Adnin Zaman, Aaron Lazorwitz, Myla Strawderman, Hong Hong Liu, Sarah A Tydings, Susan W Groth, Victoria A Catenacci, Elizabeth A Thomas
{"title":"A Pilot and Feasibility Study of Combined Oral Contraceptive Pills and Metabolic Outcomes in Premenopausal Women with Overweight or Obesity.","authors":"Adnin Zaman, Aaron Lazorwitz, Myla Strawderman, Hong Hong Liu, Sarah A Tydings, Susan W Groth, Victoria A Catenacci, Elizabeth A Thomas","doi":"10.3390/women6010019","DOIUrl":"10.3390/women6010019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Combined oral contraceptive pills (COCPs) are commonly used by reproductive-aged women with overweight or obesity, but their metabolic effects remain understudied. This pilot study examined the feasibility of recruiting and retaining women with overweight or obesity initiating COCPs and evaluated changes in body weight, body composition, energy intake (EI), eating behaviors, and cardiometabolic markers. Premenopausal women aged 18-40 years with a body mass index between 25 and 45 kg/m<sup>2</sup> initiating COCPs (n = 10) or using nonhormonal contraception (NHC; n = 10) were followed for six months. Outcome measures included body weight, body composition, EI, eating behavior questionnaires, ecological momentary assessment of appetite and satiety, and fasting laboratory measures. There were no between-group differences in changes in weight, EI, or appetite. Binge-eating severity decreased in COCP users and increased in NHC users, though the within-group change in COCP users was not statistically significant. Exploratory analyses demonstrated increases in hemoglobin A1c and triglycerides among COCP users compared to NHC users, while bioavailable testosterone decreased in COCP users only. This study demonstrates high retention and feasibility among women with overweight/obesity undergoing intensive dietary and metabolic monitoring. Although weight outcomes were similar between groups, these preliminary findings identify potential metabolic signals warranting confirmation in adequately powered studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13052517/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147634974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women-A Cultural ReviewPub Date : 2025-05-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2025.2469999
Alice Hill-Woods
{"title":"'Which Piece Fits in Precisely Where?': Disorientation as Queer Strategy in Ann Quin's <i>Three</i>.","authors":"Alice Hill-Woods","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2025.2469999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2025.2469999","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The British experimental writer, Ann Quin (1936-73), has gained notoriety in recent years for her unconventional prose that decidedly swims against the current of canonical writing from the time. While she lived a life that strayed beyond heteronormative ideals, scholars rarely categorize her as a queer author. Her fragmentary novel <i>Three</i> (1966) follows a tripartite relationship between a couple and their young female lodger, and its plot and form leave much to be queried. Taking an approach informed by queer theory, this article positions <i>Three</i> as a distinctly queer novel, using disorientation as a lens for reading Quin's experimentation with language. Mediated by its evocatively arranged garden objects, temporal flux, disorientating losses and gaps, and utopian dreams and reveries encoded in complex syntax, <i>Three</i> operates as a text with plentiful potential. <i>Three</i> calls forth both the uncomfortable and painful dimensions of nonnormative desires, as well as making clear what ambitious experiments in fiction can do: that is, propose a different, more queer-tender world.</p>","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"35 3-4","pages":"213-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12327331/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144796056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About Our Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2024.2340315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2024.2340315","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141152577","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":"Living with the Ancestors","authors":"Robin Hackett","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2024.2340307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2024.2340307","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141148626","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":"Feminist Depictions of Coercive Control in ‘Domestic Noir’: Ilsa Evans’s Broken (2007) and Kathryn Heyman’s Storm and Grace (2017)","authors":"Josephine Browne","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2024.2316992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2024.2316992","url":null,"abstract":"Concurrent with increasing social and legal discussions of coercive control, literary scholars are turning their attention to analyses of an emergent genre labelled ‘domestic noir’. Adding to earli...","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"279 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140073913","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":"Colonized Brown Motherhood: Em and the Big Hoom, Imelda and Indian Mothering","authors":"Shivalika Agarwal, Nagendra Kumar","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2024.2316990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2024.2316990","url":null,"abstract":"Mothering is a bond mothers share with their children, a feeling they experience subjectively. Yet motherhood is more often seen as a construct to be followed and by which to be judged. This societ...","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140074045","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":"‘Activism for Introverts’: Sensitivity Reading and the Discourse of Emotional Labour","authors":"Sarah Brouillette","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2023.2278266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2023.2278266","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers sensitivity readers—not as part of a woke mob controlling creative writers, but instead as a largely hidden, contingent, underpaid workforce. Based on interviews with sensiti...","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139516429","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":"Crafting Connections: Creating Counterspaces to Academic Diversity Labour","authors":"Linta Varghese, Eve Dunbar","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2023.2278333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2023.2278333","url":null,"abstract":"In this piece we discuss the workspace precarities of women of colour academics in higher education in the United States between the early 2000s and early 2020s and share some thinking about how on...","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139561684","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":"‘Required to Care’: Emotional Labour and the Futures of Work in Catherine Lacey’s The Answers","authors":"John Macintosh","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2023.2278270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2023.2278270","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of emotional labour pervades recent popular discourse. However, this discourse tends to emphasize the unpaid work performed in personal and familial relationships. This erases Arlie Rus...","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139516670","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":"Girl, Woman, Screen","authors":"Tanya Kant","doi":"10.1080/09574042.2023.2278341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2023.2278341","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":54053,"journal":{"name":"Women-A Cultural Review","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139516666","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}