Study Of Women Research Articles

“Roll Out My Mat and Take Up Space”: A Study of Black Women’s Resistance to Yoga’s White Normativity

“Roll Out My Mat and Take Up Space”: A Study of Black Women’s Resistance to Yoga’s White Normativity

A phenomenological study on women's disaster experience in Türkiye

The number and severity of disasters are rising globally, with negative effects on the physical, social, and economic spheres. According to research, men and women experience disasters differently around the world and have different coping mechanisms. With their backgrounds in disaster relief and high levels of cognitive awareness, women are recognized as strong actors. The issues that women in Turkey face during disasters must be identified in this context and proposals for effective solutions must be developed. Research is scarce, despite the literature's importance accorded to disaster and women's studies. To examine in depth the disaster experiences and lessons learned of women who faced various types of disasters (earthquake, flood, landslide, fire, epidemic, drought, and terrorist attack), nineteen women were interviewed in a virtual setting. A qualitative research method called phenomenological design was employed in the study. With the help of the MAXQDA 2020 qualitative analysis program, the research's data were analyzed. The analyses have shown that women are ill-prepared for disasters, consider disaster early warnings, have difficulty and security issues in accessing basic needs after disasters, have incorrect information about disasters and are willing to participate in disaster education, encounter social problems, and want to participate in decision-making mechanisms, and they acquire correct behavior skills after their first reflex behaviors. In order to ensure gender equality and address issues with integrated disaster management, the administration can follow the significant findings of the research. In study contributes to the field of disaster research by analyzing the experiences of women in disasters, particularly what makes them vulnerable to disasters, the impact of gender roles in disasters, their behaviors and experiences at the time of the disaster, and the actions taken to turn learned lessons into behavior.

Prenatal Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) in the Context of BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and Lipid Profile-An Association Study in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity.

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are bioactive glycans first detected in human milk. Their presence in maternal blood during pregnancy suggests systemic functions. Dynamics and associations of the most abundant prenatal HMOs in relation to maternal BMI and serum lipids in a cohort of 87 pregnant women with either overweight or obesity are studied. Serum HMOs (2'FL, 3'SL, 3'SLN, LDFT), serum lipids (total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides), and BMI are measured at 15, 24, and 32 weeks of gestation. 2'FL and LDFT are negatively correlated to pre-pregnancy BMI and increase significantly slower between 15 and 24 weeks in highly obese women. Women without detectable increase of serum 2'FL (non-secretors) show a less pronounced gestational weight gain and lower BMI in the third trimester as compared to women phenotype as secretors. Higher early-pregnancy 2'FL is associated with high HDL and low triglycerides in pregnancy. On the other hand, higher 3'SL at 15 weeks is associated with higher triglycerides, LDL, and total cholesterol. Higher early-pregnancy 2'FL is associated with a cardioprotective lipid profile, whereas higher 3'SL is associated with an atherogenic lipid profile. Serum trajectories of 2'FL and LDFT in obese women suggest an obesity mediated delay of α-1,2-fucosylation.

Investigation of Social Construction of Violence and Exploitation: A Case Study of Children and Women in Gowa Regency, Indonesia

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate social construction of children and women within the cycle of violence and exploitation in the Gowa Regency, Indonesia. Theoritical Framework: The high incidence of violence against children and women is a worrying concern in Gowa Regency, Indonesia. In this context, the influence of power and the operation of social constructs contribute to the increased occurrences related to the internalization of values within a society. Previous results were analyzed from a medical perspective but did not examine this crime as part of social construction. Method: A case study method was used by conducting interviews with 18 children and women in the regency. The data analysis method was conducted in stages: (1) thematic analysis of interview results to identify main categories related to violence against children and women, (2) analysis of the main themes in each sample; (3) cross-theme analysis to determine commonalities and differences, allowing for the generalization of themes across the three cases, children labor exploitation, and women as victims of divorce. Result and Conclusion: The results showed that there was a distressing phenomenon of children being socially constructed as sex workers. A critical contributing factor to verbal violence against women in households is the normalization of such violence by husbands within the framework of marital relationships. Implication of Research: The process of social construction, with its stages of internalization, objectification, and externalization, preserved the image of women as victims of violence within the confines of official marriages. Originality/value: This study presented the theoretical concept of violence against children and women at a substantive level.

Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Resistance: An Intersectional Study of Women’s Entrepreneurship Under Occupation and Patriarchy

Women face unique challenges in their quest to achieve business success relative to men. Applying the theories of epistemic injustice and intersectionality, this study collectively analyzes the overlapping impacts of identities that complement gender at multiple levels in the context of the oppressive, interconnected power structures of occupation and patriarchy. Our findings explain how the impact of institutional oppressors, through structural and normative discrimination, may cause some Palestinian women entrepreneurs to internalize and accept injustice while others tap into available resources to engage in epistemic resistance.

Phenomenological Study of Women’s Experiences of Neonatal Transport After Childbirth in Korea

ObjectiveTo explore the experiences of women in Korea who were separated from their newborns when they were transported to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to receive treatment. DesignPhenomenological. SettingA university hospital with approximately 600 beds in Seoul, Korea. ParticipantsWomen who experienced neonatal transport after childbirth from March to May 2021 (N = 9). MethodsWe collected data through individual in-depth interviews and analyzed them using Colaizzi’s procedure. ResultsWe extracted four overarching themes that represented the experiences of participants: Outsider Left Alone, Enduring in a Different World, The Lost Starting Line, and Running Together. ConclusionOur findings captured the unique experiences of women whose newborns were transported from the hospitals where they were born to NICUs at other hospitals to receive treatment. It is necessary to develop and apply tailored nursing interventions, such as assessment and support for postpartum blues or depression, to ensure that postnatal care and healthy maternal transition are not hindered.

Review Essay: Feminist Television Studies of Complex and Disruptive Women

Review Essay: Feminist Television Studies of Complex and Disruptive Women

Chicana/Latina feminism: What is it and how does it define us?

AbstractLatinas holding doctoral degrees are few and far between in the academic world as compared to their White female counterparts (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2020). We explore a crucial topic of Chicana/Latina feminism, which resists traditional theoretical concepts and methodologies in the field of adult education. Chicana/Latina feminism is a feminist theory that has transcended academic disciplines since its conception in ethnic women's studies. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to offer an in‐depth look at Chicana/Latina feminism by defining the origins of a Chicana feminist theory, exploring the need to decolonize adult educational research to allow a more inclusive space for women of color in academia, attesting to the application of a Chicana feminist epistemology with the use of testimonios, and discussing the implications of embedding Chicana feminist perspectives in adult educational research.

Multimorbidity of cardiovascular disease subtypes in a prospective cohort of 1.2 million UK women

ObjectiveCardiovascular multimorbidity (CVM) is the co-occurrence of multiple cardiovascular disease subtypes (CVDs) in one person. Because common patterns and incidence of CVM are not well-described, particularly in women, we conducted...

Understanding the Weave, Undoing the Seams

Abstract: A transnational feminisms roundtable conversation about the category "woman" at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center

Giusi Russo. Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975. [Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.] University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln (NE) 2023. xiii, 287 pp. Ill. $99.00. (Paper, E-book: $30.00.)

Giusi Russo. Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975. [Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.] University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln (NE) 2023. xiii, 287 pp. Ill. $99.00. (Paper, E-book: $30.00.)

Association between Noise and Cardiovascular Disease in a Nationwide U.S. Prospective Cohort Study of Women Followed from 1988 to 2018.

Long-term noise exposure is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), including acute cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction and stroke. However, longitudinal cohort studies in the U.S. of long-term noise and CVD are almost exclusively from Europe and few modeled nighttime noise, when an individual is likely at home or asleep, separately from daytime noise. We aimed to examine the prospective association of outdoor long-term nighttime and daytime noise from anthropogenic sources with incident CVD using a U.S.-based, nationwide cohort of women. We linked nighttime and daytime anthropogenic modeled noise estimates from a U.S. National Parks Service model (: sound pressure levels exceeded 50 percent of the time) to geocoded residential addresses of 114,116 participants in the Nurses' Health Study. We used time-varying Cox proportional hazards models to estimate risk of incident CVD, coronary heart disease (CHD), and stroke associated with long-term average (14-y measurement period) noise exposure, adjusted for potential individual- and area-level confounders and CVD risk factors (1988-2018; biennial residential address updates; monthly CVD updates). We assessed effect modification by population density, region, air pollution, vegetation cover, and neighborhood socioeconomic status, and explored mediation by self-reported average nightly sleep duration. Over 2,548,927 person-years, there were 10,331 incident CVD events. In fully adjusted models, the hazard ratios for each interquartile range increase in nighttime noise (3.67 dBA) and daytime noise (4.35 dBA), respectively, were 1.04 (95% CI: 1.02, 1.06) and 1.04 (95% CI: 1.02, 1.07). Associations for total energy-equivalent noise level () measures were stronger than for the anthropogenic statistical noise measures. Similar associations were observed for CHD and stroke. Interaction analyses suggested that associations of nighttime and daytime noise with CVD did not differ by prespecified effect modifiers. We found no evidence that inadequate sleep ( h/night) mediated associations of nighttime noise and CVD. Outdoor anthropogenic nighttime and daytime noise at the residential address was associated with a small increase in CVD risk in a cohort of adult female nurses. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12906.

Painful Dream of Motherhood: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Married Women with Ectopic Pregnancy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to explore the understanding and experience of women with EP in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This qualitative study carried out through a Heideggerian hermeneutic/interpretative phenomenological approach, using face-to-face semi-structured phenomenological interviews with twenty-five participants referred to a public maternity hospital in Rasht, Iran. Data were collected and analyzed using the seven-step analytical approach of Dickelman et al. (The NLN criteria of appraisal of baccalaureate programs: A critical hermeneutic analysis, NLN Press, 1989; Journal of Nursing Education. 32:245-250, 1993) to phenomenological studies. The results reveal how living in the shadow of Islamic Sharia Law in Iran turns EP into a trauma and creates a different experience and meaning of EP for each woman. In this view, multiple factors, including 'family support' and 'faith in Islamic Sharia,' have determined how married women experience sociocultural and psychological consequences of EP. These findings apply to women with EP in Iran. Given that EP is more than an anomalous pregnancy with socially culturally constructed suffering in the context of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hence, policymakers and healthcare providers should consider a multidimensional approach to this devastating event in pregnancy and support and empower the women whose dream of motherhood is jeopardized and terminated by the experience of EP.

Differences in Changes in Game Usage Time and Game Use-Related Factors Depending on Parity in a Prospective Study of Pregnant Women in Japan

Game usage has recently been increasing, but the actual situation of game usage and issues among pregnant women are not clarified. The purpose of this prospective longitudinal study was to examine changes in game usage, lifestyle, and thoughts about game usage during pregnancy depending on parity and to clarify the characteristics of pregnant women who continue to use games. We conducted three web surveys in early, mid- and late pregnancy in 238 pregnant women. For primiparous women who continued to use games, there was a significant increase in game usage time from early to late pregnancy (p = 0.022), and 25.0% of those women had anxiety that they might have a game addiction. For primiparous women in mid-pregnancy and multiparous women in early and late pregnancy, the proportions of women who thought that they could not use gaming sufficiently due to pregnancy and child-rearing were significantly higher in women who continued to use games. In both primiparous women and multiparous women, the proportion of partners who used games was significantly higher in women who continued to use games. It is necessary for midwives to discuss with pregnant women and their partners about game usage and to provide advice about control of game usage in daily life.

A Brief Study of Women's Image in the New Media Environment

With the development of new media technology and the iteration of social media and short video platforms, women are able to grasp more voices through various ways and opportunities, and at the same time create more values with women themselves as the main body, breaking the stereotypes of women in society. This paper analyzes the transformation of the stereotypical female image in traditional media dramas by citing some female characters in dramas, while using social news and certain social phenomena as the starting point to discuss the impact of new media on the promotion of womens image on screen and womens discourse. Finally, we reflect on the dilemma faced by women in the current new media environment. The platform of new mediaplays a role in providing a more comprehensive understanding of this change for many participants in the self-media environment, and correctly views the impact of the construction of womens image on new media platforms, and draws attention to the other dilemmas brought by new media platforms to women.

COVID-19 Concerns, Coping and Perceived Peer Norms: Correlates of Increased Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Sexual Minority Women

ABSTRACT This study explored the impact of COVID-related concerns and other characteristics on alcohol and marijuana use among sexual minority women (SMW). Survey data from a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 338 SMW participants in the Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women (CHLEW) study were used to examine correlates of three substance use outcomes: frequent intoxication (once a month or more), perceived increase in alcohol use, and perceived increase in marijuana use. Coping motives for alcohol use was positively associated with each of the substance use outcomes. Belief that peers (in terms of age, sexual identity, and gender) used alcohol often to cope was associated with higher odds of frequent intoxication. COVID-19 related financial concerns were positively associated with both frequent intoxication and increased marijuana use. Health and mental health concerns were associated with lower odds of frequent intoxication. Findings underscore the importance of enhancing coping skills, addressing perceived peer coping norms, and providing both economic and social support in intervention efforts.

Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: Does Everyone Have It?

In 2014, the North American Menopause Society and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health recommended using the term genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) to cover a range of genital and urinary symptoms that might be experienced during and after menopause. The term as currently defined, however, includes symptoms that may not be menopausal symptoms. The term GSM also includes "objective" measures such as vaginal pH that do not relate to symptom severity and are not priorities for clinicians or patients. We question the validity of GSM as a new syndrome and recommend the definition of the syndrome be revised to ensure it more closely reflects the symptoms attributable to menopause and the experience, difficulties, and response to treatment of those affected.

MiniMedTM 780G Advanced Hybrid Closed-Loop System Study in Pregnant Women with Type 1 Diabetes.

Background: Evaluate the impact of the MiniMed™ 780G advanced hybrid closed-loop (AHCL) system on the glucose profile of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and maternal-neonatal complications. Methods: From April 2021 to September 2022, pregnant women with T1D treated with the AHCL system were included in an observational multicenter retrospective study. Continuous glucose monitoring parameters were analyzed monthly during pregnancy as well as maternal-neonatal complications. Results: Thirteen pregnant women, including a twin pregnancy (age: 33 ± 3 years, hemoglobin A1c [HbA1c]: 7.3% ± 0.7%, insulin doses: 0.72 ± 0.21 U/kg/day) were analyzed. At delivery, gestational age was 37 ± 2 weeks. During first 2 weeks of pregnancy, time in range (TIR, 63-140 mg/dL) was 46% (34-55) and increased to 54% (51-59) (P < 0.01), 64% (48-68) (P < 0.01), and 66% (60-70) (P < 0.001) during the first, second, and third trimester, respectively. During the night, TIR (63-140 mg/dL) was >70% throughout pregnancy. Time below the range <63 mg/dL increased from 0.5% (0-2) to 1.3% (0.7-2.2), 2% (1.2-3.5) (P < 0.05), and 1.3% (1.31-3) (P < 0.05) during the first, second, and third trimester, respectively. At delivery, insulin doses increased to 0.89 ± 0.35 IU/kg/day (P < 0.01), and HbA1c decreased to 6.4% ± 0.6% (P = 0.005). The reported carbohydrate amount increased from 167 ± 363 g/d during early pregnancy to 243 ± 106 g/d (P < 0.01) at delivery. The birthweight was 3134 ± 711 g, with 5/14 macrosomia and 2/14 neonatal hypoglycemia. Moreover, 5/13 patients had a preeclampsia and 9/13 a cesarean section, including three cases of scarred uterus. The Clinical Trial Registration number is: CE-2022-55. Conclusion: The AHCL system provided good glucose control during pregnancy and recommendation targets were reached during the nocturnal period only. The maternal and neonatal complications remained high.

Community Based Study of Rural Tribal Women’s Prepregnancy Health

Background: In addition to health during pregnancy, labour, post-birth, an optimal state of physical and mental health at the onset of pregnancy is essential for health of women and their babies during pregnancy, birth, and post birth over decades. The concept of preconception health has been old; however it has received little attention until recently. There has now been momentum because of persisting sufferings of women during pregnancy, birth and beyond in spite of best of care during pregnancy. Objective: Present community based study was conducted to know about prepregnancy health, body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin (Hb), any major illnesses in women of a remote rural region. Material and methods: After the institution’s ethics committee’s approval, community based study was conducted in 100 villages with health facilities in forestry and hilly regions. Total 2400 women of reproductive age, likely to have pregnancy were included randomly, minimum 20 from each village to get information as per objective. Results: Among 2400 women, 22.8% had low BMI, 56.6% normal, 26.6% high BMI, 10% women had &lt;5gm/dl Hb, 20.5% ≥ 5 but &lt;7 gm/dl Hb, 33.7% ≥ 7 but &lt;9 gm/dl Hb, 12% Hb ≥ 9 but &lt;11gm/dl Hb, 23.6% women had Hb ≥ 11gm/dl Hb. Total 12.1% women had hypertension, 8.4% had diabetes, 79.5% had other disorders, mostly anemia. Conclusion: There were 22.8% underweight tribal women with chances of other nutritional deficiencies, 30.54% had severe and 33.75% had moderate anemia, 10% had alarming very severe anemia, real cause of concern. Government health providers need to identify various disorders of prepregnancy which can become dangerous during pregnancy, birth, post birth for both mother and baby. It is also important to address them in later life through various preventive and therapeutic interventions.

Trajectories of Blood Lipids Profile in Midlife Women: Does Menopause Matter?

It remains controversial whether changes of lipids over menopause transition (MT) are more age-related or more menopause-related. We aimed to classify women into different trajectory groups based on pattern and level of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein B (ApoB), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglyceride, and apolipoprotein A-I over the MT, as well as examine the effect of MT-related factors on lipid trajectory groups and levels. The cohort included 2582 subjects from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Different trajectory patterns of lipids during the MT were determined using the latent class growth mixture model. The predictors of distinct blood lipids trajectory groups were determined by multiple linear regression models and multinomial logistic regression models. Women were categorized into either inverse U-shape or progressing trajectory group in each blood lipids measurement. The inverse U-shape total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, log(TG), and apolipoprotein A-I trajectories showed an increasing trend before menopause but a decreasing trend after menopause. The U-shape total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B trajectories started to rise 5 years before menopause. Age at menopause, follicle-stimulating hormone, vasomotor symptoms, and estradiol predicted the shape and level of the women's lipids over the MT. Distinct lipid trajectories were identified during the MT, and the existence of at least 1 trajectory in each lipid parameters suggested a contribution of menopause. Our study highlights the need for earlier and continuous surveillance of lipids during the MT.