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Pregnancy in the digital generation: Exploring the visual culture of teenage pregnancy on social media

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103056

Rebeca Suárez-Álvarez, Antonio García-Jiménez, Manuel Montes-Vozmediano

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Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103059

Lauren Erdreich , Susie Russak

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How do information and communication technologies (ICTs) empower women?

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103057

Urooj Fatima , Nisar Ahmad , Angeliki, N. Menegaki , Haiyan Wang

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“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103061

Haneen Karram-Elias , Hiam Hassan

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Contextualizing universal norms: Evaluating Nigeria's National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325 and women's lived realities in rural areas

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103045

Onyinyechukwu Durueke

{"title":"Contextualizing universal norms: Evaluating Nigeria's National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325 and women's lived realities in rural areas","authors":"Onyinyechukwu Durueke","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103045","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When it comes to Women, Peace and Security (WPS), treating the associated United Nations Security Council Resolution as a universal norm gives the impression that women face the same issues in conflict and post-conflict environments. The Women, Peace and Security field is based on the adoption and ratification of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 (2000) and its subsequent resolutions. Due to the slow pace of implementation of Resolution 1325, National Action Plans (NAPs) were introduced. Nigeria has two NAPs: the first from 2013 (2013–2017) and the second from 2017 (2017–2020). National Action Plans are intended to adapt UNSCR 1325 to specific national contexts. Through these NAPs, the lived experiences of women in rural areas, with reference to Nigeria can be addressed. This paper examines whether the Nigerian National Action Plans (NNAP) have effectively localized United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) to meet the specific needs of women in rural areas. It argues that the Nigerian NAPs do not adequately capture the lived realities of women in rural areas and calls for more context-specific approaches to ensure effective localization of UNSCR 1325.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103045"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177643","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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Polishing the Pearl of the Pacific and the City of Gold: Paid domestic work in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Johannesburg, South Africa

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103055

David du Toit , Erynn Masi de Casanova

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Decolonial queering sport and movement in Palestine

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103054

Jess R. Nachman

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Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103043

Beth Turnbull, Mehak Batra, Bircan Erbas, Melissa Graham

{"title":"Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children","authors":"Beth Turnbull, Mehak Batra, Bircan Erbas, Melissa Graham","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Involuntarily, circumstantially and voluntarily childless women are constructed as deviating from pronatalist mothering norms, placing them at risk of social exclusion driven by unequal gender relations. This research examines associations between age, childlessness type and the probability of impaired social exclusion indicators in the social domain of life (social networks, social support, subjective social support and social interaction), social exclusion drivers (stigmatisation and stereotyping) and perceived exclusion due to not having children. Data were collected via self-administered questionnaire from 789 women aged 25 to 64 years living in Australia. Generalised additive models and general linear models stratified by childlessness type and controlling for education, employment, income and relationship status, assessed associations between age, childlessness type and dependent variables. Age was non-linearly associated with impaired social networks, with different patterns for circumstantially compared to involuntarily and voluntarily childless women. Associations between age and impaired social support and subjective social support were observed among voluntarily childless women. Among circumstantially childless women, there were associations between age and perceived exclusion from social interaction due to not having children. Age was associated with stigma consciousness and stereotyping, with different peak ages for circumstantially compared to involuntarily and voluntarily childless women. Different age-related patterns among childlessness types may relate to nuanced stigmatisation of involuntarily, circumstantially and voluntarily childless women, and its shifting salience over women's reproductive and post-reproductive years.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103043"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143176670","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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Beyond economic measures: Exploring social deprivation among women in Türkiye

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103053

Şeyda Güdek-Gölçek

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Pandemic-induced border closures in West Africa and the perils of cross-border Ghanaian women traders

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103048

Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, Aminu Dramani

{"title":"Pandemic-induced border closures in West Africa and the perils of cross-border Ghanaian women traders","authors":"Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, Aminu Dramani","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholarly discussions about COVID-19 in Africa have mainly covered the negative consequences such as overstretched healthcare systems, the crumbling of economies and businesses, and the backsliding of democracy. One key area of scholarly and policy interest is how border closures affected regional businesses and associated economic engagements in Africa. The related discussions, however, fail to significantly engage the details of how the activities of less privileged or peripheral but critical actors in African economies were affected by state-backed border closure policies, and how such players navigated the pandemic-constrained environments and public policy decisions. This article examines how the government of Ghana's border closure regulation affected informal transborder businesses of Ghanaian women plying their trade across the borders in West Africa. The central finding is that the pandemic-induced border closure and strict policing negatively impacted women's cross-border businesses and thus livelihoods in three dimensions: slowed or collapsed businesses, exacerbated the difficulty of non-integrated regional financial systems, and exposure to dangerous routes. The findings indicate that these challenges could potentially further weaken women's position in economic transactions in Africa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103048"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143176669","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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