Woman's Building Research Articles

Enhancing Women's Capacity in Funeral Management: A Community Service Study in Lima Puluh Kota Regency

This community service aims to enhance the capacity of women in managing funeral rites in Lima Puluh Kota Regency, West Sumatra. Through a series of training sessions conducted in six locations, this program is designed to empower women to be more confident and skilled in performing funeral management tasks according to Islamic law. The methods include lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on practice, enabling participants to understand and practically apply the necessary skills. The results of the community service show a significant improvement in the participants' technical skills and confidence, as well as a positive change in women's active participation in religious activities within the community. Additionally, this training successfully shifted societal perceptions of women's roles, recognizing them as capable and important in funeral management. In conclusion, this program not only contributes to women's empowerment but also to the development of a more inclusive and empowered community. The program has the potential to be replicated in other regions with similar cultural contexts, thereby broadening its impact on women's empowerment and community capacity building.

Views of Bumi Siliwangi Dormitory Residents on the Need for the Use of Rainwater Reservoirs

The Bumi Siliwangi Dormitory is a facility provided by the University of Education Indonesia with a total of three buildings, including the women's dormitory building, the men's dormitory building, and the men's and women's runaway building. This study aims to examine the perception of dormitory residents towards the urgency of using rainwater reservoirs in the Bumi Siliwangi Dormitory, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI), as well as to find out the number of clean water needs of dormitory residents, as an effort to overcome the problem of lack of clean water due to water pumps that are often damaged. This research method uses a descriptive method with a quantitative and qualitative approach. Primary and secondary data were collected from the Bumi Siliwangi Dormitory Building, with the research subjects in the form of dormitory residents and dormitory managers. The analysis of water needs is carried out based on urban water demand standards. The results of the study show that the dormitory water requirement is 18,352,200 liters/year, while the clean water capacity produced reaches 78,840,000 liters/year. Based on these results, it can be concluded that rainwater harvesting is not needed at this time.

Maternal delay for institutional delivery and associated factors among postnatal mothers at Southeastern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study.

Maternal delay in timely seeking health care, inadequate health care and the inability to access health facilities are the main causes of maternal mortality in low and middle income countries. The three-delay approach was used to pinpoint responsible factors for maternal death. There was little data on the delay in decision making to seek institutional delivery service in the study area. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the extent of the first maternal delay for institutional delivery and its associated factors among postpartum mothers in the Bale and east Bale zones. An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 407 postpartum mothers from April 6 to May 6, 2022. A systematic sampling technique was used to select study participants. The data were collected electronically using an Open Data Kit and exported to SPSS window version 25 for cleaning and analysis. Both bivariate and multivariable analysis was done by using binary logistic regression model to identify factors associated with maternal delay for institutional delivery services. Statistical significance was declared at P-value < 0.05. In this study, the magnitude of the first maternal delay in making the decision to seek institutional delivery service was 29.2% (95% CI: 24.9, 33.9). Previous pregnancy problems (AOR = 1.8; 95% CI: 1.06, 3.08), knowing the danger signs of labor and childbirth (AOR = 1.78; 95% CI: 1.11, 2.85) and decision-making (AOR = 0.42; 95% CI: 0.20, 0.85) were significantly associated with the first maternal delay. This study identified a significant number of postnatal mothers experienced delay in making decisions to seek institutional delivery service in the study area. Promoting women's empowerment and building on key danger signs should be emphasized.

Mapping the landscape of female entrepreneurship in Africa: trends, networks and hot topic through text mining techniques

PurposeThe study examines the characteristics and development trends of female entrepreneurship publications, cooperation networks between countries, journals and individuals, intellectual structure of female entrepreneurship studies in Africa and hot research topics. Future comparative studies in different contexts and interdisciplinary collaboration can enrich the understanding about female entrepreneurship research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used text mining to analyze 130 peer-reviewed articles published from 1975 to 2022 for keywords and classify them into eight main classes: (1) Paradoxical space and informality, (2) work–family conflict, (3) women's entrepreneurial identity and networking, (4) rural women's entrepreneurial activities in the agricultural sector, (5) religious belief and women's entrepreneurial practice, (6) financial trap and environmental challenges, (7) women's entrepreneurial intentions and capacity building and (8) women in cultural entrepreneurship.FindingsFemale entrepreneurship publications develop significantly. Since 1975, African female entrepreneurship study has grown. Results show 130 publications from 1975 to 2023, with two papers published yearly in 2006–2011 and 23 in 2023, indicating growing interest. Paradoxical space and informality, work–family conflict, women's entrepreneurial identity and networking, religious belief and practice, financial trap and environmental challenges and entrepreneurial intentions and capacity building were hot topics identified by topic modeling analysis.Practical implicationsFemale entrepreneurs have looser intellectual networks. Nation, organization and researcher communication is inadequate. Collaborating researchers from different universities and countries may develop the field.Originality/valueThis study is more data-driven and less biased than earlier reviews because it is based on thousands of citation data rather than a small number of papers pre-selected by the researchers. Displaying the field's structure and evolution enhances previous reviews.

Women and sustainable agriculture in Côte d’Ivoire: Challenges and perspectives

This article focuses on the challenges of building women's capacities to ensure sustainable agriculture in Cote d'Ivoire and the prospects for their empowerment. To achieve this objective, a literature review is carried out. The main data show that in Cote d'Ivoire, women are stakeholders in the strategies implemented for sustainable agriculture. Several actions are helping to drive a new era of gender equality in rural Ivorian areas. Conflict management, women's capacity building and the literacy policy have led to greater women's empowerment. In this set of actions, soilless cultivation is positioned as a real opportunity for women to revolutionize sustainable agriculture in Cote d'Ivoire.

Build Women's Financial Confidence to Improve Their Financial Wellness

Build Women's Financial Confidence to Improve Their Financial Wellness

Dentistry and Embroidery in 1890s Utah: The Work of Kate D. Barron Buck

Dentistry and Embroidery in 1890s Utah: The Work of Kate D. Barron Buck

Resources Distribution and Gender Development Among The Local Level in Lalitpur and Jhapa Districts

This article focused on resource distribution and Gender development at the local level.There are two objectives such as to find out the local resources distribution in the different local governments of Jhapa and Lalitpur District and to examine the involving the decision-making of council meetings and policy making process and practices in the gender development sector. Nepal highly prioritized gender development as well as at well budgetary policy formulation for adopting perception and concept of development. This paper is based on descriptive and analytical types of research design. It has used both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and deductive and inductive approaches to the analysis of these collected data. Information is gathered and assessed on the process of resource distribution and Gender development at the local level. The elected local government bodies have formulated the income generated and skill development plans and programs around 5 times a year. Furthermore, the highest percent of respondents of all local areas of both districts, have a practice of allocating the gender-friendly budget in local government and budgets supporting women's capacity building and empowerment and 1-5 lakhs budgets are allocated for the above-mentioned purpose. But those allocated amounts are adequate only for one-third part of the women's development sectors. The local government have formulated the evaluation and monitoring committee for those types of program activities, male and female local government elected personnel are involved in monitoring and evaluating activities of such programs activities.

A thorough analysis on women’s disaster adaption techniques in climate change

Climate change has posed a serious threat to humanity, particularly to women, who are among the most vulnerable. Adaptation as a measure of disaster mitigation has received a lot of attention in the wake of climate change, but nearly all of it has disregarded women's contribution to disaster adaptation as a change agent. This research aims to review the available literature on women's adaptation methods in the face of climate-related disasters. The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) technique was used to guide this research. With a thorough screening method, 19 articles out of 695 were selected utilizing two databases: Scopus and EBSCo discovery service. The findings are presented in a thematic way titled after the various adaption tactics employed by women across the world. The findings suggest that women have demonstrated their ability to use beneficial adaptation techniques in the face of several societal constraints, including reproductive responsibility. As a result of the findings, certain policy recommendations have been made, emphasizing the relevance of women's capacity building in disaster impact mitigation

A Systematic Review on Women’s Disaster Adaptation Strategies in Changing Climate

Climate change has posed a serious threat to humanity, particularly to women, who are among the most vulnerable. Adaptation as a measure of disaster mitigation has received a lot of attention in the wake of climate change, but nearly all of it has disregarded women's contribution to disaster adaptation as a change agent. This research aims to review the available literature on women's adaptation methods in the face of climate-related disasters. The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) technique was used to guide this research. With a thorough screening method, 19 articles out of 695 were selected utilizing two databases: Scopus and EBSCo discovery service. The findings are presented in a thematic way titled after the various adaption tactics employed by women across the world. The findings suggest that women have demonstrated their ability to use beneficial adaptation techniques in the face of several societal constraints, including reproductive responsibility. As a result of the findings, certain policy recommendations have been made, emphasizing the relevance of women's capacity building in disaster impact mitigation.

Rainwater Harvesting as a Strategy for Adapting to Climate Change and Building Women's Autonomy in Brazilian Semiarid

Cisterns Program aims to mitigate drought impacts through strengthening the adaptive capacity of vulnerable inhabitants in Brazilian Semiarid (BSA). Cisterns promote the ability of farmers to adapt to climatic stresses in long run. This article discusses the impacts of the Rainwater Harvesting Program (RHP) on the livelihoods of women in BSA. Policy implementation has been assessed from capacity building and social mobilization to the construction of infrastructure that guarantees rainwater harvesting for human consumption and productive uses. Based on semi-structured interviews applied to case studies in Paraíba, Pernambuco and Ceará states, this article discusses how the gender perspective can improve adaptive capacity. Results from the case studies indicated important changes in female autonomy, greater independence related to water access, resulting in extra time for other activities, including education. Moreover, the availability of water for production has strengthened productive capacity leading to greater food security and well-being. Lastly, it was also reported a sense of economic independence related to income generation from improved production capacity.

Review: Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial, by Laura E. Pérez

Review: <i>Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial</i>, by Laura E. Pérez

The University of Texas's “Racial Geography Tour,” designed by Dr. Edmund Gordon

The University of Texas's “Racial Geography Tour,” designed by Dr. Edmund Gordon

“Indahnya Pelangi di Piring Makanku” Edukasi Gizi Stunting Pada Guru PAUD, Ibu PKK, dan Kader di Kelurahan Bukit Betung Kabupaten Bangka

Stunting is a condition of failure to thrive in children under five due to chronic malnutrition. Stunting affects brain growth and development and increases the risk of developing chronic diseases as adults. Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour are factors that can affect nutritional status. Insufficient knowledge about nutrition affects the ability to a pply and practice the nutritional principle in life . Various efforts have been applied to increase knowledge through nutrition education. The “Isi Piringku” concept consists of education on the importance of balanced nutritional intake according to th e children’s respective needs in age 4–6 years. Educating the community through promoting“Isi Piringku” in a fun concept of a rainbow in one plate conducted at Bukit Betung Village aimed to overcome stunting. The purpose of the activity was to increase knowledge and induce a change of attitudes in PAUD (Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini/Early Childhood Education) teachers, PKK (Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga/Family Wellbeing Empowerment) members , and cadres in applying the concept of “ beautiful rainbow on my plat e” . The educational method was counselling with booklets and a contest on “ the beauty of a rainbow on my plate ” . The activity was held at the Bangka Regency Women's Building for two days, namely nutrition education on the first day and a contest of “ beautiful rainbow on my dinner plate ” on the second day. The target of activities for PAUD teachers, PKK members , and cadres was a total of 55 people. The analysis of the results of the pretest and posttest becomes a benchmark for knowing an increase in knowledge. Changes in participant attitudes were observed based on the results of competition assessments with evaluation criteria as follow: taste, variations in processing, appearance, presentation, serving accuracy, and cleanliness. The results of the activity showed that the participants were mostly mothers (96.4%) with an average age of 41 years and 61.8% had received information about the “Isi Piringku” . There was an increase in participants' knowledge from 86.3% to 92.7% in the “ good ” category. The target of the activity was achieved by observing an increase in knowledge &gt;80% and a change in the attitudes of PAUD teachers, PKK m ember s, and cadres in providing balanced nutritious food based on the concept of the “Isi Piringku” .

Empowering women through participatory action research in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts

The role of women in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts (CBDRR) is an area of limited academic research and continues to be a thorny issue for policy and practice. This research paper describes a comparative case study of participatory action research (PAR) in CBDRR conducted in one rural and one urban tole (neighbourhood) of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. PAR is not a method, rather it is a set of principles guiding research. The “Empowering Women through CBDRR” PAR was motivated by the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal's (NSET) desire to learn how to effectively empower women in disaster risk reduction on a local level and to enhance resilience to everyday hazards and risks as well as earthquakes. The hazards identified by residents in rural Bhainse were the supply of drinking water and landslides while the supply of drinking water and earthquakes were the perceived hazards in urban Tajhya Tole. The small-scale mitigation activities chosen and implemented by the female led disaster risk management groups in partnership with the local authorities and NSET addressed everyday risks (fire) that were important to the community or were related to livelihood concerns (landslide and drainage pipe). While there is clear evidence of women's empowerment and capacity building, sustainability of initiatives is particularly dependent on the commitment of local authorities to incorporate the initiatives into local policies and actions. A gap remains between aspirations to practice empowerment of women and implementation. In many ways, ‘doing’ empowerment remains problematic in CBDRR.

Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South

At the 1895 Atlanta Exposition, the symbol of the New South, visitors encountered a Women's Building, which included a room dedicated to the Lucy Cobb Institute, a women's secondary school founded in Athens in 1859. Nearby, but on the outskirts of the park, visitors toured the Negro Building, which was largely organized by African American women associated with Spelman Seminary. In Leaders of Their Race, Sarah H. Case compares the history of both schools to assess the intersection of race, gender, and education in a changing South. While many of the differences in the aims and approaches of the schools between 1880 and 1925 stemmed from the region's rigid racial hierarchy, Case emphasizes the surprising similarities between Lucy Cobb and Spelman, as both schools framed the preparation of women leaders in the modern South around staunch efforts to regulate female sexuality and preserve women's respectability. Founded as largely a finishing school for southern elites, Lucy Cobb grew to include a more rigorous liberal arts curriculum that prepared southern white women for public roles as diverse as serving the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, teaching, and participating in journalism and, occasionally in later years, politics. Based mostly on institutional records, Case's portrait emphasizes the key role of female school administrators such as Mildred Rutherford who forged modern roles for southern women while, paradoxically, leading a school that defended the traditional “ideals of southern womanhood, white supremacy, and upper class hegemony” (p. 16). Lucy Cobb graduates embraced public and privileged roles that did not include support for women's suffrage.

A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs by Nathan Cardon

Reviewed by: A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs by Nathan Cardon Brian M. Ingrassia A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs. By Nathan Cardon. ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 177. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-027472-6.) Atlanta's 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition and Nashville's 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition were, according to historian Nathan Cardon, "crucibles of modernity" (p. 3). The fairs, both inspired by Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, "presented a future of a scientific and diversified economy centered on a racially divided society" and served as "advertisements for a unique southern modernity" (p. 2). A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs is a fine analysis of these two expositions within their New South context. Chapter 1 shows how the Atlanta and Nashville fairs exposed the "New South creed," offering "'object lessons'" to southerners who might "improve themselves, become modern, [and] leave behind the social customs and traditions that were so pilloried by the rest of the nation" (pp. 19, 37). Chapter 2 focuses on the fairs' so-called Negro Buildings, prominent structures located near lakes Clara Meer (Atlanta) and Watauga (Nashville), where African Americans exhibited their visions of progress. Chapter 3 examines the Woman's Buildings that demonstrated southern white women's shifting social roles. Chapter 4 illustrates how southern elites used the fairs and their depictions of southern race relations to position [End Page 715] themselves at the cutting edge of American empire. Both expositions, argues Cardon, presented a "Jim Crow modernity," "a modern world based on the segregation of race" (p. 39). Atlanta and Nashville looked backward to the antebellum era as well as forward to the New South that Henry W. Grady had envisioned in 1886. Cardon makes a compelling point that the 1890s formed a pivotal decade, when racial and gender boundaries were somewhat fluid and the South claimed a role in the United States' imperial ambitions. The conclusion shows how the 1907 Jamestown Exposition in Virginia stepped backward from 1890s modernity. The 1907 exposition was built in the mud, miles outside Norfolk. It had no Woman's Building, while its Negro Building was located in a marginal spot and exhibited growing tensions among black leaders. This fair "offered a much-tempered dream of the future" (p. 120). Cardon uses a broad range of primary sources, including archival collections from Atlanta, Nashville, Chapel Hill, and Washington, D.C.; newspapers, including African American periodicals; and an impressive list of exposition guides and other contemporaneous publications. With its thorough research, this book adds to a growing body of literature on southern expositions, including Robert W. Rydell's All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876–1916 (Chicago, 1984), Theda Perdue's Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 (Athens, Ga., 2010), Bruce G. Harvey's World's Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902 (Knoxville, 2014), and Mabel O. Wilson's Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (Berkeley, 2012). Cardon draws on these and other works to add new perspectives regarding the fairs' Janus-faced, New South duality, although he limits historiographical engagement to the endnotes. As good as this analysis is, at times it seems so focused on finding commonalities between Atlanta and Nashville that it nearly conflates them into one narrative. More sustained emphasis on both cities' respective histories and circumstances would be useful. A Dream of the Future successfully shows how the 1895 Atlanta and 1897 Nashville expositions represented an important moment in southern history. Cardon thus enhances an already rich portrait of southern fairs at the turn of the twentieth century. Brian M. Ingrassia West Texas A&M University Copyright © 2019 The Southern Historical Association

Women, Culture and Africa's Land Reform Agenda.

Pre-colonial Africa prides itself on adherence to diverse cultural affinity and traditional belief systems, which defines the place of women in respect to land access, use and ownership. Land resources continue to play important roles in both agrarian and industrial societies; thus the absence of effective land management and gender construction in land allocations has deepened gender inequality, restricted women’s capacity building and agricultural development in Africa. This article explores the impact of traditional African practices and cultural beliefs on women’s land ownership and use, and also reconciles women’s land rights (access and control) with the realities of land reform in post-colonial Africa. It explores how gender inequalities, in terms of land ownership and rights, have jeopardized attempts at agricultural productivity and sustainable development in Africa. However, it is tasking to ‘universalize’ African culture and locate it in a center, due to the diverse cultural values found in Africa. However, there are certain belief systems that run through most African communities, such as the denial of women’s land rights and the patriarchal nature of societies. Thus, the article found that, despite the development of legal frameworks that expand women’s property rights, cases of cultural impediments to the exercise of land rights abound in Africa.

"Women Are Everywhere": Celebrating The Women's Building

One of only two 1970s women's centers still in operation today, The Women's Building in San Francisco was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. The iconic mural-covered building is recognized as a site of radical and intersectional feminist organizing-which is in keeping with the vision of its founders, who sought to create a space that included LGBTQ, working-class, and immigrant women.

Feminist Social Practice: A Manifesto

Feminist Social Practice:A Manifesto Neysa Page-Lieberman (bio) and Melissa Hilliard Potter (bio) The Feminist Social Practice Manifesto excerpt published here calls for the definition and implementation of a feminist social practice in contemporary art. Drawing on our curatorial work for the 2017 exhibition Revolution at Point Zero, we offer this declarative statement, inspired by the immediacy and urgency of a manifesto. Taking our cue from Silvia Federici's formative Marxist text, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, we render visible the invisible labor and legacy of feminism in contemporary social practice and seek to position feminist strategies at the nexus of the social practice art movement. This Manifesto offers a way forward for social practice artists, scholars, critics, and curators to engage with the enduring legacy of feminism in socially engaged art. She co-curated exhibitions including Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially-Engaged Art, the first exhibition considering hand papermaking in a socially engaged art context and is currently writing a history of hand papermaking at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles in a forthcoming essay for Hand Papermaking Magazine. Her critical essays have been printed in BOMB, Art Papers, Flash Art, and Metropolis M, among others. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Art & Art History Department of Columbia College Chicago. [End Page 335] DECLARATION We declare an end to the invisibility of feminist artists' labor in contemporary art, and specifically in the socially engaged art movement where feminist tactics are routinely used and rarely, if ever, credited. We support the crux of Silvia Federici's argument that women's labor is invisible. We identify the labor of feminist artists—from performance to protest, to consciousness raising, to collaboration—in order to make this labor visible and equal to any other form of artistic practice, and to reveal the influence of these artists on social practice. We reject the prevailing art world's bias toward revolutionary feminist tactics as didactic, narcissistic, irrelevant, anti-aesthetic, or otherwise lesser than "great art." We believe this narrative of trivialization, however subtle or obvious in its deployment, directly contributes to the erasure of the feminist legacy from the past, present, and future of socially engaged art. Feminist social practice is an art practice; it is also an activist strategy. We call on curators, artists, art workers, scholars, and audiences to locate the legacy of feminism in all contemporary artworks, especially community and socially engaged practices. We likewise call for the proper attribution of this legacy in writing, conversation, theory, and practice for artists whose work has been identified as feminist, as well as those who may resist the feminist label. We invite others to challenge the dominant exclusionary narrative by using our feminist curatorial criteria in discourse and the curating of exhibitions. THE CRITERIA How does one identify feminist social practice? Designed and developed through more than four years of research, exhibitions, interviews, consciousness-raising events, and a symposium on the subject, the following criteria elucidate our strategy for identifying, articulating, and enacting an interdisciplinary Feminist Social Practice. These criteria assert the feminist legacy in socially engaged art by identifying strategies such as collaboration, pedagogical interventions, shared authorship, performance, and personal narrative as testimony, among others. A feminist social practice thereby: 1. promotes core feminist values Embodies the feminist axiom, "the personal is political." Highlights undervalued and exploited labors. Promotes equality of the sexes. Uses intersectional theory to challenge race-based oppression, especially in feminism and art. Makes domestic labor, care-giving, and other service work visible and legitimate artistic practices. Considers eco-feminism, food justice, and the environment. Exposes violence as a tool of patriarchal control. Uses empathy to empower audiences. Creates community-centered projects. Uses interdisciplinary, pedagogical strategies. Promotes marginalized narrative. 2. challenges the embedded values of the art establishment Resists white, male, cis-dominant narratives. Questions the privileging of object over process. Opposes fixed notions of artistic practice based on patriarchal, hierarchical institutions and models. Refuses artificial delineations between education and pedagogy, community-based works, collaboration, and the art market. 3. engages feminist strategies Honors and reveals collaborative process. Promotes process-based artistic practice. [End Page 337] Demands inclusivity...