Childbirth on the national health: Issues of class, race, and gender identity in two post‐war British novels

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tess Cosslett
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
British Novels ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War

Abstract P078: Gender And Racial Disparities In Aspirin Use For Primary Prevention: Temporal Trends From The National Health And Nutrition Examination Surveys, 2011-2018

Circulation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Dasa ◽  
Inyoung Jun ◽  
Ruba Sajdeya ◽  
Mohamad B Taha ◽  
Omar Sajdeya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
National Health ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Prior History ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
And Gender

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) disproportionately affects racial minorities in the US. Aspirin is recommended for primary prevention in persons at high CVD risk. Prior evidence revealed racial and gender disparities in aspirin use for primary prevention. Objectives: To describe recent trends in aspirin use for primary prevention by race and gender to identify factors associated with differences in aspirin use. Methods: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 2011-2018, were analyzed. Participants aged 40-79 years, without prior history of CVD were included. Logistic regression was used to assess the association of aspirin use with comorbidities and sociodemographic factors. Results: Among 11212 participants, 47.0% were men; the mean (SD) age was 55.8 (9.79) years; 33.1% were non-Hispanic Whites (W), 23.7% non-Hispanic Blacks (B), and 13.1% Hispanics (H). Aspirin use was more prevalent among W (37.8%) compared to B (26.5%) and H (11.5%) ( P -value <0.001). Trends in aspirin use varied by race and gender over the eight-year follow-up period (Figure 1). Generally, aspirin use was significantly lower in women than men. There was a downward trend in aspirin use in H and B women; H men and women had the lowest prevalence of use across the follow-up duration. Aspirin use was significantly higher at older age, with higher BMI, more comorbidities, non-smokers, and having insurance. Compared to W, H (but not B) had a persistently lower likelihood of aspirin use over time in the unadjusted logistic regression model. After adjustment, race (but not gender) was no longer significantly associated with aspirin use. Conclusions: Aspirin use for primary prevention remains prevalent among W compared to others and among men compared to women. However, after adjusting for several covariates, the effects of race were removed but the gender differences remained. The persistent gender gap in aspirin use for primary prevention requires further explanation, and for those at high risk, intervention.

Existential Crisis of the Japanese American Woman: A Study of Post War Japanese American Fiction

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Nitusmita Bhattacharyya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Native Community ◽  
American Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War

The Japanese American women, during the Second World War, suffered from subjugation at different levels of their existence. They had been subjected to marginalization based on their sexual identity within their native community. They were further made to experience discrimination on the basis of their racial status while living as a member of the Japanese diaspora in the United States during the War. The objectification and marginalization of the women had led them to the realization of their existence as a non -entity within and outside their community. However, the internment of Japanese Americans followed by the declaration of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt and the consequent experience of living behind the barbed wire fences left them to struggle with questions raised on their claim to existence and their identity within a space where race and gender contested each other. In my research paper, I have made a humble attempt at studying the existential crisis of the Japanese American women in America during the War.

Autochthonomous Transfigurations of Race and Gender in Twenty-First-Century Transnational Genocide Testimonial Narratives

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-106
Author(s):  
Myriam J. A. Chancy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
And Gender

This chapter explores depictions and representations of the genocide of Rwanda in order to examine how “autochthonomy” and “lakou consciousness” make themselves manifest in global/transnational contexts. What each of the representations reveals is a partial exposure of a silence that appears to be symptomatic of trauma. The chapter relies on Pierre Bourdieu’s twin-concepts of the “unthinkable” and “unnameable” and how these concepts might be of further use in understanding the representation of the implicit “silence” of trauma. The chapter ultimately argues that artists who consciously emulate African Diasporic aesthetics in their representations of genocide also engage counter-hegemonic modes of representation that are explicitly and increasingly feminist regardless of the producer’s gender identity.

‘Everybody's Lonesome for Somebody’: age, the body and experience in the music of Hank Williams

Popular Music ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Leppert ◽  
George Lipsitz
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
World War ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Second World

Houston Baker locates the blues at the crossroads of lack and desire, at the place where the hurts of history encounter determined resistance from people who know they are entitled to something better (Baker 1984, pp. 7, 150). Like the blues singers from whom he learned so much, Hank Williams (1923 to 1953) spent a lot of time at that particular intersection. There he met others whose own struggles informed and shaped his music. Williams's voice expressed the contradictions of his historical moment – post Second World War America – a time when diverse currents of resistance to class, race and gender oppressions flowed together to form a contradictory, but nonetheless real, unity of opposites. Standing at a crossroads in history, at a fundamental turning point for relationships between men and women, whites and blacks, capital and labour, Williams's songs about heartbreak and failed personal relations indentified the body and the psyche as crucial terrains of political struggle in the post-war era.

scholarly journals Emotions, Social Practices and the Changing Composition of Class, Race and Gender in the National Health Service, 1970–79: ‘Lively Discussion Ensued’

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 204-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Saunders
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
National Union ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
And Gender

Abstract During the 1970s, Britain’s trade unions expanded into new areas of the economy, making considerable progress among the low-paid workers of the expanding welfare state. The Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) and the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) both made huge strides recruiting women and particularly women of colour in the National Health Service, as the laundry, cleaning, catering and portering services of Britain’s hospitals became union strongholds. This article questions why the increased weight of feminized service work is so marginal in our idea of 1970s workplace activism and why it features so rarely in histories of British trade unionism, despite being one of the movement’s most significant growth areas. Drawing on NUPE’s photographic archive, I argue that by looking at the changing character of worker-activist visual culture in this period we can reinsert women and women of colour back into those histories. This is followed by a close reading of trade-union branch minutes which explores how women re-ordered the gendered hierarchy of both their male-dominated union and their hospital between 1970 and 1979, exercising new-found agency within the highly paternalist setting of the NHS.

Shared Identities: Intersectionality, Linked Fate, and Perceptions of Political Candidates

2020 ◽  
pp. 106591292095164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Bejarano ◽  
Nadia E. Brown ◽  
Sarah Allen Gershon ◽  
Celeste Montoya
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Descriptive Representation ◽  
Political Candidates ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Linked Fate ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
And Gender

Scholars of gender and race have long acknowledged the importance that descriptive representation plays for marginalized groups, if not substantively than symbolically. Yet, as candidate pools diversify to better reflect the population, it becomes less clear which among intersecting and overlapping identities will matter and how. Employing data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, we explore the association between minority voters’ sense of linked fate and their beliefs about candidates who share (or do not share) their gender and racial identities. Using this timely and unique data, collected immediately after the 2016 election when race and gender were of particular salience, we examine whether shared racial and gender identity is associated with Black and Latina/o voters’ beliefs about how well different candidates will represent their interests. We conclude by discussing the implications of our research for the changing face of American political candidates and voters.

Brutal Youth: Colin MacInnes and the Architecture of the Welfare State

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39
Author(s):  
Simon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Racial Conflict ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

Colin MacInnes’ London trilogy is known for its prominent focus—unusual in British fiction of the time—on class and racial conflict in mid-century London. Comprised of City of Spades (1957), Absolute Beginners (1959), and Mr Love and Justice (1960), the trilogy plots the complicated enactment of the new welfare-state’s reconstruction strategies from the post-war resurgence of slum clearance, to the forced evictions of suburban migration, to the development and erection of alienating council flats. In doing so, MacInnes offers a distinctive take on Londoners’ responses to these strategies, demonstrating the way mindful urban planning was shouldered aside by quixotic and hurried resolutions. As part of a vibrant wave of mid-century British writing sensitive to issues of class, race, and gender, MacInnes’ fiction scrutinized postwar urban displacement as it happened and without any of the benefit of hindsight. This article, then, highlights the distinctively nuanced perspectives that socially-attuned and classconscious literature can offer in terms of understanding the tangible impact of space on social stratification.

scholarly journals Righting the Misperceptions of Men Having Sex with Men: A Pre-Requisite for Protecting and Understanding Gender Incongruence in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van Nguyen ◽  
Ngoc Nguyen ◽  
Thu Khuat ◽  
Phuong Nguyen ◽  
Thu Do ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Acquired Immunodeficiency ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Protecting the rights of the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, intersex, and queers (LGBTIQ) population requires, first and foremost, a proper understanding of their sexual orientation and gender identity. This study highlights a severe misunderstanding and lack of knowledge among health professionals in Vietnam with regard to the men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgenders. This study uses (i) a survey based on the convenience sampling method among 150 health workers that covered 61 questions and (ii) 12 in-depth interviews in two metropolitan centres in Vietnam, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city. Three main topics are explored: (i) the general knowledge of healthcare workers about MSM and transgenders; (ii) their knowledge about the sexual reproductive health and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) risks of MSM and transgenders; and (iii) their attitudes and behaviors towards MSM and transgenders. One of the notable findings is how prevalent the misperceptions are across the board, namely, in staff of both sexes, in both cities, at various kinds of medical facilities, at different work positions and educational levels. Half of the respondents consider transgenders to have a curable mental problem while 45% say MSM only have sex with males. Most remarkably, 12.7% state if they have any choice, they want nothing to do with MSM and transgenders. The study finds there is a considerable percentage of health professionals who lack knowledge about the diversity of sexual orientation, gender identity, and health issues related to the sexual minorities and gender non-conforming population. To improve the clinical process for serving these at-risk groups, the study suggests the continual education for the health workers needs to be added to their formal as well as in-job training.

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