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“We Lost a Lot During COVID”: Migrant Women’s Reflections on Precarity, Work and COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa “我们在COVID期间失去了很多”:南非开普敦移民妇女对不稳定、工作和COVID-19的思考

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/13202

Floretta Boonzaier, Mandisa Malinga, Carmine Rustin

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Gendered Understanding and Experiences of Sexual Harassment: Informing a Policy Framework for Higher Education Institutions 性骚扰的性别理解和经验:为高等教育机构提供政策框架

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/13720

Reema Nunlall, Francois Steyn

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Lived Experiences of Human Subjects Researchers and Vicarious Trauma 人类受试者的生活经验研究人员和替代性创伤

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.5590/jsbhs.2023.17.1.12

Rashunda Miller Reed, LeAnn M. Morgan, Rebecca G. Cowan, Cailen Birtles

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Queer Belonging in Durban, South Africa: Thoughts from the Zanele Muholi Homecoming Exhibition 南非德班的同性恋归属:来自扎内勒·穆霍利返乡展的思考

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/13028

None Caili Forrest

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Preface to the Themed Issue on "Gender, Sexualities and Place: (Re)Imagining and (Re)Making Urban Spaces” “性别、性与场所:(再)想象与(再)制造城市空间”主题刊前言

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/14473

Tamara Shefer, Alan Mabin

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Women’s Stories of Waste Picking in the City: “People Look at Us Like We Are Mad, but I Don’t Care” 女性在城市捡垃圾的故事:“人们看着我们，好像我们疯了，但我不在乎”

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/13833

Princess A. Sibanda, Kira Erwin

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Genders, Sexualities and Cities: Global Contexts and Local Possibilities 性别、性行为与城市:全球背景与地方可能性

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/13565

Alan Mabin, Tamara Shefer

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(Un)Belonging in the City: Research, Theory and Practice Highlighting LGBTQIA+ Youths Experiencing Homelessness in Cape Town, South Africa (Un)《城市的归属感:南非开普敦LGBTQIA+青年无家可归问题的研究、理论与实践》

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/13124

Maurice N. Gattis, Nicole J. Alexander, Neil Henderson

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Community Perceptions and Experiences of the South African Government’s Response to the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Johannesburg, South Africa 在南非约翰内斯堡，社区对南非政府应对第一波COVID-19大流行的看法和经验

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/12601

Michael Galvin, Andrew W. Kim, Edna Bosire, Nokubonga Ndaba, Lindile Cele, Someleze Swana, Zwannda Kwinda, Alexander Tsai, Aneesa Moolla

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Women’s Experiences of Managing Fatigue During Breast Cancer Treatment: Strategies from Patients in a Low-Resource Setting 女性在乳腺癌治疗期间管理疲劳的经验:低资源环境下患者的策略

Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI: 10.25159/2957-3645/11102

R. Roomaney, B. Coetzee, Paula Smith, J. Daniels

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