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Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103063

Alfonso Vázquez-Atochero , Azahara Romero-Sanz

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Does women's education improve the sex ratio at birth? Gender, agency and sex-selective abortion in South and East Asia: a critical literature review

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103050

Rosie Peppin Vaughan

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Energy injustice or gender injustice?

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103060

Emrah Akyuz

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The intersection of rurality and climate resilience: Insights from women in rural Pakistan

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103064

Falak Shad Memon , Fahad Bin Abdullah , Rizwan Iqbal , Imtiaz Husain , Sumera Memon

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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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