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2. Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach.
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Adebayo, Comfort Tosin, Olukotun, Oluwatoyin V., Olukotun, Mary, Kirungi, Jackline, Gondwe, Kaboni Whitney, Crooks, Natasha K., Singer, Randi B., Adams, Shukri, Alfaifi, Faten Yahya, Dressel, Anne, Fahmy, Laila, Kako, Peninah, Snethen, Julia, and Mkandawire-Valhmu, Lucy
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GENDER-based violence , *WOMEN refugees , *LITERATURE reviews , *SOMALIS , *SOCIAL services - Abstract
Gender-based violence (GBV) is an all-encompassing term that speaks to acts or threats that may lead to physical, sexual or emotional harm to an individual based on their gender. This paper provides a scoping review of research on gender-based violence among Somali refugee women in different parts of the world. Using the socio-ecological model as a framework, we reviewed 30 empirical studies focusing on some form of GBV among Somali refugee women. We identified societal, community and individual factors contributing to the experience of GBV. We also discuss how these factors influence women's willingness to access care, especially healthcare and social services. The review reveals that oftentimes, institutions that work closely with this population have a limited understanding of how closely culture affects the willingness and ability to seek help about GBV. Based on our analysis, we suggest ways in which social institutions and healthcare providers can provide culturally-safe support to Somali refugee women who have experienced some form of GBV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Going through treatment: experiences of women who sought assisted reproductive technology treatment in five selected hospitals in Ghana.
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Asante-Afari, Kwadwo, Nantomah, Bismark, Yendaw, Elijah, and Borbor, Frank Mawutor
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REPRODUCTIVE technology , *NATIONAL health insurance , *WEIGHT loss , *HOSPITALS , *SEXUAL intercourse - Abstract
Using a qualitative approach, this paper explores the accounts of 30 women who accessed assisted reproductive technology treatment in five fertility hospitals in Ghana. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data on women's experiences of the procedure. Findings indicated that most of the women sought ART treatment to save their relationships from collapsing, with pressure and demands from friends and in-laws as key motivating factors. Women complained of emotional imbalance and the high cost of ART treatment. They felt compelled to borrow money from friends, family and banks and, sometimes sold assets to pay for treatment costs. Health consequences such as depression, changes in menstrual flow, weight loss, body pain, breast tenderness, bleeding and disruption to daily activities and sexual life were reported as problems encountered by the women. While study findings are supportive of the inclusion of infertility treatment in the national health insurance scheme, more adequate counselling and education for women undergoing ART treatment is required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. 'If you aren't married yet, you'll be married to your treatment from now on': embodied mediations in a women's HIV peer advisory project in Mexico.
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Herrera, Ana Amuchástegui and Sánchez, Azucena Ojeda
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HIV ,MEDICAL prescriptions ,ANTIRETROVIRAL agents ,SCIENTIFIC knowledge ,COMPETENT authority ,DIRECTLY observed therapy ,CONDOMS - Abstract
Treatment as Prevention is a key biopolitical intervention on the HIV epidemic but relies on individual adherence to antiretroviral treatment in order to have an effect on the population as a whole. Informed by a discussion of biopower, this paper analyses the complex relationships between discourses of competent authorities and modes of subjectification through a qualitative analysis of findings from 5 years of fieldwork associated with the action-research project Yantzin: Women HIV Peer Advisors in Mexico. It looks at the production of subjects of adherence, whereby peer advisors emerge as key agents at the interface between scientific and experiential knowledge. Contradictorily, the desire to live becomes feasible only by engaging with these biopolitical interventions. We discuss how peer advisors twist these technologies in such a way that they provide not only operations of power but also courses of action for desire. Through embodied mediation strategies that critique obedience to medical prescription and translate scientific information into bodily and emotionally shared experiences, peer advisors' work goes beyond the behavioural rationality of biomedical models offering embodied proof for other women that, even when living with HIV, a project of happiness is possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. ‘Caravan wives’ and ‘decent girls’: Gypsy-Traveller women's perceptions of gender, culture and morality in the North of England.
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Casey, Rionach
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WOMEN ,GENDER ,FEMININITY ,GENDER identity ,TABOO - Abstract
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- 2014
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6. HIV transmission from husbands to wives in Cambodia: a systematic review of the literature.
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Yang, Youngran, Lewis, Frances Marcus, and Kraushaar, Daniel L.
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HIV infection transmission ,HIV-positive men ,SEX workers ,UNSAFE sex - Abstract
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- 2013
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7. (W)righting women: constructions of gender, sexuality and race in the psychiatric chart.
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Daley, Andrea, Costa, Lucy, and Ross, Lori
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PSYCHIATRY ,PSYCHOLOGY of women ,GENDER ,MENTAL illness ,QUALITATIVE research ,MEDICAL records - Abstract
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- 2012
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8. Pragmatic women: negotiating sex work, pregnancy, and parenting in Mysore, South India.
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du Plessis, Elsabé, Chevrier, Claudyne, Lazarus, Lisa, Reza-Paul, Sushena, Rahman, Syed Hafeez Ur, Ramaiah, Manjula, Avery, Lisa, and Lorway, Robert
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SEX work ,PREGNANCY ,SEX workers ,MATERNAL health ,PARENTS - Abstract
Persisting inequities in maternal health pose a particular burden for marginalised populations such as sex workers. However, current literature on pregnancy and sex work is limited to mostly quantitative studies focusing on contraception use, unplanned and/or undesired pregnancies and unsafe abortions. Additionally, emphasis has been placed on the prevention, treatment and care of STIs and HIV with less attention accorded to women's pregnancy desires and implications to work. In this paper, we explore sex workers' conflicted experiences surrounding pregnancy, parenthood, and work. Forty-six women participated in in-depth interviews as part of a qualitative exploratory study conducted in close collaboration with a sex worker collective in the city of Mysore (South India). Our analysis focuses on women's pragmatic responses to pregnancy desires, workplace challenges during and after pregnancy, strategies for managing risk and approaches to managing work and childcare. We show that women confront various intersecting challenges with respect to pregnancy and sex work. Women's complex decision-making balances multiple considerations while highlighting the temporal dimension of pragmatism as women respond not only to the immediacy of an encounter but also in anticipation of a better future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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9. Women's expectations of healthcare providers in the context of reproductive abuse in Australia.
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Srinivasan, Sonia, Marino, Jennifer, Hegarty, Kelsey, and Tarzia, Laura
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MEDICAL personnel ,REPRODUCTIVE health services ,VIOLENCE against women ,INTIMATE partner violence ,WOMEN'S health - Abstract
Reproductive abuse is a poorly understood form of violence against women. It is defined as a deliberate attempt to interfere with or control a women's reproductive choices and is usually perpetrated by a male intimate partner. Reproductive abuse is associated with a range of poor health outcomes for women, increasing the likelihood that they will visit a healthcare provider. Despite this, there is a dearth of evidence to inform best practice in health settings, particularly research that highlights the voices of survivors. Qualitative studies to date have focused on intimate partner or sexual violence more broadly, yet it is likely that reproductive abuse presents its own nuance in terms of a supportive response. In this paper, we address this gap by reporting qualitative data from 14 women who self-identified as survivors of reproductive abuse. Findings suggest that healthcare providers have an important role to play in responding to reproductive abuse, focusing on taking the problem seriously, reinforcing that the behaviour is wrong, asking about other forms of violence and addressing women's needs and priorities for contraception and reproductive autonomy. This study has important implications for the development of best practice guidelines for healthcare providers responding to reproductive abuse in female patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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10. Keeping secrets, disclosing health information: an institutional ethnography of the social organisation of perinatal care for women living with HIV in Canada.
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Ion, Allyson
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HIV-positive women ,PERINATAL care ,INSTITUTIONAL care ,MATERNITY nursing ,MEDICAL personnel ,ETHNOLOGY ,HIV infection transmission ,HIV infections & psychology ,DISCLOSURE ,MATERNAL health services ,RESEARCH ,SOCIAL participation ,HEALTH facilities ,RESEARCH methodology ,SOCIAL stigma ,MEDICAL cooperation ,EVALUATION research ,QUALITATIVE research ,COMPARATIVE studies ,PSYCHOLOGICAL tests ,PSYCHOSOCIAL factors - Abstract
This paper describes findings from an institutional ethnography that arose out of the concerns of women living with HIV in Ontario, Canada, regarding the disclosure of their HIV status while accessing perinatal care. The enquiry traces the connections between women's experiences of perinatal care, the activities of healthcare providers delivering such care and the ruling relations that organise women's experiences and healthcare providers' activities. Focusing on HIV disclosure as a concern expressed by women, the findings make visible the day-to-day, routinised practices of healthcare providers working in perinatal care for women living with HIV, as well as the ideological discourses of 'fear of contagion' and 'AIDS hysteria' that contributed to producing the kinds of care experiences that were articulated by women. Opportunities to strengthen perinatal care policies and practices for women living with HIV are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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11. Morality and sexual rights: constructions of masculinity, femininity and sexuality among a group of South African soldiers.
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Mankayi, Nyameka
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MILITARY personnel ,HETEROSEXUALITY ,MALE domination (Social structure) ,SEX discrimination against women ,ABUSE of women ,HIV infection transmission ,SEXUAL ethics for women ,WOMEN'S rights ,WOMEN ,SOCIAL conditions of women ,ETHICS - Abstract
This paper describes how South African soldiers draw on notions of gender, sexuality and morality in their constructions of identity and heterosexual sexuality. Popular discourses around HIV and AIDS in South Africa and elsewhere have highlighted the centrality of notions of morality, many of them problematic, in the response to the epidemic. In Southern Africa, the centrality of heterosexuality to HIV transmission has triggered a focus on morality in sexuality, including calls for abstinence or, in married relationships, monogamy. This paper discusses the findings of a research study that explored male soldiers' constructions of masculinity, sexuality and risky sexual practices. Discourses that emerged reflected dominant attitudes regarding men and women's sexual rights and, in particular, the moralisation of women's sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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12. How women living with HIV react and respond to learning about Canadian law that criminalises HIV non-disclosure: 'how do you prove that you told?'.
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Greene, Saara, Odhiambo, Apondi J., Muchenje, Marvelous, Symington, Alison, Cotnam, Jasmine, Dunn, Kristin, Frank, Margaret, Glum, Shelly, Gormley, Rebecca, Ion, Allyson, Nicholson, Valerie, Shore, Krista, and Kaida, Angela
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HIV-positive women ,INTIMATE partner violence ,HIV infection transmission ,VIOLENCE against women ,HIV - Abstract
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- 2019
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13. Conflicting contraceptive norms for men: equal responsibility versus women's bodily autonomy.
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James-Hawkins, Laurie, Dalessandro, Cristen, and Sennott, Christie
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HUMAN beings ,WOMEN - Abstract
Most research investigating how men and women in heterosexual relationships negotiate contraceptive use focuses on the women's point of view. Using a sample of 44 interviews with men attending a western US university, this study examines norms governing men's participation in contraceptive use and pregnancy prevention and their responses to those norms. The paper demonstrates how competing norms around sexual health decision-making and women's bodily autonomy contribute to unintended outcomes that undermine young people's quest for egalitarian sexual relationships. While men largely agree that responsibility for sexual health decision-making should be shared with women, they also believe that women should have power over their own bodies and sexual health. However, the coexistence of these two competing norms - which call for both equal responsibility in decision-making and women's bodily autonomy - results in a disconnect between men saying that sexual health decision-making should be equal, but not always participating equally. Thus, men largely give contraceptive decision-making power over to women, putting the burden of pregnancy prevention onto women and letting men off the hook. It is concluded that men's negotiation of these competing norms reinforces unequal power and inequality in sexual relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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14. Cervical cancer narratives: invoking ‘God's will’ to re-appropriate reproductive rights in present-day Romania.
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Pop, Cristina A.
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INTERVIEWING in ethnology ,REPRODUCTIVE health ,REPRODUCTIVE rights ,SEXUAL health ,WOMEN ,CANCER prevention ,CERVICAL cancer ,HUMAN papillomavirus vaccines ,PAP test - Abstract
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- 2015
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15. Queering abortion rights: notes from Argentina.
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Sutton, Barbara and Borland, Elizabeth
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TRANSGENDER rights ,ABORTION ,GENDER identity ,HUMAN sexuality ,PRO-choice movement ,SAME-sex marriage - Abstract
In recent years, there have been calls in activist spaces to 'queer' abortion rights advocacy, to incorporate non-normative notions of gender identity and sexuality into abortion struggles and services. Argentina provides an interesting site in which to examine these developments, since there is a longstanding movement for abortion rights in a context of illegal abortion and a recent ground-breaking Gender Identity Law that recognises key trans rights. In this paper, we analyse public documents from the abortion rights movement's main coalition - the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion - alongside interviews with 19 Campaign activists to examine shifts and tensions in contemporary abortion rights activism. We trace the incorporation of trans-inclusive language into the newly proposed abortion rights bill and conclude by pointing to contextual factors that may limit or enhance the further queering of abortion rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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16. 'Pure' drug users, commercial sex workers and 'ordinary girls': gendered narratives of HIV risk and prevention in post-Soviet Ukraine.
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Owczarzak, Jill, Phillips, Sarah D., and Cho, Woojeong
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BEST practices ,HIV prevention ,DRUGS ,SEX work ,JOB security - Abstract
International best practices call for a gender-responsive approach to HIV prevention for women, including those who use drugs and those who engage in sex work. This paper draws on multiple qualitative data sources collected over five years in Ukraine to explore the notions of gender, women and family that buttress HIV-related programmes for women. Our analysis reveals that service providers often cast women as hapless victims of unfortunate family circumstances and troubled personal relationships that produce sudden poverty, or social strivers who seek access to wealth and privilege at the expense of their health. Women are portrayed as most vulnerable to HIV when they lack a male 'protector'. We argue that the programmes constituted around these stereotypes of women and their vulnerabilities reflect new forms of institutional power that deflect attention away from gendered socio-economic processes that contribute to women's HIV vulnerability, including job insecurity and unemployment, workplace discrimination, unreliable social benefits and power imbalances within their relationships. We explore how to transform HIV prevention efforts to better address the causes of women's increased vulnerability to HIV in Ukraine and in Eastern Europe more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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17. Community influences on Mormon women with same-sex sexuality.
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Jacobsen, Jeanna
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MORMON women ,SOCIAL influence ,SOCIAL belonging ,GENDER identity ,RELIGIOUS identity - Abstract
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- 2017
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18. Health and identity-related interactions between lesbian, bisexual, queer and pansexual women and their healthcare providers.
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Baldwin, Aleta, Dodge, Brian, Schick, Vanessa, Herbenick, Debra, Sanders, Stephanie A., Dhoot, Roshni, and Fortenberry, J. Dennis
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SEXUAL minorities ,WOMEN'S health ,BISEXUAL women ,PANSEXUALITY (Sexual orientation) ,SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors ,SOCIAL medicine ,HEALTH - Abstract
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- 2017
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19. Labouring on orgasms: embodiment, efficiency, entitlement and obligations in heterosex.
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Frith, Hannah
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FEMALE orgasm ,SOCIOCULTURAL factors ,HETEROSEXISM ,WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,FEMINISTS - Abstract
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- 2013
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20. Identity management, negotiation and resistance among women in the sex trade in London, Ontario.
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Orchard, Treena, Farr, Sara, Macphail, Susan, Wender, Cass, and Young, Dawn
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SEX work ,SEX workers ,SEXUAL orientation identity ,GENDER identity ,HUMAN trafficking - Abstract
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- 2013
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21. It's about TIME : Engendering AIDS in Africa.
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Brijnath, Bianca
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AIDS ,HIV-positive women ,HIV ,WOMEN ,HIV infection transmission - Abstract
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- 2007
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22. Limits, excesses and pleasures: practices and discourses of sex work in a Mexican rural community.
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Parrini, Rodrigo, Amuchástegui, Ana, and Garibi, Cecilia
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SEX work ,SEX workers ,PLEASURE ,MEN'S sexual behavior ,INTIMACY (Psychology) - Abstract
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- 2017
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23. Transgressive women don't deserve protection: young men's narratives of sexual violence against women in rural Papua New Guinea.
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Kelly-Hanku, A., Aeno, H., Wilson, L., Eves, R., Mek, A., Nake Trumb, R., Whittaker, M., Fitzgerald, L., Kaldor, J. M., and Vallely, A.
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PREVENTION of sexual assault ,PREVENTION of crimes against women ,ABUSE of women ,TEENAGERS & violence ,SEX crime prevention ,CONTROL (Psychology) ,CULTURE ,LONGITUDINAL method ,MASCULINITY ,PSYCHOLOGY of men ,RURAL population ,SEX crimes ,QUALITATIVE research ,NARRATIVES - Abstract
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- 2016
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24. Falling in love with romantic ideals: women in relationships with child molesters.
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McLaren, Helen
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WOMEN ,ROMANTIC love ,CHILD molesters ,HETERONORMATIVITY ,SEXUAL excitement ,CHILD sexual abuse & psychology ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,LOVE ,SELF-perception ,HUMAN sexuality ,SEXUAL partners ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2016
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25. Patterns of fertility preferences and contraceptive behaviour over time: change and continuities among the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Beguy, Donatien and Mberu, Blessing
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URBAN poor ,HUMAN reproduction ,FERTILITY ,HUMAN fertility - Abstract
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- 2015
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26. Coming to power: women's fake orgasms and best orgasm experiences illuminate the failures of (hetero)sex and the pleasures of connection.
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Fahs, Breanne
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WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,ORGASM ,SEXUAL excitement ,MASTURBATION ,INTERPERSONAL relations - Abstract
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- 2014
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27. Divorce in the context of domestic violence against women in Vietnam.
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Vu, Ha Song, Schuler, Sidney, Hoang, Tu Anh, and Quach, Trang
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DIVORCE ,VIOLENCE against women ,DOMESTIC violence ,CRIMES against women ,WIFE abuse ,WOMEN'S attitudes ,ABUSE of women - Abstract
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- 2014
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28. Boyfriends and injecting: the role of intimate male partners in the life of women who inject drugs in Central Java.
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Lazuardi, Elan, Worth, Heather, Saktiawati, AntoniaMorita Iswari, Spooner, Catherine, Padmawati, Retna, and Subronto, Yanri
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HIV infection risk factors ,WOMEN & drugs ,SEXUAL partners ,HIV prevention - Abstract
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- 2012
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29. Beyond traditional gender roles and identity: does reconceptualisation better predict condom-related outcomes for African-American women?
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Nguyen, Anh B., Clark, Trenette T., Hood, Kristina B., Corneille, Maya A., Fitzgerald, Angela Y., and Belgrave, Faye Z.
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GENDER role ,AFRICAN American women ,AIDS prevention ,HIV-positive women ,NEGOTIATION - Abstract
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- 2010
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30. Women negotiating sexual identity in the face of homelessness: from silence to satisfaction.
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Loates, Mandy and Walsh, Christine A.
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GENDER identity ,MAN-woman relationships ,HOMELESS persons ,SEXUAL orientation ,CULTURAL pluralism ,POVERTY - Abstract
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- 2010
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31. Gender, self and pleasure: young women's discourse on masturbation in contemporary Shanghai.
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Yuxin, Pei and Ho Sik Ying, Petula
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FEMALE masturbation ,WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,LIFESTYLES ,SEXUAL excitement ,PLEASURE ,YOUNG women ,MASTURBATION - Abstract
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- 2009
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32. Absent sexual scripts: lesbian and bisexual women's knowledge, attitudes and action regarding safer sex and sexual health information.
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Power, Jennifer, McNair, Ruth, and Carr, Susan
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SEXUALLY transmitted diseases ,BISEXUAL women ,LESBIANS ,PAPILLOMAVIRUSES ,HEALTH promotion ,HEALTH attitudes - Abstract
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- 2009
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33. Strategies for the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections among women in Vietnam.
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Huong, Nguyen My, Gammeltoft, Tine, and Rasch, Vibeke
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GENITALIA ,OBSTETRICS surgery ,BIRTH control ,INFECTION ,INTERVIEWING ,PUBLIC health ,HUMAN services ,COMMUNICABLE diseases - Abstract
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- 2008
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34. Marriage is not a safe place: Heterosexual marriage and HIV-related vulnerability in Indonesia.
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Jacubowski, Nadja
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MARRIAGE ,HETEROSEXUALS ,GENDER ,HIV ,HIV-positive women ,MANNERS & customs ,RELIGION ,ETHICS - Abstract
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- 2008
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35. Patterns of sexual commerce among women at US Syringe Exchange Programs.
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Braine, Naomi, Desjarlais, DonC., Goldblatt, Cullen, Zadoretzky, Cathy, and Turner, Charles
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SEX industry ,SEX tourism ,ESCORT services ,SEX workers ,SEX research - Abstract
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- 2006
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36. ‘It's in the nature of men’: Women's perception of risk for HIV/AIDS in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Morrison, Lynn
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HIV ,HIV-positive women ,SEX workers ,AIDS ,HIV infections - Abstract
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- 2006
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37. ‘What happens in Tenerife stays in Tenerife’: Understanding women's sexual behaviour on holiday.
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Thomas, Michelle
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WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,WOMEN travelers ,HIV infection transmission ,INFECTIOUS disease transmission ,SEXUALLY transmitted diseases - Abstract
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- 2005
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38. Female sexuality in Nairobi: Flawed or favoured?
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Spronk, Rachel
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WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,HUMAN sexuality ,SEXUAL intercourse ,HIV infections ,AIDS - Abstract
Studies of female sexuality in Africa tend to adopt an instrumental approach, many times problematizing sexual conduct in relation to HIV infection and/or reproduction. This study aimed to explore sexuality as a relational concept. Using interviews and participant observation, the paper shows how sexuality becomes a point of self-identification for young professional women in Nairobi between 20 and 30 years-old. These women form a group who implicitly and explicitly criticize conventional gender roles through the overt pursuit of sexual pleasure as recognition of their womanhood. This aspect of the feminine sense of self is at odds with normative notions of femininity. To avoid criticism for being ‘un-proper’, women adopt a deferential attitude towards men. The focus on upwardly mobile professional women and their experiments with new types of heterosexual relations in dating provides insight into both sexuality and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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39. Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts.
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Lebedíková, Michaela
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PORNOGRAPHY ,SEXUAL excitement ,SCRIPTS ,CZECHS ,YOUNG women - Abstract
Women are often portrayed as the victims of pornography. Their active consumption and the ways in which pornography shapes their sexuality are still under-researched. This article has three goals: to explore how and why young women watch pornography; to analyse how they perceive the influence of pornography on their sexual scripts; and to determine related positive and negative factors. Guided by sexual script theory, I thematically analysed responses from an open-ended form completed by 80 young Czech women (18-30 years old). The analysis resulted in six themes related to cultural, interpersonal and intrapsychic sexual scripts – in other words, the domains of what is societally appropriate, interpersonal relationships, and inner desires. These findings have important implications: pornography simultaneously influences several domains of sexuality. Findings show that under certain conditions, pornography may be beneficial for sexual empowerment and sexual satisfaction, but at the same time, it may also produce negative effects – providing a complex and often contradictory experience for the individual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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40. Women's perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma.
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O'Malley, Teagen L., Krier, Sarah E., Bainbridge, Maura, Hawk, Mary E., Egan, James E., and Burke, Jessica G.
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PRE-exposure prophylaxis ,HIV prevention ,RISK assessment ,SOCIAL stigma ,FAMILY health ,WOMEN'S health - Abstract
HIV remains a significant health issue for women, and multiple overlapping factors shape women's HIV-related risk. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) offers critical advantages over other existing options, yet it remains significantly underused among women in the USA where limited work has explored women's opinions on barriers to potential PrEP use. Using open-ended text responses from a sample of women seeking care at a US urban family planning health centre, this study aimed to understand perceptions of factors affecting potential PrEP use. Three themes concerning key factors impacting potential PrEP use emerged: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics, and anticipated stigma. Women's assessment of HIV risk suggests that identifying women in clinical settings as having low self-perceived risk may overlook the complexity of how women determine HIV-related risk and prevention needs. Women frequently referenced relationship dynamics when considering PrEP and discussed anticipated partner reactions about use contributing to non-use. Fear or worry of stigma were expressed as motivations to not use PrEP. Study results highlight the importance of public health and health care professionals normalising PrEP as a strategy in women's HIV prevention and sexual health decision-making. Woman-centred PrEP education, screening and communication strategies reflective of their unique HIV-related risk context are needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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41. "I want to become someone!" gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders.
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Berghs, Maria, Dyson, Simon, Gabba, Amelia, Nyandemo, Sia, Roberts, George, Deen, Gibrilla, and Thomas, Iyamide
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MOTHERHOOD ,PSYCHOLOGY of the sick ,SICK people ,MORAL development ,GENDER ,SEMI-structured interviews - Abstract
In Sierra Leone, motherhood is being transformed into a moral career for women with sickle cell disorders. This qualitative participatory study, conducted in 2018, involved thirty-six semi-structured interviews with female care-givers and women with sickle cell disorders. Mothers argued that medical models of disease, combined with caring practices, are means to morally manage ideas of 'spoiled identity' and rethink the sick role, disability and life-outcomes of a potentially serious condition. Mothers encourage their children with sickle cell to stay in education as a route to access formal employment and careers that will not tax their bodies and ensure reproductive timing. Education and employment are framed temporally to ensure a delay so that girls can develop caring relationships and access motherhood safely. Understanding and encouraging the development of motherhood as a moral career, involving embodied hyper-vigilant caring practices, is valuable for the self-identity of mothers, allowing them to see a future for themselves and their children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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42. The influence of social relationships on PrEP attitudes among women with incarceration experience in the Southeastern USA.
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Knittel, Andrea K., Ferguson, Ella G., Jackson, Jamie B., and Adimora, Adaora A.
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SOCIAL influence ,IMPRISONMENT ,WOMEN'S attitudes ,PRE-exposure prophylaxis ,HIV prevention ,SEXUAL partners ,PRISONERS - Abstract
Women who have experienced incarceration face a disproportionately high risk of acquiring HIV. Despite efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV, very few women with incarceration histories are using PrEP. Our objective was to learn how sexual, drug-use and social relationships shape decisions about PrEP among women who have experienced incarceration. We used an inductive approach to analyse data from four focus groups undertaken with women who had previously experienced incarceration recruited from three community-based organisations. We identified public policy (medical distrust, lack of prevention in prisons and jails, and cost and coverage of PrEP); community (incarceration stigma, gossip as prevention); social and sexual network (positive peer and parenting relationships, distrust of sexual partners, and networks as a source of risk); and individual-level (active addiction or recovery, change after incarceration, and medical concerns) factors influencing the use of PrEP. Actions and interventions to improve PrEP uptake among women who have experienced incarceration must take account of the multilevel context of HIV prevention decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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43. How young Australian women explain their use of condoms, withdrawal and fertility awareness: a qualitative analysis of free-text comments from the CUPID study.
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Coombe, Jacqueline, Wigginton, Britta, Loxton, Deborah, Lucke, Jayne, and Harris, Melissa L.
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YOUNG women ,CONDOM use ,CONTRACEPTION ,HUMAN fertility ,ORAL contraceptives - Abstract
Rates of oral contraceptive pill use have declined over the past decade in Australia. While some women use highly effective methods, others rely on less effective methods such as condoms, withdrawal and fertility awareness. We aimed to understand motivations for relying on these methods among young women in Australia. Women aged 18–23 years who reported using less effective methods and participated in the Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy Intention and Decisions (CUPID) study formed the sample for this analysis. Using thematic analysis, we analysed 140 free-text comments. Findings suggest that less effective methods were used when they were assessed as being best suited to current reproductive needs. These methods were perceived as offering benefits that hormonal and more invasive methods did not, and participants were largely satisfied with them. By contrast, some less effective method use was driven by a lack of choice or alternative options, previous bad experiences with hormonal methods, a lack of appropriate information about alternatives and difficulty accessing other methods. It is therefore essential to move beyond 'LARC-first' contraceptive counselling approaches to ensure young women are provided with accurate information regarding all contraceptive options available (including how to negotiate their use) and how to use them to their greatest efficacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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44. Cellphones and romantic relationships of young women in urban informal settlements in South Africa.
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Gibbs, Andrew, Willan, Samantha, and Jewkes, Rachel
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CELL phones ,YOUNG women - Abstract
Cellphones have impacted on people's intimate sexual relationships. Using the framework of relationship formation, maintenance and ending, we explore how cellphones and attendant social media have impacted on relationships among a group of young women living in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa. We conducted in-depth repeat interviews with 15 women enrolled in the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures trial, as well as group discussions and light-touch participant observation. Our data show that cellphones and social media are central to women's sexual relationships and allow women greater control over relationships – particularly their formation. However, cellphones and social media also enable greater control and monitoring by partners. In this study, cellphones were central in establishing (or not) trust in relationships, as well as being gifts, sometimes given by men to demonstrate love, but often becoming a snare for women who then struggled to end relationships because the phones 'remained' the property of the man. We conclude that while cellphones have created new spaces and opportunities for women's agency, overall the wider social and material forces of women's existence were deeply constraining and were the main driver of patterns in women's relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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45. 'I did not get this disease on the street; it was brought home as a gift': Gender, violence and HIV vulnerability among Cuban women.
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Beltrán, Lisandra Fuentes, Davis, Dirk A., Barrington, Clare, Castro, Marta, and Pérez, Dennis
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UNSAFE sex ,HIV ,HIV-positive women ,VIOLENCE against women ,GENDER - Abstract
While gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men are most affected by HIV in Cuba, infections among women have increased over time, but there has been little research to contextualise their vulnerability to HIV. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of gender and violence in shaping vulnerability to HIV among Cuban women. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with women living with HIV at an outpatient HIV clinic in Havana. Narrative and thematic technique were used to systematically analyse the data. Participants described negotiating sexual relationships in a context where traditional gender norms merge with the paradox of increasing professional opportunities for women alongside growing economic precarity. Interconnected economic and emotional dependence along with violence influenced the acceptance of certain behaviours that heightened vulnerability to HIV, including inconsistent condom use and infidelity. Gender transformative approaches that recognise the complex interplay between gender norms, economic precarity and violence are needed to address women's vulnerability to HIV in the Cuban context. Such efforts can reinforce existing strategies to promote behaviourally focused prevention while creating an enabling environment for the integration and expansion of biomedical innovation in HIV prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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46. Indigenous Australian women’s colonial sexual intimacies: positioning indigenous women’s agency
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Corrinne Sullivan
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Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander ,Health (social science) ,Sexual Behavior ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0507 social and economic geography ,Human sexuality ,Context (language use) ,Colonialism ,Indigenous ,Power (social and political) ,Phenomenon ,Agency (sociology) ,Humans ,Women ,Sociology ,0505 law ,media_common ,Oppression ,05 social sciences ,Australia ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,History, 19th Century ,Gender studies ,History, 20th Century ,Sex Work ,050501 criminology ,Female ,050703 geography - Abstract
Colonialist views of Indigenous bodies and sexualities continue to affect Indigenous peoples worldwide. For Indigenous Australians, this burden has resulted in repression and oppression of power, sex and desire. Focusing on the sexual intimacies of Indigenous Australian women, this paper provides an account of the dominant Australian historical discourses, finding that Indigenous women were viewed as exotic, erotic, something to be desired, yet simultaneously something to be feared. Our sexualities were described as savage, promiscuous and primitive and we were often viewed as prostitutes with our voices and views constrained by patriarchal and imperial regimes of power. But within this context, Indigenous women fought back through both individual and collective acts of agency. This paper demonstrates how Indigenous Australian women's agency not as a new phenomenon but rather as a position that disrupts the popular discourses of exploitation and victimhood that have been persistently perpetrated against Indigenous women.
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47. Resilience in the lives of sexual minority women dealing with twofold peril in India.
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Srivastava, Sanchita
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SEXUAL minority women ,QUALITY of life ,PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience ,GENDER ,LIFE change events - Abstract
Using a model of transactional resilience, this study examined the development of resilience in relation to stressors experienced by sexual minority women throughout the life course. Twenty-five urban women were interviewed about their experiences related to gender and sexuality in Indian society. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings showed that women experienced implicit and explicit forms of sexism and heterosexism, making it difficult to survive in a patriarchal and heteronormative society. Several resilience factors were identified reflected in women's efforts to deal with stressors to maintain and create support. Positive characteristics and smart strategies helped participants survive stressful events and maintain healthy relations with others. They also helped them by creating a safe and positive social environment. Findings point to the need to better understand the resilience process among similar populations of women in societies like India, where patriarchy and unequal opportunities affect wellbeing and quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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48. "I feel empowered": women's perspectives on and experiences with long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy in the USA and Spain.
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Mantsios, Andrea, Murray, Miranda, Karver, Tahilin S., Davis, Wendy, Margolis, David, Kumar, Princy, Swindells, Susan, Bredeek, U. Fritz, Deltoro, Miguel García, García, Rafael Rubio, Antela, Antonio, Garris, Cindy, Shaefer, Mark, Gomis, Santiago Cenoz, Bernáldez, Miguel Pascual, and Kerrigan, Deanna
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ANTIRETROVIRAL agents ,HIV-positive persons ,ANTI-HIV agents ,HIV infections ,SATISFACTION ,EMOTIONS - Abstract
Long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy has been shown to be non-inferior to daily oral antiretroviral therapy in clinical trials and may soon become part of clinical care. While most trial participants to date have been men, approximately one quarter of ongoing Phase 3 trial participants are women offering an important opportunity to understand how long-acting antiretroviral therapy is perceived and experienced by women. We conducted in-depth interviews with 80 people living with HIV participating in Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials of long-acting antiretroviral therapy in the USA and Spain. Fifteen percent (12/80) of trial participants interviewed were women. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and coded using content analysis, focused on gender-specific themes. Women shared many of the positive perceptions expressed by men but also had unique perspectives, including finding that long-acting antiretroviral therapy addressed the challenge of remembering pills amidst busy day-to-day realities including multiple roles and responsibilities, is less time consuming and creates less stress compared to oral antiretroviral therapy, and is emotionally freeing and empowering. The gendered nature of women's lives shaped why and how they were satisfied with long-acting antiretroviral therapy. Findings can inform interventions and support systems to facilitate uptake of and adherence to long-acting antiretroviral therapy in women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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49. Women's economic empowerment and health related decision-making in rural Sierra Leone.
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Cornish, Hilary, Walls, Helen, Ndirangu, Rachel, Ogbureke, Nanlop, Bah, Osman M., Tom-Kargbo, Joanna Favour, Dimoh, Mattia, and Ranganathan, Meghna
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SELF-efficacy ,WOMEN'S roles ,DECISION making ,GENDER ,MATERNAL mortality - Abstract
Maternal mortality rates during childbirth in Sierra Leone are amongst the highest globally, with 1360 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Furthermore, the country's neonatal mortality rate is estimated at 39 deaths per 1000 live births. There is growing recognition of the health consequences of gender inequality, but challenges in addressing it. Gendered power dynamics within households affect health outcomes, with men often controlling decisions about their family's health, including their family's use of health services. The Government's Free Health Care Initiative, which abolished user fees for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five is promising, however this reform alone is insufficient to meet health goals. Using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with men and women, this study explores women's economic empowerment and health decision-making in rural Sierra Leone. Findings show the concept of power related to women's income generation, financial independence and being listened to in social relationships. Whilst women's economic empowerment was reported to ease marital tensions, men remained household authority figures, including regarding health decision-making. Economic interventions play an important role in supporting women's economic empowerment and in influencing gender norms, but men's roles and women's social empowerment, alongside economic empowerment, needs consideration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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50. Informal support for women and intimate partner violence: the crucial yet ambivalent role of neighbours in urban India
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Claire Snell-Rood
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Health (social science) ,Urban Population ,Population ,India ,Intimate Partner Violence ,Poison control ,Criminology ,Social issues ,Interpersonal relationship ,Social support ,Residence Characteristics ,Humans ,Women ,Longitudinal Studies ,Sociology ,education ,Qualitative Research ,education.field_of_study ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Social Support ,Social environment ,Spouse Abuse ,Domestic violence ,Female ,Social psychology ,Slum - Abstract
Women who experience intimate partner violence often rely on informal support to mitigate intimate partner violence's health effects. Yet there is little known about who gives the support and how it is provided. This paper explores from whom and how low-income women experiencing domestic violence in urban India seek informal support. In South Asia, women's reliance on kin for support is culturally valued, yet the urban social context makes it more likely that they will access such support from non-kin when they experience intimate partner violence. The paper draws on observations and interviews with 10 families collected over 14 months of in-depth ethnographic research in one Delhi slum community. Using a case study approach to explore women's responses to violence longitudinally, it was possible to track how women drew on support. Results show that even as women sought emotional support and direct intervention from their neighbours to deal with their domestic violence, they restricted these relationships, faced stigma, and emphasised the need to protect their families. Understanding the informal, but deeply ambivalent, systems of social support that women engage to deal with intimate partner violence is a first step toward strengthening such networks, a key recommendation to stem the health impacts of domestic violence.
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- 2014
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