scholarly journals Living in Uncertain Times: Experiences of Menopause and Reproductive Aging

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Heather Dillaway
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Reproductive Aging ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Physical Change ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Life Course Transition

Abstract This chapter explores the everyday experiences of women living in and passing through the stages of perimenopause and menopause, a transition that brings both physical change and identity change. Dillaway approaches this subject by examining the myriad uncertainties that women face during this transition, attributing many of them to confusion around the definitions of perimenopause and menopause; ambiguous signs and symptoms; conflicted feelings about ageing; and reflections on both previous and current motherhood and family experiences. Women think about and navigate these uncertainties in varied ways, Dillaway says, and she concludes that part of the everyday experience of this reproductive- and life-course transition is learning to live in and with uncertainty.

Rereading Diaspora: Reverberating Voices and Diasporic Listening in Italo-Australian Digital Storytelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Daniella Trimboli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract The contemporary diasporic experience is fragmented and contradictory, and the notion of ‘home’ increasingly blurry. In response to these moving circumstances, many diaspora and multiculturalism studies’ scholars have turned to the everyday, focussing on the local particularities of the diasporic experience. Using the Italo-Australian digital storytelling collection Racconti: La Voce del Popolo, this paper argues that, while crucial, the everyday experience of diaspora always needs to be read in relation to broader, dislocated contexts. Indeed, to draw on Grant Farred (2009), the experience of diaspora must be read both in relation to—but always ‘out of’—context. Reading diaspora in this way helps reveal aspects of diasporic life that have the potential to productively disrupt dominant assimilationist discourses of multiculturalism that continue to dominate. This kind of re-reading is pertinent in colonial nations like Australia, whose multiculturalism rhetoric continues to echo normative whiteness.

Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction

Utafiti ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Ogundipe
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Literary Arts

Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak’s After They Left and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts.

scholarly journals VIVENCIANDO O CLIMATÉRIO: PERCEPÇÕES E VIVÊNCIAS DE MULHERES ATENDIDAS NA ATENÇÃO BÁSICA

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tereza Maria Mageroska Vieira ◽  
Cristiane Richter De Araujo ◽  
Elvira Carvalho da Silva De Souza ◽  
Maria Antonia Ramos Costa ◽  
Élen Ferraz Teston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Objetivo: apreender as percepções de mulheres que vivenciam o climatério. Metodologia: estudo descritivo exploratório com abordagem qualitativa, realizado na Unidade Básica de Saúde de um município do Noroeste do Paraná. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevista semiestruturada junto a 16 mulheres em dezembro de 2016 e submetidos a análise de conteúdo, modalidade temática. Resultados: as percepções das mulheres que vivenciam o climatério resultou em duas categorias: Vivenciando o climatério e a menopausa: sinais e sintomas; e Tratamento utilizado no climatério. Observou-se a influência direta dos sinais e sintomas na qualidade de vida dessas mulheres e muitas vezes a não procura por reposição hormonal devido ao desconhecimento. Conclusão: o acolhimento e atendimento integral à mulher deve fazer parte da rotina de cuidado dos profissionais, em especial da Atenção Básica, oportunizando o conhecimento das necessidades particulares e o planejamento de ações de cuidado.Descritores: Saúde da mulher, Climatério, Atenção Primária à Saúde.LIVING THE CLIMATE: PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN SERVED IN BASIC ATTENTIONObjectives: to apprehend the perceptions of women who experience the climacteric. Methodology: descriptive exploratory study with a qualitative approach, carried out at the Basic Health Unit of a municipality in the Northwest of Paraná. Data were collected through a semistructured interview with 16 women in December 2016 and submitted to content analysis, thematic modality. Results: the perceptions of women experiencing climacteric resulted in two categories: experiencing climacteric and menopause: signs and symptoms; and Treatment used in climacteric. It was observed the direct influence of signs and symptoms on the quality of life of these women and often the search for hormone replacement due to ignorance. Conclusion: the reception and integral care of the woman should be part of the routine of care of the professionals, especially of the Basic Attention, providing the knowledge of the particular needs and the planning of care actions.Descriptores: Women’s Health, Climacteric, Primary Health Care.EXPERIMENTANDO EL CLIMATERIO: PERCEPCIONES Y VIVENCIAS MUJERES RESPONDIERON EN ATENCIÓN PRIMARIAObjetivo: aprehender las percepciones de mujeres que experimentan el climaterio. Metodología: estudio descriptivo exploratorio con abordaje cualitativo, realizado en la Unidad Básica de Salud de un municipio del Noroeste de Paraná. Los datos fueron recolectados por medio de una entrevista semiestructurada junto a 16 mujeres en diciembre de 2016 y sometidos a análisis de contenido, modalidad temática. Resultados: las percepciones de las mujeres que experimentan el climaterio resultaron en dos categorías: Vivenciando el climaterio y la menopausia: signos y síntomas; y Tratamiento utilizado en el climaterio. Se observó la influencia directa de los signos y síntomas en la calidad de vida de esas mujeres y muchas veces la no busca por reposición hormonal debido al desconocimiento. Conclusión: la acogida y atención integral a la mujer debe formar parte de la rutina de cuidado de los profesionales, en especial de la Atención Básica, oportunizando el conocimiento de las necesidades particulares y la planificación de acciones de cuidado.Descriptores: Salud de la mujer, Climaterio, Atención primaria de salud.

Hypnosis and Will

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Multiple Personality ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Conscious Will

This chapter explains how hypnosis involves a significant departure from the everyday experience and exercise of conscious will. The hypnotized person experiences the causation of his actions in an unusual way, as being generated less by the self and more by the hypnotist. This is not only a feeling but involves a kind of actual transfer of control from person to hypnotist. What is equally odd, though, is that the range of what can be controlled changes during hypnosis. In this sense, while hypnosis may undermine the experience of will, it seems paradoxically to expand and alter the force of will. This is why hypnosis has been implicated in many of the curiosities of will, including possession, multiple personality, and automatisms.

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