Recent research and policy discourse commonly view the limited autonomy of women in developing countries as a key barrier to improvements in their reproductive health. Rarely, however, is the notion of women's autonomy interrogated for its conceptual adequacy or usefulness for understanding the determinants of women's reproductive health, effective policy formulation or program design. Using et...

LAGERWEY M D. Nursing Inquiry 2009; 16: 155–170 In their own words: nurses’ discourses of cleanliness from the Rehoboth Mission For nurses of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cleanliness was often seen as a virtue next to godliness. For missionary nurses, this analogy took on multiple meanings. This study focuses on discourses of cleanliness at one site of missionary nursing in the...

the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

Using a Foucauldian perspective, we explicate the systems of power which shape lives women in or at risk ‘food poverty’. We develop theoretical framework for analyses contemporary food poverty, apply to data from focus groups with on low incomes two cities north England. Our underlines repressive state as well broader chronicity surveillance. argue that, while disciplinary and pastoral may char...

This article argues for the inclusion of women's epistemology in discourse about violent extremism and approaches to tackling it Kenya. It focuses on mothers male recruits extremist organisations, arguing that, although have critical insights offer, their knowledge experiences remain unacknowledged unheard Kenyan responses extremism. Although women, including mothers, are understood be useful c...

In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical studies research Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD). Herein, perceived as difference machinery which difference-produced identities are enacted performed, Deleuzian Butleresque antiessentialist perspective adopte...

Background High rates of violence and HIV have been documented within the South African context. Constructions of masculinity and femininity that position men as dominant and highly sexually active and women as subordinate and acquiescent have been found to contribute towards gender inequality. This inequality is in turn related to negative health consequences, specifically violence against wom...

There has been considerable effort in the last decade to increase the participation of women in engineering through various policies. However, there has been little empirical research on gender disparities in engineering which help underpin the effective preparation, co-ordination, and implementation of the science and technology (S&T) policies. This article aims to present a comprehensive gend...

Contrary to the neo-liberal thesis that entrepreneuring is an open and accessible endeavour where personal effort alone determines reward and status, it has been demonstrated that there is a persistent, but occluded, gender bias within the entrepreneurial discourse. Accordingly, women are positioned as lacking and incomplete men; however, despite calls to employ feminist theory as an analytical...

A theoretical understanding of the gendered contours of structural, everyday and symbolic violence suggests that young addicted women are particularly vulnerable to the infectious diseases caused by injection drug use-especially hepatitis C. Participant-observation fieldwork among heroin and speed addicts in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood reveals that extreme levels of violence aga...