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.

Being Pākehā & Researching the Experiences of Māori Women and Weight Loss Surgery: On Ethics & Ethnography

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Joensen
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
The State ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Subjective Space

This paper proposes that the positionality of Pākehā researchers wishing to learn from Māori, can be reimagined as an atmospheric inter-subjective space within which conversations can happen across difference and between commonalities. I outline my own reckoning as a Pākehā attempting to enter this field as a part of my MA research on Māori women’s experiences of weight loss surgery. I argue that a form of differential distancing, while holding onto an ethic of care, enables a form of academic inquiry that is less stymied by the politics of permission. This paper also proposes that ethical representation can be bolstered by staying close to the logics for living of our participants and conceptualising their narratives through ‘embodied becoming’. I argue that this multi-faceted approach enables ethnography which retrieves nuance and releases participants, to a degree, from discourses that primarily frame individuals as victims of the state.

“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.

scholarly journals Exploration of the Pregnant Women's Experiences During COVID-19 Disease Crisis: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Bakouei ◽  
Maryam Nikpour ◽  
Hajar Adib Rad ◽  
zahra abadi marzoni
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Pregnancy Care ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Data Saturation ◽  
North Of Iran ◽  
And Control

Abstract Background: Prevention and control of COVID-19 disease in pregnant women has become a major concern. Healthcare providers should be aware that restriction of the routine prenatal care may have adverse effects. A qualitative approach can be helpful in understanding the pregnant women's experience and perspective in crisis. The study was conducted to explain the pregnant women's experiences during COVID-19 disease crisis.Methods: The qualitative study was conducted with conventional content analysis. Pregnant women selected with purposive sampling from six urban health centers in Babol (North of Iran). The semi structured individual interviews were done by telephone from May 03 to June 10, 2020. The systematic thematic analysis was used to identify and organize themes into clusters and categories across interviews.Result: We recruited twelve pregnant women until data saturation. Three theme categories extracted from data analysis. The first was "unpleasant feelings during pregnancy", the pregnant women stated feelings in this crisis such as worry, fear, obsession, boredom, nervousness, discouragement, and the like, which led them to have no positive pregnancy experience. The second category was "adjusted lifestyle". They experienced changes in lifestyle with the aim of preventing COVID-19 disease. The third category was “safe pregnancy care”. The pregnant women, while paying attention to the importance of pregnancy care, were forced to limit, delay, or modify some cares in order to be safe. Conclusion: The pregnant women experienced unpleasant feelings in this crisis; therefore, they should receive the necessary consulting to maintain mental health. All pregnant women reported some changes in their lifestyle and pregnancy care in order to health considerations to prevent the disease. Regular training for all pregnant women is necessary to manage this important pregnancy period while maintaining the maternal and fetal health in crisis.

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.

Women’s experiences of body image and weight loss after childbirth

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 860-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Anne Fern ◽  
Emily Buckley ◽  
Sarah Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

“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.

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.

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