Effects of Gendered Racism on Health Practices of Black Women: A Racial and Gender Identity Model Shatina D. Williams, M.S. Dissertation Chair: Janet E. Helms, Ph.D. Black women have been more likely to suffer from negative health conditions in comparison to Black men and White women. The biopsychosocial model might suggest that gendered racism and related stress may contribute to poor health, ...

this paper contends that there has been a definitive and negative change in the trajectory of so-called islamic feminism. this change has been effected in large part in the west , as part of the growing discourse of euro-islam, european islam, indigenization of islam, etc., a discourse that comes not from governments (though it is mirrored, applauded and rewarded by governments in the region) b...

The gender-blind ‘workless’ frame has been increasingly prominent in UK welfare discourse recent decades and played a significant role the political justification of Universal Credit – key plank reform since 2013. Meanwhile, highlighted as problematic for gender equality. This article seeks to ‘fill middle’ between use discourse, including at agenda-setting stage Credit, gendered implications C...

This paper explores novel ways in which Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies (DHA – the discourse-historical approach), and Feminist Linguistics can be fruitfully combined thus contribute to a new awareness knowledge concerning language gender discourse. For large heritage corpus of texts on mountaineering (Alpenwort Austrian Alpine Club Journal) is explored, constitutes type di...

be a useful addition to anyone’s bookshelf. In the first chapter, sexuality is introduced as more than just the biological act of sex. Instead, the authors describe how sexuality is a fluid concept that has changed over time as humans have evolved both physically and societally. Later chapters describe sex specifics in both male and female bodies, leading to a discussion of sex, gender, and tra...

BACKGROUND Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within communities and between communities and outside actors (i.e. government officials, policymakers). We examined how the participatory initiative of Village Health, Sanitation, and Nu...

This paper explores how nursing education both exemplifies the contradictions of neoliberalism alongside its seemingly all-encompassing influence. We conduct a feminist critical policy analysis to trace histories as feminised vocation located outside academy, and this is reflected in recent policy. then critically explore widening participation social mobility relation education, demonstrate di...

This article explores Finnish different-sex couples’ ( n = 12) negotiations on their parental division of labour. Theoretically, the is based literature gendered parenting practices and relational negotiations. Our discourse analysis reveals how couples produced ‘togetherness’ ‘our family’ by representing care as agreements, irrespective whether was described equally shared or distinctly gender...

Continuing the theme of our special issue (Calogero and Tylka, Sex Roles, 63, 1-5. 2010), we present a collection of novel studies that detail how gendered experiences of the body constrain and impact body image. Specifically, Part II of the special issue explores gendered body image from vantage points of intersectionality and diversity—importantly recognizing that culturally-prescribed appear...