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{"title":"What Sexuality? Whose Knowledge? Mapping “Heterosexuality” and “Homosexuality” within Transnational Feminisms","authors":"W. Njambi","doi":"10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.2.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.2.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127579872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Morocco’s Experience with Gender Gap Reduction in Education","authors":"M. Ennaji","doi":"10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.005","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a synthesis of the policies and measures for girls' education in Morocco and attempts to evaluate their results. It analyzes a wide range of initiatives and provides an overview of their relevance and impact in the Moroccan context. In Morocco, the lack of educational opportunity for girls is still evident, despite significant actions taken by the government. The article identifies the most promising approaches and priority areas for the development of girls' education. Its purpose is to provide an analysis of the situation of gender and education in Morocco, and to take stock of the extent to which gender equality and girls’ right to education are protected and promoted. It also aims to reflect upon and discuss the scope of the legal framework in terms of the provisions of gender equality under law. The article also identifies and discusses the root causes of school attrition and illiteracy among women and the most important hurdles that require urgent attention, further proposing a meaningful integration of the gender perspective in schools and in the overall education system. This article advocates for full and equal educational opportunities for all, girls and boys alike, in policy and in practice. Received: August 09, 2018 Accepted: November 9, 2018 Published: December 10, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Ennaji, M. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Corresponding author: Moha Ennaji, Institute for languages and cultures, University of Fez, Morocco E-mail:mennaji2002@yahoo.fr Citation: Ennaji, M. Morocco’s Experience with Gender Gap Reduction in Education. Gender and Women’s Studies. 2018; 2(1):5. Open Access Gender and Women’s Studies 1 of 18 Ennaji M, Gender and Women’s Studies. 2018, 2(1):5.","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127616146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring self-medication practices and managing health among Pakistani immigrant women in the United States","authors":"Umber Shahid, S. McCurdy, M. E. Fernández-Esquer, L. Franzin","doi":"10.31532/GENDWOMENSSTUD.2.1.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/GENDWOMENSSTUD.2.1.006","url":null,"abstract":"Literature has explored self-medication practices and its health implications with focus on immigrants, mostly Latinos in the United States, paying less or no attention to other minority population in particular Pakistani community. This study explores the selfmedication practices among Pakistani immigrant women in Houston, Texas, and describes reasons associated with it, to better understand their culture, beliefs and patterns. Qualitative methods were utilized including nineteen in-depth interviews with married immigrant Pakistani women, between the age of 25–39 years and five key-informant interviews with senior women of the community. After capturing the participant women stories, data was analyzed using narrative and thematic content analysis. Results show that immigrant Pakistani women adopt various approaches to meet their own and families’ health needs including self-medication with either over-the-counter or non-prescribed antibiotics, which may have serious public health implications. There are gaps in knowledge and perceptions especially antibiotic use among this community. Future research to extend on the findings from this study for adaptation or development of a culturally appropriate program to slowdown this practice and increase utilization of healthcare is strongly recommended. This data informs and adds to our understanding of the social isolation and disconnection that are prevalent for new immigrants, as well as the diminished trust in the U.S. healthcare system that can be further precipitated in the process of migration. Received: August 31, 2018 Accepted: November 26, 2018 Published: December 10, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Shahid U. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Corresponding author: Umber Shahid, Department of Management, Policy & Community Health, University of Texas, Health science Center at Houston, USA E-mail:umber.shahid@uth.tmc.edu Citation: Shahid, U, Mc Curdy SA, Fernandez-Esquer ME, Franzini L. Exploring self-medication practices and managing health among Pakistani immigrant women in the United States. Gender and Women’s Studies. 2018; 2(1):6. Open Access Gender and Women’s Studies 1 of 11 Shahid et al.,Gender and Women’s Studies. 2018, 2(1):6.","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131977422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agricultural transformation in Rwanda: Can Gendered Market Participation Explain the Persistence of Subsistence Farming?","authors":"C. Ingabire, P. Mshenga, Michèle Amacker, J. Langat, Christine Bigler, E. Birachi","doi":"10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.004","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the efforts to agricultural transformation in Rwanda, farming systems are \u0000predominantly still in subsistence production. Women are more involved than men, and \u0000their number has even increased in the past decade. The reasons for this remain unclear, \u0000given the country’s efforts for gender mainstreaming towards market-oriented \u0000agriculture. Guided by the current debate on feminization of agriculture, we base this \u0000study on the thesis that higher market participation among women farmers could \u0000contribute to the so-called transformation. The study uses the case of the Northern \u0000Province of Rwanda. It involved 368 smallholder dual-headed households among which \u0000208 and 160 were respectively producing beans and potato. It used a mixed method \u0000approach by sequential exploratory design, involving a quantitative survey households \u0000followed by Focus Group Discussions (FGDs). Both Household Commercialization Index \u0000(HCI) and Thematic Analyses were used. Findings showed a high degree of \u0000commercialization for potato, with 75% of farmers participating in output markets, and \u000072% among them being market oriented. In contrast, only 26% of bean farmers sold their \u0000production. The commercialization of potato is in the hands of men, while beans are \u0000mainly sold by women. This was also confirmed with the findings from FGDs. Three issues \u0000were identified as hindrances to agricultural transformation and likely to keep households \u0000in subsistence production: the low participation of women in input and output markets; \u0000their limited control over agricultural income; and their increased workload that combines \u0000on-farm and reproductive works. Therefore, despite the efforts at policy level, there are still gender inequalities within dual-headed farming households, and the agricultural \u0000transformation risks increasing the gap through all or some of the three identified issues. \u0000Removing these inequalities could increase households’ market participation and \u0000contribute in the process of agricultural transformation.","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122288539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Letter: Fidelity in Researcher Positionality to Exhume Dispossessed Voices for Leavy’s Concept of Coherence in Feminist Narrative Research","authors":"Robin Throne","doi":"10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.003","url":null,"abstract":"This feminist narrative research explored the fidelity of researcher positionality and Leavy’s coherence to consider an archival personal letter from the Sauk warrior Black Hawk’s great great daughter, Mary Kakaque, written to John Henry Hauberg, an Illinois philanthropist. Future research is needed to characterize Mary’s educational experiences amid an era of cultural annihilation and assimilation within the collective narrative of Hauberg’s interpretations, paraphrases, and summaries of Mary’s existence, and a phenomenological study to explore Mary’s lived experience within the full archival Hauberg collection to consider the constructs of voice or resilience as the lived experiences of Black Hawk’s female descendants remain limited. In addition, a critical ethnography may be warranted for ancestral effects of relocation and assimilation from the perspectives of living Black Hawk and Mary’s female descendants to contribute a contemporary perspective on voice, culture, and the legacy of land dispossession. Received: August 14, 2018 Accepted: October 12, 2018 Published: October 26, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Throne R. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Corresponding author: Robin Throne, School of Education, Northcentral University, USA E-mail:rthrone@ncu.edu Citation: Throne, R.The Letter: Fidelity in Researcher Positionality to Exhume Dispossessed Voices for Leavy’s Concept of Coherence in Feminist Narrative Research. Gender and Women’s Studies. 2018; 2(1):3. Open Access Gender and Women’s Studies 1 of 10 Throne R. Gender and Women’s Studies. 2018, 2(1):3.","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126532356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Use of Female Family and Hired Labour in Agriculture: An Empirical Study in Western Uttar Pradesh, India","authors":"Kavita Baliyan","doi":"10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.1.002","url":null,"abstract":"The role of women in Indian agriculture has been highlighted in a large number of studies. However, there are only a few studies which highlight the role of household female workers in agricultural activities on their family farms. Female family workers constitute a special category of labour who are called to join in agricultural work on farm whenever demand for labour increases. They are, thus, a flexible source of labour supply. Their work is seasonal and intermittent and remains unpaid and hence unrecognized. Most of the studies of female labour in agriculture were undertaken in the early decades of the green revolution. There are few recent field studies of women participation in agriculture in India. Moreover, the earlier studies were mostly confined to wheat and rice growing regions and did not look at the labour intensive commercial crops like sugarcane. The present study seeks to fill up these gaps in literature by particularly focusing upon the role of household female workers in an agriculturally developed region specializing in sugarcane cultivation. The study is based upon an intensive field survey of 240 farm households located in the agriculturally developed western region of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India. The study reveals that the contribution of women to agricultural work in the study area which specializes in sugarcane cultivation is higher than their contribution revealed by earlier studies in wheat growing northern states of Punjab and Haryana, but it is lower than their involvement in the rice growing regions of south India. The study also confirms the inverse relationship between size of holding and use of female labour observed in the earlier studies. Our findings about the work segregation by sexes are also in line with the findings of the earlier studies. The study stresses that women workers in agriculture should be given due recognition in public policy to reduce the gender gap in agriculture. have also opened new opportunities for women to engage in agricultural activities (Deere, 2005). The increasing role played by women in agriculture is, however, not reflected in the official estimates of women workers. The main reason for the non-recognition of the continued high participation of women in agriculture may be found in the general Euro-centric and middleclass bias, according to which all women are basically seen as housewives (Mies etal., 1986). The traditional social attitudes which view women as primarily responsible for household duties also leads to undercounting of women as workers especially in case of women who work on family farms (Kanchi, 2010; Mies, 1986). The social definition of women as housewives removes them ipso facto from the perception of researchers and development planners dealing with the labour market (Mies, 1982). In India, agriculture sector employs 65 percent of all economically active women as compared to 50 percent of men according to the Census 2011. Nearly 28 per cent o","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115353774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Dichotomy of Education: Public vs. Private","authors":"J. Dinkha","doi":"10.31532/GENDWOMENSSTUD.2.1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/GENDWOMENSSTUD.2.1.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122652246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disability, Agency, and Subjectivity in Aparna Sen’s Three Disability Films: Sati, House of Memories, and 15 Park Avenue","authors":"Sreerupa Sengupta","doi":"10.31532/gendwomensstud.1.1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/gendwomensstud.1.1.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133205921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Communicating Gender, Race and Nation in the Purvi Patel : The State, Biopower, and the Globality of Reproductive Surveillance","authors":"Priya Kapoor","doi":"10.31532/GendWomensStud.1.1.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/GendWomensStud.1.1.004","url":null,"abstract":"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you prolife. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.(Sister Joan Chitister quoted by Salzillo, 2015)","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116388733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Women Helping Women’: Domestic-skills Training for Unwed Mothers","authors":"Simone M. Caron","doi":"10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.2.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/gendwomensstud.2.2.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":228317,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Women's Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127638693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}