties of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. ...
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954. An Intellectual History.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; Sterling, Kathleen ... Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954. An Intellectual History. Stephanie Y. Evans. 2007. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 275 pp. (+xiv, notes, index). Illustrated, with photographs and maps. $59.95 (Hardcover). In Black Women in the Ivory Tower, Stephanie ...
Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; Hughey, Matthew W. ... Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. Gwendolyn D. Pough. 2004. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 265 pp. (photographs and index included). $US 21.95 (paperback). Most women rappers did not begin a career in hip-hop because they ...
Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk About the End of (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; Bergmann, Barbara R. ... Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk About the End of (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships. Nan Bauer-Maglin (ed.). 2006. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press. 310 pp. US $21.95 (Paperback). This book is mostly about the pain of being "dumped"--the prolonged ...
Pomegranate Hearts.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; Wills, Emily Regan ... Pomegranate Hearts. Rouhi Shafii. 2006. London: Shiraz Press. 331 pp. (Including glossary of Persian words). 9.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback) Pomegranate Hearts is a multi-generational saga of women's lives in Iran from the early twentieth-century until today. The first parts ...
Daughters of Kerala.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; Varghese, Marie ... Daughters of Kerala. Achamma C. Chandersekaran (transl.). 2004. Tuscan: Hats Off Books. pp. 196. US$17.95 (paperback). Daughters of Kerala. 25 Short Stories by Award-Winning Authors, presents a refreshing collection of fictional narratives that vividly represent the everyday ...
Sex trafficking: The global market in women and children.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2007; Desyllas, Moshoula Capous ... Sex trafficking: The global market in women and children. Kathryn Farr. 2005. New York: Worth Publishers. pp.262, ISBN:0-7167-5548-3, US $24.95 (Paperback). Sex trafficking has gained considerable media attention over the past few years. The purpose of this book, as stated by ...
The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; Hogan, Maureen P. ... The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity. Wendy Hollway. 2006. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 152 pp. (+ Index). US $ 26.99 (Paperback). Like many other feminist sociologists, I am generally suspicious of psychoanalytical explanations for gendered ...
Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; Burstrem, Jessica ... Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House. John Robert Greene. 2004. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 166 pp. (+ Photos and Index). $25.00. (Hardcover). John Robert Greene's Candor and Courage in the White House covers Betty Ford's entire life, but, as suggested ...
Thanksgiving in Florida.(Poem)
May 01, 2007; O'Donoghue, Mary ... <Pre> Thanksgiving in Florida The giant roadside orangemight be full of childrenpacked vesicle-tight togethercheek to small fat cheek. At a bar reclaimed from the watera dead finger for Oliver Reedblears his details, wipes them clear:His ...