‘Come Night-time, It’s a War Zone’: Women’s Experiences of Homelessness, Risk and Public Space

Abstract This paper explores constructions of ‘risk’ in the lives of women experiencing homelessness in Brisbane, Australia. Drawing on ethnographic data, including in-depth interviews, informal conversations and participant observation field notes, two main themes emerged: the narratives or risk; women navigating risk on the streets by employing transiency, invisibility and squatting. The analysis indicates that women consider the ways in which risk calculations are spatially and temporally located and argues that risk is embedded in social and cultural discourses of gender. Women experiencing homelessness face particular risks due to gendered spatiality and have to manage their spatialized selves to avoid everyday risks on the streets.

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Consequences of Gossiping on Women Empowerment

European Review Of Applied Sociology ◽

10.1515/eras-2017-0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (15) ◽

pp. 6-12

Author(s):

Shumaila Umer ◽

Zaheruddin Othman ◽

Kalthum Bt Haji Hassan ◽

Rahila Umer ◽

Habib Ur Rehman

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Social Control ◽

Human Society ◽

Women Empowerment ◽

Men And Women ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Inductive Approach ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

The Social ◽

Depth Interviews

AbstractGossip is prevalent and is widespread in human society. Gossip has been denigrated as ‘idle talk’, mostly among women based on ‘trifling or groundless rumour’. The nature and intensity of gossiping victimise women in society. Consequently, women bear serious threat to their well standardized lives. The study aims to understand the women’s experiences with gossiping as a barrier to empowerment. This is a qualitative study with inductive approach. Men and Women are selected as a informants for this study. The data were congregated through in-depth interviews. The results indicate that gossiping or fear of being gossiped is a strong social control in the social setup of Balochistan. This prevents women from being empowered. This paper is intended to be a contribution to exploiting the ideas of women about gossiping as an essential social control or barrier for empowering women.

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‘Shark in the Fish Tank’: Secrets and Stigma in Relational Desistance from Crime

The British Journal of Criminology ◽

10.1093/bjc/azaa015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 60 (5) ◽

pp. 1302-1319

Author(s):

Robin Gålnander

Keyword(s):

Self Perception ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Mainstream Society ◽

Fish Tank ◽

Desistance From Crime ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Concealable Stigma

Abstract Processes of desistance from crime are intricate and, aside from concrete non-offending, they involve a change in self-perception and an acceptance and recognition of reform by others. A criminalized lifestyle often comes with significant stigma, which together with segregation or exclusion from conventional society can render the procurement of such acceptance and recognition difficult. This article is based on findings from repeated in-depth interviews with desisting women who are just setting out to approach mainstream society. Focusing on the women’s experiences of managing concealable stigma when (re)turning to conventional society, the analysis advances the understanding of individual reform with a focus on relational aspects of desistance from crime.

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Understanding women's experiences with medical abortion: In-depth interviews with women in two Indian clinics

Global Public Health ◽

10.1080/17441690802551340 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 335-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

B. Ganatra ◽

S. Kalyanwala ◽

B. Elul ◽

K. Coyaji ◽

S. Tewari

Keyword(s):

Medical Abortion ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Depth Interviews

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So I left, now what? Social service workers perspective on immigrant women's service utilization after leaving an abusive relationship

10.32920/ryerson.14664228.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shirley Owusuaa Asiamah

Keyword(s):

Social Service ◽

Immigrant Women ◽

Service Organizations ◽

Community Resources ◽

Service Workers ◽

Social Service Organizations ◽

Abusive Relationship ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Depth Interviews

Through in-depth interviews, this study explores three service provider’s views on immigrant women's experiences while they accessed and utilized services after leaving an abusive relationship. A phenomenological method of inquiry was used to examine services that are available to meet the needs of immigrant women, and the workers’ views on women’s experiences while seeking assistance. The study focuses on an intersecting analysis of the limitations on three levels: services that assist women, the systems of community resources that women utilize, and the broader structural issues such as funding that affect social service organizations. This study includes a discussion of the coordinated community approach as a recommendation for improved assistance for abused women. Key Words: Immigrant women, Domestic violence, Intersectionality, Social service

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Women’s experiences of the Odon Device to assist vaginal birth and participation in intrapartum research: a qualitative study in a maternity unit in the Southwest of England

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057023 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. e057023

Author(s):

Emily J Hotton ◽

Natalie S Blencowe ◽

Erik Lenguerrand ◽

Tim J Draycott ◽

Joanna F Crofts ◽

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Keyword(s):

Participant Observation ◽

Case Study Research ◽

Postnatal Period ◽

Vaginal Birth ◽

Maternity Unit ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Link Type ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Registration Number

ObjectiveTo investigate women’s experiences of having a birth assisted by the Odon Device (an innovative device for assisted vaginal birth) and participation in intrapartum research.DesignQualitative semistructured interviews and observations undertaken in the context of case study work embedded in the ASSIST feasibility study.SettingA tertiary referral National Health Service (NHS) maternity unit in the Southwest of England, between 8 October 2018 and 26 January 2019.ParticipantsEight women, four operators and 11 midwives participated with eight observations of the assisted vaginal birth, eight interviews with women in the postnatal period, 39 interviews/reflections with operators and 19 interviews with midwives. Women in the case study research were recruited from participants in the main ASSIST Study.InterventionThe Odon Device, an innovative device for assisted vaginal birth.ResultsThirty-nine case studies were undertaken. Triangulation of data sources (participant observation, interviews with women, operators and midwives) enabled the exploration of women’s experiences of the Odon Device and recruitment in the intrapartum trial. Experiences were overwhelmingly positive. Women were motivated to take part by a wish for a kinder birth, and because they perceived both the recruitment and research processes (including observation) to be highly acceptable, regardless of whether the Odon-assisted birth was successful or not.ConclusionsInterviews and observations from multiple stakeholders enabled insight into women’s experiences of an innovative device for assisted vaginal birth. Applying these qualitative methods more broadly may illuminate perspectives of key stakeholders in future intrapartum intervention research and beyond.Trial registration numberISRCTN10203171; ASSIST Study registration; https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN10203171.

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(In)Equality regimes in auditing

REVISTA CATARINENSE DA CIÊNCIA CONTÁBIL ◽

10.16930/2237-766220213147 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. e3147

Author(s):

João Paulo Resende de Lima ◽

Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova ◽

Ricardo Gonçalves de Sales ◽

Simone Cristina Dantas Miranda

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Latin American ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Research Approach ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Universal Category ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Big Four ◽

Depth Interviews

The literature about diversity in accounting demonstrates the phenomenon of superinclusion in that it usually focuses on women’s experiences as a universal category but focuses on white women’s experiences. In this text, we argue that intersectional theory is a possible way to address that issue since it is a theory based on considering the interactions between sex, gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality and how those elements and their interactions give rise to an “inequality regime”. Embracing this framework, we aim to comprehend the professional development of members of non-hegemonic groups who have reached the partner position in auditing firms. We adopted a qualitative research approach, conducting six in-depth interviews with Big Four partners. We analyzed our evidence using Acker’s (2006) “bases of inequalities” and “organizing processes that produce inequality” categories, proposing the empirical category “(un)changing inequality regimes?”. This work expands the literature about diversity by deepening the discussion about the inclusion of minority groups in auditing firms, bringing a Latin American view of diversity practices.

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Beautiful Barriers: Art and Identity along a Belfast ‘Peace’ Wall

Anthropology Matters ◽

10.22582/am.v14i1.273 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Bryanna T. Hocking

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Public Space ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Local Population ◽

Ordinary People ◽

Social Production ◽

Art Gallery ◽

Community Stakeholders ◽

Ethnographic Data ◽

Ongoing Project

This article explores the representational implications of an ongoing project along Belfast’s main peace wall to transform the loyalist side of the barrier into an outdoor art gallery. Drawing in part on the interplay between social production and social construction (Low 2000) in the analysis of public space, the wall’s art is assessed as one means through which both elites and ordinary people inscribe meaning in the landscape. Particular attention is focused on a recently added mural, created as part of a European Union-funded initiative to promote ‘shared cultural space’, and the identity this promotes for the local population. Using ethnographic data gathered through participant observation as well as interviews with policymakers, artists, community stakeholders and residents, I suggest that while the wall’s art is not necessarily received or experienced by the Protestant community in the manner it is intended, it broadly serves as a touchstone by which narratives of conflict and communal ties are activated, and the neighbourhood’s evolving identity as an element in a new tourist-oriented economy is brought to the fore.

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Do we form or deform? Qualitative Investigation in Public Hospitals of Madrid

10.31124/advance.8236670.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

María Jesús Gómez Camuñas ◽

Purificación González Villanueva

Keyword(s):

Informed Consent ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Information Collection ◽

Qualitative Investigation ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Ethnographic Approach ◽

Open Questions ◽

Field Notes ◽

Depth Interviews

<div> </div><div> Qualitative design with an ethnographic approach, to achieve the objective of the study. Data collection The data has been collected through these information collection techniques: Participant observation consisting of analysis of documents, interviews with subjects and informants, participation in the field, direct observation and introspection 13; registering systematically in a journal, together with the field notes. In-depth interviews are carried out, through two techniques: Unstructured interviews with open questions. Semi-structured interviews through a Guide of questions, extracted from previous observation sessions or interviews. These interviews are, in turn, formal and informal, conducted individually or in groups 13: In the formal ones, the participants are asked to sign the informed consent in order to be recorded and their consent after the transcription of the same. Informal interviews are carried out during the entire period of stay in the unit or center, to any participant who voluntarily chooses to talk with the researcher, having prior knowledge of the realization of the same and study information. </div>

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