Women In Crisis Research Articles

On the Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on the Depression and Emotional Crisis of Women in Mid-life Crisis

On the Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on the Depression and Emotional Crisis of Women in Mid-life Crisis

Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs (review)

Julie Hemment, Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, March 2007,208 pp. Julie Hemment's Empowering Women in Russia is a patient and deeply embodied tale of one anthropologist's commitment to conduct Participatory Action Research (PAR) with women activists as they move to concretely address issues of gender, power and empowerment in post-Soviet Russia. Part critique of theorizing and strategizing of international aid in post-Soviet transition, and part collaborative ethnography, book's main goal is to both translate, and enable, women's navigation of local contradictions that shape post-Soviet feminisms, citizenships and activisms amidst faltering market reforms, a reliably absent Russian state, and an initially promising emerging largely comprised of non-government organizations (NGOs) since mid1990s. The book begins with Hemment's first meetings with informal women's groups in Tver, a provincial city outside Moscow. It then traces her collaboration with one such group (Zhenskii Svet) in its goals to enter third sector by formalizing itself via state recognition and international funding, and group's partially successful management of a Women's Crisis Center and a Center for Women's History and Gender Studies. The story is enhanced by Hemment's commitment to intellectual partnerships with women throughout process and her close treatment of stories of two interlocutors and Zhenskii Svet collaborators, Valentina and Oktobriana: former, a history professor and founder of Zhenskii Svet who senses some opportunity for advancement of Russian women through perestroika-era style discussion groups and temporary gendered coalitions that promote localized strategies to meet broader transformational goals; latter, an unpretentious, enthusiastic healthcare worker literally bankrupted by transition and thus heartened by promises and practice of Western aid institutions. The women act as two archetypical activists in a historical moment in Russia where grassroots optimisms and economic survival operate to compel women into third sector. As book unfolds, we find that while women's engagements with, and within, third sector provide valuable economic, political and personal opportunities for gendered community that did not exist for them before, such global interventions are stymied by unrealistic political demands and cultural incompetence on part of NGO's to satisfy Valentina and Oktobriana's larger political hopes for women's equality, as well as those of other women with which Hemment collaborates. At same time that Valentina's Center for History of Women's History and Gender Studies flourishes with grants from such organizations as Ford Foundation, her dreams of an organically-led, practice-oriented, local women's movement are precluded by NGO's demands for hierarchy, a preoccupation with vanguardism, and dualistic thought. And despite her best efforts, Oktobriana cannot keep a Women's Crisis Center afloat because her lack of connections and access to Soviet-era patronage systems result in discrepancies between Center's economic circumstances and professionalism required of an NGO affiliate. Ultimately, Hemment argues, despite skills, energy and vision of women activists, future of NGOization in Russia as a vehicle for empowering women is uncertain because, the third sector does not deliver what it promises: rather than allowing a grassroots to flourish, [it] provides a structural and symbolic framework for reproduction of former elites of Soviet regime (144). Hemment's initial chapters focus on clarifying history and various positionings of feminism in Russia in relation to contemporary Russian women's activism. Post-Soviet women's search for cultural and political meaning as feminists began over one hundred years ago, when perevolutionary suffragettes, socialist women, radical feminists and Christian feminists were active, sometimes uniquely and sometimes in unison, in project of improving women's status in realms of family, work, and/or state. …

Evaluating the effectiveness of a women's crisis house: a prospective observational study

Aims and MethodTo investigate the effectiveness of the Women's Service crisis house in Croydon we performed an observational study prospectively measuring functioning, symptom severity and unmet needs before and after admission. Use of mainstream mental health services was also measured.ResultsWomen using the service had high use of mainstream mental health services, with 137 out of 269 (51%) requiring admission to a mainstream acute ward in the 4 years studied. The service was effective with an improvement in Global Assessment of Functioning scores from a median of 48 on admission to 67 on discharge (P<0.001).Clinical ImplicationsThe women's crisis house was effective in providing for women who required high levels of mainstream mental health services, suggesting that it provides a valuable alternative to standard in-patient care.

:Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907.(Contemporary American Indian Studies.)

:Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907.<i>(Contemporary American Indian Studies.)</i>

Telepsychiatry Program for Rural Victims of Domestic Violence

Domestic violence is a significant public health problem and is correlated with serious mental and physical disorders. Victims' fear and isolation seriously limit access to psychiatric evaluation and treatment. Telemedicine provides a means to overcome these obstacles. This article describes a telemedicine program that provides psychiatric screening, evaluation, treatment, and referral for ongoing care to clients of a rural women's crisis center. Psychiatric evaluation and treatment were provided to a rural women's shelter program using telepsychiatry. The shelter program had difficulty accessing traditional mental health service. All new clients entering the program were screened for mental health problems. Those requiring further evaluation received a physical examination with medical history and initial psychological interview on site, followed by psychiatric evaluation by videoconference. Appropriate treatment was initiated, and referral for ongoing psychiatric care through the local community mental health clinic was arranged. Of the 38 women referred for mental health services by clinic staff, 35 completed a psychiatric evaluation using telepsychiatry and 31 entered treatment. The most commonly identified disorders were anxiety and major affective disorders, followed by substance use disorders. Telepsychiatry can provide rapid crisis intervention and effective mental health services to victims of domestic violence in a rural setting.

“The Tumbler”: Writing An/Other in Fiction and Performance Ethnography

This article dissolves the binary between science and literature with a performance text set in rural Australia. This performance suggests that the imaginative act of fiction writing and the social scientific act are kept apart in a false binary that reifies the privilege of presence and the audacity of authenticity. Inspired by a poststructuralist suspicion of any truth as sacred originary, the author takes a chance on an imaginative writing practice that enables researcher/writer/performer and audience to encounter the Other in positive, touching, affective, and meaningful ways. The voice of this Other speaks us into an aggressively embodied sense of geographic and social isolation, the inadequacies of community support for women in crisis, and the possibilities for agency in an impossible situation. Her monologue becomes a more nuanced and discursively complex way of confronting these issues than could be achieved with a traditional social scientific analysis.

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Journal Article Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907 Get access Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907. By Johnston Carolyn Ross. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xiv + 227 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.) Linda W. Reese Linda W. Reese East Central University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.2307/25443173 Published: 01 May 2005

Smurto prieš moteris priežastys ir prevencija

In this article are analysed reasons of violence for women in the family: the influence of patriarchalism model, poverty, the view for woman in the contect of history, depresion, discord and conflicts between members of family. On the ground of G. D. Myers, J. Gilligan, P. L. Berger, A. M. Pavilionienė, K. Miškinis and other authors ideas, there are explained origin of violence for women, the whole of values, traditions, customs, habits and attitudes what have influence for inequality of sex. In the modern society the role of woman is very depreciated, because the women are sold to slavery, they are beat, killed.&#x0D; The results of investigation proved, that women conflict and cross with their husbands, because they drink hard, humiliate wives, don’t agree for education of children, for poverty in their family. Husbands attach a little attention for their wives. They don’t like, that wives don’t take care for them. Women difficulty experience the violence, they feel strain and fear, hatred and humiliation.&#x0D; Some women aren’t independent and confident, because they married with that man who harmed woman before wedding. Women complain to friends, neighbours, relatives about violence from husband, but only some women inform for police. The facts aren’t solved, because the women forgive for their violenctions, live with them and suffer.&#x0D; The sociological investigations are the best ilustration of fact, that the women are depended on economy conditions in the family. This depending is connected with physical violence. In this article are explained prevention possibilities (the Women crisis centres, psichology services, ungovernment organizations). Its are explained some standpoints about punishments for thees, who beats and harms women. There are some ideas from Criminal Code of Lithuanian Republic and UNIFEM organization about the violence for women. The author of this article thinks, that the society has to know about problems in the families.

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Book Review: Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Book Review: Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907. By Carolyn Ross Johnston. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xvi, 227 pp. Cloth, $48.00, isbn 0-8173-1332-X. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8173-5056-X.)

Where Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women (1998) explored the impact of contact and colonization on Cherokee women up to the eve of removal, Carolyn Ross Johnston's Cherokee Women in Crisis begins with removal and tracks women's lives into the early twentieth century. Johnston grounds her study in the gender conventions that, for centuries, had defined Cherokee women as guardians of children and of the earth. But when, in the early decades of the nineteenth century, many Cherokee women began to abandon Selu (the corn mother) for the cult of domesticity, the rights and responsibilities that had always defined them became points of contention rather than consensus. Three crises—removal to Indian Territory, the struggles of the Civil War, and the disastrous federal allotment policies of the 1890s and 1900s—challenged Cherokee women. Removal, for example, sundered some women's customary ties to the land and threatened their ability to live as cultivators while others saw in the tragedy a chance to complete the “civilization” of their nation. But when families arrived in Indian Territory, many women were able to help organize new settlements and thereby recreate their long-standing relationship with the earth. The Civil War posed different kinds of challenges. Most women tried to hold their families together in spite of the hardships of the war, but others found opportunities to reassert their customary roles as heads of households in the absence of their husbands, while still others engaged in espionage or took up arms. No matter what their experiences, however, all suffered. The war widowed one-third of adult women and orphaned one-quarter of all children. Cherokee women's greatest challenge came in 1898 with the passage of the Curtis Act that mandated the allotment of Cherokee land. While the act threatened to rob the nation of its land base, it also recognized men as the heads of Cherokee households. Women who had previously waged their struggles alone turned to groups such as the Four Mothers Society and the Keetoowah Society to argue collectively for the restoration of their customary rights and responsibilities. Others took advantage of courses offered at the Cherokee Female Seminary to become nurses and teachers.

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Book Review: Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Book Review: Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

Cherokee women in crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and allotment, 1838-1907

Cherokee women in crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and allotment, 1838-1907

Lifeworld strategies of women who find themselves homeless in South Africa

This article examines one way of accessing the issues concerning marginalized groups in order to develop appropriate policy responses. The article is based on a study of the experiential lifeworlds and strategies of street homeless women in inner‐city Johannesburg, South Africa. Using phenomenology as a methodology, the article shows why and how attempts to address street homelessness must take cognizance of the lifeworld strategies of those involved. The article demonstrates that understanding and solving street homelessness must involve looking beyond the provision of housing alone. If effective policies are to be formulated, planners need to understand the nature of homelessness and the events that have shaped homelessness. A holistic and proactive approach based on phenomenological participation and co‐operative exploration could improve understanding and help provide a more comprehensive solution. This would further assist, not only street homeless women, but also other women in crisis or survival situations.

Prevensi terhadap Kekerasan Berbasis Jender

This article was written based on literatures on violence towards women, particularly domestic violence. The author offers range of efforts which should be made in the attempt to minimize gender violence. Many activities have been developed by non government organizations (non profits) such as through their centers to assist women in crisis. Besides, the acts for anti violence towards women hal also been ratified. However, the solution at the policy level has not been able to reduse the number of domestic violence. Many domestic violence cases remain unexplored as a result of the still existing taboo that domestic problems should not be exposed for public. Beside this value, there is a cultural basis that explains why preventing domestic violence remain difficult. Domestic violence, when explored further, has its cultural root, in the way men place himself as the “person in control” of his spouse (wife/woman). The attempt to prevent the widespread of domestic violence need to consider this cultural root, in order to achieve its goals more affectively. Programs for domestic violence prevention needs to aim at changing gender inequity ideology more seriously.Women rights issue need to be listed in the gender education programs within communities, commonly socialized through campaigns and trainings in gender issues. Key Words : Gender violence, domestic violence, cultural basis, prevention.

Negotiating violence and non-violence in Cambodian marriages

Domestic violence is a pressing issue in Cambodia. Combating it requires an understanding of the social meanings behind it. As such, policy makers and planners need to start from a careful picture of the cultural terrain upon which this violence is played out. This will equip them to recognise potential points of entry for interventions. This article begins by exploring the relationship between social structures, culture and domestic violence in Cambodia. It then turns to the work of two Cambodian NGOs – Cambodian Women's Crisis Centre (CWCC) and Project Against Domestic Violence (PADV). Their work is founded on both the cultural terrain of Cambodia, and international human rights standards.

Entre la Crisis Generacional y El Éxtasis Sexual: El Dilema Femenino en Atlas de Geografía Humana de Almudena Grandes

In her fourth novel, Atlas de geografía humana (1998), Almudena Grandes presents the reader with a historical yet intimate portrayal of a generation of Spanish women in crisis. The interconnected narrations of the four female protagonists serve to introduce the recurrent themes in the novel (existential angst, fear of aging, eroticism, and change) while creating a symbolic human atlas that depicts the experience of personal transition, on one hand, and the sociopolitical transformation of a nation, on the other.This article examines the ways in which Grandes explores the existential and moral ambivalence of a generation of Spaniards who grew up during the transition from dictatorship to democracy. The author highlights this generation's tendency to question social conventions and to uphold the natural law of instinct and desire. Issues of gender difference and female identity are also probed in the novel, as Grandes challenges certain feminist assumptions and puts forth, instead, an existentialist perspective of male-female relations reminiscent of Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex (1949).

Women's crisis centers and shelters in Italy: working with battered women and with health care providers

Results of working with battered women stress the necessity to develop practical innovations and create a supportive non-judgmental environment for female victims of violence.

The Experiences of the Middle: Aged Women's Crisis

The Experiences of the Middle: Aged Women's Crisis