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A peer-reviewed semiannual scholarly publication providing international coverage and analysis of wome.'s studies, with particular respect to the relationship between theory and activism.
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Experiences of women war-torture survivors in Uganda: implications for health and human rights.
May 1, 2007... The effect of the aggressive rapes left me with constant chest, back and abdominal pain. I get some treatment but still, from time to time it starts all over again. It was terrible (Woman discussing the effects of civil war during a Kamuli Parish focus group).
Amongst the issues treated...
The task of being content: expatriate wives in Beijing, emotional work and patriarchal bargain.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract
Based upon an ethnographic study of western expatriate (expat) wives in Beijing, this paper describes these women's 'patriarchal bargain' and the emotional labor it involves. Relocation entails pressures to support the husbands' careers in various ways, interruption of their...
Integration, clarification, substantiation: sex, gender, ethnicity and migration as social determinants of women's health.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract
The aim of this paper was to examine, via a scoping review, how the literature focusing on immigrant women's health, based on selected criteria, has been able to capture not only sex and gender differences but also the other socially grounded determinants of health.
Using...
Family law reform and the feminist debate: actually-existing Islamic feminism in the Maghreb and Malaysia.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract
For an increasing number of Muslim women and women's rights activists, the stark disparity between the principles of justice and equality guaranteed by international and domestic legal norms on the one hand, and the oppressive environment of their homes that is legitimated by...
Gender bias after death: the case of the clergical cemetery, St. John's Orphanage, Thurgoona, NSW, Australia.(Company overview)
May 1, 2007... Abstract
Cemeteries are commonly seen as reflective of the historic environment in which they were created and therefore form a unique interpretive tool for the cultural heritage manager. As this case study of clergical cemetery documents, physical heritage of a cemetery may well reflect...