Dust Covered Privilege: White Women’s Experiences of the Dust Bowl

2020 ◽  
pp. 016059762093015
Author(s):  
Christina D. Weber
Keyword(s):  
White Privilege ◽  
White Women ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Dust Bowl ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
The University ◽  
Anomalous Nature

In this article, I utilize a white privilege framework to analyze white women’s experiences of the Dust Bowl. In particular, I focus on the question: What do white women’s experiences of the Dust Bowl tell us about privilege and inequality? Using oral histories housed in the University of Oklahoma’s archive, “Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women in the Dust Bowl Oral History Project,” I engage in a qualitative analysis of the women’s experiences that expand our understanding of the dominant narratives of this era. By focusing on the anomalous nature of the sample, I examine the multifaceted way in which race, gender, and class shape these women’s experiences of this era. Ultimately, these women’s narratives reveal the complex system of privilege and oppression that these white women experienced in a time of economic and environmental crisis.

Just a Girl in the Army

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kacy Crowley ◽  
Michelle Sandhoff
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
The Military ◽  
Masculine Culture ◽  
The U.S

This article considers the experiences of 12 U.S. Army women combat veterans. These women served in historically significant roles as some of the first women to officially serve in combat in the U.S. military. This article focuses on the role of gender in these women’s experiences in the context of the masculine culture of the military. We explore how they used performance of masculinity and metaphors of family to fit into their combat units. We also deliberate on how sexual harassment was used against these women in ways that communicated that they were not fully accepted. Finally, we consider the tension between empowerment and disempowerment in these women’s narratives of their military service.

scholarly journals Mexican-Born Women’s Experiences of Perinatal Care in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 941-945
Author(s):  
Lauren Trainor ◽  
Ellen Frickberg-Middleton ◽  
Monica McLemore ◽  
Linda Franck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Maternity Care ◽  
White Women ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Obstetric Outcomes ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

Mexican-born women represent a significant proportion of the obstetric patient population in California and have higher incidence of adverse obstetric outcomes than white women, including maternal postpartum hemorrhage and perinatal depression. Little is known, however, about Mexican-born women’s experiences of maternity care in the United States. Qualitative methods were used to conduct a secondary analysis of interview transcripts, field notes, original photographs, and analytic memos from a study of 7 Mexican-born women’s birth experiences. Participants reported social isolation influenced their expectations of maternity care. Disconnection, characterized by unmet physical and relational needs, yielded negative experiences of maternity care, while positive experiences were the result of attentive care wherein they felt providers cared about them as individuals.

scholarly journals A Multicase Study Exploring Women’s Narratives of Infertility: Implications for Counselors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Staci Born ◽  
Christin Carotta ◽  
Kristine Ramsay-Seaner
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Personal Variables ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Biological Health ◽  
Multicase Study

Infertility affects 6.7 million women in the United States (Chandra, Copen, & Stephen, 2013). Women’s experiences with infertility are not only influenced by biological health factors, but also by social, cultural, and personal variables. Given the prevalence and complexity of infertility, additional research is needed to further examine the nuances of women’s experiences. The purpose of this multicase study, as informed by four individual cases, was to explore how women construct their infertility narratives. Review of reflective journals found five common elements: (1) Emotional Rollercoaster, (2) Mind-Body (Dis)Connection, (3) Secret Identity, (4) Supportive vs. Constrained Communication Patterns, and (5) Fatalistic- vs. Agency-Oriented Coping. Increasing our understanding of the whole experience of infertility, beyond the biological diagnosis, is essential to decreasing stigma and increasing the quality of healthcare services available for women.

Left Behind: White Rhodesian Women and War in Nancy Partridge’s To Breathe and Wait

Imbizo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuthbeth Tagwirei
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Black People ◽  
White Men ◽  
White Female ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women And War ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Racial Divide

The article invites conversation on white Rhodesian women’s experiences of war. White female voices have been conspicuous by their absence from the war discourse and a paucity of fictional narratives entirely dedicated to this experience exists. For these reasons, discourse on the war is predominantly about white men and black people in general. While mainstream accounts of the war gloss over white women’s experiences and cast them as “left behind” from the war, so much was going on in these spaces. Fleeting references to white female experiences do not demonstrate what it meant for most white women to be “left behind” during the war. The article examines Nancy Partridge’s To Breathe and Wait’s depiction of a white woman whose experience of war consists of illness, stories from external sources and intersubjective relations forged with family and women across the racial divide.

scholarly journals Métis Women’s Experiences in Canadian Higher Education

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Bryanna Scott
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Mixed Ancestry ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Dominant Narratives

In Canada, there are three groups of Aboriginal people, also referred to as Indigenous peoples, and these include the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. Although often thought of collectively, each has its distinct history, culture, and perspectives. The Métis people are mixed-culture people stemming from a long history of Indigenous people and European settlers intermixing and having offspring. Furthermore, the living history representing mixed ancestry and family heritage is often ignored, specifically within higher education. Dominant narratives permeate the curriculum across all levels of education, further marginalizing the stories of Métis people. I explore the experiences of Métis women in higher education within a specific region in Canada. Using semi-structured interview questions and written narratives, I examine the concepts of identity, institutional practices, and reconciliation as described by Métis women. Results assist in providing a voice to the Métis women’s experiences as they challenge and resist colonial narratives of their culture and expand upon a new vision of Métis content inclusion in higher education as reconciliation.

Women's Experiences in Educational Leadership

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1022-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Rogers ◽  
Meryl Sirmans
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences
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