Illiterate Woman Research Articles

Physical Intimate Partner Violence Against Pregnant Women in Türkiye: A Population Based Study

This study’s main objective was to determine the factors that led to Turkish women being physically abused by their husbands or partners during pregnancy. The National Research on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey conducted in 2014 was utilized in our study. We analyzed the survey data using the binary logistic regression method. A pregnant woman who graduated from high school was less likely to encounter physical abuse than an illiterate woman. Those who made more money for the family than their husband or partner were more likely to experience physical abuse. Pregnant women with alcoholic husbands/partners were more likely to experience physical abuse. By supporting the prevention of other potential outcomes for maternal and infant health, implementing screening for partner violence and childbirth phobia in obstetrics and gynecology clinics, and offering comprehensive information about pregnancy labour, we can enhance family and social health.

P106: Palliative care for people with advanced dementia

Objective:Dementia is currently the seventh leading cause of death and one of the major causes of disability and dependency among elderly. In Taiwan, there are at least 300,000 people live with dementia. However, only 1.64% of people with dementia received palliative care. In this paper, we describe a real-world experience of palliative care for people with advanced dementia.Method:Case report.Result:Mrs. H, A 90-year-old illiterate woman, was referred to Home Care team after several admissions for urinary tract infection. Her past medical history included cerebral infarction with left hemiparesis 4 years ago. Over one year prior our first visit, her family had begun to notice a problem with her recent memory. Thorough investigation for dementia was arranged. She scored 11/30 on the Mini-Mental State Examination. Mixed Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia was impressed.The Home Care service consisted of a once-monthly visit by physician and nurse. In the first year of service, we delivered active directed treatment for dementia. We also discussed nonpharmacological approaches for dealing with physical and behavior symptoms in each visit.Then Mrs. H was hospitalized again due to fever and abdominal pain. Abdominal aortic aneurysm was diagnosed along with urinary tract infection. She had hypoactive delirium for two months after discharge. Meanwhile, Home Care team arranged a family meeting to discuss prognosis and appropriateness of palliative care. In the following two years, we focused on deprescribing and interventions for pain, dyspnea, eating problem, infection, and agitation to promote Mrs. H’s comfort and quality of life. Psychological support was crucial to facilitate continuity in carer and care setting. Mrs.H did not have burdensome transition anymore and passed away peacefully at home as her preference.Conclusion:The need for palliative care in dementia is anticipated to increase over the next decades in Taiwan. In the patient presented, Home Care team acknowledged and offered palliative care to help her to live as comfortably as possible until death and to help carers cope during the course. A multidisciplinary health care is highly recommended for complex needs in dementia.

Transnationalisme pentecôtiste et précarité enchantée : le cas du Monte de Oración dans la périphérie suburbaine de Lima, Pérou

This article presents the study of a popular Pentecostal center, Monte de Oración (MO), located in the suburban outskirts of Lima, Peru. The MO, founded by an illiterate woman originally from Cuzco, self-proclaimed pastor, began its trajectory (1970s, 1980s) as a community site of Catholic popular piety, anchored in the Andean traditions of mountain worship until it became a family religious enterprise. The MO is connected with some forty independent churches in Lima which organize retreats there and is, as well, in the process of being integrated into the networks of North American missionary denominations. The MO maintains a connection with transnational Pentecostal currents that make sense, locally, through similarity and affinity (Foucault, Han). At MO, are adopted and adapted, with creativity, issues and rites, among others, spiritual warfare, Israelophilia / Zionism, gender complementarity, refusal of vaccines against COVID.

The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ ИСТОЧНИКИ СКАЗОЧНОГО РЕПЕРТУАРА ПУДОЖАНКИ Е. М. ЛЁВИНОЙ (КАРЕЛИЯ)

The Pudozh region of Karelia, rich in folklore traditions of various genres, has attracted the attention of the researches of Karelian Research Institute (now the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences) since its foundation in 1930. Evdokia Makarovna Levina from Poga Village situated at Lake Vodlozero appeared to be the source for recording the largest number of fairy tales (more than 50) in the 1970s. The research revealed that some of the fairy-tales performed by this illiterate woman descend from the texts published in anthologies and collected volumes, as this article proves with the help of textological comparisons.

Women participation in Panchayati Raj with special reference Haridwar (Uttarakhand)

The study was conducted in Haridwar district, Uttarakhand , India(2022 Jan). The primary purpose of the study was to analyze the role of women in the Panchayati Raj program in the study area. Data were collected from 129 randomly selected respondents randomly assigned to different polling stations in Haridwar district. The purpose of this study was to explore the platform provided to Panchayati raj institutions in improving women's participation in decision-making. On the basis of which the conclusion can be drawn whether the test is successful or not. If so, to what extent and in what circumstances? And if not, why not? After studying and analyzing the role of women in the Panchayati raj in selected areas of Haridwar district, it is commendable that women's education is important because an educated woman can play a more important role in decision-making than an illiterate woman. For this purpose, better educational resources should be provided to women. In addition, the promotion of research into women's issues and problems is important. Women's incomes in the Haridwar region are low due. Research shows that there is not much awareness about political issue and their rights.

The Illiterate African Woman as Depicted in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa

Based on the theory of existentialism, this study seeks to find out Ama Ata Aidoo’s view on how illiteracy affects the African Woman in her drama, Anowa, which was published in 1970. The text depicts the illiterate woman as being powerful woman in African society. However, Ama Ata Aidoo posits that illiteracy makes the woman a pathetic individual who is not able to function effectively in this changing world. This study seeks to deepen the appreciation of Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa, by contributing to the understanding of Aidoo’s attitude to the illiterate Ghanaian woman (and for that matter African woman) who is seen as a powerful matriarch, but frustrated by African society as a result of lack of formal education. The available literature was explored to find what other writers have said on Aidoo’s Anowa. We used the method of qualitative content analysis in our analysis. The findings of the study show that Ama Ata Aidoo uses her writing to satirize societal weaknesses for her readers to refrain from committing such wrongs. Her illiterate women characters in Anowa are bent on maintaining their traditions and are not prepared for change. Consequently, Aidoo uses the character, Anowa, to depict change in African societies.

The Relative Importance of Female Education on Fertility Desires in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multi-Level Analysis

Scholars suggest that in high fertility settings where there is high wanted fertility, lowering the desired family size is a necessary precondition for fertility declines. Though accumulated evidence has linked socio-economic developments to changes in fertility desires, little efforts have taken to disentangle the relative importance of key socio- economic determinants such as education, income, and area of residence in a multi-level context. Combining individual and community-level data from Demographic and Health Surveys of 34 African countries to aggregate level indicators, we have quantified and compared the relative role of female education on fertility desire at the individual, community, and country levels. Results show that at the individual level, female education has a stronger effect compared to household wealth, and area of residence. The high levels of reported desired family size in the rural parts of SSA are mainly a consequence of their relatively lower levels of educational attainment compared to their urban counterparts. At the community level, the relative impact of female education is even more striking. The simulation results revealed that moving the most economically disadvantaged and illiterate woman from a low educated to a high-educated community would reduce her desired family size by about 20 percent. On the other hand, lifting the same woman from the poorest to the wealthiest community would reduce her family size desire only by 6 percent. Our findings are robust to alternative measures of fertility preferences. This study, thus, confirmed the findings of previous studies that have looked at the relationship and causal link between actual fertility and women’s level of educational attainment.

Indecent Theology: Sex and Female Heresy in Counter-Reformation Spain

In 1636, the Spanish Inquisition tried María de la Cruz for heresy and having made a pact with the devil. Examination of her trial in light of information about sexual misconduct on the part of Catholic clerics, however, reveals that what drove María to the emotional and behavioral extremes that her accusers described was neither heresy nor the devil the authorities had in mind. Theologians who evaluated her case and also met with María discerned what those who only read the accusations against her were unable to know: María's devils were human men taking advantage of a poor, illiterate woman for sex.

Paradoxical recovery of L2 in a bilingual aphasic person: addressing issues on causative factors and accent

ABSTRACT Background The pattern of language deficits and recovery in bilingual aphasia is variable. An uncommon and intriguing pattern of evolution is referred to as paradoxical recovery (PR) or switching, which refers to the resurgence of a language which a person with aphasia had barely used or not used at all before the brain injury in conjunction with a limited ability to speak in L1. There is no agreement about which causative factors are the most influential for PR and a detailed analysis on the status of accent in L2 has not been explored so far. Aims In this study, we analysed verbal production in a successive bilingual illiterate right-handed woman (MASS) who, after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the left temporo-frontal region, developed non-fluent aphasia in L1 (Spanish) together with a PR of a low proficient and not used L2 (Catalan). Methods & Procedure A qualitative linguistic analysis of bilingual aphasia and a vowel acoustic analysis of verbal production were conducted in MASS. A perceptual test to examine her accent by native speakers was also performed. Outcomes & Results PR in MASS was manifested by the release of a fluent anomic speech in L2 together with a marked reduction of speech production in L1. The circumstances in which L2 was learned included late acquisition, mostly by passive exposure, and low proficiency. Moreover, MASS displayed a negative attitude towards using L2 which may explain why phonetic analysis revealed a vowel system with values that were close to L1 (Spanish). In the perceptual test, bilingual judges identified the items presented as corresponding to a native Spanish-speaking woman. Conclusions The circumstances of L2 acquisition in MASS may have contributed to its PR and the non-use of this language in everyday life could explain the persistence of native Spanish accent when she spoke using L2. The coexistence of a left hemisphere lesion, late acquisition, passive exposure, and low proficiency of L2 may have favoured the release of right hemisphere activity in linguistic control, thus accounting for PR and persistence of L1 accent.

Kunegunda Siwiec ze Stryszawy: osoba i przesłanie

Ciągle wzrastające zainteresowanie Kunegundą Siwiec (1876–1955), świecką karmelitanką objętą procesem kanonicznym zmierzającym do wyniesienia jej na ołtarze, postuluje poznanie jej osoby i przesłania. Ta prosta wiejska, niepiśmienna kobieta, zaangażowana w życie modlitwy i apostolstwo, zatroskana o autentyczne życie religijne w rodzinach, była odbiorczynią Nadprzyrodzonych oświeceń, tj. rozmów wewnętrznych z Chrystusem, Jego Matką i niektórymi świętymi, jakie spisał jej spowiednik, ks. Bronisław Bartkowski. Nie chełpiąc się tymi duchowymi doświadczeniami, ale żyjąc cnotliwie, doświadczyła długoletniej obłożnej i bolesnej choroby, stając się przykładem pogodnego znoszenia cierpienia, przeżywanego w duchu paschalnym i ofiarowanego za zbawienie bliźnich.

Women, Marriage and Property in Upper Canada

This article explores how one illiterate woman in Upper Canada, Elizabeth Sanders, used the few legal tools that were at her disposal to deal with a bad marriage and to protect her property for her daughters. Her social standing, her property and, even more importantly, the support of her family, allowed her to have access to and use the very deficient Upper Canadian justice system to deal successfully with a bad marriage. This study shows that even illiterate women could and did use the law to their advantage.

DEKONSTRUKSI BUDAYA KEKUASAAN DALAM CA BAU KAN KARYA REMY SYLADO

The focus of analysis in this paper is about how the power of the powerful is deconstructed by people in the peripheral sphere. The male protagonist, Tan Peng Liang, is a peripheral Chinese man who does not only deconstruct the central power controlled by powerful ruler of different race, but he also deconstructs the power of the Chinese committee officially established by the colonizer. On the other side, Tinung, ca bau kan Jodo River, is a poor, illiterate Javanese woman who deconstructs Tan Peng Liang’s power. Using Derridean deconstructive approach towards the text, it can also be known that the deconstructive attempts applied by Tan Peng Liang tend to be deliberate, full of calculated power, using all means, with the purpose of gaining profit and power. On the other side, Tinung’s deconstructive attempts tend to be accidental, soft and natural, based on the power of the powerless, but have no purpose of gaining profit or power for herself.

The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Reviews 217 Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints. Philadelphia: UP of Pennsylvania, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8122-4715-2. Pp. 248. $55. Blumenfeld-Kosinski offers a highly empathic examination of the life of Ermine de Reims, a poor, illiterate woman who, with her elderly husband Regnault (she was thirty-seven and he was sixty-three), moved to Reims in 1384, a period of French history filled with war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church. Reims, a city with an imposing cathedral and equally majestic fortifications, would prove to be significantly different from the small rural town of Lucheux where they had known life as migrants. As Regnault was too weak and infirm to provide for them, it was up to Ermine to find work. With limited possibilities, Ermine was forced to sell what she could find in the marshes on the outskirts of Reims. Their meager financial situation still allowed for them to live on the rue Neuve near the Saint-Paul du Val-des-Écoliers priory, hence near their confessor, Jean le Graveur,an Augustinian friar.When Ermine’s husband died in 1393, Ermine’s life changed dramatically. During the last ten months of her life, her dreams were beset with visions of demons (where she was terrorized by animals, kidnapped by disguised devils, and subjected to carnal exhibitions) and angels (where she was often blessed by saints and even visited by the Virgin Mary). Blumenfeld-Kosinski’s study of Ermine’s visions draws directly upon the accounts of le Graveur,who continued to serve as Ermine’s confessor and who kept detailed records of Ermine’s bewildering visions. In chapter 1, “Ermine and Her World,” the author scrutinizes the political and religious upheavals in fourteenth-century Reims and what it meant to be a widow during this period (e.g., economic constraints). Of particular note is how Blumenfeld-Kosinski defines Ermine’s status given the presence of various groups of “quasi-religious” women. Chapter 2, “Ermine and Her Confessor, Jean le Graveur,” probes into the concept of a “holy couple,” specifically that of a confessorbiographer and a holy woman. The focus of chapter 3,“Ermine’s Piety and Devotional Practices,” is on Ermine’s devotion and ascetic practices; Chapter 4,“Ermine and Her Demons,”and chapter 5,“Ermine and the Discernment of Spirits,”consider the effect that the different types of apparitions had on Ermine. The epilogue provides an overview of Ermine’s afterlife and looks at what le Graveur’s text,entitled by the modern editor as TheVisions of Ermine de Reims (despite the fact that le Graveur labeled Ermine’s ordeals as aventures), offers in terms of understanding how Ermine was perceived and judged. English translations of selected sections of le Graveur’s text are in the appendix and,as such,propose keen insight into the extraordinary format of the Visions.Since the Visions had no illustrations,Blumenfled-Kosinski chose images to illustrate her analysis, such as figure 8 “[a]bout a woman who was tormented carnally (charnellement) by a demon and was delivered by invoking the Virgin Mary” (107), from the Miracles of the Virgin Mary, written by Jean Miélot and illustrated by Lieven van Lathem in 1456. Canisius College (NY) Eileen M. Angelini ...

Hemiballismus secondary to metastatic breast cancer

Dear Editor,Hemiballismus, a term derived from a Greek wordmeaning ‘‘to throw’’, is characterized by involuntary,flinging, throwing and kicking large-amplitude movementsof the limbs of one side of the body. The area of the brainusually implicated in its pathophysiology is the contralat-eral subthalamic nucleus. However, hemiballismus has alsobeen reported to occur outside the subthalamic nucleus atpoints that involve afferent or efferent pathwaysconnecting the nucleus to its projection areas including thebasal ganglia, and motor and premotor cortex. It is believedthat hemiballismus is the overt clinical manifestation ofdisinhibited thalamic outflow when tonic subthalamicactivity is interrupted [1].The most common cause of hemiballismus is cerebro-vascular disease, but a range of diseases can occur(hemorrhage, vascular malformations, tuberculomas,demyelinating plaques, tuberous sclerosis, toxoplasmosis,non-ketotic hyperglycemia, lupus vasculitis, leukemicinfiltration of the brain, primary brain tumors and drug-induced disease) [2]. Herein, we report a patient withmetastatic breast cancer who presented with hemiballismus.A 73-year-old illiterate woman with a past medicalhistory of asthma and cardiac insufficiency was diagnosedwith bone and pulmonary metastatic breast cancer andunderwent mastectomy and chemotherapy in June 2012.She presented to a neurological consultation in February2013 with a 5-year history of progressive cognitiveimpairment that subsequently led to dementia withdependence for most activities of daily living and a1-month history of generalized involuntary flingingmovements of her proximal limbs and face. Examinationshowed a third nerve palsy (sequela from traumatic injury)combined with a lower-limb predominant right hemichorea(Video1). Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealedmultiple contrast-enhanced nodular lesions, one of them inthe left subthalamus (Fig. 1). Cerebrospinal fluid analysiswas normal. She received risperidone with partial recoveryof chorea and cranial radiotherapy.Hemiballismus secondary to metastatic tumors are dis-tinctly rare, but it has already been reported with carcino-mas of the breast, lung and gall bladder [3, 4]. The firstcase of a metastatic lesion affecting the subthalamus wasreported in 1973 [3] and it was followed by a French case

<b>Rumo à palavra certa: checagens e modalidade epistêmica no jogo discursivo de narrativas orais</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i4.20777

The interpretative strategies that highlight the mobilization of discursive memory (archive) in two oral narratives by an illiterate Brazilian woman are investigated. Focus shows the manner questions within the narrative chain emphasize discursive heterogeneity, or rather, types of checking addressed to the interlocutor, in which escapades from the story and strangeness caused by the other/Other's virtual presence, with whom the narrator has to deal by the use of epistemic modalities, are employed. Some sequences of narratives, known as meta-enunciation glosses, were analyzed. These include narrator's commentaries and checking that signalize the author's method to sustain interlocution within the contradiction between the heterogeneity of the literature archive and the Other's imaginary dimension based on dominant knowledge. Since the author-narrator is illiterate, it will also be demonstrated how the enunciation strategies are influenced by crossings of highly literate discourses. The use of epistemic modalities, foregrounded on the concepts of archive, the subject's cleavage, French Discourse Analysis and Psychoanalysis, will be analyzed. Current paper analyzes fragments of discourse in which the use of epistemic modality appears under a meta-enunciation gloss. (CNPq).

Onset of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Pregnancy with Pica as the Sole Manifestation

Pica refers to eating of non-nutritious substances, which is usually seen in childhood or pregnancy. Here we report a case of an illiterate tribal woman who developed pica as the sole manifestation of obsessive compulsive disorder, with onset during pregnancy. The patient had compulsions of eating uncooked rice or wheat, which resulted in toothache and abdominal discomfort. She had this habit in three pregnancies, consecutively. In the first two pregnancies it resolved spontaneously after puerperium, but persisted in the last one. Probably physical stress of limb edema during the third pregnancy was reason for the persistence. She responded to fluoxetine 40 mg / day after three months of treatment, without behavioral therapy. We conclude that pica may either be only a manifestation of obsessive compulsive disorder during pregnancy or it is an obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder.

Ecofeminism: a Study of Environment Protection Movements of Women in India

Ecofeminism emerged as a product of the peace, feminist and ecology movements of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term 'ecofeminism', coined by French writer Francoise d' Eaubonne in 1974, and further with the organization, in the same year of the first eco-feminist conference 'Women and Life on Earth: Ecofeminism in the 80s', at Amberst, Massachussetts, USA (Spretnak: 1990). Ecofeminism can be defined as a value system, a social movement and practice also offers a political analysis that explores the links between androcentrism and environmental destruction. It is termed as an awareness that begins with the realization that the exploitation of nature is intimately linked to Man's attitude toward women. Eco-feminist literature portrays the historical exploitation and domination of women and nature as going hand in hand, and both are seen as victims of development. It is taken as self-evident that any harm to nature harms women equality, since women are seen as closer to nature than men. The Chipko movement is particularly known because of its actions to resist the destruction of their lands and livelihoods since 1974. In that year Under the leadership of Gaura Devi, a 50-year old illiterate woman, women rushed from their homes to hug the trees (‘chipko’ means hugging) and prevent them from being cut. In Japan, in the 1950s, the Nakabaru Women’s Society and Sanroku Women’s Society protested loudly against pollution from industries and power plants in the Tobata region. While industrial development had made the society richer, the environmental destruction began to threaten the 6 health of local citizens. Women started to raise their voices in opposition and organized an increasingly powerful movement.

Ergonomics and the inclusion of people with disabilities in a Brazilian workplace

The customization of a secretary workstation at a drama school was the objective of this case study. The investigation involved a 25-year-old illiterate woman with intellectual disabilities and low vision that had been been attending, for over 12 years, a state school for people with disabilities. The customization process, operationalized after a diagnosis was made, focused on environmental rearrangements, with the purpose of meeting the physical and social demands of the workstation. The results of this research are configured in an ergonomic analysis of work associated with an inventory of social skills, applied to people living directly with the participant. Preliminary evaluations indicated the degree of adjustment of labor demands to the personal characteristics of the participant in the customized job.

Yemen: Descending into Despair

Yemen: Descending into Despair