scholarly journals “That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices

2022 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 102559
Author(s):  
Melissa Graham ◽  
Greer Lamaro Haintz ◽  
Hayley McKenzie ◽  
Kehla Lippi ◽  
Megan Bugden
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Choices ◽  
Woman's Body

Taxi! The Modern Taxicab as Feminist Heterotopia

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-232
Author(s):  
Anne E. Fernald
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Maximum Power ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Real Place ◽  
Critical Relation ◽  
Transitional Mode ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
Woman's Body

The taxicab operated as a crucial transitional mode of transport for bourgeois women, allowing them maximum power as spectators when it was still brave for a woman to be a pedestrian. The writings of Virginia Woolf, which so often depict bourgeois women coping with modernity, form the chief context in which to explore the role of the taxicab in liberating the modern woman. The taxi itself, clumsy and ungendered, encases a woman's body and protects her from the male gaze. At the same time, a woman in a taxi can look out upon the street or freely ignore it. As such, the taxi is a type of heterotopia: a real place but one which functions outside of and in a critical relation to, the norms of the rest of the community.

High Heels sebagai Agensi bagi Tubuh Wanita

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Sunandar Macpal ◽  
Fathianabilla Azhar
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Image Disturbance ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
High Heels ◽  
Experience Pain ◽  
Woman's Body

The aims of this paper is to explain the use of high heels as an agency for a woman's body. Agency context refers to pain in the body but pain is perceived as something positive. In this paper, the method used is a literature review by reviewing writings related to the use of high heels. The findings in this paper that women experience body image disturbance or anxiety because they feel themselves are not beautiful or not attractive. The use of high heels, makes women more attractive and more confident, on the other hand the use of high heels actually makes women feel pain and discomfort. However, for the achievement of beauty standards, women voluntarily allow their bodies to experience pain. However, the agency's willingness to beauty standards here is meaningless without filtering and directly accepted. Instead women keep negotiating with themselves so as to make a decision why use high heels.

scholarly journals Barriers to uptake of reproductive information and contraceptives in rural Tanzania: an intersectionality informed qualitative enquiry

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. e036600
Author(s):  
Allison Carroll ◽  
Anuj Kapilashrami
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Public Health Facility ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Reproductive Choices ◽  
Rural Tanzania ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Social Controls

ObjectivesAccess to reproductive information and contraception (RIC) continues to be a critical unmet need in Tanzania and impedes the realisation of reproductive health rights. This study examined key sources of RIC and the factors influencing their uptake by women in Mbeya region of Tanzania.SettingThis qualitative study was undertaken in a rural ward in a district in the south of the Mbeya regionParticipantsIn-depth interviews were undertaken with 48 women users and 2 nurses working in a public health facility, and focus group discussions with 16 home-based care workers in the district. Participants were recruited through a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the region, and via snowball sampling. All interactions were recorded, translated and transcribed and sought to identify the available resources and barriers in using them.ResultsParticipants reported six main sources of reproductive information and contraceptives: public health facilities, NGO mobile clinics, other women, Mganga wa Asili (witchdoctors/traditional doctors) and Duka la Dawa (pharmacy). Women users and healthcare workers identified a range of individual (age, marital status and geography) and health system-wide factors shaping women’s reproductive choices and preventing uptake of contraceptives. The study also revealed structural factors such as gender, ethnicity, indigeneity as key determinants of access and health seeking, placing women from Sukuma and Maasai communities is the most disadvantageous position. Historical social disadvantage, patriarchal social controls and the pressure to preserve sociocultural traditions that women experience in the Maasai and Sukuma tribes underpin their disconnect from mainstream services.ConclusionWomen’s reproductive choices and their uptake of contraceptives are shaped by the interaction of a range of individual, household, institutional and structural factors. An intersectional lens enables examination of the ways in which these factors interact and mutually constitute disadvantage and privilege.

Woman's body symmetry and oxidative stress in the first trimester of pregnancy

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 816-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz ◽  
Judyta Nowak ◽  
Bogusław Pawłowski
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
First Trimester ◽  
First Trimester Of Pregnancy ◽  
And Oxidative Stress ◽  
Woman's Body

Re-Imaging the Black Woman's Body in Alexis DeVeaux'sThe Tapestry

Modern Drama ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-525
Author(s):  
P. Jane Splawn
Keyword(s):  
Woman's Body

The Haunting ofBluebeard—While Listening to a Recording of Béla Bartók's Opera “Duke Bluebeard's Castle”

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Karen Mozingo
Keyword(s):  
Tape Recording ◽  
Heavy Body ◽  
Opening Line ◽  
As If ◽  
Woman's Body

A tall dark-haired man sits at a black, desklike, rolling cart in the center of a large empty room. Paint chips off the white walls, and dead autumn leaves cover the floor. The man is clean shaven and wears a black overcoat and black pants, but no shoes. Without speaking, he plays a tape recording of the overture to Béla Bartók's operaDuke Bluebeard's Castle (Herzog Blaubart's Burg). As the music begins, he rises and stands over a small dark-haired woman in a red dress, who lies on her back among the leaves, her arms stretched upward as if simultaneously reaching and waiting for something. The man hurls himself on top of her, and she drags his heavy body across the floor, her effort clearing a path through the leaves. As the overture becomes louder, the man rises and stops the tape player, rewinds it, and begins again, returning to his curled position on top of the woman's body. She drags him toward the chair, and as the music reaches the opening line, the man's efforts to stop, rewind, and fall onto her become more frantic. Suddenly he stands, lifting the tiny woman onto her feet and embraces her. Her hand creeps from under his arms and up his torso, inquisitively searching the surface of his chest, neck, and finally his face.

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