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Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103081

Guido Veronese , Bilal Hamamra , Fayez Mahamid , Dana Bdier , Federica Cavazzoni

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The compulsory adoption of children of parents with disabilities in Israel: An analysis

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103077

Shira Rosenberg-Lavi , Anat Herbst-Debby

{"title":"The compulsory adoption of children of parents with disabilities in Israel: An analysis","authors":"Shira Rosenberg-Lavi , Anat Herbst-Debby","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article examines perceptions of the parental capacity of people with disabilities in Israel. Critical content analysis of court rulings involving the compulsory adoption of children of parents with disabilities allows us to discern the perceptions of judges and professionals. We analyzed decisions from all court levels during 1960–2017. Findings highlight a wide range of perceptions of parents with disabilities, including concerns about their ability to ensure their children's physical and mental well-being. Adoption is a means to erase the genealogy of disabilities. Judges and professionals are not always aware that parents with disabilities lack resources, parental support and care services, but sometimes criticize the welfare system, suggesting that severance of the parent-child relationship could be avoided with appropriate support. A more inclusive legal framework that acknowledges and supports the parental capabilities of individuals with disabilities is needed. By critically examining judicial narratives, the article contributes to ongoing discussions on disability rights, family law, and intersectional discrimination in child welfare decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103077"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143561953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Knowledge production on decolonial feminism. Implications for epistemic politics

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103080

Ionela Vlase

{"title":"Knowledge production on decolonial feminism. Implications for epistemic politics","authors":"Ionela Vlase","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the global production of knowledge on decolonial feminism. While taking stock of recent debates on the epistemic marginalization of Central and Eastern Europe, the article explains European countries' contribution to this study field. Bibliometric information on a sample of 1065 articles indexed in the Web of Science is used to map knowledge production through a co-word analysis based on authors' keywords and co-authorship analysis at country level with the help of VOSviewer. Distinct clusters of interrelated keywords and co-authorship networks point to the (semi)peripheral position of Europe in global co-authorship. Only one quarter of decolonial feminist research is conducted by single or first authors based in Europe. Binary logistic regression identifies article-related indicators associated with the likelihood of a decolonial feminist research originating in Europe. An increase in the number of authors, citations and pages reduces the odds of a study to be initiated in Europe, but the presence of funding acknowledgement and collaboration of co-authors from different countries predict a higher likelihood for a study to originate in Europe. Our outcome variable is positively associated with the increase in the number of references and the closer date of an article's publication. These findings highlight the manufactured ignorance produced by institutional and structural contexts, the impact of broader ideological forces and the politics of location. The development of transnational collaborative ties could balance the power inequalities separating epistemic cultures that cut across the Global North/Global South divide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103080"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143549469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103076

Madison Brockbank , Amber Gazso

{"title":"(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program","authors":"Madison Brockbank , Amber Gazso","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gender-based violence in Canada is constant and ubiquitous, a social fact in many ways. In this paper, we seek to establish the social-historical context of gender-based violence in the current neoliberal political and social policy climate. Ours is not an origin story of gender-based violence per se, nor our paper exhaustive in its scope. We use an intersectional lens to trouble lay-public understandings of gender-based violence as individual pathology, and gender itself as binary. We specifically seek to uncover the interacting social structures, institutions, and hierarchies that (re-)produce gender-based violence. We structure the paper in two distinct parts. First, we discuss gender hegemony. We define and discuss the feminization, Indigenization, and racialization of poverty as shaping of individual lives and interpersonal relationships and yet crafted by colonialism and capitalism and other state institutions, and so problematically constitutive of gender-based violence. Second, we argue that law and social policies of the welfare state can maintain and perpetuate gender-based violence because they are constituted with this social-cultural context, considering the case of the Ontario Transitional Housing Support Program. Noteworthy is how we recognize contradictions and tensions, such as government funded responses to support women survivors of domestic violence when, meanwhile, violence toward trans* people remains known but any response less prioritized. Foremost, we choose to invite readers to dwell on the state of things and to develop a critical and nuanced understanding of gender-based violence as harms created by individuals <em>and</em> social relations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103076"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143512469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A phenomenological approach to female experiences in academic postgraduate settings in northern Brazil: Gender asymmetries and disparities

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103068

M.N.S. Cardoso , M.J. Nobre , P. Santo

{"title":"A phenomenological approach to female experiences in academic postgraduate settings in northern Brazil: Gender asymmetries and disparities","authors":"M.N.S. Cardoso , M.J. Nobre , P. Santo","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Brazil, despite the growing female participation in higher education, gender disparities remain a barrier to scientific advancement, with women facing many challenges in their scientific careers. This study examines the challenges female postgraduate students face in higher education, including obstacles and support systems, beyond traditional subject-object perspectives. To understand the meanings of the participants' experiences, the participants' dialogues were analyzed using Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. They were selected using the linear Snowball Sampling Method. Lack of institutional support, inflexibility of the programs, mental and physical exhaustion, difficulties in balancing motherhood and academic duties, homophobia, excessive emphasis on productivity, and the pandemic context were the main challenges raised by participants. Psychological support, peers' bonding, and faith and spirituality were some of the avenues for care available in this setting. The university's psychological service was cited as a resource for students' mental health. Institutional support for health promotion was cited as both important and necessary, as well as an ethical-political training ground that may help to reduce existing inequities, particularly given the intersections of gender, race, and parenting, because the academic environment continues to be permeated by practices that severely contribute to the perpetuation of male chauvinism, homophobia, and a variety of other forms of gender violence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103068"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143479894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sexism in contemporary art

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103069

Buse Çam , Suzan Ceylan-Batur

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Women's bodies as a global political arena: The abortion rights controversy in the U.S. and Italy, and the compulsory hijab debate in Iran

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103058

Francesca Calamita

{"title":"Women's bodies as a global political arena: The abortion rights controversy in the U.S. and Italy, and the compulsory hijab debate in Iran","authors":"Francesca Calamita","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Why is a woman's choice about her body often disregarded in both Western and non-Western countries? In June 2022, Roe v. Wade, was overturned in the U.S. In September 2022, Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by the Iranian police for not wearing the hijab correctly. Recently the number of gynecologists who refuse to perform abortions on moral grounds reached its highest peak in Italy.</div><div>Abortion rights and the hijab controversy might seem two very different issues, and conventionally they are not addressed together by academic literature on transnational womanhood. Yet they are underpinned by similar concerns about women's bodily autonomy. This article focuses on present-day abortion rights in the U.S. and Italy and the headscarf debate in Iran; it investigates how policing women's bodies in both Western and non-Western contexts is influenced by social norms and traditions, including religious orientations and culturally accepted misogynistic practices aimed at controlling the female part of the population. By comparing three different cultural contexts and framing the discussion in Western and non-Western feminist readings of women's bodies, it demonstrates that abortion bans and compulsory veiling imposed by local and national governments represent legislative efforts to enforce patriarchal norms in the broader global context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103058"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The vulnerability of migrant women working in agriculture in Spain: A qualitative study from the perspective of social and health professionals

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103065

Mariana Loezar-Hernández , Agustin González-Rodríguez , Heidy Natalia Urrego-Parra , María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte , María del Mar Pastor-Bravo , Erica Briones-Vozmediano

{"title":"The vulnerability of migrant women working in agriculture in Spain: A qualitative study from the perspective of social and health professionals","authors":"Mariana Loezar-Hernández , Agustin González-Rodríguez , Heidy Natalia Urrego-Parra , María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte , María del Mar Pastor-Bravo , Erica Briones-Vozmediano","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Workers from developing countries migrate to Spain to meet the need for low-skilled labour in the agricultural sector. This study aims to explore health and social professionals' discourses on the agricultural work of migrant women in Spain from a gender perspective. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using 87 semi-structured interviews with 92 professionals from non-governmental organizations, health, and social services between January and October 2021. Thematic analysis was used with Atlas.ti web software. Two main themes emerged: 1) Feminised tasks in agriculture and 2) Harassment towards women. Participants highlighted specific work types and conditions, harassment, sexual harassment, partner influence, and the health consequences of these inequalities on women. Seasonal migrant women face challenges due to their migration status, precarious working conditions, and gender vulnerability. Labour and sexual harassment, and lack of support networks and resources perpetuate their exclusion, affecting their physical and mental health. Public policies are needed to guarantee these women's labour rights and comprehensive care from health and social professionals with an intersectional perspective.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103065"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143388211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lived experiences of urban working mothers during pandemic: A matricentric exploration in the Indian context

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103067

Sanjukta Bhaumik, Sudhansubala Sahu

{"title":"Lived experiences of urban working mothers during pandemic: A matricentric exploration in the Indian context","authors":"Sanjukta Bhaumik, Sudhansubala Sahu","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In India, entrenched patriarchal norms dictate gender roles, perpetuating men-headed families and patrilineal traditions deeply ingrained in its culture. Within this framework, working mothers daily confront gender biases despite society undervaluing their crucial roles in caregiving and the economy. The Covid-19 pandemic intensified these challenges, as working mothers faced heightened expectations to excel in both professional and maternal roles. With inadequate support and intensified caregiving demands, their physical and mental well-being significantly suffered. This article explores the complex realities experienced by Indian working mothers during the pandemic. Viewing motherhood through a matricentric lens underscores its importance to society while highlighting the need to redistribute caregiving responsibilities beyond mothers alone. The researchers conducted a qualitative study, interviewing 30 Indian working mothers from various professional backgrounds using semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis revealed that despite seventy-seven years of independence, mothers in India continue to grapple with patriarchal oppression, inequality, and violence, underscoring the persistent challenges faced in navigating societal norms and expectations. By gaining insight into their experiences, policymakers can better grasp these burdens and implement measures to address associated physical and mental health concerns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103067"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143388212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103066

Yasmeen Hussain, Kellyanne Findlay

{"title":"Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles","authors":"Yasmeen Hussain, Kellyanne Findlay","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With businesses, institutions and governments focusing on improving diversity in leadership this qualitative investigation draws on the experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) females of East Asian and South Asian heritage, in leadership roles, across four professional sectors. In the UK, black and minority ethnic (BME) and black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) are umbrella terms used to describe non-White ethnicities. The women have experienced unequal power relationships in professional spaces, because of their gender, ethnicity, and actual and perceived faith, and where there are similar social identities. The aim of the study is understanding the power relations that influence their career and shape their approach to leadership and how they cope, negotiate, or assimilate these experiences into their professional and personal lives. The themes that emerged from the study include concurrent racial, religious and gender-based power dynamics, social dominance and status, bias and stereotypes challenging the acceptance and legitimacy of the leaders, encountered from both in-group and out-group members; self-debilitating behaviors because of stereotype threat and imbalanced power, and the self-group distancing behavior of BME colleagues. The study offers an account of minority ethnic women in roles associated with positional power, formal authority and inferred influence, and how they are affected by those who offer or reserve approval, recognition, and support of their leadership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103066"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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