Women's Housing Research Articles

North County Jail

Abstract This article explores the history of jail construction and architecture on the occasion of a now vacant North County Jail that sits in the center of downtown Oakland. Put to use neither by the state as COVID-19 ravaged overcrowded prisons nor by the city trying to find ways of offering shelter to the houseless, its vacancy became all the more material during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. What do abolitionists do with such vacancies? Inspired by the sonic geography of Angela Davis's memories of the New York Women's House of Detention, this article is a performance of how abolitionist thought both engages and exceeds the terms of panopticism by focusing on the curious boundary of the panoptic jail window. The sculptural abolitionist imaginaries provoked by conceptual artists Sonya Clark and Charisse Pearlina Weston provide new ways of doing things with the shadows and sounds these windows reflect, transmit, and occlude.

Who's doing more and when? Gender, parenting, and housework trajectories.

Drawing on five waves of longitudinal survey data (N = 520, 51% female, 39% with a university degree, 90% White), this study examined trajectories of women's and men's contributions to cooking, kitchen cleaning, grocery shopping, house cleaning, laundry, and overall housework from Age 25 to 50 years and explored time-invariant (traditional gender role attitudes, homemaker mother, mother and father education assessed at Age 18) and time-varying (raising children at Ages 25, 32, 43, and 50 years) predictors of housework trajectories. Growth curve analyses revealed that women contributed more to all housework tasks than men at Age 25, a gender gap maintained to Age 50. Housework increased to Age 32 and stabilized until Age 43 before declining by Age 50 for women's and men's laundry, women's kitchen cleaning, grocery shopping, and overall housework, and men's house cleaning. There was no change in women's and men's trajectory of cooking meals, women's house cleaning, and men's contributions to kitchen cleaning, grocery shopping, and overall housework. Traditional gender role attitudes, having a homemaker mother, and mother's and father's education inconsistently predicted women's and men's trajectories. Raising children, however, was consistently linked with within-person fluctuations in housework. When raising children, women contributed more than average to housework, whereas when men were raising children, they contributed less than normal. The results highlight a gendered pattern of housework evident in the twenties and persisting well into midlife, with parenthood widening the gap. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Political Conversations in the Houses of Roman Women: Livy's Account of the Bacchanalia in 186 B.C.E.

Abstract: This paper focuses on women's houses in republican Rome and political conversations that took place in this gendered domestic context. The Bacchanalian "conspiracy" provides suggestive insights into the roles played by women living in their own houses in the early 2nd century b.c.e. According to Livy, pivotal conversations that shaped the outcome of this crisis took place in the houses of women, including Sulpicia (mother-in-law of Spurius Postumius Albinus, consul 186 b.c.e.), Aebutia (an equestrian widow), Duronia (a married woman), and Hispala Faecenia (a freedwoman living on the Aventine). These conversations reveal social settings in which women interacted and exchanged information.

System Perkawinan Matrilineal Di Suku Fehan Kabupaten Malaka

Marriage according to article 1 of law number 1 of 1974 concerning marriage. What is meant by marriage is a physical and spiritual bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife with the aim of forming a happy and eternal family (household) based on BELIEF IN THE ALMIGHTY GOD.This matrilineal marriage itself is known as "in-marriage" where if a couple has a child, then the lineage follows someone's descendants. Mother. The stages of the traditional Fehan wedding process in NTT will be explained below. Maybe this is a possibility, as happened at the traditional wedding ceremony in Malacca Regency.Matrilineal Marriage Process in Malaka Regency Engagement is the stage before the marriage is legal, where the prospective husband submits an application to the prospective wife's family and after reaching an agreement, both agree to carry out the marriage. A recent marriage binds the relationship between two people.The objects of collateral for a marriage or matrilineal marriage are goods that are sent from the male's extended family to the female's extended family in the form of betel nut and vice versa.It can be concluded that Malacca district in East Nusa Tenggara adheres to a matrilineal marriage system or often called incoming marriage, so in this matrilineal marriage system the man will leave and stay in the woman's house.

Pracimosono as a Place of Intimacy and Spiritual Experience for the Mangkunegaran Princesses in Surakarta, Indonesia

Dalem Keputren Pracimosono known as DKP is an area for women's communal housing in the system of the Palace Mangkunegaran, in Surakarta, Indonesia. The experience of those who live communally can reveal the history and meaning of the power spatiality and manifestations of space and place, especially when they live within the center of power. In this context, this article reveals the transformation of the sense of space into sense of place at DKP. The study uses ethnographic methods to analyze the life of the princesses in DKP and their relationship with cultural events and intellectual, emotional, and spiritual intelligence development. It applies Tuan’s notion of place to this situation which posits that an environment's geographical properties are related to space and place. Space is abstract, but place is a lived whole with history and significance. Places can express people's feelings and goals. Location is closely linked to a person's sociological and spatial position, with place being a passion or emotion that transcends objects. Places have unique personality, a combination of Nature and dwellers investments. People feel a sense of place when they engage values and aesthetic sense to places. However, the Javanese architectural concept to understand this relationship between cultural events and spiritual intelligence is referred to as ‘laku’ in interpreting space as manifest with the dwellings of the princesses. The paper concludes that the structure of DKP illustrate both Javanese and colonial spatial concepts with a feminine atmosphere. Princesses move between places to form their identity as Javanese Mangkunegaran women. DKP shapes the characters, attitudes and manners of the princesses and direct proper movements with etiquette. The community life of the princesses transforms DKP into place, forming intellectual, emotional, and spiritual intelligence according to the Javanese tradition. Srikandhi Mangkunegaran is a spiritual source for men and serves as a role model for Javanese women. DKP shapes the interiority of place through the intimate and spiritual experiences of the princesses, forming a strong connection to the Mangkunegaran Palace.

Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong

This study adopted the participatory action research (PAR) approach to co-create knowledge about the community from the perspectives and experiences of women in low-income communities in Hong Kong. Specifically, a ‘Working from the Ground Up’ approach to community development was implemented by social workers. Its effectiveness was evidenced in its capacity for facilitating women's voicing of their primary concerns about gender-specific safety threats. Guided by the PAR principles, the research process involved the community workers and residents. The findings reveal that fear not only affects women's use of public spaces such as streets and parks, but their use of the staircases and inter-building alleys leading to their housing units where they live. Women's housing units are also vulnerable to robbery and thefts due to their poor physical structures. Consequently, women have modified their behaviors to avoid falling prey to general crimes such as physical assault and, in particular, sexual violence.

The Migration Risk Environment: Challenges to Human Security for Venezuelan Migrant and Refugee Women and Girls Pre- and Post-Migration to Colombia

The Venezuelan crisis has unleashed multiple forms of sociopolitical violence against its population and created a context of unmet needs, insecurity, and human rights violations. Outward migration caused by this situation has been linked to health emergencies in neighboring countries. Venezuelan migrant and refugee women and girls (VMRWG) are among the most affected. We conducted a cross-sectional qualitative and Participatory Action Research (PAR) project to characterize the risk environments for VMRWG across migration phases, analyzing pre-departure, transit, border crossing, and resettlement risk factors for health and security through semi-structured interviews ( n = 30) and human cartographies ( n = 16). We found cross border risk and protective factors that inform cross-border health initiatives, migration policies, and human rights efforts for both the migrant and host communities. Findings and Recommendations Migratory trajectories of VMRWG from Venezuela to Colombia represent a risk environment for women and girls, connecting cross-border contexts through armed actors’ control, culturally reinforced gender roles and limited social and economic resources. Long-term sustainable migratory policies that are culturally sensitive and include a gender-approach to health should operationalize how gender roles are intimately connected to HIV risk and mental health disparities through reinforced structural factors. Such policies must address these structural factors. The public health system needs to incorporate and align with programmatic efforts implemented by international platforms (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), AID4AIDS, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also known as Doctors Without Borders) targeting screening for infectious diseases (including HIV and mental health disparities) in border crossings and borderlands. Sustainable policies to bridge gaps between services and populations and to decrease growing HIV cases depends on these strategies. Policies and programs of local governments (city and municipality level) addressing mental health disparities need to be expanded through peer leaders and civil society networks of care to guarantee wellbeing and quality of life after resettlement. International efforts and collaborations should capitalize on the re-opening of the border to establish inter-sectoral collaborations with Venezuelan NGOs and civil society organizations on both sides of the border to address gender-based violence, follow-up of cases, and access to services in sending and receiving communities. In order to broach gaps and tackle access barriers in resettlement communities in Colombia, services must be provided in peripheric territories and neighborhoods where some vulnerable migrants resettle. These services must rely on health sector-community collaborations. Public health sector efforts should be integrated and coordinated with family and child services on a local and national level Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF), gender working groups, shelters, and citywide supported initiatives like the House of Women) to provide and promote access to social resources (education, jobs, and housing) for migrant women. Health promotion strategies are necessary to decrease infectious diseases and violence-related trauma among migrants across borders. These strategies can include outreach through peer leaders, civil society organization campaigns, and HIV mobile testing and counselling. These services should be delivered in a culturally sensitive manner, capitalizing on in-place cross-border networks of support. In Colombia, sustainable efforts in policy and programs have been made to provide Venezuelans with access to health care and social services with the help of inter-sectoral working groups, national laws, and border commissions. However, there is an urgent need to expand the humanitarian response and the health sector coverage to gender-based violence impacting infectious disease risk and mental health trauma in host communities. Connecting pre- and post-migration contexts in South-to-South migration is paramount. Tackling these issues can improve the protection of human rights and resettlement conditions in host communities.

SANKSI DUDUAK BASIGHIAH DI JORONG CENDRAWASIH NAGARI TIGO JANGKO KECAMATAN LINTAU BUO

Sanctions for duduak basighiah in Jorong Cendrawasih for people who do not carry out this tradition, are prevented from getting married, are not allowed to live in the Jorong, are not allowed to carry out walimah ursy, the family is banished by the niniak mamak. Then, thus the importance of this tradition is carried out to establish family intimacy and strengthen the relationship between the male and female families. The basighiah duduak tradition is carried out before the marriage contract at the women's house by holding alek sakampuang for the sighiah shreds process. This procession is a form of notification to the village community that a girl is getting married. Islamic law review of the tradition of basighiah duduak is a habit that has lived in the midst of society. This custom is classified as urf fasid because it contains disadvantages from the provisions of the basighiah basighiah tradition of sanctions, this sanction applies to couples who are getting married if they do not carry out the basighiah sitting tradition.

Mammographic density in the environs of multiple industrial sources

BackgroundMammographic density (MD), defined as the percentage of dense fibroglandular tissue in the breast, is a modifiable marker of the risk of developing breast cancer. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of residential proximity to an increasing number of industrial sources in MD. MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on 1225 premenopausal women participating in the DDM-Madrid study. We calculated distances between women's houses and industries. The association between MD and proximity to an increasing number of industrial facilities and industrial clusters was explored using multiple linear regression models. ResultsWe found a positive linear trend between MD and proximity to an increasing number of industrial sources for all industries, at distances of 1.5 km (p-trend = 0.055) and 2 km (p-trend = 0.083). Moreover, 62 specific industrial clusters were analyzed, highlighting the significant associations found between MD and proximity to the following 6 industrial clusters: cluster 10 and women living at ≤1.5 km (β = 10.78, 95 % confidence interval (95%CI) = 1.59; 19.97) and at ≤2 km (β = 7.96, 95%CI = 0.21; 15.70); cluster 18 and women residing at ≤3 km (β = 8.48, 95%CI = 0.01; 16.96); cluster 19 and women living at ≤3 km (β = 15.72, 95%CI = 1.96; 29.49); cluster 20 and women living at ≤3 km (β = 16.95, 95%CI = 2.90; 31.00); cluster 48 and women residing at ≤3 km (β = 15.86, 95%CI = 3.95; 27.77); and cluster 52 and women living at ≤2.5 km (β = 11.09, 95%CI = 0.12; 22.05). These clusters include the following industrial activities: surface treatment of metals/plastic, surface treatment using organic solvents, production/processing of metals, recycling of animal waste, hazardous waste, urban waste-water treatment plants, inorganic chemical industry, cement and lime, galvanization, and food/beverage sector. ConclusionsOur results suggest that women living in the proximity to an increasing number of industrial sources and those near certain types of industrial clusters have higher MD.

Między Warszawą a Zagrzebiem. Przyczynek do badań nad recepcją twórczości Zofii Nałkowskiej w Chorwacji

The text presents the Croatian reception of Zofia Nałkowska’s works (mainly plays) and the Polish writer’s “Zagreb episode” in the 1930s, when her two plays, "The House of Women" and "The Day of His Return", were staged in that city. The author also focuses on the translators of Nałkowska’s works: Julije Benešić and Zdenka Marković.

"Dzień jego powrotu" – w perspektywie krytyki literackiej i teatralnej dramatów Zofii Nałkowskiej

A comprehensive review of the literary and theater criticism concerning Zofia Nałkowska’s second play reveals a great discrepancy in the reviewers’ opinions (Karol Irzykowski, Antoni Słonimski, Jan Lorentowicz, Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki). It is an exceptionally peculiar testimony of reception, perhaps also revealing to some extent the reasons for the gradual turning away of the author of "The House of Women" from playwriting. The most important aim of the study is to show the text of the play itself ensnared by overpowering critical commentary and to reflect on Nałkowska’s precursory intentions, which were ridiculed by her harsh critics who did not recognize their potential.

That Woman's House

That Woman's House

Frontier Archaeology: Excavating Huli Colonization of the Lower Tagali Valley, Papua New Guinea

Archaeological investigations have documented an ideological and occupied frontier in the Lower Tagali Valley along the southern margins of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Open-area excavations document two types of house structure associated with Huli occupation of the Lower Tagali Valley landscape, a women's house (wandia) and a lodge and ceremonial complex associated with a bachelor cult (ibagiyaanda). Excavation revealed the complete floor plan of the women's house site and multiple structural elements of the ceremonial complex. Radiocarbon dating provides a chronology for both sites that accords with genealogical histories for the colonization of this landscape by Huli during the early nineteenth century, or approximately eight generations ago. These archaeological findings are consistent with the strategies still employed today by Huli in the initial ideological incorporation of new territory and anchoring of expansionary claims through subsequent settlement and cultivation.

Sentiment Analysis on Product Reviews from Shopee Marketplace using the Naïve Bayes Classifier

Online shopping has become a popular shopping method ever since the number of internet users increased. Online shopping activities have become very easy and flexible because they can be completed anywhere and anytime. The products provided are also complete. The products sold often do not always match the actual conditions because the product can only be seen through pictures. Users who have purchased a product can share their opinions using the review feature. However, the products purchased thousands or millions of times have many reviews. To take an overview of the product, it is essential to go through every positive and negative review, which takes a lot of time and effort. Reviews of products from the Shopee marketplace will be classified into positive or negative sentiments towards women's home wear clothing or house dress in this study. The research starts with data crawling, text preprocessing, training data, testing, and evaluation model and then concludes with a general description based on the most frequently discussed topics in the reviews for each sentiment class. Classification is done using the Naïve Bayes Classifier algorithm. The accuracy obtained is 90,03%. The total dataset is 2907 data.

ETNOGRAFI GAWAI DALAM PERKAWINAN SUKU TALANG MAMAK DI DESA TALANG SUNGAI LIMAU KECAMATAN RAKIT KULIM

This study discusses the meaning of Gawai in the marriage of the Talang Mamak tribe in the village of Talang Sungai Limau, Rakit Kulim sub-district, the Gawai Ritual is a series of marriage rituals for the indigenous Talang Mamak tribe which includes a series of traditional pre-wedding processions until the device is implemented. The process of getting to the gadget goes through quite complicated stages starting from visiting a woman's house (betandang). taking things from men as a symbol of the seriousness of the relationship (bebibitan). The woman's family goes to the man's family asking for the seriousness of the relationship (menyulu) pick-up, three days left at each bride's house (balek-balekan) until the procession of the marriage contract (sembah mertua), the Gawai ritual has a symbol of meaning contained in it. . This study uses an ethnographic approach to obtain data and interpret data, where the ritual of the gawai is the main focus of this study. There are sacralizations and symbols in gadgets, not only objects but also motion and speech. Gambling and fighting as a form of negotiation between humans and supernatural beings so as not to interfere with the running of the device.

Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States.

Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as "vulnerable populations" due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violations, which confers greater risk of trauma, self-harm, and suicide compared with the general incarcerated population. Most incarceration settings around the world are segregated by the person's sex characteristics (i.e., male or female) and governed by strong cis and gender normative paradigms. This analysis seeks to better understand and appreciate how the "instructions" and the "authorities" that regulate trans women's corporeal representation, housing options and sense of self-determination implicate and affect their agency and actions in handling intimacies related to their personal life. Drawing upon lived incarcerated experiences of 24 trans women in Australia and the United States, and employing Ken Plummer's notion of intimate citizenship, this analysis explores how trans women navigate choices and ways "to do" gender, identities, bodies, emotions, desires and relationships while incarcerated in men's prisons and governed by cis and gender normative paradigms. This critical analysis contributes to understanding how incarcerated trans women through grit, resilience, and ingenuity still navigate ways to embody, express and enact their intimate citizenship in innovative and unique ways.

PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN INTERAKTIF BERBASIS ADOBE FLASH MENGGUNAKAN KONTEKS RUMAH WANITA KOTA LUBUKLINGGAU DITINJAU DARI SEGI KEVALIDAN DAN KEPRAKTISAN

This study aims to develop interactive learning media based on adobe flash by using the context of the Women's House Lubuklinggau City on valid and practical trigonometry material. This research is a development research using the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation). The subjects of this study include validators (language, material and media experts), mathematics teachers and class X students in the one to one and small group test. The data collection technique was carried out using a questionnaire sheet. Based on the results of the analysis of the validation questionnaire assessment by the three validators, it shows that the learning media developed meets the very valid criteria with a validity result of 81.45%. While the results of the analysis of the practicality questionnaire assessment by teachers and students showed that the learning media developed met the very practical criteria with practicality results of 95.31%.

Probabilistic elderly person's mood analysis based on its activities of daily living using smart facilities.

The world's population is aging, and eldercare services that use smart facilities such as smart homes are widely common in societies now. With the aid of smart facilities, the present study aimed at understanding an elder's moods based on the person’s activities of daily living (ADLs). With this end in view, an explainable probabilistic graphical modeling approach, applying the Bayesian network (BN), was proposed. The proposed BN-based model was capable of defining the relationship between the elder's ADLs and moods in three different levels: Activity-based Feature (AbF), Category of Activity (CoA), and the mood state. The model also allowed us to explain the transformations among the different levels/nodes on the defined BNs. A framework featured with smart facilities, including a smart home, a smartphone, and a wristband, was utilized to assess the model. The smart home was an elderly woman's house, equipped with a set of binary-based sensors. For about five months, the ADLs' data have been recorded through daily behavioral-based information, registered by experts using a defined questionnaire. The obtained results proved that the proposed BN-based model of the current study could promisingly estimate the elder's moods and CoA states. Moreover, in contrast to the machine learning techniques that behave like a black box, the effect of each feature from the lower levels to the higher levels of information of the BNs can be traced. Implications of the findings for future diagnosis and treatment of the elderly are considered.

Homelessness and domestic and family violence in Queensland mining communities: The experiences of women and families accessing safe and affordable housing

Increasingly scholars across the world are developing sophisticated approaches to understanding the impacts of homelessness and domestic and family violence (DFV) for women and women headed families. This paper reports on qualitative research undertaken in Queensland mining communities about the experiences of women and their families who have experienced homelessness due to family breakdown or DFV. This paper presents a subset of data from a larger study with a specific focus on an analysis of five women's experiences, including some data from interviews with homelessness service providers and community representatives. This research provides a regional and rural frame of reference for understanding structural factors affecting women and families experience of homelessness and domestic and family violence. The paper concludes with a discussion of two key recommendations. These are (1) Improving access to safe and affordable housing for women and families in mining communities and (2) strengthening social planning to address women's safety and housing needs in these communities.

Re-establishing their Lives: Issues Relating to Affordable Housing for Women and their Children Escaping Violent Intimate Partner Relationships in Northern Manitoba

Housing affordability is a significant and growing issue across northern Manitoba communities. One population impacted by the lack of safe and affordable housing is women (and their children) leaving violent and abusive relationships. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with fourteen women staying in women’s shelters in the cities of Thompson and Winnipeg, Manitoba, this research project focused on exploring the journeys women make as they seek safety and shelter for themselves and their children, and their reasons for making these transitions. The women’s interviews revealed: 1) the centrality of the notion of home for women establishing safety for themselves and their children; and 2) the complex transitions and geographic moves that women make in search of the idea of home and safety. The stories of their journeys point to severe issues regarding availability of affordable, safe housing in northern Manitoba, the lack of northern transportation services to access shelters, and the significant absence of formal support on First Nation communities. The research reiterates that there is a need for proactive service responses to violence against women and children. Such a coordinated response needs to begin in the northern communities themselves, with links to regional services and supports when appropriate.