scholarly journals Intersectionality at Work: South Asian Muslim Women’s Experiences of Employment and Leadership in the United Kingdom

Sex Roles ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 510-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Memoona Tariq ◽  
Jawad Syed
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The United Kingdom

‘Betwixt and between’: women’s experiences of breastfeeding long term

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Sally Dowling
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Unknown Number ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Second Year Of Life ◽  
Second Year

This chapter draws on research with women who breastfeed for longer than is usual in the United Kingdom, where a minority of women are still breastfeeding at six months and an unknown number breastfeed into the second year of life and beyond. The anthropological concept of liminality (being ‘neither one thing nor another’) is used to explore and understand their experiences. The chapter takes ideas about liminality and relates them to breastfeeding long term, discussing how they might help those working in this area to support more mothers to breastfeed for longer. It briefly outlines what is known about long-term breastfeeding from previous research and explains the concept of liminality. The remainder of the chapter discusses the findings in relation to liminality and how this has been used to think about breastfeeding, and considers what being ‘betwixt and between’ means for breastfeeding women. The idea of breastfeeding as polluting or ‘matter out of place’ is also briefly discussed.

Women's Experiences of Participating in the Magpie Trial: A Postal Survey in the United Kingdom

Birth ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca M.D. Smyth ◽  
Lelia Duley ◽  
Ann Jacoby ◽  
Diana Elbourne
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals Using liminality to understand mothers’ experiences of long-term breastfeeding: ‘Betwixt and between’, and ‘matter out of place’

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Dowling ◽  
David Pontin
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Breastfeeding Initiation ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The United Kingdom

Breastmilk is widely considered as the optimum nutrition source for babies and an important factor in both improving public health and reducing health inequalities. Current international/national policy supports long-term breastfeeding. UK breastfeeding initiation rates are high but rapidly decline, and the numbers breastfeeding in the second year and beyond are unknown. This study used the concept of liminality to explore the experiences of a group of women breastfeeding long-term in the United Kingdom, building on Mahon-Daly and Andrews. Over 80 breastfeeding women were included within the study, which used micro-ethnographic methods (participant observation in breastfeeding support groups, face-to-face interviews and online asynchronous interviews via email). Findings about women’s experiences are congruent with the existing literature, although it is mostly dated and from outside the United Kingdom. Liminality was found to be useful in providing insight into women’s experiences of long-term breastfeeding in relation to both time and place. Understanding women’s experience of breastfeeding beyond current usual norms can be used to inform work with breastfeeding mothers and to encourage more women to breastfeed for longer.

Muslim Women’s Experiences of Higher Education in Britain

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
Fauzia Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Experiences

I explore British South Asian Muslim women’s experiences of higher education and how it impacts identity construction and negotiation. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty-five undergraduate and post-graduate Muslim female university students, I reflect on their perceived and actual experiences. By stressing how representations of them influence their participation and experiences, I analyze how individual subjectivities are mediated and negotiated while reflecting common experiences. I also consider their accounts of the social and personal benefits they felt that they gained during their studies, as well as to the more disturbing and racialized aspects of their experiences. They differentiated between three overlapping forms of beneficial experience: academic, social, and personal. While instances of anti-Muslim racism were rare or subtle, certain university structures and expectations of what being a mainstream student means often contributed to a noted sense of “othering.” I conclude by highlighting how their accounts of their university experiences directly challenge those stereotypes that misrepresent educated Muslim women as “religious and cultural rebels.”

Differences in cortisol concentrations in South Asian and European men living in the United Kingdom

2006 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 530-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Reynolds ◽  
Colin Fischbacher ◽  
Raj Bhopal ◽  
Christopher D. Byrne ◽  
Martin White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
South Asian ◽  
The United Kingdom
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