Find that thing that weighs more than drugs

Creating a space for bodies to count as corporeal linguistic landscapes or ‘skinscapes’ is an avenue that speaks to the growing interest of bodies-in-place and placemaking in the physical landscape. In this essay, I extend skinscapes and placemaking to that of the digital space, specifically Amiena Inspired, my YouTube channel. A frank autoethnography detailing my formative drug abuse, postnatal depression and logotherapeutic escape from the bounds of religion, motherhood and womanhood in academia serves as a disruptive narrative to the hegemonic hypermasculine prisoner narrative currently proliferated. I argue that I traded my social status and expectations of a ‘good woman/mother/Muslim/academic/wife’ for authenticity-in-place, with my gender serving as marked materiality of the growing purview of drug abuse in Cape Town.

PENGARUH EVENT PUTERI INDONESIA DAN ELVIRA DEVINAMIRA TERHADAP PERSEPSI MASYARAKAT ATAS WANITA INDONESIA

Event is something that we could use in reaching a goal and create awareness towards brand and company. The development of event over the year is changing start from exhibitions, performances, until the beauty pageant or beauty contests. Indonesia's oldest beauty pageant was called Puteri Indonesia organized by Yayasan Puteri Indonesia Indonesia under the auspices of the cosmetics company PT. Mustika Ratu. In this study, researchers wanted to know whether there is influence between Event Puteri Indonesia with Elvira Devinamira as Puteri Indonesia 2014 winner of the public perception of women in Indonesia. Where researchers use the main theories Soucre Credibility Theory, and some supporting theories such as events, and perception.As a results, that the effects of the event Puteri Indonesia and Elvira Devinamira to the public perception on Indonesian women have a positive influence. It can be concluded that every woman who follows the selection of Puteri Indonesia definitely a good woman with positive attitude as well.

Being a ‘good woman’: Stigma, relationships and desistance

This article critiques the focus on responsibilisation of criminalised women within desistance research, policy and practice, through the neglect of the structural conditions surrounding women’s criminalisation and victimisation. The concept of the ‘good woman’ within these areas is grounded in patriarchal and neoliberal discourse. Drawing upon women’s narratives, we show this results in feelings of shame and stigmatisation, negatively affecting relational networks and leading to a denial of victimhood. Research from two complementing studies drawn together here suggest that positive relationships which challenge feelings of shame and stigmatisation are essential to women’s desistance both from crime and harm, and are therefore fundamental considerations for practice.

The Nightingale Still Sings: Ten Ethical Themes in Early Nursing in the United Kingdom, 1888-1989

There is, by Nightingale’s intent, a centrality of “the moral” within nursing. The good nurse was to be a good woman as well, good in a moral sense. Her writings suggested that the qualities of a good nurse must first be the qualities of a good woman. Early American nursing leaders created an extensive body of literature specifically devoted to nursing ethics that included approximately 100 nursing ethics textbooks and editions. Unlike the American literature, the term “ethics” was rarely used in the United Kingdom (UK) nursing literature and there were few nursing ethics textbooks written by UK nurses. Despite this difference, UK journals and textbooks devoted considerable and ongoing attention to concerns that were specifically ethical in nature. This article describes the design and sources used in an extensive review of the UK literature, and describes ten ethical themes in areas that constitute continuing ethical threads in the first century of UK nursing literature from the 1880s to 1980.

The Making of a Good Woman: Why Do Pre-School Girls in the KSA Have to Navigate Two Different Worlds to Survive Socially?

The article discusses how young females navigate and develop a solid sense of two worlds in order to be perceived a ‘good girl’ that can be positioned within the society and maintain the female gender identity that is expected of them in the future. One world is where they are expected to show all the attributes of femininity and beauty and the other world is where they are required to develop a strong sense of ‘self-control’, to be ‘a good girl’ who complies with societal confinements and restrictions on their female body and mobility. This article has emerged from a doctorate research entitled: The Making of a Good Woman: Analysing children’s narratives on female gender identity and role in pre-school Saudi Arabia. It was a study into how female gender identity is constructed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) by analysing children’s (young girls 4-6 years) perspectives within pre-school, exploring their perceptions of female identity and role in the KSA. Exploring the ways in which gender identities were interpreted and manifested; studying the influences, apparent ideologies and discourses that affect female gender construction. Through the analysis of the data, interesting results emerged that exposed the consideration of gender roles, permissible and non-permissible behaviour and attitudes, and the realisation that female gender is often constructed, in the KSA, through fear and restrictions.