Story Of Young Woman Research Articles

Jacqueline Audry’s Colette films: post-war quality style with a feminist edge

ABSTRACT Jacqueline Audry was that rare phenomenon, a woman film director in mid-twentieth century France. Drawn to Colette’s work by her appreciation of the latter’s style and close affinity with her values, Audry fought the initial reluctance of producers and went on to make three films based on Colette’s fictions, all with the author’s approval and the first, Gigi (1949), with her active collaboration. Very much in the ‘quality’ style, these entertaining costume dramas set in the prosperous, liberal era of the Belle Époque gave cinematic form to Colette’s stylistic verve and implicitly feminist philosophy. Audry’s Colette films tell stories of young women on a quest for self-realisation against the constraints of a patriarchal society and are laced with an (often humorous) irony in their representation of gender roles. Audry’s case, this article aims to show, demonstrates that the quality style so reviled by the New Wave could in fact be a form of cinema that effectively combined popular appeal with the seriousness of a subtly progressive feminist politics.

"It's Just Kind of This Thing That I Need to Navigate": Young Women's Stories of Recoveries After Domestic Abuse in Childhood.

Those who experience parental domestic abuse in childhood are affected in multiple ways, but existing research uses a narrow lens, relying on psychotherapeutic and neuroscientific understandings. This article uses a dialogical theory to explore women's recovery stories. Interviews were conducted with 10 women in England and a voice-centered narrative analysis was used. This article attends to gendered, psychotherapeutic, and neoliberal narrative resources that shaped participants' stories. It concludes that recoveries after domestic abuse in childhood can be considered as dynamic processes that are individual, as well as shaped by social, political, and relational contexts that shape storytelling practices.

Review of the clinical case of a patient with microcarcinoma of the thyroid gland

Before us is the story of young woman who actively monitored the condition of the thyroid gland, due to the accidental detection of antibodies to the thyroid tissue. After the detection of a tumor (7 mm), hemi thyroidectomy was conducted. For two years after the operation she has been under the care of oncologist and endocrinologist. However, despite explanations about a good prognosis of the disease, she is extremely alarmed and unjustifiably often conducts laboratory tests, ignoring the fact that both the reference range and the evaluation methods are different. It should be said that similar problems exist in all countries (Nedman C. et al., 2017) fear of relapse of the disease worries the vast majority of patients even years after its been diagnosed. People are concerned not only about the risks of thyroid cancer recurrence, but also about the risks of development of other cancers, the risks of being not able to get access to skilled care. The obvious task of a doctor is to correct a pattern of patient behavior that increases anxiety.

Viewpoint: How well do doctors understand gender dysphoria in young people?

> ‘They’re experimenting on young people with their lives ahead of them. It makes me angry.’ So says a young person opening a Swedish documentary ( Uppdrag granskning , The Trans Train , which aired in 2019) on the complex topic of gender dysphoria in teenage biological females: a group who are presenting to their GPs and requesting medical interventions and transition to a masculine or non-binary gender role in unprecedented numbers. At the heart of the film are two stories of young women who later regretted their gender transition, and have returned to identify as their original, natal sex: a phenomenon known as detransition. ‘Mika’ was unaware that regret was even a possibility when she embarked on hormone therapy …

Insights on HPV vaccination in the United States from mothers’ comments on Facebook posts in a randomized trial

ABSTRACT In the United States, parents’ health beliefs affect HPV vaccination decisions for children. Our team acquired insights into mothers’ health beliefs from their reactions and comments to posts on HPV vaccination in a social media adolescent health campaign in a randomized trial (n = 881 mothers; 63.1% reported daughters had 1+ doses of the HPV vaccine) evaluating communication intended to reduce daughters’ indoor tanning. A total of 10 HPV vaccination messages in didactic (n = 7) and narrative (n = 3) formats were posted on vaccination need, uptake, and effectiveness and stories of young women who died from cervical cancer and a mother’s decision to vaccinate her daughters. These posts received 28 reactions (like, love, and sad buttons; mean = 2.8 per post) and 80 comments (mean = 8.0 per post). More comments were favorable (n = 43) than unfavorable (n = 34). Data was not collected on views for posts. The most common favorable comment reported that daughters were vaccinated (n = 31). Unfavorable comments cited safety concerns, lack of physician support, distrust of pro-vaccine sources, and increased sexual activity of daughters. Mothers posting unfavorable (18.2%) as opposed to favorable (78.6%) comments or not commenting (64.0%) were less likely to have had their daughters vaccinated (chi-square = 22.27, p < 0.001). Favorable comments often did not state reasons for vaccinating. Concerns about lack of vaccine safety remain a barrier. Mothers may express distrust in pro-vaccine sources to reduce discomfort with not vaccinating daughters to reduce their risk for HPV infection. Many mothers who remained silent had vaccinated daughters, which suggests they did not resisit HPV vaccination.

Out of Africa: Students' reflections on the personal and professional impact of volunteering

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2009) states that student midwives should seek opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge base. In the summer of 2018, two student midwives from the University of Northampton independently researched and signed up to a 2-week overseas mission trip to Kenya, with the aim of immersing themselves in a different culture to gain new knowledge and develop transferable skills to embed into their practice in the UK. Charlotte Ames and Adelle Boughen also visited a number of projects around the region supporting girls and young women who have fled their homes to escape injustices such as underage marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and domestic abuse. Hearing the young women's stories of bravery, resilience and optimism have had a profound effect on both Charlotte and Adelle, providing them with a new understanding of the term ‘with woman’ and influencing their future practice.

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture ed. by LuElla D'Amico

Reviewed by: Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture ed. by LuElla D'Amico Emily Hamilton-Honey Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture, edited by LuElla D'Amico. Lexington Books, 2016. Girls' series fiction occupies a curious place in the literary world: it rests on a nexus between immense consumer popularity and critical disdain. Girls' series comprise a body of work that encodes cultural messages about how girls (and boys) ought to behave and the kinds of lives they should aspire to, both radical and conservative. Readers have been able to sift and choose among these messages in any way they wish, and tremendous sales figures suggest that series books are one of the primary sources that girls use to understand the culture around them and their place(s) within it. While girls' series are beloved by both adolescent and adult readers for their independent heroines and their attention to the social world(s) and moral questions that girls must learn to navigate, literary critics tend to see these same texts as one-dimensional, repetitive, and morally simplistic, and their heroines as naïve do-gooders who, at best, can serve as character models for the young. This same disdain by academics and literary arbiters has meant that girls' series fiction has received little critical examination, save some attention to a handful of "exceptional" authors who managed to transcend their own genre (e.g., Louisa May Alcott and J. K. Rowling). The Nancy Drew series is another exception to the critical rule; Nancy's apparently inexhaustible popularity certainly has something to do with this, along with the fact that so many influential women have cited the girl sleuth from River Heights as a positive influence (Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg among them). However, a significant number of scholars from the academy have found value in and begun to draw attention to the cultural influence and moral complexity of girls' series fiction, and the scholarly literature on girls' series is slowly growing. LuElla D'Amico's excellent new collection, Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture, sets out to prove that girls' series are anything but simple and uncomplicated, and that they are worthy of study not only as literature, but as cultural narratives that shape girlhood and womanhood. As D'Amico herself states in the introduction: [End Page 216] This collection seeks to remedy this critical gap through a targeted, inquisitive study about girls' series and their sweeping influence on the girls that read them and the culture that produces them. As a field, girls' studies itself is in its nascence, and it is vital that young women's stories begin to be afforded proper space in academic circles, that the narratives that help construct adolescent females' lives are no longer viewed as inferior. (ix) Indeed, the fourteen chapters in D'Amico's anthology (which manage to cover thirteen different girls' series) suggest that girls' series fiction is one of the primary places that academics and social scientists should be searching for clues to girls' identity formation. An almost infinite number of messages about girls, their potential and capacity for achievement, and the expectations of the wider culture reside within the pages of these volumes, messages that are sometimes incredibly liberating and at other times highly restrictive. Take, for example, contributor Eva Lupold's keenly insightful reading of the Katy series by Susan Coolidge. Lupold argues that the disability narrative in the Katy books functions simultaneously as a conservative (and problematic) warning against gender misbehavior and as a subversive space in which emotionality, creativity, reassessments of beauty, and queerness can flourish. Katy's disability is, in part, used as a punishment for her defiant, nonfemale gender behavior. However, both Katy's temporary disability and her cousin Helen's permanent disability are in fact crucial to the girls' exploration of creativity and queerness; while adult characters (and readers) see their disabilities as restrictive, Helen and Katy use the space afforded them by disability to defy gender norms, explore creative expression, and develop their friendship/relationship. Their rooms become spaces for play and storytelling, where no one in the family has to be...

Rural-to-Urban Migration as an Escape from “Harmful Traditional Practices”?: A Study of the Life Stories of Female Household Servants in Addis Ababa

Abstract Most of the young women and girls in Addis Ababa who work as household servants, construction workers or prostitutes are migrants from the Amhara region and other parts of North Ethiopia. They have fled from so-called harmful traditional practices, e.g. early marriage, abduction and rape. This article presents the life stories of young women and girls who have escaped to Addis Ababa, where they try to make a living as female household servants. Their struggle for survival in Ethiopia’s capital is documented, but also their will to take control of their own destiny. These life stories illustrate that their decision to leave their family and migrate to Addis Ababa is a subversive act against structural violence and the above mentioned practices. The discussion of these practices makes it clear that early marriage is a reaction of the Amhara region and other parts of North Ethiopia to economic pressures to which this society in turn responds in a cultural specific way. This interplay of economic and socio-cultural elements has triggered a dynamic with unprecedented consequences not only for the female part of the population but for the society as a whole.

Book Review: Healing home: Health &amp; homelessness in the life stories of young women

Book Review: Healing home: Health &amp; homelessness in the life stories of young women

Influence of Peers on Young Adolescent Females' Romantic Decisions

Background: Initiation of sexual intercourse during early adolescence is a known risk factor for teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Purpose: To examine young women's stories describing peer influences on their romantic and sexual decisions and behavior during early adolescence. Methods: Semistructured ethnographic interviews were conducted with 28 African American, American Indian, Euro-American, and Latina females ages 19 to 29 years. Results: Four common themes (patterns) emerged. First, most participants belonged to a same-sex peer group in early adolescence, many participated in mixed sex groups, and a small number had no peer group. Second, romantic relationships were discussed with peers more than with adults. Third, early adolescent romantic behavior commonly led to early initiation of sexual intercourse with negative emotional impacts. Fourth, participants cautioned teens about romantic involvement during early adolescence. Discussion: The findings suggest that mixed-sex peer group affiliation was associated with delayed dating. Older peers and social isolation were associated with riskier sexual behaviors. Early sexual initiation frequently led to negative experiences. Translation to Health Education Practice: Health educators and health care providers are encouraged to assess young adolescents' peer involvement, encourage prosocial mixed-sex peer activities, and provide guidance to parents about early adolescent development and the importance of monitoring their young adolescent children's activities to avoid potentially dangerous sexual situations.

A Preconception Care Program for Women in a College Setting

Preconception healthcare is a way to enhance positive pregnancy outcomes by encouraging women to engage in healthy lifestyles before they become pregnant. Because approximately 50% of pregnancies are unplanned, fetal development may be affected before a woman receives prenatal care. Young women are especially vulnerable to poor outcomes due to risky behaviors. Education about preconception health is not common practice. This article describes a peer education preconception health program for college women that provided a basis for an expanded program with larger, more diverse populations. Nursing students as peer educators presented the program to over 100 young women using the mnemonic REFRAMED PLUS to address eight preconception risk areas and reproductive life planning. Materials to augment the program, developed by peer educators, included a brochure on preconception health, a risk assessment tool, a DVD with stories of young women who experienced unplanned pregnancies, and a Reproductive Life Plan book. Peer educators administered a pretest, showed the DVD, guided discussions, assessed each woman's health risks and administered a posttest. The risk assessment revealed that young women have several preconception health risks. Following the preconception program, posttest scores indicated increased knowledge of preconception health. For preconception healthcare to be successful, preconception risk assessments, education and counseling must be addressed by nurses every time a young woman receives care. When possible, peer educators should be used to disseminate the message to all women of childbearing age.

Multiple sexual relationships as a new lifestyle: Young women's sexuality in contemporary Shanghai

Synopsis This study examines the stories of young women who have engaged in more than one sexual relationship during a specific time period while living in Shanghai. Through in-depth interviews from May 2004 to July 2007 with fourteen young women selected from a sample of 40 interviewees in Shanghai, this study analyzes women's desires in terms of their engagement with the ideas of “true love” and “lifestyle.” The “intimate troubles” they experienced in handling their multiple relationships are also examined as a way of understanding their sexual strategies and agency. While these women try to use their sexual choices as a way of reorienting their life goals and repositioning themselves in society, their perceptions of sex, self, love, marriage and lifestyle are transformed. Sex is not simply being used instrumentally, but rather as a practice that creates meaning and shapes life goals.

Exploring Young Women's Understandings of the Development of Difficulties: A Narrative Biographical Analysis

This article describes a qualitative research study which used in-depth interviews to elicit young women's narratives about the meanings they hold regarding the important experiences in their lives, and their understandings of the development of difficulties that have led them to be in contact with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Five young women (aged 15-17 years) who were current users of CAMHS were interviewed. A narrative analysis was conducted on the data. The findings revealed how contact with services may have impacted on their developing sense of self during this important transitional period of their lives. The young women's stories differed in the extent to which they drew on themes of difficulties as indicators of illness or the result of difficult life events. Their sense-making appeared to be influenced by the relationships, contexts and discourses which they were exposed to and embedded within.

Learning From Ladies Who Lunch: Stories of Young Women Living With and Dying From Breast Cancer

Learning From Ladies Who Lunch: Stories of Young Women Living With and Dying From Breast Cancer

Body-Related Emotional Experiences of Young Aboriginal Women

Concerns related to the body are associated with health-compromising behaviors, and although research has indicated that young Aboriginal women are dissatisfied with their bodies, their voices have typically been absent from the literature. The purpose of this case study was to provide insight into the body-related emotional experiences of young, Canadian, urban Aboriginal women. Four young women participated; 3 identified themselves as Aboriginal (one 14-year-old, two 18-year-olds) and 1 as non-Aboriginal (18 years old). Multiple methods (focus group, one-on-one interviews, and artwork) provided the authors the opportunity to listen to the young women's stories. Five themes emerged: (a) conflicting cultures, (b) need to belong, (c) the beauty of difference, (d) journey to acceptance of the body, and (e) the body affects everything. This research highlights the complexity of young Aboriginal women's body-related emotional experiences and indicates that their experiences might not be as negative as previous research has led us to believe.

Social Work, Young Women, and Femininity

As social work engages with feminism and postmodernism, the stringent dictates of femininity that underpin traditional social work with young women have been challenged. Social workers are asked to listen to young women's experiences of creating female subjectivities and to respect young women as the authors of their own gender identities. This article presents the findings of feminist interpretive research with six 14 to 15-year-old young women. Emphasizing the discourse of difference and its intersection with family, the mass media, peers, and fashion, the young women's stories alert social workers to the many ways in which young women negotiate, construct, and resist “the feminine.”

Social Work, Young Women, and Femininity

As social work engages with feminism and postmodernism, the stringent dictates of femininity that underpin traditional social work with young women have been challenged. Social workers are asked to listen to young women's experiences of creating female subjectivities and to respect young women as the authors of their own gender identities. This article presents the findings of feminist interpretive research with six 14 to 15-year-old young women. Emphasizing the discourse of difference and its intersection with family, the mass media, peers, and fashion, the young women's stories alert social workers to the many ways in which young women negotiate, construct, and resist “the feminine.”

Happily Never after: Young Women's Stories of Abuse in Heterosexual Love Relationships

Although repeated exposure to narratives of romance in popular culture from an early age may lead young women to expect idealized romance in their heterosexual love relationships, a good number encounter abusive experiences. This article draws on young women's stories of abuse in heterosexual love relationships gathered from interviews with 23 young women aged 16-18 years. These stories are examined using a feminist, poststructuralist form of narrative analysis to explore the extent to which young women draw on cultural narratives of romance or alternative narratives and to explore how self and boyfriends are positioned within these narratives. Although at one level romance seemed to be a trap that prevented young women from abandoning an abusive boyfriend, at another it was a resource that they used in an active way to make sense of what had happened. Ways in which this work might usefully inform prevention, education and counselling are discussed.

Reflections on being female in school science: Toward a praxis of teaching science

This essay interrogates the phenomenon and the implications of being female in school science through girls' and young women's stories interwoven with my own narrative as a woman teacher/researcher in science education. The intent is to raise awareness of issues related to being female in conventional science teaching, and to suggest some alternative perspectives and approaches for action and reflection. I discuss several directions within my teaching which announce my own interpretation of bell hook's “engaged pedagogy,” which emphasizes a commitment to self-actualization and well-being for both teacher and student. My choice to integrate disparate writing styles (conversational and scholarly) was a deliberate effort to resonate issues between practice and theory and interrupt this separation. J Res Sci Teach 35: 463–471, 1998.

Reflections on being female in school science: Toward a praxis of teaching science

This essay interrogates the phenomenon and the implications of being female in school science through girls' and young women's stories interwoven with my own narrative as a woman teacher/researcher in science education. The intent is to raise awareness of issues related to being female in conventional science teaching, and to suggest some alternative perspectives and approaches for action and reflection. I discuss several directions within my teaching which announce my own interpretation of bell hook's “engaged pedagogy,” which emphasizes a commitment to self-actualization and well-being for both teacher and student. My choice to integrate disparate writing styles (conversational and scholarly) was a deliberate effort to resonate issues between practice and theory and interrupt this separation. J Res Sci Teach 35: 463–471, 1998.