MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Feminism' source. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:25:09 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443858&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F575%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443858 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443857&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F573%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443857 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443856&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F569%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443856 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443856 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443855&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F566%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443855 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443854&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F563%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443854 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443854 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443853&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F561%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443853 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443852&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F558%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443852 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443852 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443851&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F555%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443851 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443851 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443850&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F553%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443850 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443850 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443849&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F547%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443849 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443849 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443848&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F542%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443848 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443847&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F536%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443847 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443846&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F529%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443846 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443845&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F522%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443845 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443844&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F516%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443844 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443844 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443843&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F510%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443843 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443843 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443842&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F503%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443842 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443842 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443841&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F4%2F496%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443841 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443840&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F4%2F477%3Frss%3D1 This article examines vasectomy as a gendered practice of (non)reproductive masculinity. Reporting on interview-based data, in which a number of New Zealand men made sense of the operation, this article used critical thematic analysis to extract themes from semi-structured interviews with participants who had vasectomies in ‘typical’ circumstances. Primary themes of ‘taking responsibility’ and ‘vasectomy as an act of minor heroism’ were extracted from the data. We will argue that men constructed their ‘new found’ responsibility (and the heroic slant they added to it) within an ‘economy of gratitude’, meaning any involvement by men in the reproductive/contraceptive sphere is worthy of particular praise and value. While there may be... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443840 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443839&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F4%2F458%3Frss%3D1 Young women's rejection of feminism is well-recognized if seemingly paradoxical. Based on 40 qualitative interviews with a diverse group of German and British research participants, this article adopts a performative approach to enhance our understanding of young women's relationship with feminism. First, the article argues that rejections of feminism as anti-man, lesbian or unfeminine should be read as performances of femininity. Second, the article regards performances of femininity as racialized and classed. It traces how race and class are assumed in talk about feminism and examines how young women's positionings intersect with feminist dis-identification. The construction of feminists as unfeminine, for example, posed particular challenges to women who were positioned at a distance fr... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443839 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443839 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5443838&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F4%2F443%3Frss%3D1 Pole dancing is an activity that came to prominence in strip clubs. Despite its widespread reinvention as a fitness activity for women, pole dancing is still strongly associated with, and indeed trades on, its exotic, erotic and sexual connotations. In this article, we examine how the pole dancing industry portrays itself to potential participants via a discursive analysis of the websites of 15 major pole dancing studios in Australia. In particular, we examine some of the ways in which pole dancing trades on its erotic associations and capitalizes on the emerging postfeminist sensibility in western countries and its advocacy of empowerment through sexual agency, while at the same time promoting an alternative, ironic construction in which pole dancing is simply something a bit different &n... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5443838 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5443838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112762&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F431%3Frss%3D1 This article applies Bateson’s concept of the double bind to the interpretation of emergent problems in custodial grandmothers’ relationships with their other adult offspring and non-custodial grandchildren. The article suggests that women raising grandchildren are placed in a double bind situation in which the two core family values of caring for family members in need and treating all family members equally are in conflict. This conflict of interests is at the heart of many problems within the intergenerational family context and is experienced as both inescapable and distressing by both grandmothers and their adult children. Brief vignettes from two participants in a small-scale qualitative study of New Zealand custodial grandmothers’ lives are presented to illustrate ... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112762 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112762 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112761&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F420%3Frss%3D1 Second-wave feminists argued that early bodily knowledge was necessary for women’s sexual health and well-being. Using survey data from over 600 mothers, we ask if, decades after the sexual revolution and the height of second-wave feminism, mothers now use anatomically accurate names for genitals with boys and girls? We also ask how children participate in genital labeling with mothers. We found about equal proportions of mothers used anatomical names with boys as with girls. Further, mothers used more common childish names with boys while using ‘privates’ or vague terms more with girls. Children were also active participants in the naming of their genitals as they altered mothers’ words through mispronunciations, (mis)interpretations and adoption of words acquired ... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112761 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112761 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112760&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F411%3Frss%3D1 Since Michelle Fine’s (1988) paper on the ‘missing discourse of desire’ in sexuality education, researchers have been investigating where and how women talk about their desire. Online weblogs have become a popular forum for the discussion of sexuality, particularly among women, and have been identified as one potential ‘safe space’ for the discussion of sexual desire. In this article, I use thematic analysis to explore how women write about their sexual desire in online weblogs. In this brief report, I present excerpts from one of the identified themes: women’s desire as active and embodied. The findings are considered in terms of masculine and feminine sexualities and postfeminism. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112760 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112760 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112759&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F393%3Frss%3D1 Writing up qualitative research requires researchers to consider many issues, including the representation of participants, academic standards for scholarship and researcher subjectivity or agency. In this article I refer to Zizek's notion of the ideal love relationship to examine some of the messy processes involved in constructing the written texts of such research. Principally, I describe the loss of authorial voice that occurred in my doctoral thesis following my appropriation of Zizek's post-Lacanian psychoanalytic approach as the methodological framework. In an attempt to untangle the tensions that plagued my use of Zizek's work and convey a sense of their disruptive implications, I adopt a writing style that is intermittently disordered, a voice that is inconsistently empowered and ... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112759 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112759 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112758&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F372%3Frss%3D1 This article reports a study of the meanings of gender that are active in Swedish child psychologists’ narratives about their practice. The analysis is informed by constructionist and discourse-psychological approaches. We identify and describe four different interpretative repertoires: a repertoire of neutrality and equal treatment, based on a liberal political vision of equality in combination with a neutral knowledge ideal; an individualizing repertoire that focuses on individual differences and symptoms, and reduces the impact of context for children’s problems; a repertoire of gender-specific characteristics, in which notions of fundamental internal differences between girls and boys are central when assessing what is normal; and a repertoire of gender-specific expectation... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112758 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112758 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112757&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F354%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the problems of creative working for women, looking beyond the practical difficulties of reconciling precarity and parenting responsibilities. It investigates gendered conflicts around creative identities and contemporary feminine subjectification through a narrative-discursive analysis of interview material. The article argues that for women creatives the promise of self-actualization through creative work is countered by conflicts arising from an ‘other-directedness’ that is part of a more conventional feminine identity. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112757 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112757 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112756&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F336%3Frss%3D1 Debates about the relationship between culture and gender, and the potential contradictions involved in simultaneously respecting both multicultural and feminist principles and values, have occupied an important place in theoretical discussion in the social sciences and humanities. This paper examines the relationship between gender and culture from the perspective of the psychotherapeutic encounter in a multicultural society, in this case contemporary South Africa. With the help of illustrative case material involving traumatically bereaved women who became subject to cultural ascriptions of maliciousness or murderousness, and where cultural beliefs potentially jeopardized gender rights, mental health and therapeutic recovery, the article argues that the relationship between gender and cu... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112756 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112755&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F317%3Frss%3D1 Since their introduction in 2005, thousands of same-sex couples in the UK have had a civil partnership. However, many other couples have chosen not to have one. This qualitative study explores why some same-sex couples are choosing not to have a civil partnership. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 people (five couples and two individuals) who identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and analysed using discourse analysis. Participants’ accounts were characterised by ambivalence about civil partnership, and three main paradoxes were identified: the ‘good but not good enough’ paradox, the ‘unwanted prize’ paradox and the ‘legal rights v. social oppression paradox. A major source of ambivalence was support for rights but resistance to as... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112755 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5112754&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F3%2F299%3Frss%3D1 High school is a key venue for the development and expression of body image concerns in adolescent girls. Researchers have begun to investigate the role of school-based ‘appearance cultures’ in magnifying the body image concerns of students. To date, however, no research has examined girls’ experience as participants within these cultures, and thus the opportunity to learn how girls account for the development and maintenance of these cultures has been missed. In interviews with nine girls attending an all-girls’ school, the existence of a strong ‘appearance culture’ in the school was identified as a major influence on the body image concerns of students. Girls talked about the ways in which appearance-focused conversations, dieting, and weight monitorin... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5112754 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5112754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888103&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F295%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888103 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888103 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888102&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F291%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888102 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888102 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888101&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F289%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888101 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888101 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888100&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F284%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888100 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888099&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F279%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888099 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888099 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888098&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F277%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888098 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888097&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F273%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888097 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888097 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888096&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F268%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888096 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888095&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F262%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888095 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888094&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F257%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888094 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888093&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F2%2F248%3Frss%3D1 This paper attends to the 35 years of learning From Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Questionnaire, interview and focus group data from the 2006 festival are used to examine: the physical and social creation of feminist separatism at the site of the festival; lesbian cultures, and the lessons and learning of Michfest, all of which create contemporary womyn’s space. The paper thus offers insights into some of the positive contemporary manifestations of lesbian feminist separatisms ‘on the land’ and concludes by contesting oppositional positioning of lesbian feminisms and post-feminism. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888093 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888092&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F2%2F240%3Frss%3D1 We develop a critique of the social psychological hypothesis that media images of women engaged in same-sex activity have a positive effect on heterosexual men’s general attitudes to lesbians. A content analysis suggests that British print media usually represent lesbians either in news stories that also include gay men, or in entertainment stories. In focus groups, both gay and straight men were presented with photographs of ‘heteroflexible’ representations from the ‘lad mag’ FHMand photographs of ‘real’ lesbians from Gay Times. Men were asked to define what made a woman a real lesbian. Straight men rejected the formulation that there was a single ‘stereotype’ of lesbians in favor of the claim that the FHM images did not represent real... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888092 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888092 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888091&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F2%2F233%3Frss%3D1 This reflection addresses the challenge which violence and abuse in women’s same-sex relationships pose to lesbian feminist conceptualizations of woman-to-woman relationships as egalitarian and non-violent. Whilst recognizing the value of the ideals which lesbian feminism promoted in terms of presenting an alternative to patriarchal oppression and domination, this reflection draws upon data from the author’s qualitative study of woman-to-woman partner abuse to identify the implications of such ideals for women’s disclosure of and understanding of their experiences of abuse. For some participants, the pervasiveness of expectations of mutuality and non-violence in woman-to-woman relationships contributed to the silence and denial which surrounds woman-to-woman partner abuse... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888091 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888090&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F228%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888090 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888090 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888089&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F2%2F218%3Frss%3D1 This article reports on an analysis of key publications by critics and advocates of Lesbian Studies to explore the possibility that Lesbian Studies was flawed in ways that account for its non-emergence. Charges against Lesbian Studies include naïve essentialism, white middle-classness, separatism, and paranoia. Discourse analysis of books by Lesbian Studies advocates examines evidence of each of these qualities and concludes that Lesbian Studies was above all too lesbian to be successfully integrated into the enduringly heteropatriarchal institution of the university. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888089 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888089 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888088&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F211%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888088 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888088 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888087&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F205%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888087 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888086&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F2%2F198%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888086 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888085&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F2%2F179%3Frss%3D1 We investigate observers’ reactions to a poor woman who fails to express deferent emotion when asking for assistance. Participants (N = 68) viewed an ad featuring a woman actor playing the beneficiary of a charity aiding either the poor or the sick, and who expressed anger or shame. When the poor woman expressed anger, participants responded with anger. When participants were asked to choose whether the charity should use an emotional appeal or a neutral appeal in their advertising, the condition with the ashamed poor woman was the only one where there was a clear preference for the emotion ad. Implications are discussed for poor women as political actors and recipients of social services. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888085 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888085 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4888084&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F2%2F155%3Frss%3D1 This study used inductive thematic analysis of qualitative interviews with 40 women across a range of age, race and sexual orientation backgrounds to examine women’s experiences with sex during menstruation. Results showed that, while 25 women described negative reactions — and two described neutral reactions — 13 women described positive reactions to menstrual sex. Negative responses cohered around four themes: women’s discomfort and physical labor to clean ‘messes’, overt partner discomfort, negative self-perception and emotional labor to manage partner’s disgust. Positive responses cohered around two themes: physical and emotional pleasure from sex while menstruating, and rebellion against anti-menstrual attitudes. Notable race and sexual identi... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4888084 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4888084 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408317&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F1%2F152%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408317 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408317 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408316&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F1%2F151%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408316 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408315&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F1%2F144%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408315 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408314&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F1%2F138%3Frss%3D1 The author takes a transdisciplinary approach to the study of body politics. She careens through topics of feminism, religion, social capital, stigma, heteronormativity, whiteness, colorblind racism in her discussion of access and acceptance granted or denied. This access and acceptance are based upon how the female bodies of two women are perceived differently in the same setting, although neither woman is part of mainstream society. Using a journey with a colleague to juxtapose visible otherness from hidden otherness, the author discusses the phenomenon of ‘‘passing.’’ (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408314 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408313&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F1%2F121%3Frss%3D1 This article is my attempt to make visible the feminist struggles and successes that I encountered on the journey. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408313 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408313 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408312&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F1%2F100%3Frss%3D1 In this study we explore how primarily Caucasian, North American lesbian mothers of three-and-a-half-year-old children construct divisions of paid and unpaid labor. We analyze 30 lesbian couples’ narrative constructions of their labor arrangements, examining the ways in which they both transgress and accept traditionally masculine and feminine gendering. At the same time that biological mothers and nonbiological mothers often described differences in their contributions to paid and unpaid labor, they rarely invoked biology as a salient factor in explaining their work/family roles. Our analysis suggests that the ‘egalitarian ethic’ of lesbian women is an over-simplification of the multiple ways that women develop their divisions of labor. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408312 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408312 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408311&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F1%2F74%3Frss%3D1 This paper presents a feminist Foucauldian analysis of women’s interpretations of images of women in post-feminist advertising. Building on Ros Gill’s analysis of post-feminist advertising images of women, and more specifically the figure of ‘the midriff ’, the paper presents an analysis of focus group discussions with seven young women who were asked to discuss ‘midriff’ advertising images. Whilst participants sometimes construed these images positively as ‘sexy’ and independent, midriff figures were more frequently constituted negatively as ‘bimbos’ and/or ‘s.ty’ ‘sex objects’ whose seeming independence was achieved through or limited only to attracting men. In interpreting midriff figures negatively, par... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408311 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408311 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408310&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F1%2F49%3Frss%3D1 Narratives and language available within a cultural context reflect and reify power structures that are reproduced in everyday social interactions. In this article, we explore the narrative challenges and possibilities that emerged in our respective research programmes with women who have faced depression or rape. These experiences are, at least in part, products of patriarchy and are regulated by hegemonic discourses that individualize and depoliticize women’s experiences. In our studies, we faced significant challenges of conducting research when dominant narratives fail the storytellers, and came to understand these as products of what Marjorie DeVault has termed ‘linguistic incongruence’. We examine women’s attempts to negotiate the telling of their stories with... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408310 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408309&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F1%2F29%3Frss%3D1 The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate battered women’s emotion work in the context of male-to-female intimate partner violence and, more specifically, in the context of leaving violent men. A total of 22 informants were interviewed and the material consists of 47 interviews. The results suggest a process in which victims initially conceptualize abusers as good, but subjection to violence leads to a cognitive-emotive dissonance that is responded to by emotion work. Over time, conceptualizations of the abuser shift from good to bad and efforts are made to change emotions from warm to cold. Connections between this process and previously described leaving processes are discussed. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408309 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408308&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F21%2F1%2F5%3Frss%3D1 This study uses a discursive psychological approach to examine the talk of men recruited from domestic violence counselling groups who participated in one-on-one interviews about their violent/abusive behaviour. The analytic focus is on instances of situated identity categorization in these men’s accounts that involved the consequential moral assessment of self and partner in ways that justify or warrant violence/abuse. Routinely, in these men’s talk about their abused partner, subtle and particular categorizations associated with being a woman were worked up sequentially to depict her as having breached the normative moral order. These warranting practices were evident in the talk of both men who denied, and who overtly acknowledged, the wrongness of their violent/abusive acti... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408308 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408308 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4408307&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F21%2F1%2F3%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4408307 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4408307 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4655463&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F4%2F435%3Frss%3D1 RETRACTED (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4655463 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4655463 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198723&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F568%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198723 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198722&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F564%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198722 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198721&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F562%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198721 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198721 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198720&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F558%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198720 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198719&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F555%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198719 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198719 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198718&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F551%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198718 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198718 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198717&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F547%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198717 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198716&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F542%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198716 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198716 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198715&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F4%2F538%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198715 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198714&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F4%2F529%3Frss%3D1 Using a post-structualist, discourse analytic framework this study investigates constructions of ‘anorexia’ and ‘bulimia’ made by young people. A story completion methodology was employed to allow young people to express their understandings of eating disorders. This involved participants completing two stories, about a fictional female character, Ashley, described as engaging in either anorexic-type or bulimic-type eating behaviour. Analysis of the resulting stories demonstrated several ways in which both ‘anorexia’ and ‘bulimia’were constructed as problematic, as pathologized and as requiring treatment. These constructions were framed within conflicting paternalistic and neo-liberal narratives, whereby Ashley was constituted as both a passi... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198714 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198714 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198713&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F4%2F511%3Frss%3D1 Although a number of rape prevention programs exist, the interACT Troupe is distinguished by their commitment to social justice pedagogy and proactive performance. Influenced by critical pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, interACT uses embodied techniques aligned with feminist pedagogies to raise awareness, promote empathic responses, challenge (hyper)masculinity and encourage bystander interventions. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198713 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198713 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198712&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F4%2F491%3Frss%3D1 This study used inductive research methods, informed by grounded theory, to examine lesbian identity development in life narrative interviews with four lesbian scholar-activists from different national and racial backgrounds. The women’s narratives suggest that a dynamic, non-linear, and contextualized representation of sexual identity development may more accurately describe lesbian identity development in terms of intersecting identities, national and local contexts, and personal and professional relationships. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198712 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198712 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198711&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F4%2F473%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the Catholic Church’s dominant discursive construction of the nun as self-sacrificing woman. It draws on a study that applied feminist and Foucauldian analysis, first, to key Church texts relating to nuns’lives and, second, to interview data of 43 Australian/New Zealand nuns, exploring ways in which nuns in this sample negotiate the Church’s dominant discursive constructions of the nun in their lived experience as nuns. Subject to male institutional authority, nuns are represented by the Church as living lives of self-sacrifice, devoting themselves wholeheartedly and single-mindedly to God and to the Church’s work. Nuns in this study’s sample actively resist such representations, exercising personal agency in making decisions about their ... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198711 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198710&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F4%2F454%3Frss%3D1 Sixty women (28 lesbian, 19 bisexual, three queer, and 10 heterosexual) were interviewed about their definition of and connection to ‘community’. Women across sexual identities defined community according to support, similarity to others, physical proximity, and interlocking circles of closeness from family, friends, and lovers outwards to acquaintances and organizations. Regarding women’s connection to community, founders started their own groups and organizations. The majority of lesbian and bisexual women were finders who joined organizations and identified community. Yet bisexual women often felt marginalized within lesbian organizations. Heterosexual women were more connected to family and religious organizations but also more likely to be flounderers, those who felt... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198710 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4198709&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F4%2F435%3Frss%3D1 This article examines how choice is constructed in relation to risk in a UK ante-natal class. Discursive psychology was applied to transcripts of 50 hours of audio recordings collected from local UK National Childbirth Trust classes. We found that consent to medical control of the birth environment is positively encouraged through Class Leaders’ persuasive advice-giving and the delivery of cautionary (moral) tales in the form of extreme horror stories. Whilst parental agency is embedded in a ‘rhetoric of choice’, regulatory mechanisms of ‘coercive choice’ operate in tandem through a rhetoric of risk that positions medical intervention as the safer option. The right to choose seems to take on the status of a ‘required element’, which is both observe... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4198709 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4198709 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894021&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F420%3Frss%3D1 Although ethical vegetarianism has been the subject of considerable theoretical attention and debate among feminists, the subject has received little empirical attention. This research note summarizes an interview study with ethical vegetarians of college age, and describes gendered responses to the adoption of a vegetarian diet. While friends and family were neutral or favourable to men’s vegetarianism, women vegetarians encountered significant hostility from male family members, in particular. The study is by no means conclusive, but the evidence may suggest that this hostility is rooted in a double standard, wherein men are seen as capable of governing their bodies, while women are not. Despite opposition from male intimates, women participating in the study persisted in their die... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894021 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894021 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894020&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F407%3Frss%3D1 Talking with animals comes naturally and happens the world over. Traditional indigenous peoples depend on their abilities to understand the birds, grazers, and hunters who share their land and waters and we converse intimately with the dogs, cats, birds, and other animals with whom we live. Nonetheless, science and society cast a skeptical eye on claims that animals think and communicate on par with humans. Now, this view is changing. We have entered into a remarkable new ethical and psychological consilience as scientific theories and data converge with age-old experience. Communicating with animals — hearing what they are saying and talking with them — is not only possible, it has never stopped. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894020 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894020 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894019&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F397%3Frss%3D1 In conclusion the paper claims that feminist engagement with nonhuman animals is entirely consistent with its multi-faceted interrogation of dualist ontology, and, whilst the ethics of this engagement may be complex, it is no longer tenable for feminist work to exclude nonhuman animals from its understanding of sociality, politics or ethics. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894019 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894019 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894018&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F381%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the gendered assumptions and assertions underpinning the killing of animals in popular gastronomy. In television cooking shows such as The F Word (2005—present), Kiwi Kitchen (2007—8) and Jamie’s Great Italian Escape (2005), both emotional concern for farmed animals and farmed animals themselves are feminized and denigrated, whilst slaughter and meat-eating are masculinized and celebrated. Conversely, in the recent cookbook-cum-memoir by Julie Powell, Cleaving: A Story of Meat, Marriage and Obsession, butchery and meat-eating are depicted as pathways to, and displays of, female empowerment. Both groups of gastronomy texts hold the domination of animals, demonstrated through the slaughter, butchery and consumption of non-human bodies, to be an integra... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894018 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894018 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894017&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F365%3Frss%3D1 The gendered exploitation of roosters used in cockfighting is a case example of the social construction of gender via animals — a psychosocial process that injures both people and animals. Similar processes of social construction by way of animals occur in relation to race and sexual orientation, with similarly mutually hurtful results. The rehabilitation of roosters used in cockfighting illustrates the utility of an expanded and amended conception of Herman’s principles of trauma recovery enacted within the emerging insights of trans-species psychology. Those insights lead us toward a truly inclusive eco/feminist psychology centered on acceptance of situated human animality and an understanding of traumatic alienation as a factor in both personal and communal problems in livin... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894017 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894016&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F350%3Frss%3D1 When asked to describe herself, Koko the nonhuman primate replied in sign-language that she was indeed a ‘fine animal gorilla’. One of several nonhuman primates that have been undergoing language training since the 1970s, Koko’s ability to grasp the fundaments of human expression have caused both fascination and derision in popular and scientific cultures. Yet visions of the language-using ape have not been simply a phenomenon of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Early natural history and Enlightenment philosophy make curious reference to the possibility of communicating apes. So similar to the human and yet existing in the terrain of animality, it was believed by some that the ape held a latent capacity for perfectibility — for emerging out of the mute worl... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894016 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894015&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F337%3Frss%3D1 Non-human animals and their behaviour are part of the remit of what psychology studies; yet they are largely absent from feminist theory. This is in part due to earlier decades of feminist disavowal of biology and biological determinism (manifest in the sex/gender distinction). To exclude animals makes little sense, however, as animal societies continue to be used as models for humans, including gender differences. In this article, I argue that how we see gender in animal societies is not only an extrapolation from our own cultural mores, but is also produced in part by the material practices of laboratories. If laboratory animals are kept in impoverished, restricted conditions, then it is perhaps not surprising that experiments designed to investigate their sexuality or gender differences... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894015 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894015 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894014&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F318%3Frss%3D1 An influential feminist scholar in the field of human-animal studies, Donna Haraway (Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz) has over the past couple of decades provided ground-breaking critiques of such subjects as twentieth century primatology (and its links to race, gender and first-world/third-world politics), the place of nonhuman animals in laboratory science, and the phenomenon of pedigree dog breeding. Her most recent work focuses on our relationships with ‘companion species’, a term Haraway employs in her analysis of the diverse forms of human-animal interactions and exchanges that are part of everyday life. Drawing from ecological developmental biology, she suggests that companion species are the fruit of &lsqu... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894014 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894014 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894013&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F3%2F302%3Frss%3D1 In this essay, I offer a reflection on the publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat, introducing several of the main theoretical insights from the book, and examining whether and how they hold true twenty years after the book’s first publication. I examine the associations among notions of virility, masculinity, and meat eating, and explain the concept of the absent referent and how it functions in the institution of eating animals. I also explore why images have proliferated that show the animalization of women or the feminization and sexualization of farmed animals, and propose that these are recuperative responses attempting to reinstate ‘manhood’ and meat eating. I propose that resistance to the decentering of the human being often is expressed through what I call &... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894013 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894013 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3894012&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3894012 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:40 +0100 3894012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583825&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F284%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583825 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583824&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F278%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583824 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583823&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F272%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583823 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583822&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F267%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583822 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583821&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F260%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583821 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583820&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F255%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583820 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583820 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583819&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F249%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583819 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583819 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583818&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F242%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583818 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583818 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583817&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F238%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583817 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583816&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F232%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583816 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583815&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F2%2F225%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583815 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583814&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F2%2F205%3Frss%3D1 Gay men and heterosexual women may share some common interests in critiquing hetero-patriarchy. However feminism and gay liberationist politics do not always coincide and the role of individual subjectivities in recognising oppressive discourses of normativity remains debated. Interviews were conducted with seven friendship dyads of heterosexual women and gay men. Transcripts were subjected to discourse analysis, which suggested extensive management of heterosexist norms in the friends’ accounts of friendship. The analysis highlighted ambiguity over the ‘male’ status of gay men, a concern with constructing the friendships as legitimately asexual, and the use of parody in the face of homophobia to disrupt normative assumptions. Although we primarily considered the role of ... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583814 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583813&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F2%2F186%3Frss%3D1 This article argues that the discourse of such a highly individuated new femininity leaves little room to raise questions of gender inequality or to articulate the experience of difficulty and disadvantage. With reference to Australian empirical research, this article offers an exploration of some of the psychological strategies used by young women in their attempts to live up to these neoliberal, post-feminist strictures and to evade any notion of vulnerability or victimhood. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583813 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583812&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F2%2F166%3Frss%3D1 A feminist school based sexuality education needs to be both gender-focused and critical. In this paper, we investigate the (im)possibilities of feminist sexuality education by exploring instances of its practice in New Zealand. Using a poststructuralist discursive framework, we use the theoretical concepts of ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ gender to examine how students (aged 13—16) responded to progressive and liberal ideas presented by sexuality educators. Our findings paint a complicated picture. On some occasions, participants used traditional discourses of sexuality to counter educators’ use of progressive notions. At other times liberal and feminist ideas were embraced by participants and resourced awareness of possibilities for positive female sexuality. ... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583812 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:49 +0100 3583812 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3583811&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F2%2F147%3Frss%3D1 This article considers whether ‘straight’ identified researchers can produce anti-normative knowledge. This question derives from debates around what (if any) contribution ‘straight’ researchers can make to queer theory/research. While recognizing that political and ethical decisions are integral to this discussion, I focus on the epistemological implications of straight researchers’ participation in queer theory/research. This discussion grapples with a wider issue within identity politics around the participation of researchers who are regarded as representing the ‘norm’. I trouble the relationship between identity and knowledge by arguing that sexual identity does not determine the production of anti-normative knowledge. Insights from queer theo... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3583811 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:48 +0100 3583811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274622&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F1%2F142%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274622 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274622 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274621&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F1%2F139%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274621 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274621 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274620&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F1%2F136%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274620 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274619&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F1%2F132%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274619 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274619 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274618&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F1%2F114%3Frss%3D1 ‘Raunch’ culture and ‘porno-chic’ are examples of a dramatic rise in the re-sexualization of women’s bodies. Wrapped in discourses of individualism, consumerism and empowerment, and often excluding those who are not white, heterosexual and slim, this sexualization of culture has created significant debates within feminist literature with regard to the question of how to value women’s choices of participation in sexualized culture while also maintaining a critical standpoint towards the cultural context that has enabled such postfeminist sexual subjectivities. In this paper we contribute to these debates by presenting ‘technologies of sexiness’, a theoretical framework that draws on Foucauldian theorizing of technologies of the self and Butler... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274618 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274617&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F1%2F94%3Frss%3D1 This paper presents findings related to the silencing of battered women within Christian faith communities in Memphis, Tennessee, a large metropolitan area in the Mid-South region of the United States. Participants in this qualitative inquiry were 10 Christian identified women from diverse denominations and racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds who had experienced intimate partner violence. Data were analyzed according to grounded theory method. Findings illuminate mechanisms through which Christian beliefs about the sanctity of marriage and partner and community pressure to present as model Christians serve to shame and silence battered women. Findings are discussed in relation to stages that participants negotiated as they sought to create abuse-free lives. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274617 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274616&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F1%2F73%3Frss%3D1 This article offers a discursive analysis of accounts of boys’ underachievement produced during the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into Boys’ Education (2002). Analysis focuses on two interpretative repertoires through which boys’ positioning as ‘educationally disadvantaged’ was accomplished. Both repertoires depicted current curricula and assessment as ‘favouring’ female students. One repertoire established boys’ ‘disadvantaged’ status within accounts that made no mention of historical barriers to girls’ attainment. By contrast, a repertoire of ‘curricular feminization’ established male disadvantage in terms of explicit reference to the historical context of gendered achievement patterns. Within this second re... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274616 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274616 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274615&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F1%2F53%3Frss%3D1 The terms ‘vegansexuality’ and ‘vegansexuals’ entered popular discourse following substantial media interest in a New Zealand-based academic study on ethical consumption that noted that some vegans engaged in sexual relationships and intimate partnerships only with other vegans. At this time it was suggested that a spectrum existed in relation to cruelty-free consumption and sexual relationships: at one end of this spectrum, a form of sexual preference influenced by veganism entailed an increased likelihood of sexual attraction towards those who shared similar beliefs regarding the exploitation of non-human animals; at the other end of the spectrum such a propensity might manifest as a strong sexual aversion to the bodies of those who consume meat and other animal p... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274615 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274614&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F1%2F36%3Frss%3D1 The concept of stress has become an important vehicle for explaining human dilemmas, at least in part because of the variety of social functions it performs. In the United States the contemporary discourse of stress and the metaphors associated with it pervade both academic and popular accounts of women’s stress, emphasizing the stressful nature of working motherhood. The social origins of the tensions in working mothers’ lives are obscured in the rush to help women calm down so that they can defend against assaults on their immune systems. I argue that the feminized, medicalized discourse of stress offers an ultimately unworkable resolution of societal tensions centering around work and family. By means of an aspirational rhetoric related to the achievement of ‘balance&r... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274614 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274614 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274613&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F20%2F1%2F9%3Frss%3D1 Epidemiological research consistently reports that women experience higher rates of depression than men. Competing biomedical, psychological and sociocultural models adopt a realist epistemology and a discourse of medical naturalism to position depression as a naturally occurring pathology within the woman, caused by biology, cognitions or life stress. Feminist critics argue that this medicalizes women’s misery, legitimizes expert intervention, and negates the political, economic and discursive aspects of experience. However, the alternative model of social constructionism may appear to dismiss the ‘real’ of women’s distress, and deny its material and intrapsychic concomitants, as well as negate relevant research findings. A critical review of sociocultural and psyc... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274613 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274613 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3274612&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F1%2F5%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3274612 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0100 3274612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969299&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F4%2F568%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969299 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969298&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F4%2F561%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969298 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969298 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969297&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F4%2F555%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969297 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969297 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969296&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F4%2F534%3Frss%3D1 Discursive perspectives argue that cervical screening carries social and moral meaning. Overlooked by research into the health needs of sexual minority women, previous literature that has examined uptake of cervical screening has instead targeted increasing attendance via information and service provision. In order to explore the diversity of meanings that British sexual minority women have about cervical screening, the Q-sorts of 34 sexual minority women were factor analysed by-person and rotated to simple structure using Varimax. The five factors are interpreted and discussed relative to competing discourses on information provision within cervical screening. The five accounts are labelled ‘cervical screening is’: an essential health check that women have the right to refuse;... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969296 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969295&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F4%2F517%3Frss%3D1 This article suggests that this is at least in part caused by the considerable ‘emotion work’ involved in sperm donation. Drawing on 21 interviews conducted with gay Australian sperm donors, the article provides a thematic analysis of instances of such emotion work and explores the implications of this for the health and well-being of gay men who donate sperm both to clinics and in private arrangements. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969295 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969294&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F4%2F496%3Frss%3D1 This study examines the short- and long-term psychological, physical and social health implications associated with pre-1992 investigations and eventual discharge of Canadian military servicewomen for reasons of homosexuality. Theoretically, it sheds light on the impact of the intersection between sexism and heterosexism. The feminist psycho-social ethnography of the commonplace methodology was utilized. The study draws on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 13 former military personnel who self-identified as lesbian. While in the military, study participants were persecuted and forced to adopt various cognitive and behavioural coping strategies to avoid being found out and discharged by the military’s Special Investigative Unit. Women reported that the relentless military surve... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969294 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969293&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F4%2F475%3Frss%3D1 This study set out to recruit the broadest possible community sample by using a range of recruitment techniques and an online survey. In total, 253 respondents completed the survey. Of these, 229 were from Australia (90.5%) and 24 (9.5%) were from New Zealand. Respondents rated their health on a five-point scale; the majority of the sample rated their health as ‘good’ or ‘very good’. On the SF36 scale, respondents had poorer health ratings than the general population in Australia and New Zealand. Respondents reported rates of depression much higher than those found in the general Australian population, with assigned males being twice as likely to experience depression as assigned females. Respondents who had experienced greater discrimination were more likely to rep... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969293 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969292&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F4%2F454%3Frss%3D1 In this article we contribute to the expansion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) health psychology beyond the confines of sexual health by examining the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people living with non-HIV related chronic illness. Using a (predominantly) qualitative online survey, the perspectives of 190 LGB people with 52 different chronic illnesses from eight countries were collected. The five most commonly reported physical conditions were arthritis, hypertension, diabetes, asthma and chronic fatigue syndrome. Our analysis focuses on four themes within participants’ written comments: (1) ableism within LGBT communities; (2) isolation from LGBT communities and other LGB people living with chronic illness; (3) heteronormativity within sources of... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969292 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969292 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969291&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F4%2F437%3Frss%3D1 Although women’s health has been a central concern of feminist psychology, lesbian health has been largely overlooked. Adopting a feminist approach, this article considers the distinctiveness of lesbian health psychology by examining the contexts for lesbian health. Notions of disease and risk have underpinned the endeavour of constituting lesbians’ health as a research discipline. Dominant traditions have established lesbian health psychology along key dimensions of difference from heterosexual women: differences in risk and preventive health behaviours, in healthy behaviours, in experiences of healthcare, in mental health and in experiences of discrimination. In this article, I propose an agenda for a critically informed perspective of lesbian health psychology and for explan... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969291 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0100 2969291 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2969290&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F4%2F427%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2969290 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:15 +0100 2969290 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628712&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F422%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628712 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628712 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628711&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F421%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628711 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628710&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F419%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628710 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628709&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F414%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628709 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628709 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628708&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F407%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628708 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628708 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628707&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F3%2F394%3Frss%3D1 This article emphasizes some experiences from one grassroots movement that could be considered feminist psychology and liberation-psychology practices. Using a historical background, we focus on Portuguese social-political aspects including the feminist movement. Then, through a case study, we explore the grassroots movement Graal, whose projects were very influenced by the writings of Paulo Freire, on pedagogy of liberation. The concern with liberating oppressed groups is visible through the work of the Graal and shows the importance of collective action through conscientization. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628707 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628706&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F387%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628706 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628705&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F381%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628705 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628704&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F375%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628704 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628703&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F368%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628703 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628703 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628702&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F3%2F354%3Frss%3D1 `De-ideologizing reality' is an urgent task within the psychology of liberation. Ignacio Martín-Baró characterized it as a process of conscientization that unmasks power interests underlying knowledge production, retrieves the `original experience of the people', and returns that experience in the form of `objective data'. In contemporary humanitarian trauma work in crisis areas, however, psychology often masks global power structures and further stigmatizes and alienates `victims' from their communities and their original experience. I draw upon my work as a psychologist, theologian and freelance consultant in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa to analyse two case studies. I use these examples to analyse and critique the underlying power discourses implied in definitio... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628702 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628701&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F3%2F343%3Frss%3D1 This article focuses on this latter group of `accompaniers', on their understandings and experiences of engagement in work on the issue of sexual violence, and their relationship to survivors, using as primary data an international workshop held in Guatemala in May 2007 that brought together psychologists, lawyers, researchers and activists who accompany women survivors in Perú, Guatemala, and Colombia. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628701 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628700&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F335%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628700 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628699&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F3%2F328%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628699 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628699 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628698&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F3%2F313%3Frss%3D1 Through an analysis of news reports and documentary footage on the Gulabi Gang and ethnographic reports on the Mahila Aghadi, both of India, we illustrate how women who engage in violent forms of justice-seeking require us to expand social psychological concepts of retributive and restorative models of justice, women's agency, and community organizing. Our grassroots feminist analysis in an Indian context integrates: (1) feminist definitions of punishment and ethical violence; (2) research on perceptions of justice and moral convictions; and, (3) the feminist and liberatory roles that women's and poor people's movements play in the reorganization and recovery of individual and community values. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628698 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628698 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628697&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F3%2F298%3Frss%3D1 The article examines poor women's responses to direct and structural violence in Karachi, Pakistan, by combining goals and themes from liberation psychology with transnational feminism. We draw on interviews with Mohajir women survivors to analyse constructions of psychosocial trauma and attempts to rebuild post-conflict life-worlds, in a bid to understand the scope and contours of their agency within their `limit situations'. Although agency, resistance, and critical consciousness remain constrained by multi-layered power relations, women's narratives reflect crucial insights about social structures impacting their lives, and point to the need for interventions that integrate trauma alleviation and opportunities for local, national, and transnational grassroots activism, advocacy and poli... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628697 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628697 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2628696&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F3%2F283%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the roots of feminist and liberation psychologies, positioning examples of contemporary praxis that are deeply informed by today's complex global realities. Examining the consequences of academic and professional women's accompaniment of women `on the margins', that is, those living in `limit situations' deeply affected by global realities of poverty, gender-based violence and structural inequalities, we argue that activist scholars are developing feminist liberationist psycholog(ies) within and beyond the borders of psychology that respond to and incorporate these lived experiences. Through participatory research, pedagogy and community-based workshops, this special issue demonstrates this new praxis. Thus, critical reflexivity and `just enough trust' enable engageme... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2628696 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2628696 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336860&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F2%2F267%3Frss%3D1 This study, in contrast, aims to analyse the talk of a serial killer using principles taken from discursive psychology. A courtroom transcript concerning the confession to 10 murders by the serial killer, Dennis Rader, was analysed. The transcript was read and reread in order to examine how the killer drew upon popular understandings of serial killing, until eventually three main discourses were identified: perpetrator as `sympathetic', `serial killer' and `driven by sexual fantasy'. The analysis demonstrated that these discourses all served to reinforce the widely shared construction of the serial killer, i.e. being sexually motivated. Furthermore, the findings show how this construction served the functions of mitigating responsibility, justifying certain actions and obscuring violence. ... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336860 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336860 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336859&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F2%2F245%3Frss%3D1 Feminists influenced by post-conventional and critical perspectives confront a significant challenge when researching women's embodiments: the dilemma of representation. For researchers from positions of bodily privilege, issues of interpretation intensify when researching and writing across physical differences distorted by colonial and other hegemonic histories and legacies. In this article, I draw from interviews with diversely embodied women to discuss difficulties encountered in interpreting their narratives of embodiment. I reflect on strategies of embodied engagement, including de-centring my bodily self, re-visiting my body story, and imagining the other's embodied experiences in the creation of provisional meanings about participants' bodies and lives. To shed light on risks and r... Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336859 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336858&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F19%2F2%2F224%3Frss%3D1 This study takes a feminist poststructuralist approach to the investigation of this topic through the discursive analysis of talk produced in a range of focus groups and interviews. Participants included instructors at pole dancing studios, pupils regularly attending the studios, one-off pole dancers and general university students (a total of 25 participants; 20 females and five males). Our analysis focuses on the ways in which ideological dilemmas surrounding issues such as empowerment, control and the male gaze are managed within the participants' accounts. Implications of these constructions are discussed in relation to the redefinition/reiteration of hegemonic, patriarchal notions of female sexuality. (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336858 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336857&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F2%2F221%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336857 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336856&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F2%2F216%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336856 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336856 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336855&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F2%2F210%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336855 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336854&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F2%2F205%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336854 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336854 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336853&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F2%2F199%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336853 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336852&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F2%2F194%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336852 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336852 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2336851&cid=s_27139_36_f&fid=27139&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffap.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F19%2F2%2F190%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Feminism) Feminism journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2336851 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2336851