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Screening for Depression and Help-Seeking in Postpartum Women During Well-Baby Pediatric Visits: An Integrated Review

PurposeThe purposes of this integrated review are to examine the literature on screening for depression and help-seeking behaviors by postpartum women during pediatric well-baby visits; to identify gaps in the literature relating to depression and help-seeking behaviors; and to discuss implications for practice and future research. MethodAn extensive search of primary source documents was conducted in Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Mental Measurements Yearbook, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and Women's Studies International using the key words postpartum, postpartum depression (PPD), help seeking, and pediatric setting or pediatrician. Thirty-five articles relevant to help seeking, PPD, and screening in the pediatric setting were included in this review. Research studies included both quantitative and qualitative articles. ResultsPPD affects 10% to 15% of all women after birth. Postpartum women generally do not seek help for depression. Untreated PPD has significant adverse affects on parenting, maternal bonding, and the infant's emotional and behavioral development. Interaction with the woman's obstetric provider ends shortly after the baby's birth. However, interactions with the pediatric office are initiated and continue throughout the infant's first two years of life. DiscussionEarly recognition of PPD and appropriate treatment are imperative for positive maternal-infant outcomes. A majority of women do not seek help for depression from any source. Because mothers have routine interactions with pediatric office staff during the first few years after giving birth, pediatric nurse practitioners and pediatricians have the perfect opportunity to screen and educate women regarding symptoms, treatment, and available resources for PPD.

GIVING WAY AT THE INTERSECTION

GIVING WAY AT THE INTERSECTION

Prostitution, trafficking and feminism: An update on the debate

Within the academy the 'sex work' position, i.e. that prostitution should be understood as legitimate work, and an expression of women's choice and agency, has become the dominant perspective. Most feminist scholars now take this point of view or show sympathy towards it. The critical approach to prostitution that was almost universal amongst feminists from the nineteenth century up till the 1980s, that prostitution arises from and symbolizes the subordination of women, is much less often expressed. The 'sex work' position has been extended to the issue of trafficking of women into prostitution through the transformation of trafficking into 'migration for labour' (Agustin, 2007). This new approach to trafficking, which draws a veil over the human rights issues involved and carefully removes the issue of the destination of the vast majority of trafficking in women, prostitution, from view, is fast becoming predominant amongst feminist academics writing on the issue in the fields of development studies and migration studies (Jeffreys, 2006). Unfortunately, some of the articles in this issue of Women's Studies International Forum demonstrate some of the common elements and problems of the new dominant ideology amongst feminist scholars. The 'sex work' position emerged from some sex workers' rights organizations in the 1980s (Jeness 1993). It gained strength from a sexual liberalism which portrayed pornography and prostitution as forms of 'freedom', and rejected any suggestion that they might be abusive to women (Jeffreys, 1990). This sexual liberalism was identified by its supporters as 'sex-positive' and those, mainly radical feminists, who criticize the whole construction of sexuality under male dominance as the eroticizing of women's subordination and argue for total transformation, as 'sex-negative'. This sexual liberalism joined up with the economic ideology of neo-liberalism in the next two decades to the point where the industries of pornography and prostitution came to be seen by governments as nice little earners (Jeffreys, 2009). Milton Friedman, the American sage of neo-liberalism, argued that pornography and prostitution should be decriminalized and subject to the ordinary rules of the market (Ammeson, 2006). As a result of these trends the global sex industry has been legalized, tolerated and normalized, and has become hugely profitable for domestic economies and in the global economy. Women's bodies are now well and truly launched into the marketplace as the basis of large profits for many different enterprises, the telecommunications companies that carry pornography, the credit card companies that the male buyers use, the banks that lend to the industry, strip club chains, the governments that tax legalized prostitution, the governments that gain foreign currency from the women sent abroad as 'entertainers'. In the global economy women from poor countries are trafficked to richer ones, or used in situ by prostitution tourists in what I define as the 'outsourcing of women's subordination' (Jeffreys, 2009). Meanwhile the average earnings of the prostituted women, whose vaginas and anuses are the raw materials of this industry, are well below the average wage in western countries (DeRiviere, 2006). It is radical feminists and those whom the writers in this issue call 'abolitionists', i.e. those who seek to rein in men's behaviour in the prostitution of women, that have called these processes into question... Keywords: Human trafficking Language: en

Theory versus reality: Commentary on four articles about trafficking for prostitution

In this issue of Women's Studies International Forum it's refreshing to read Limoncelli's observation there are points of agreement between abolitionists and non-abolitionists regard- ing trafficking. There is agreement that trafficking is harmful and that it is a gendered component of economic globaliza- tion (Limoncelli, p 16⁎). There is no argument about how to prevent trafficking for prostitution. All agree that sex discrimi- nation, race discrimination, and economic injustice are at the root of women's inability to avoid prostitution. A solution to the problem of trafficking arising out of this consensus would be to implement programs that promote sex, race, and economic equality, offering women alternatives to prostitution. There is also agreement that women in prostitution should not be criminalized. An abolitionist feminist approach to trafficking from the political left differs in important ways from an abolitionist approach from the political right. A critical difference is the evidence-based approach of feminists based on a broad understanding of the realities of sex, race, and economic inequality. Feminist abolitionists advocate the criminalization of buyers yet also insist on the decriminalization of women in prostitution. Abolitionists from the political right emphasize the immorality of trafficking for prostitution from a religious perspective and some would pragmatically accept arrests of women in prostitution for their own protection or in order to compel their testimony against traffickers. Language: en

Mutual corporeality: Gender and human/horse relationships

Synopsis In this article, we explore how gender is enacted within human/animal relationships – specifically, between people and horses. Horse cultures can be gendered in several ways, from little girls and their ponies to modern versions of the cowboy. Here, we examine two specific horse/human cultures – traditional “English” riding, and the rise of what is often termed “natural horsemanship” (despite the preponderance of women within it). Horses themselves, however, play an important role in the way that horsey cultures become experienced as gendered. We examine this in relation to Paechter's [Paechter, Carrie (2003). Masculinities and femininities as communities of practice. Women's Studies International Forum 26, 69–77] idea of “communities of practice”, arguing that the presence and meanings of the animal within particular communities – as well as the human practices – together shape how people experience gender. The presence of horses enables a subversion of dominant gender practices particularly at the localized (private) level, while at the same time enables a reinscription of traditional gender ideals at the global (public) level. Gender is experienced and expressed through the body; but, in human–horse relationships it is also expressed in conjunction with the body and character of the horse. Horses are not mere props, but rather they are companions who have a profound impact on people's lived experience of gender and how it is expressed corporeally. Continuing to explore the multiple ways gender is experienced within the context of human/animal relationships promises to offer greater insight into the complex workings of gender.

The Flux of Domesticity and the Exotic in a Wartime Melodrama

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Flux of Domesticity and the Exotic in a Wartime MelodramaChikako NagayamaChikako NagayamaDepartment of Sociology and Equity Studies in EducationUniversity of Toronto Search for more articles by this author Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in EducationUniversity of TorontoPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 34, Number 2Winter 2009 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/591249 Views: 82Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref © 2009 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Erica Ka-yan Poon Lucilla You Min and Her Embodiment of a Cosmopolitan Fantasy, Feminist Media Histories 5, no.11 (Jan 2019): 113–140.https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2019.5.1.113Alison Luke Resilience, agency and activism: Viewing Yoshiko Yamaguchi through the feminist life course perspective, Women's Studies International Forum 57 (Jul 2016): 11–21.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.05.001

Gender Quotas, the Politics of Presence, and the Feminist Project: What Does the Indian Experience Tell Us?

Previous articleNext article No AccessGender Quotas, the Politics of Presence, and the Feminist Project: What Does the Indian Experience Tell Us?Neema Kudva, and Kajri MisraNeema KudvaDepartment of City and Regional PlanningCornell University Search for more articles by this author , and Kajri MisraDepartment of City and Regional PlanningCornell University Search for more articles by this author Department of City and Regional PlanningCornell UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 34, Number 1Autumn 2008 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/589239 Views: 305Total views on this site Citations: 7Citations are reported from Crossref © 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Sreevidya Kalaramadam Presence into Participation and Representation, Journal of South Asian Development 13, no.11 (Mar 2018): 1–23.https://doi.org/10.1177/0973174118757630Papia Sengupta How effective is inclusive innovation without participation?, Geoforum 75 (Oct 2016): 12–15.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.06.016 Gender Violence and Gender-Based Disparities in Fragile States, (Feb 2016): 165–196.https://doi.org/10.1201/b19167-7Ulrike Mueller Lost in Representation? Feminist identity Economics and Women's Agency in India's Local Governments, Feminist Economics 22, no.11 (Oct 2015): 158–182.https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2015.1086810Kerryn Baker QUOTA ADOPTION AND THE EXOGENOUS TRACK MODEL: THE PARITY LAWS IN THE FRENCH PACIFIC COLLECTIVITIES, Representation 50, no.33 (Aug 2014): 295–306.https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2014.951169Sreevidya Kalaramadam Dis/empowering political subjects: The production of “failed” elected women representatives in India, Women's Studies International Forum 35, no.44 (Jul 2012): 276–285.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2012.05.003Shirin M. Rai The Politics of Access: Narratives of Women MPs in the Indian Parliament, Political Studies 60, no.11 (Mar 2012): 195–212.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00915.x

Keeping Women Down and Out: The Strip Club Boom and the Reinforcement of Male Dominance

Previous articleNext article No AccessKeeping Women Down and Out: The Strip Club Boom and the Reinforcement of Male DominanceSheila JeffreysSheila JeffreysDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Melbourne Search for more articles by this author Department of Political ScienceUniversity of MelbournePDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 34, Number 1Autumn 2008 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/588501 Views: 889Total views on this site Citations: 19Citations are reported from Crossref © 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Theresa Anasti The (non)use of alcohol in topless establishments: Protection for women or gender policing?, Sexualities 23, no.1-21-2 (Feb 2018): 81–107.https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460717750822Liberty Barnes Holiday Gifting at a Children’s Hospital: Sacred Ritual, Sacred Space, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48, no.55 (Dec 2018): 591–618.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241618820110Maren T. Scull Managing Identity in a Dirty Occupation: Male Strippers Experiences with Social Stigmas, Sociological Spectrum 37, no.66 (Nov 2017): 390–411.https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2017.1365030Andrea Walker, David A. Makin, Amber L. Morczek Finding Lolita: A Comparative Analysis of Interest in Youth-Oriented Pornography, Sexuality & Culture 20, no.33 (May 2016): 657–683.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-016-9355-0Ashley Mears and Catherine Connell The Paradoxical Value of Deviant Cases: Toward a Gendered Theory of Display Work, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no.22 (Dec 2015): 333–359.https://doi.org/10.1086/682922Phil Hubbard, Rachela Colosi Respectability, Morality and Disgust in the Night-Time Economy: Exploring Reactions to ‘Lap Dance’ Clubs in England and Wales, The Sociological Review 63, no.44 (Nov 2015): 782–800.https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12278Phil Hubbard, Rachela Colosi Taking back the night? Gender and the contestation of sexual entertainment in England and Wales, Urban Studies 52, no.33 (Feb 2015): 589–605.https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013504006Kate Hardy, Teela Sanders The political economy of ‘lap dancing’: contested careers and women’s work in the stripping industry, Work, Employment and Society 29, no.11 (Dec 2014): 119–136.https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014554969Teela Sanders, Kate Hardy, Rosie Campbell Regulating Strip-Based Entertainment: Sexual Entertainment Venue Policy and the Ex/Inclusion of Dancers’ Perspectives and Needs, Social Policy and Society 14, no.11 (Aug 2014): 83–92.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746414000323Nicole Kalms Provocations of the Hypersexualized City, Architecture and Culture 2, no.33 (Apr 2015): 379–402.https://doi.org/10.2752/205078214X14107818390711Monica Stephens Gender and the GeoWeb: divisions in the production of user-generated cartographic information, GeoJournal 78, no.66 (Aug 2013): 981–996.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-013-9492-zMaren T. Scull Reinforcing Gender Roles at the Male Strip Show: A Qualitative Analysis of Men who Dance for Women (MDW), Deviant Behavior 34, no.77 (Mar 2013): 557–578.https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2012.748624Phil Hubbard, Rachela Colosi Sex, Crime and the City, Social & Legal Studies 22, no.11 (Mar 2013): 67–86.https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663912459292Teela Sanders, Kate Hardy Devalued, deskilled and diversified: explaining the proliferation of the strip industry in the UK, The British Journal of Sociology 63, no.33 (Sep 2012): 513–532.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01422.xKaitlyn Regehr The Rise of Recreational Burlesque: Bumping and Grinding Towards Empowerment, Sexuality & Culture 16, no.22 (Sep 2011): 134–157.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-011-9113-2Gail Dines A Feminist Response to Weitzer, Violence Against Women 18, no.44 (Apr 2012): 512–520.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801212452550Katie Gentile Reply to Commentaries: “What About the Baby? The New Cult of Domesticity and Media Images of Pregnancy”, Studies in Gender and Sexuality 12, no.11 (Jan 2011): 72–77.https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2011.536069Sheila Jeffreys The sex industry and business practice: An obstacle to women's equality, Women's Studies International Forum 33, no.33 (May 2010): 274–282.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2010.03.001Judith Lynne Hanna Dance and Sexuality: Many Moves, Journal of Sex Research 47, no.2-32-3 (Mar 2010): 212–241.https://doi.org/10.1080/00224491003599744

What Is Third‐Wave Feminism? A New Directions Essay

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Migrant Women’s Bodies as Boundary Markers: Reproductive Crisis and Sexual Control in the Ethnic Frontiers of Taiwan

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Quirky Citizens: Autism, Gender, and Reimagining Disability

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The War on Terrorism: Appropriation and Subversion by Moroccan Women

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe War on Terrorism: Appropriation and Subversion by Moroccan WomenZakia SalimeZakia SalimeDepartment of SociologyMichigan State University Search for more articles by this author Department of SociologyMichigan State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 33, Number 1Autumn 2007War and Terror II: Raced‐Gendered Logics and Effects beyond Conflict Zones. Special Issue Editors Mary Hawkesworth and Karen Alexander Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/518370 Views: 194Total views on this site Citations: 15Citations are reported from Crossref © 2007 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Niyousha Bastani, Lorena Gazzotti “Still a bit uncomfortable, to be an arm of the state”: Making sense and subjects of counter-extremism in the UK and Morocco, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 40, no.22 (Jul 2021): 520–540.https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211031914Negar Razavi NatSec Feminism: Women Security Experts and the US Counterterror State, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46, no.22 (Dec 2020): 361–386.https://doi.org/10.1086/710808Nadia Guessous Feminist Blind Spots and the Affect of Secularity: Disorienting the Discourse of the Veil in Contemporary Morocco, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45, no.33 (Mar 2020): 605–628.https://doi.org/10.1086/706551Anwar Mhajne Political Opportunities for Islamist Women in Morocco and Egypt: Structure or Agency?, (Oct 2019): 179–203.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27735-2_7Summer Forester Protecting women, protecting the state: Militarism, security threats, and government action on violence against women in Jordan, Security Dialogue 50, no.66 (Oct 2019): 475–492.https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010619877799 Middle Eastern State Responses to the War on Terror, (Sep 2017): 31–68.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108227124.003Silvia Gagliardi Violence against women: the stark reality behind Morocco’s human rights progress, The Journal of North African Studies 18 (Aug 2017): 1–22.https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2017.1363649Manal Hamzeh FIFA's double hijabophobia: A colonialist and Islamist alliance racializing Muslim women soccer players, Women's Studies International Forum 63 (Jul 2017): 11–16.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2017.06.003Shir Daphna-Tekoah, Ayelet Harel-Shalev Beyond binaries: analysing violent state actors in Critical Studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism 10, no.22 (Jun 2017): 253–273.https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2017.1329783Candice D. Ortbals, Lori Poloni-Staudinger Women defining terrorism: ethnonationalist, state, and machista terrorism, Critical Studies on Terrorism 7, no.33 (Oct 2014): 336–356.https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2014.956014KATHERINE ALLISON American Occidentalism and the agential Muslim woman, Review of International Studies 39, no.33 (Dec 2012): 665–684.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210512000289Cécile Rousseau, Taïeb Ferradji, Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada, Uzma Jamil North African Muslim Immigrant Families in Canada Giving Meaning to and Coping With the War on Terror, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 11, no.22 (May 2013): 136–156.https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2013.775892Bettina Dennerlein Remembering Violence, Negotiating Change, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 8, no.11 (Jan 2012): 10–36.https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.1.10Zakia Salime Securing the Market, Pacifying Civil Society, Empowering Women: The Middle East Partnership Initiative1, Sociological Forum 25, no.44 (Oct 2010): 725–745.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01209.xRobin L. Riley Women and War: Militarism, Bodies, and the Practice of Gender, Sociology Compass 2, no.44 (Jul 2008): 1192–1208.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00132.x

Rights, Reproduction, Sexuality, and Citizenship in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

Previous articleNext article No AccessRights, Reproduction, Sexuality, and Citizenship in the Ottoman Empire and TurkeyRuth A. MillerRuth A. MillerDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston Search for more articles by this author Department of HistoryUniversity of Massachusetts, BostonPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 32, Number 2Winter 2007 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/508218 Views: 415Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref © 2007 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich Introduction, (Dec 2021): 1–47.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84451-6_1Elif Ceylan Ozsoy Decolonizing Decriminalization Analyses: Did the Ottomans Decriminalize Homosexuality in 1858?, Journal of Homosexuality 68, no.1212 (Feb 2020): 1979–2002.https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2020.1715142Sumru Atuk Femicide and the Speaking State, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 16, no.33 (Nov 2020): 283–306.https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8637409Sarah O. Nugdalla The Revolution Continues: Sudanese Women’s Activism, (Jul 2020): 107–130.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46343-4_6Ayşe Parla Revisiting ‘honor’ through migrant vulnerabilities in Turkey, History and Anthropology 31, no.11 (Nov 2019): 84–104.https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2019.1689974Mary Lou O’Neil, Sultan Komut Motherhood, Citizenship, and Rights: Illegal Abortions in Turkey, Women's Studies 48, no.22 (Mar 2019): 81–96.https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2019.1567513Eirini Avramopoulou Hope as a performative affect: feminist struggles against death and violence, Subjectivity 10, no.33 (Jun 2017): 276–293.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-017-0031-0Ana Frank, Ayşe Betül Çelik Beyond Islamic versus Secular Framing, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 13, no.22 (Jul 2017): 195–218.https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3861279Filiz Akgul The Context of Turkey, (Apr 2017): 67–96.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49766-2_4Cevahir Özgüler, Betül Yarar Neoliberal Body Politics: Feminist Resistance and the Abortion Law in Turkey, (Dec 2016): 133–161.https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47780-4_7Gülbanu Altunok Neo-conservatism, Sovereign Power and Bio-power: Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Turkey, Research and Policy on Turkey 1, no.22 (Jul 2016): 132–146.https://doi.org/10.1080/23760818.2016.1201244Zafer Yilmaz “Strengthening the Family” Policies in Turkey: Managing the Social Question and Armoring Conservative–Neoliberal Populism, Turkish Studies 16, no.33 (Sep 2015): 371–390.https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2015.1067863Başak Tuğ Gender and Ottoman Social History, International Journal of Middle East Studies 46, no.22 (Apr 2014): 379–381.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743814000178Didem Unal, Dilek Cindoglu Reproductive citizenship in Turkey: Abortion chronicles, Women's Studies International Forum 38 (May 2013): 21–31.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.02.005Lauren Banko The creation of Palestinian citizenship under an international mandate: legislation, discourses and practices, 1918–1925, Citizenship Studies 16, no.5-65-6 (Aug 2012): 641–655.https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2012.698487AYSE PARLA Remembering across the border: Postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria, American Ethnologist 36, no.44 (Nov 2009): 750–767.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01208.xNAZAN MAKSUDYAN Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Besleme s in the Late Ottoman Empire*, Journal of Historical Sociology 21, no.44 (Dec 2008): 488–512.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2008.00347.x

Lipstick or Timberlands? Meanings of Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities

Mignon R. Moore Lipstick or Timberlands? Meanings of Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities C onsider the ways in which the following women explain gender pre- sentation in one black lesbian community: Asa Bambir (age 34, executive assistant): 1 In New York I saw more of this butch-femme thing and I was a little floored by it, a little shocked, like why do people have to play these roles? . . . But at the same time I looked at it in awe because there was a part of my childhood when I really liked wearing boyish clothes, but I never did. . . . So, I was very intrigued by it, and I think over the years I’ve just been allowing that to surface. I really do like wearing boyish clothes. Were you drawn to women who were more feminine looking or less feminine looking? I was definitely drawn to women who were feminine looking, very feminine looking. Lynn Witherspoon (age 33, corporate attorney): When I first started to come out . . . it was interesting because I had this type that I was attracted to, and yet when I was going out I was always attracting the more butch looking women. And I was like, “Oh, I’m carrying this purse,” and all of these other things, you know, all these things you do in the straight community. So I had to change the way I dressed, and I stopped carrying a purse, and I was able to find women who I was more attracted to, to go out with. When I first came out I was wearing makeup; I stopped wearing makeup. Data collection was supported by the Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhance- ment Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. The Russell Sage Foundation generously supported the writing of this manuscript. I thank Karolyn Tyson, Elaine Harley, Laurie Essig, two anonymous reviewers, and the current and former editors of Signs for their helpful comments. Pseudonyms are used to protect respondents’ anonymity. Following Kath Weston’s (2004) model, I assign surnames to this study’s participants to convey a sense of respect and adult status not always afforded sexual or racial minority group members. [Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2006, vol. 32, no. 1] ᭧ 2006 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0097-9740/2006/3201-0009$10.00

Our Breasts, Our Selves: Identity, Community, and Ethics in Cancer Autobiographies

Previous articleNext article No AccessOur Breasts, Our Selves: Identity, Community, and Ethics in Cancer AutobiographiesDiane Price HerndlDiane Price HerndlDepartments of English and Women’s StudiesIowa State University Search for more articles by this author Departments of English and Women’s StudiesIowa State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 32, Number 1Autumn 2006 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/505542 Views: 247Total views on this site Citations: 12Citations are reported from Crossref © 2006 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Jiena Sun I, We and All of Us: Transcending the Individualistic “I” in Three Chinese Breast Cancer Narratives, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62, no.22 (Jul 2020): 200–210.https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1790487Mary Godfrey, Sarah Price, Andrew Long Unveiling the Maelstrom of the Early Breast Cancer Trajectory, Qualitative Health Research 28, no.44 (Dec 2017): 572–586.https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732317746378Judy Z. Segal The View from Here and There: Objectivity and the Rhetoric of Breast Cancer, (Jan 2015): 211–226.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14349-1_11Alexandra Farren Gibson, Christina Lee, Shona Crabb ‘ If you grow them, know them ’: Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context, Feminism & Psychology 24, no.44 (Nov 2014): 521–541.https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353514548100Marjolein de Boer, Jenny Slatman Blogging and breast cancer: Narrating one's life, body and self on the Internet, Women's Studies International Forum 44 (May 2014): 17–25.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2014.02.014Judy Z. Segal The Sexualization of the Medical, Journal of Sex Research 49, no.44 (Jul 2012): 369–378.https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2011.653608Carsten Timmermann, Elizabeth Toon Introduction, (Jan 2012): 1–9.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272089_1Joanna Baines Three Stories: Generations of Breast Cancer, (Jan 2012): 13–35.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272089_2Maheshvari Naidu Performing illness and health: the humanistic value of cancer narratives, Anthropology Southern Africa 35, no.3-43-4 (Sep 2015): 71–80.https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2012.11500026Lisa R. Rubin, Molly Tanenbaum “Does That Make Me A Woman?”, Psychology of Women Quarterly 35, no.33 (Sep 2011): 401–414.https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684310395606Susan Van Den Tillaart, Donna Kurtz, Penny Cash Powerlessness, marginalized identity, and silencing of health concerns: Voiced realities of women living with a mental health diagnosis, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 18, no.33 (Jun 2009): 153–163.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2009.00599.xJudy Z. Segal Breast Cancer Narratives as Public Rhetoric: Genre Itself and the Maintenance of Igorance, Linguistics and the Human Sciences 3, no.11 (Jun 2008).https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v3i1.3

Abandoning the Wardrobe and Reclaiming Religion in the Discourse on Afghan Women’s Islamic Rights

Previous articleNext article No AccessAbandoning the Wardrobe and Reclaiming Religion in the Discourse on Afghan Women’s Islamic RightsLeela JacintoLeela JacintoNew York Search for more articles by this author New YorkPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 32, Number 1Autumn 2006 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/505275 Views: 157Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref © 2006 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Sarah Shah Black and white or shades of grey: Religious approaches and Muslim marital conflict, Social Compass 69, no.11 (Jun 2021): 113–132.https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686211020567 , Sociology of Islam 3, no.1-21-2 ( 2015): 1.https://doi.org/10.1163/22131418-00301001Shahnaz Khan The two faces of Afghan women: Oppressed and exotic, Women's Studies International Forum 44 (May 2014): 101–109.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.10.003Jennifer L Fluri Bodies, bombs and barricades: geographies of conflict and civilian (in)security, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36, no.22 (Dec 2010): 280–296.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00422.x

Till Marriage Do Us Part: Education and Remittances from Married Women in Africa

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Power, knowledge and embodiment in communities of sex/gender practice

Synopsis This article takes up my previous work [Paechter, Carrie (2003). Learning masculinities and femininities: Power/knowledge and legitimate peripheral participation. Women's Studies International Forum, 26, 541–552.; Paechter, Carrie (2003). Masculinities and femininities as communities of practice. Women's Studies International Forum, 26, 69–77.; Paechter, Carrie (2003). Masculinities, femininities and physical education: Bodily practices as reified markers of community membership. In Carol Vincent (Ed.), Social justice, education and identity (pp. 137–152). London: RoutledgeFalmer.; forthcoming], which looks at how masculinities and femininities can be regarded as local communities of practice [Lave, Jean & Wenger, Etienne (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; Wenger, Etienne (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.], and considers the importance of power/knowledge for this conceptualisation. After introducing both the idea of masculinities and femininities as communities of practice, and the Foucaultian conception of power on which the article is based, I focus on three key aspects of power/knowledge relations within and between communities of practice: how full participants are able to act as definers of reality and therefore of identity; how Panoptic mechanisms operate within communities of gendered practice; and the importance of knowledge forms to power relations within and boundary maintenance between communities.

Real politik or real politics? Working-class lesbians' political ‘awareness’ and activism

Synopsis This article is based upon my PhD research ‘Working-class lesbians: classed in a classless climate’, (2001–2004) which examined the significance of class and sexuality in the lives of women who self-identified themselves as working-class and lesbian. Here I look specifically at the women's political ‘awareness’ and activism, within a changing political climate that promotes notions of ‘classless’, yet in which classed conflict, processes, activism and responses remain apparent. I interconnect the inequalities of class and sexuality in the sphere of citizenship – both sexual and otherwise – looking at Section 2a/28 as a particular site of contested sexual citizenship, yet where the significance of class was apparent in many ways. For example, the economic resources mobilised by anti-repeal protestors were highly relevant, as was the ownership of social connections and forms of capital, which bestowed confidence and entitlement [Skeggs, Beverly (1995). Women's Studies in the 1990's. Entitlement Cultures and Institutional Constraints. Women's Studies International Forum , 18 (4): 475–485] . This, I suggest, was utilised and actively mobilised by both pro- and anti-repeal protesters, whose members, as potential and actual sexual citizens were able to occupy and argue for social positions legitimated as ‘normal’, as ‘respectable’—and in doing so made their classed investments and forms of protest apparent. I point to the many ways that interviewees were politically aware—they had opinions and beliefs to express, especially around ‘past’ and present class struggles, but rarely did these achieve political credibility; rarely were their concerns easily assimilable or respectably mainstream.