‘I worked alright, but I never got paid for my labour’

Bread Winner ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 27-61
Author(s):  
Emma Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Financial Autonomy ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Female Wages

This chapter takes a look at the trajectories of women and labour during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. It does so by exploring the autobiographies of several women, in which they detail their childhoods and eventually their careers and how their attempts at financial autonomy were thwarted in various ways by societal constraints and prejudices. As the chapter argues, low female wages were not merely a passive reflection of a society that devalued women and their work. They also played an active role in keeping women subordinate, by forcing them into a position of dependency on men, first with respect to their fathers, then with respect to their husbands. Making sense of women's lives therefore requires moving into an unfamiliar terrain. Women's experiences were not captured by male wage rates, yet they were deeply bound up with male earnings and male patterns of behaviour.

“Asking the Woman Question” in Case Study Research

2022 ◽  
pp. 640-658
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Policek
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives

Case study research provides the researcher with the opportunity to decide the most convincing epistemological orientation. Such versatility is nonetheless embedded in the assumption of objectivity contends G. Griffin in Difference in View: Women and Modernism, which speaks of an “abstract masculinity” intended here as the assumption of universal humanity where men's and women's experiences are melted into one experience. Case study research, this contribution contends, even when about women, hinders the experience of women, an experience that is always situated, relational, and engaged. In other words, ontologically, it is argued here, the reality of women's lives is absent from the domain of case study research because the language adopted when framing case study research is still very much a language that talks about women, but it does not allow women to speak.

Outlaw Women

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Dewey ◽  
Bonnie Zare ◽  
Catherine Connolly ◽  
Rhett Epler ◽  
Rosemary Bratton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Women

This book argues that unique rural cultural dynamics shape women’s experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as “the Western frontier.” Together, these dynamics comprise an architecture of gendered violence, a theoretical lens applicable to women’s experiences of prison throughout the United States in its focus on how the synchronous operations of addiction and compromised mental health, poverty, fraught relationships, and felony-related discrimination undergird women’s lives. The architecture of gendered violence that comprises the primary pathway to incarceration among the Wyoming women in this study reflects the way the suite of concerns facing currently and formerly incarcerated women throughout the United States manifests in a remote rural context far from the coastal metropolises that dominate the production of criminal justice discourse and scholarship.

scholarly journals Experiences of First-Time Mothers With Persistent Pelvic Girdle Pain After Childbirth: Descriptive Qualitative Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 (10) ◽  
pp. 1354-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Wuytack ◽  
Elizabeth Curtis ◽  
Cecily Begley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Pelvic Girdle ◽  
Pelvic Girdle Pain ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
First Time Mothers ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
First Time ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

BackgroundPelvic girdle pain (PGP) is common during pregnancy and negatively affects women's lives. When PGP persists after the birth, the way it affects women's lives may change, particularly for first-time mothers as they adjust to motherhood, yet the experiences of women with persistent PGP remain largely unexplored.ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to explore primiparous women's experiences of persistent PGP and its impact on their lives postpartum, including caring for their infant and their parental role.DesignThis was a descriptive qualitative study.MethodsFollowing institution ethical approval, 23 consenting primiparous women with PGP that had started during pregnancy and persisted for at least 3 months postpartum participated in individual interviews. These interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsFour themes emerged: (1) “Putting up with the pain: coping with everyday life,” in which women put up with the pain but had to balance activities and were grateful for support from family and friends to face everyday challenges; (2) “I don't feel back to normal,” in which women's feelings of physical limitations, frustration, and a negative impact on their mood were described; (3) “Unexpected,” in which persistent symptoms were unexpected for women due to a lack of information given about PGP; and (4) “What next?,” in which the future of women's symptoms was met with great uncertainty, and they expressed worry about having another baby.ConclusionFor first-time mothers, having persistent PGP postpartum affects their daily lives in many ways. These findings provide important information for health care providers, which will improve their understanding of these women's experiences, will enhance rapport, and can be used to provide information and address concerns to optimize maternity care during pregnancy and beyond.

“Asking the Woman Question” in Case Study Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 298-322
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Policek
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives

Case study research provides the researcher with the opportunity to decide the most convincing epistemological orientation. Such versatility is nonetheless embedded in the assumption of objectivity contends G. Griffin in Difference in View: Women and Modernism, which speaks of an “abstract masculinity” intended here as the assumption of universal humanity where men's and women's experiences are melted into one experience. Case study research, this contribution contends, even when about women, hinders the experience of women, an experience that is always situated, relational, and engaged. In other words, ontologically, it is argued here, the reality of women's lives is absent from the domain of case study research because the language adopted when framing case study research is still very much a language that talks about women, but it does not allow women to speak.

scholarly journals Living with Bodily Changes after Weight Loss Surgery - Women’s Experiences of Food and "Dumping"

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Synne Groven ◽  
Gunn Engelsrud ◽  
Målfrid Råheim
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Gastric Bypass Procedure ◽  
Women's Lives

In this article we explore women’s experiences of “dumping” following weight loss surgery. The empirical material is based on individual interviews with 22 Norwegian women. To further analyze their experiences, we build primarily on the phenomenologist Drew Leder`s notion of the “inner body.” Additionally, Simone de Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty’s perspectives of the lived body occupy a prime framework for shedding light on different dimensions of bodily changes. The following three core themes were identified: Experiences of illness in conjunction with eating; Learning to relate to changes in the inner body and; Feelings of losing and regaining control. In different, though interconnected ways, these themes encompass an ongoing challenge in the women’s lives after the surgery: namely their efforts to establish new eating habits while at the same time working hard to relate to their changed and changing inner body, and especially to the phenomenon of “dumping”. The results points to a dilemma: namely that the gastric bypass procedure is an operation that irreversibly alters the anatomy and physiology of a healthy stomach, whereas the individual’s eating habits cannot be situated in or reduced to a particular organ, but are endemic to the lived body and its history. This insight might be of importance in the understanding of the complexity of the changes and challenges the women go through after weight loss surgery.

GAVIN R. G. HAMBLY, ED., Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, The New Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). Pp. 566.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
MARGARET L. MERIWETHER
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Way

The historical study of women and gender in the Middle East and Islamic world has come of age. Not so long ago, it was difficult to find good monographs or collections of essays on women's experiences in the past, even as studies of women and gender in the contemporary Islamic world proliferated. As a result, our ability to make sense of women's lives and experiences in the late 20th century suffered from a lack of historical perspective. An enormous amount of work still confronts us in recovering women's experiences, but exciting historical studies, solidly grounded in primary sources, are already changing the way we think about women in Islamic and Middle Eastern history—and, indeed, in some cases they are changing the way we look at that history as a whole. The greatest gains have occurred in the study of the 19th and 20th centuries, when changes in women's lives were particularly visible and the wealth of sources has allowed us to deal with a range of important questions. What we know about women in the early modern period, especially in the Ottoman Empire, is also expanding rapidly. The absence of work and the huge gaps in our knowledge of earlier periods, despite important works such as those by Denise Spellberg and Leila Ahmed, remains a serious problem, however. This collection of essays, Women in the Medieval Islamic World, edited by Gavin Hambly, is therefore a very welcome addition to the literature on the history of Muslim women in the pre-modern era.

Violence at the Intersections of Women’s Lives in an Urban Context: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Leaving and/or Staying With an Abusive Partner

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122094718
Author(s):  
Victoria Smye ◽  
Colleen Varcoe ◽  
Annette J. Browne ◽  
Madeleine Dion Stout ◽  
Viviane Josewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Forms Of Violence

This article is based on an ethnographic study exploring Indigenous women’s experiences of leaving intimate partner violence. Analysis draws attention to the contextual features of Indigenous women’s lives that differentially shaped women’s experiences of “leaving and/or staying” with an abusive partner. Our findings are identified and described across four intersecting thematic areas: (a) the context of state-Indigenous relations; (b) complex trauma, stigma, and discrimination; (c) kinship and ties to communities and the land; and (d) health, healing, and resistance. These findings offer valuable insights into what constitutes appropriate, safe services, and support for the Indigenous women whose lives are shaped by multiple forms of violence.

Gendering Return

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-90
Author(s):  
M. Cristina Alcalde
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Domestic Servants ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Class Context

This chapter introduces return in the Peruvian middle-class context before moving on to more specifically examine everyday gendered and class intricacies for women throughout their migration trajectories. It focuses in particular on the role and absence of domestic servants in middle-class women’s lives, and the roles women embrace, resist, and re-negotiate both outside Peru and after returning as well as on women’s experiences of autonomy and their professional lives as these are impacted by migration trajectories

Feminist Criticism of the Social Sciences

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Westkott
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Lives

The tensions and contradictions that permeate women's lives simultaneously create the potential for both alienation and liberation. These antithetical conditions form the outline of the debate within the social sciences concerning the interpretation of women's experiences. Marcia Westkott discusses the feminist criticism of the content,method, and purpose of knowledge about women as defined by the social sciences, and offers a dialectical alternative to conventional analyses.

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