The present paper reflects a practical activity undertaken by the Nutrition Society's qualitative research network in October 2005. It reflects the structure of that exercise. First, there is an introduction to feminist methodology and methods. The informing premise is that feminist methodology is of particular interest to practitioners (professional and/or academic) engaged in occupations nume...

abstract the feminist movement in the united states like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. from the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the u.s. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. one of the important issues in which women played a key role in party p...

The books under review attend to the analysis of racialisation in the study of health, technoscience, activism and, in the case of Animacies, non-human animals and materialities. They do, however, differ significantly in approach, and may for that reason attract different kinds of readers. Michelle Murphy focuses on the case of the white radical feminist health movement in Los Angeles, CA, from...

Feminist methodologies and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have often been considered opposing theoretical and intellectual traditions. This paper imagines a conversation between these seemingly divergent fields and considers the theoretical and methodological challenges that ANT and particular branches of feminist thought raise for the other. This paper examines an empirical project that calls for ...

The design of a conversational virtual agent that plays the role of a lactation educator promoting breastfeeding is described, along with a manipulation to make the agent appear more or less feminist. Results from a randomized pilot study indicate that study participants were aware of the manipulation and participants who were more feminist preferred the feminist agent, while those who were non...

Black Feminist Poetics has been an important issue of concern for scholars quite some time now. There have productive arguments in the arena, also keen insights concerning phenomenon blackness. Cultural imperatives and diverse strategies on view. The aim said theoretics to fill black citational absences, strive gain recognition academe feminist theorizing. effort is overcome institutional reluc...

One of great mysteries of the Tunguska event is its genetic impact. Some genetic anomalies were reported in the plants, insects and people of the Tunguska region. Remarkably, the increased rate of biological mutations was found not only within the epicenter area, but also along the trajectory of the Tunguska Space Body (TSB). At that no traces of radioactivity were found, which could be reliabl...

The implementation of visual languages requires a wide range of conceptual and technical knowledge. A handimplementation of a visual DSL is often too expensive for a domain with a limited user comunity. We present the DEViL system, that generates complete language implementations from high level specifications. DEViL allows to implement visual languages with limited effort and limited expert kn...