Journal of International Women's Studies articles from May 2007

Journal of International Women's Studies archives from May 2007

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...

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'...

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...

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...

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,...

Pathologizing the female body: phallocentrism in Western science.(Report)
May 1, 2007... A woman's body reaches to the end of the world Deeper than any meaning, further than what she knows, Long, endless, yearning, unappeasable, profounder Than our touches, unconquerable, never to be mastered-- Theodore Holmes "Woman's Body"...

Gender, information technology and health: the case of women workers in export zones in the Philippines.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract This study tried to look into the intricate relationship between work, gender, health and technology in the micro-organizations and in the context of a globalized economy. The study also showed that technology has intensified work...

Economic empowerment of women through information technology: a case study from an Indian state.(Report)(Case study)
May 1, 2007... Abstract It is universally accepted that Information Communication Technologies (ICT) offer immense opportunities for the comprehensive social and economic development of the people all over the world. Without its adoption, there is little...

Women and informal credit: lessons from Moretele, South Africa.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract Informal credit plays an important role in the development of rural and urban areas in South Africa. It is about giving the disadvantaged poor people and women access to needed financial services to increase their earning...

The fortunes and misfortunes of women rice producers in Ndop, Cameroon and the implications for gender roles.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract In most communities in Cameroon, traditional norms mandate that rural women fulfill the reproductive roles of child bearing, home management and food provision for the family. Thus, these women are unable to exercise any...

Male gender roles and sexuality: implications for University girls' HIV/AIDS awareness in a Nigerian University.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract This study was conducted to examine the implications of male gender roles and sexuality for University girls' HIV/AIDS awareness. Information was elicited from 2399 randomly selected undergraduate students, from the nine faculties...

Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954. An Intellectual History.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954. An Intellectual History. Stephanie Y. Evans. 2007. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 275 pp. (+xiv, notes, index). Illustrated, with photographs and maps. $59.95 (Hardcover). In Black...

Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. Gwendolyn D. Pough. 2004. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 265 pp. (photographs and index included). $US 21.95 (paperback). Most women rappers did...

Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk About the End of (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk About the End of (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships. Nan Bauer-Maglin (ed.). 2006. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press. 310 pp. US $21.95 (Paperback). This book is mostly about the pain...

Pomegranate Hearts.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Pomegranate Hearts. Rouhi Shafii. 2006. London: Shiraz Press. 331 pp. (Including glossary of Persian words). 9.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback) Pomegranate Hearts is a multi-generational saga of women's lives in Iran from the early...

Daughters of Kerala.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Daughters of Kerala. Achamma C. Chandersekaran (transl.). 2004. Tuscan: Hats Off Books. pp. 196. US$17.95 (paperback). Daughters of Kerala. 25 Short Stories by Award-Winning Authors, presents a refreshing collection of fictional narratives...

Sex trafficking: The global market in women and children.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... Sex trafficking: The global market in women and children. Kathryn Farr. 2005. New York: Worth Publishers. pp.262, ISBN:0-7167-5548-3, US $24.95 (Paperback). Sex trafficking has gained considerable media attention over the past few years....

The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity. Wendy Hollway. 2006. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 152 pp. (+ Index). US $ 26.99 (Paperback). Like many other feminist sociologists, I am generally suspicious of...

Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House. John Robert Greene. 2004. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 166 pp. (+ Photos and Index). $25.00. (Hardcover). John Robert Greene's Candor and Courage in the White House covers...

Thanksgiving in Florida.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Thanksgiving in Florida The giant roadside orange might be full of children packed vesicle-tight together cheek to small fat cheek. At a bar reclaimed from the water a dead finger for Oliver Reed blears...

Manatee.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Manatee The manatee I never get to see. Instead you tell its strange cobble-shop shape to me: big as a cow in the brackish water thick-skinned and finned like a seal with the nose of a golden retriever. ...

The joyous yoni (1): an exploration of yogic perspectives toward sexual empowerment for women.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract (3) This paper explores yogic approaches to women's sexuality. Acknowledging that sexualized violence against women is a harsh and pernicious reality for women all over the world, the paper adopts an inclusive perspective on...

About my sisters 1996-2006.(Essay)
May 1, 2007... Abstract This is a photographic essay depicting my sisters and our quest for identity during adolescence. Keywords: Adolescent Identity Sisters The Beginnings of a Photographic Project I began photographing my sisters in 1993...