A Beginning

Lovie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Yarger
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Farm Women ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Poor White ◽  
Lay Midwives ◽  
Career Advising ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth ◽  
In Pregnancy

This chapter presents a selective account of Lovie’s childhood. Lovie’s interest in pregnancy and birth takes root on the Beard family farm where lay midwives, known as grannies, granny women or granny midwives, attended the deliveries of African American tenant farm women. These traditional midwives, who were community based and served women of color as well as poor white women, learned their vocation through an informal apprenticeship with an older woman, often a relative. When Lovie graduates from high school, her mother insists that she continue her education and pursue a career, advising her that she “can’t rely on menfolks.” Following the contours of Lovie’s life, the reader begins a journey through the last century of midwifery history in the South.

Listening to Women: Recommendations from Women of Color to Improve Experiences in Pregnancy and Birth Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly R. Altman ◽  
Monica R. McLemore ◽  
Talita Oseguera ◽  
Audrey Lyndon ◽  
Linda S. Franck
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth ◽  
In Pregnancy

scholarly journals Partnership Processes to Develop SHE Tribe: A Healthy Lifestyle Intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-600
Author(s):  
Leilani Dodgen ◽  
Emily Spence-Almaguer ◽  
Katherine Cantu Anguiano ◽  
Alison Hooker ◽  
Sonia White
Keyword(s):  
Lifestyle Intervention ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Sustainable Health

Chronic diseases, like diabetes and heart disease, disproportionately impact women of color as compared to White women. Community-engaged and participatory approaches are proposed as a means to address chronic disease health disparities in minority communities, as they allow for tailoring and customization of strategies that align with community needs, interests, and priorities. While community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a framework that offers a clear set of principles to guide intervention design and development, the complexity and diversity of community contexts make it challenging to anticipate all of the possible pathways to implementation. This article describes the application of CBPR principles in the design and development of SHE Tribe (She’s Healthy and Empowered), a social network–based healthy lifestyle intervention intended to promote the adoption of sustainable health behaviors in underserved communities. Practical and specific strategies are described to aid practitioners, researchers, and community partners as they engage in community–academic partnerships. These strategies uncover some of the inner workings of this partnership to promote trust and collaboration and maximize partner strengths, with the aim to aid others with key elements and practical steps in the application of participatory methods.

Contraceptive Chaos

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Green
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Short Term ◽  
State Supreme Court ◽  
Legal Remedy ◽  
Drug Risk ◽  
Poor White

Judith Weisz's story of the politics of drug risk management now turns from the national controversy over Depo-Provera to join Anne MacMurdo's story of the drug’s unapproved contraceptive use and the personal risks faced by women. The FDA’s limited authority over Upjohn's marketing practices and over physicians, mental health facilities, and family planning clinics nationwide, permitted the drug to be prescribed for contraception without the informed consent of women. Unlike Judith Weisz's story of Depo-Provera's long-term risk of cancer, Anne MacMurdo's concerns the drug's short-term side effects, such as excessive menstrual bleeding, depression, and weight gain. Her story began when an injection of the drug in 1974 was followed by a hysterectomy to stop her continuous bleeding. Shebrought a products liability suit against Upjohn, but her case was not tried until 1986, when a Florida jury awarded her $186,000, a verdict reversed on appeal by the state supreme court. Her story exposes the failure of Upjohn and physicians to manage the drug's risk, the limited access of women, often poor white women and women of color, to a legal remedy, the risk management role of courts, and the limited ability of state civil law to address the drug's short-term side effects.

scholarly journals Maternal but Not Fetal FADS Gene Variants Modify the Association between Maternal Long-Chain PUFA Intake in Pregnancy and Birth Weight

2014 ◽  
Vol 144 (9) ◽  
pp. 1430-1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Moltó-Puigmartí ◽  
Martien C. J. M. van Dongen ◽  
Pieter C. Dagnelie ◽  
Jogchum Plat ◽  
Ronald P. Mensink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Gene Variants ◽  
Pufa Intake ◽  
Chain Pufa ◽  
Long Chain ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth ◽  
In Pregnancy

scholarly journals Risk and Resilience in Pregnancy and Birth

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Cecily Young ◽  
Susan Ayers
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Perinatal Period ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth ◽  
In Pregnancy

Pregnancy, birth, and becoming a parent involves substantial changes at biological, psychological, social, and broader cultural levels. As such, it is a continuing process of adaptation to change and new demands. This chapter provides an overview of risk and resilience in pregnancy, birth, and the transition to parenthood and the impact of these experiences on both women and their infants. The first part of the chapter provides an overview of experiences of pregnancy and birth and risks that arise, in particular trauma that may be experienced during birth. The second part looks at resilience in pregnancy and birth, what we know, and what we still need to know in this area. The third part looks at theories of resilience relevant to the perinatal period and how it is important to look at resilience at different levels (e.g. epi/genetic, personal attributes, relationships, support systems, culture, and environment). The authors conclude with key considerations for future research and theory in this area.

scholarly journals Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Racial Stratification ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Identity-based politics has been a source of strength for people of color, gays and lesbians, among others. The problem with identity politics is that it often conflates intra group differences. Exploring the various ways in which race and gender intersect in shaping structural and political aspects of violence against these women, it appears the interests and experiences of women of color are frequently marginalized within both feminist  and antiracist discourses. Both discourses have failed to consider the intersections of racism and patriarchy. However,  the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes our actual experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform quite different from that of white women. Similarly, both feminist and antiracist politics have functioned in tandem to marginalize the issue of violence against women of color. The effort to politicize violence against women will do little to address the experiences of nonwhite women until the ramifications of racial stratification among women are acknowledged. At the same time, the anti-racist agenda will not be furthered by suppressing the reality of intra-racial violence against women of color. The effect of both these marginalizations is that women of color have no ready means to link their experiences with those of other women.

Choosing the Velvet Glove: Women Voters, Ambivalent Sexism, and Vote Choice in 2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorrie Frasure-Yokley
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Ambivalent Sexism ◽  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Sexist Attitudes ◽  
National Election Study ◽  
Economic Anxiety ◽  
The One

AbstractThis paper examines the extent to which ambivalent sexism toward women influenced vote choice among American women during the 2016 Presidential election. I examine how this varied between white women and women of color. The 2016 American National Election Study (ANES) features several measures from the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI)—a scale developed by Glick and Fiske (1996) to assess sexist attitudes toward women. An index of these measures is used to examine the extent to which ambivalent sexist attitudes influenced women's vote choice for Donald Trump, controlling for racial resentment, partisanship, attitudes toward immigrants, economic anxiety, and socio-demographics. On the one hand, my findings indicate that ambivalent sexism was a powerful influence on women's Presidential vote choice in 2016, controlling for other factors. However, this finding, based on a model ofall women votersis misleading, once an intersectional approach is undertaken. Once the data are disaggregated by gender and race, white women's political behavior proves very different than women of color. Among white women, ambivalent sexist views positively and significantly predicts vote choice for Trump, controlling for all other factors. However, for women of color, this relationship was negative and posed no statistical significant relationship to voting for Trump. Scholarship in gender and politics that does not account for group differences in race/ethnicity may present misleading results, which are either underestimated or overestimated.

Gender Theory in Philosophy of Race

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Zack
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Race ◽  
The Subject

The subject of critical race theory is implicitly black men, and the main idea is race. The subject of feminism is implicitly white women, and the main idea is gender. When the main idea is race, gender loses its importance and when the main idea is gender, race loses its importance. In both cases, women of color, especially black women, are left out. Needed is a new critical theory to address the oppression of nonwhite, especially black, women. Critical plunder theory would begin with the facts of uncompensated appropriation of the biological products of women of color, such as sexuality and children.

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