Health, Poverty and Service Use Among Older West Indian Women in Greater Hartford

This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found in a file labeled “Freak Letters,” it considers the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, tracing instead the counternarratives of mobility, affect, and self-determination that might have shaped this black woman’s life. Using this approach, the essay uncovers the archival logic behind “Freak Letters” and recreates the woman’s milieu, highlighting her mobility and diasporic connections. It argues that this woman’s embodied intervention simultaneously confirms and challenges the narratives of US empire that sexualized and limited her. Ultimately, the essay seeks to build an empathetic, archipelagic counterdiscourse as the basis for our explorations of subjects historically silenced or denigrated.

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Rethinking Race, Gender and Citizenship: Black West Indian Women in Costa Rica, c. 1920-1940

Bulletin of Latin American Research ◽

10.1111/j.1470-9856.2004.00104.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 198-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicola Foote

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

West Indian ◽

Indian Women

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Book reviews : West Indian Women at War: British racism in world war II

Race & Class ◽

10.1177/030639689203300408 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 92-94

Author(s):

Stella Dadzie

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

West Indian ◽

World War ◽

Indian Women

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Enablers and Barriers to the Utilization of Antenatal Care Services in India

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph16173152 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (17) ◽

pp. 3152 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Felix Akpojene Ogbo ◽

Mansi Vijaybhai Dhami ◽

Ebere Maureen Ude ◽

Praween Senanayake ◽

Uchechukwu L. Osuagwu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Antenatal Care ◽

Social Services ◽

Parental Education ◽

Service Use ◽

Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽

Central India ◽

Household Wealth ◽

Wealth Status ◽

Sampling Weights ◽

Indian Women

Antenatal care (ANC) reduces adverse health outcomes for both mother and baby during pregnancy and childbirth. The present study investigated the enablers and barriers to ANC service use among Indian women. The study used data on 183,091 women from the 2015–2016 India Demographic and Health Survey. Multivariate multinomial logistic regression models (using generalised linear latent and mixed models (GLLAMM) with the mlogit link and binomial family) that adjusted for clustering and sampling weights were used to investigate the association between the study factors and frequency of ANC service use. More than half (51.7%, 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 51.1–52.2%) of Indian women had four or more ANC visits, 31.7% (95% CI: 31.3–32.2%) had between one and three ANC visits, and 16.6% (95% CI: 16.3–17.0%) had no ANC visit. Higher household wealth status and parental education, belonging to other tribes or castes, a woman’s autonomy to visit the health facility, residence in Southern India, and exposure to the media were enablers of the recommended ANC (≥4) visits. In contrast, lower household wealth, a lack of a woman’s autonomy, and residence in East and Central India were barriers to appropriate ANC service use. Our study suggests that barriers to the recommended ANC service use in India can be amended by socioeconomic and health policy interventions, including improvements in education and social services, as well as community health education on the importance of ANC.

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