Does sports club participation contribute to health-related quality of life?
- Authors: Eime, Rochelle , Harvey, Jack , Brown, Wendy , Payne, Warren
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Vol. 42, no. 5 (2010), p. 1022-1028
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- Description: Does Sports Club Participation Contribute to Health-Related Quality of Life? Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 1022-1028, 2010. Given the social nature of participation in sport, we hypothesized that club sports participants would have greater well-being and quality of life than participants in other forms of physical activity (PA). Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine health-related quality of life and life satisfaction in women who participate in three contrasting forms of PA: club sport, gym activities, and walking. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of the relationship between type of PA setting and measures of health-related quality of life (Short-Form Health Survey [SF-36]) and life satisfaction in 818 women living in rural Victoria, Australia, in 2007. Data were also compared with those from a normative sample of 2345 women. Results: After adjustment for potential confounders (age,! education, marital status, children aged <16 yr, perceived financial stress, and level of recreational PA), four of the eight SF-36 subscales, the SF-36 mental health component summary score, and life satisfaction were significantly higher in the club sport group than that in the other groups. Conclusion: Although cross-sectional research cannot establish causal links, the results suggest that participation in club sport may enhance the health benefits of PA.
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I integrate, therefore I am: Contesting the normalizing discourse of integration through conversations with refugee women
- Authors: McPherson, Melinda
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 23, no. 4 (2010), p. 547-570
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- Description: The discourse of integration has been ascendant in migration policy internationally, particularly after western concerns linking terrorism with cultural separatism. Retreats from multiculturalism signal a view that conformance by outsiders with a normative, universal, and static national citizen subject will facilitate social cohesion. The discourse of integrationism, perpetuated through the practice of UnSpeak (Poole 2006), represents resettled refugees as innately problematic against dominant, normative values (Marston 2004). I explore these representations in Australian settlement education policy and suggest an appeal to marginal voices (Foucault 1980; Spivak 1988) as a means for contesting them. Rejecting an engagement driven by policy categories (Bakewell 2008), I interview nine, long settled Melbourne refugee women about education’s purposes. I make sense of the women’s feedback through Foucault’s (1990) Care of the Self, which provides an account of agency in the subject. The interviewees emphasize education’s role in facilitating self actualization, informed by a ‘knowledge of the self’. In contrast to their dominant representation as the problematic subjects of a policy encouraging conformity, refugees should be regarded as agents with potential.
Retaining a foothold on the slippery paths of academia : University women, indirect discrimination, and the academic marketplace
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Marks, Genee , Noone, Lynne , Hamilton-Mackenzie, Jennifer
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Gender and Education Vol. 22, no. 5 (2010), p. 535-545
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- Description: This paper examines indirect discrimination in Australian universities that tends to obstruct and delay women's academic careers. The topic is defined and contextualised via a 1998 speech by the Australian Human Rights Commission's Sex Discrimination Commissioner, juxtaposed with a brief contemporaneous exemplar. The paper discusses the prevalence of women among casual and fixed-term academic workers, and the contrasting low numbers of women in senior academic positions. It is argued that the neo-liberal 'marketisation' of higher education, which still prevails, has fostered a number of indirectly discriminatory practices and conditions that substantially disadvantage women. A selection of studies of the problem are critiqued. It is argued that a broad statistical methodology is inadequate due to its tendency to 'homogenise' the academy and its component individuals, in the process giving scope for unjustified optimism among university policy-makers. A particulate approach is advocated, acknowledging the wide variation between and within universities, and the range of hidden difficulties individual women academics can face. It is concluded that despite apparent reforms over the past decade, the situation of women has improved little in practical terms.
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Risk factors associated with gallstone disease in women
- Authors: Paracha, Parvez , Asif, Yasmin , Vriesekoop, Frank , Ullah, Shahid , Abbas, Muhammad , Paracha, Saima , Khan, Tariq
- Date: 2012
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- Relation: e-SPEN Journal Vol. 7, no. 3 (2012), p. e129-e134
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- Description: Background & aims: Gallstone disease in middle-aged women has been increasing due to changing dietary and environmental factors varying from country to country. The aim of the study was to determine the risk factors associated with gallstone disease in women aged ≥35 years of the district of Peshawar, Pakistan. Study design: A hospital-based case-control study. Methods: One hundred and ten women (55 cases and 55 controls) attending the Surgical Departments of two Government hospitals were enrolled for the study. All subjects were screened for ultra-sonography; biochemical and anthropometric measurements. They were interviewed for their past medical history; physical activity; 24-hr dietary recall and for demographic and socio-economic characteristics. Data were analyzed using Student's t-test, chi-square and multivariate conditional logistic regression to determine mean differences between the continuous variables; establish association between the categorical variables and to determine risk factors associated with gallstone disease, respectively. Results: Of 55 cases, 15 (27%) had a family history of gallstone disease. Thirty five percent of the cases had a single calculus while 65% had multiple calculi with mean size of 14.85 ± 14.46 mm. Conditional logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the body mass index was the most significant risk factor for women's gallstone disease. The adjusted odds ratio for women's BMI ≥ 25 kg/m 2 was 2.93 (95% CI: 1.43-6.01), indicating almost a three times higher risk of gallstone disease than women with BMI < 25 kg/m 2. The risk of gallstone disease was higher for women with low vitamin C intake (OR = 0.27; 95% CI: 0.08-0.91) and low physical activity (OR = 0.48; 95% CI: 0.24-0.96) than women with more physically active (score > 1.3) and having dietary vitamin C intake ≥ 75 mg per day. Conclusion: High body mass index, physical inactivity and low vitamin C intake are associated with gallstone disease in Pakistani women. Longitudinal studies are needed to confirm these findings. © 2012 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.
Women's sport leadership stysles as the rsult of interaction between feminine and masculine approaches
- Authors: Brown, Suzanne , Light, Richard
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education Vol. 3, no. 3 (2012), p. 185-198
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- Description: There is a growing body of research focusing on women in the business sector using a transformational model of leadership that identifies the ways in which they lead yet little is known about the style of leadership women practise in sport. In attempting to redress this oversight in the literature, this article draws on data from a larger study to identify how women practise leadership within a sporting context. It identifies the leadership styles of women working at the community (club and regional) and elite (state and national) sectors of the Australian sport system in the state of Victoria as being feminine but which appropriate aspects of masculine styles. It also suggests that the women's early experiences of growing up played a significant part in shaping their leadership styles.
Beyond the walls: Sites of trauma and suffering, forgotten Australians and institutionalisation via punitive 'welfare'
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Public History Review Vol. 20, no. (2013), p. 80-93
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- Description: Women’s and children’s welfare and institutionalisation are a neglected area of Australian public history, and the historic sites which operated as carceral venues within that field today stand largely forgotten, in many cases derelict. The prime example of such sites is the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (PFFP). In practice, Australian women’s and children’s welfare was strongly focused on a punitive approach, resulting in many thousands of vulnerable people suffering significant harm at the hands of their ‘carers’. These victims comprise the group known as the ‘Forgotten Australians’. The article discusses the nature of the relationship between the historic sites and the narratives of individuals who were victims of the system, whether actually incarcerated or merely threatened with such. As a form of case study, the author’s own story of State wardship and her encounters with the welfare system is employed to illustrate the connections between the ‘generic’ stories embodied in the sites, the policies underlying the system, and the nature of institutionalisation. It is argued that immersion in the system can induce a form of institutionalisation in individuals even when they are not actually incarcerated. The effective omission of women’s and children’s welfare and the Forgotten Australians from the forthcoming national Australian Curriculum in History is discussed, with a focus on the potential of the PFFP to be developed as a public history venue emphasizing its educational possibilities as an excursion destination, and a source of public information on the field from convict settlement to the present day.
Learning to Lead : The social nature of women's development in sport leadership
- Authors: Brown, Suzanne
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Despite the ubiquitous political and educational strategies aimed at redressing gender inequality in sport in Australia for the past 30 years, the number of women in sport in decision-making and leadership positions has remained low when compared to men. While a number of studies have explored women’s under-representation in sport leadership roles, there is limited understanding of how women practice sport leadership and how they develop as leaders. To address this gap in the literature, this study took a humanistic approach to account for, and consider, the nature of experience and the influence of context. This study sought to provide a more personal, nuanced, and socially situated understanding of how women practiced and learned to lead in sport. An interpretive qualitative research design framed by a social constructivist lens was used for this study to examine 23 women’s accounts of what constituted and framed their leadership practices, including how they learned leadership from their engagement in day-to-day social practices and life experiences over time. Data for this study were generated through in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted with each of the participants over a period of two years. A multi-case study approach was used to analyse the data. It was found that the participants’ leadership practice featured distinctive feminine characteristics. However, for those participants at the elite level their approaches to leadership were characterised by interaction that seemed to be traditional masculine features of leadership with the participants’ “core” feminine approaches to leadership. The participants’ leadership practice focused on social interaction and relationship building underpinned by a strong sense of moral and ethical values. Key features included collaborative decision-making, taking a team-oriented approach, using open dialogue, valuing relationships and caring about others, and positive modelling. The model of authentic leadership offered a useful way of conceptualising how the participants’ approached their practice of leadership. An examination of the participants’ accounts of their experiences of the ways they learned their leadership highlighted that leadership development for these women was a relational and social process of learning over a lifelong journey that was influenced by individual, personal experience situated within larger socio-cultural contexts. The relational nature of the participants’ learning of leadership was fundamentally connected to, and drawn from their interactions and interplay within their day-to-day social practices and life experiences from their early childhood through to their adulthood. The findings of study revealed that a range of past and present experiences and social factors influenced and shaped the participants’ values and beliefs about their leadership practice such as the development of their awareness and self-belief in their ability, the value of relationship building, and development of strength of character associated with resilience. This study also identified the significance of the informal social nature of the development of leadership through the participants’ “lived” experiences but also recognised the importance of some formal learning in developing the human capital aspects of the participants’ leadership. Findings from this study have contributed to the relatively small body of literature concerned with the examination of leadership practice and learning leadership for women in a context of sport. This study has drawn attention to the different sets of relationships that women draw on to develop their leadership practice from a young age through to their adulthood, and has highlighted the multidimensional role of relational dynamics in the construction of leadership. This study has also illustrated the importance of experiential and situated learning that occurs during the formative years through to adulthood in terms of developing women’s social skills and social awareness. These findings have implications for the way in which women’s sport leadership practice is viewed and encourages a rethinking on how affirmative action policies address the leadership developed for women in sport in Australia.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The Parramatta female factory precinct and the National history curriculum
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Russell, Peter , McCart, Simon
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent system: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of women and children Chapter 11 p. 132-145
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- Description: In September 2013 a conference was held to commemorate and promote a site which those present unanimously acknowledged as bemg of ma;or historical significance, but which is all but unknown in the wider Australian community. The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (PFFP) is one of a handful of historical sites chat represent the history of women's and children's incarceration and institutionalisation in Australia. Of that handful, the PFFP is by far the most extensive site in area, in operational longevity and in the number of extant structures it comprises. It thus stands as arguably che premier institutional exemplar in the historical field and has in recent years become a locus embodying the experiences of the Forgotten A
The warrior woman in contemporary romance fiction
- Authors: Chivers, Marian
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The warrior woman is a recurring figure in myth and history. She could be seen as an ambiguous character as she challenges patriarchal assumptions about gender roles with her capability for masculine aggression while being recognisably female and “feminine”. In the new millennium, she has reappeared as the action heroine in films, televisions, comics and video games and she has also infiltrated romance fiction, a genre often considered one of the most conservative genres in terms of gender roles and equality. The Silhouette Bombshell line was created by the multinational publisher Harlequin to capitalise on the popularity of “action heroines” in popular culture. The romance genre, perhaps the most derided of all scorned literature, is often accused, particularly by feminist critics, of reinforcing the patriarchal structure of society. This thesis examines how this character type in romance fiction can provide a means to question and even subvert traditional or patriarchal gender expectations. It will undertake the close examination of the first six books of the Athena Force series, which were published in 2004-2005 as part of the Silhouette Bombshell line. Both the warrior woman and the romance genre are defined and historically reviewed, together with an outline of the workings of the contemporary romance industry with regard to category, genre and publishing guidelines. There follows a detailed analysis of the warrior woman character as she appears in the Athena Force series with regard to agency, violence, sisterhood, professional career, performance of femininity and romantic relationships. This study of the warrior woman in romance fiction challenges many critical and social preconceptions about the romance genre in general, and its treatment of gender roles in particular
Firm growth by women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises in a developing economy setting
- Authors: Jomaraty, Mosfeka
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The growth experiences of women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of a developing economy are examined through the lens of pragmatism. This approach views a businesswoman’s ‘belief’, ‘habit’ and ‘doubt’ as critical for researching gender related issues in entrepreneurship. This study explains the growth aspects of women-owned manufacturing and services SMEs of Bangladesh with the aim of addressing two neglected research issues. One is the scarcity of studies on growth oriented women entrepreneurs in developing countries. The other is the lack of focus on very successful high-growth women-owned firms in the context of a strong male-dominated economy. This study adopts a framework developed out of the Diana International Project to evaluate the factors influencing the growth of these successful, growing, Bangladeshi women-owned businesses. In order to evaluate the growth process itself, this framework was then modified with growth resources and actions as explained by Edith Penrose in her 1959 seminal book The Theory of Growth of the Firm. This allows for the investigation of the effects of managerial and entrepreneurial abilities in growth, and the identification of how firms achieve growth. A multiple-case design is adopted, covering sixteen successful growth-oriented firms in the manufacturing and services sector. SMEs were studied as the basis for firm growth from initial venture creation, while the sector concentration on manufacturing and services reflects the urban nature of the study in examining firms that exist in the capital city of Dhaka. Data from in-depth interviews and supporting documents were used for the case studies and integrated with the theoretical framework. Themes were categorised and patterns compared against the framework. The results of this research suggest that SME growth is a process which is gradual and iterative, comprising a series of growth strategies and approaches. The framework identifies interactive connection between different growth variables and highlights how industry sector and the national context of a growing economy facilitate growth of women-owned SMEs. The case study based research seeks to advance scholarship in relation to women’s entrepreneurship globally and contribute to the understanding of growth oriented women’s entrepreneurship. Building upon existing knowledge, this research endeavours to generate new insights and advance theoretical discourse by providing richness and subtlety to the knowledge of growth process and opening up new avenues for future research.
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Killing mother: Female influence, authority and erasure in the Daniel Craig James Bond films
- Authors: Wight, Linda
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 4, no. 2 (2015), p. 177-188
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- Description: The James Bond film franchise has attracted much criticism for its depiction of women. The casting of Judi Dench as M, however, signalled the series’ potential to interrogate its own sexism. This article argues that Casino Royale (2006) by Campbell – the fifth film starring Dench as M and the first starring Daniel Craig as Bond – effects the most significant revision of gender roles in the franchise to date. Taking us back to the beginning of his career, Casino Royale reconfigures Bond as fallible, vulnerable and psychologically unstable, a man struggling to secure his identity as 007. Playing a much more significant role than she did in the Pierce Brosnan films, M criticizes Bond’s weaknesses and mistakes, but she also contributes in important ways to shaping his identity-in-process in her complex role as boss/mentor/mother. Nevertheless, in Quantum of Solace by Forster (2008) and Skyfall by Mendes (2012), M’s power over Bond is contained within a familiar ideology of motherhood, which subordinates her to the active male agent. Furthermore, this article contends that in Skyfall the series reverts to its tradition of undermining, containing and erasing powerful women by killing off the female usurper and restoring MI6 to a male-dominated space.
Killing mother: Female influence, authority and erasure in the Daniel Craig James Bond films
- Authors: Wight, Linda
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 4, no. 2 (2015), p. 177-188
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- Description: The James Bond film franchise has attracted much criticism for its depiction of women. The casting of Judi Dench as M, however, signalled the series’ potential to interrogate its own sexism. This article argues that Casino Royale (2006) by Campbell – the fifth film starring Dench as M and the first starring Daniel Craig as Bond – effects the most significant revision of gender roles in the franchise to date. Taking us back to the beginning of his career, Casino Royale reconfigures Bond as fallible, vulnerable and psychologically unstable, a man struggling to secure his identity as 007. Playing a much more significant role than she did in the Pierce Brosnan films, M criticizes Bond’s weaknesses and mistakes, but she also contributes in important ways to shaping his identity-in-process in her complex role as boss/mentor/mother. Nevertheless, in Quantum of Solace by Forster (2008) and Skyfall by Mendes (2012), M’s power over Bond is contained within a familiar ideology of motherhood, which subordinates her to the active male agent. Furthermore, this article contends that in Skyfall the series reverts to its tradition of undermining, containing and erasing powerful women by killing off the female usurper and restoring MI6 to a male-dominated space.
The (im)possibility of love : women and the problem of the feminine
- Authors: Clements, Eileen
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Past and Present: Perspectives on Gender and Love p. 131-139
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- Description: In the west, patriarchal thinking from the Ancient Greeks to the Early Christians to Descartes has separated the mind from the body, with mind and reason aligned with the masculine and men, while body and emotion are aligned with the feminine and women. This dualistic thinking hierarchically positions the masculine over the feminine, with the masculine valorised as capable of transcendence, while the feminine is devalued as immanence. I argue that the devaluation and oppression of the body-the feminine-hinders love of self and loving relations between self and other. For women, love of self is particularly difficult, as women face the challenge of overcoming dislike, even disgust, of themselves as the feminine, while at the same time trying to adhere to gendered cultural ideals of femininity which hold the promise of acceptance, belonging and love. Martha C. Nussbaum in her book, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001), posits that hatred of the body leads to an inability to love others because we cannot love ourselves. According to Nussbaum, this inability to love underpins social problems such as misogyny and racism. While the feminine remains devalued in the consciousness of individuals and society as a whole, love of the self as embodied, emotional, sexual being remains out of reach for most, while love for others is an impossibility. Instead, domination of the feminine fosters hatred of self and of others. This paper will explore how love is intricately tied to the feminine, and argue that a revaluing of the feminine needs to occur in order for truly loving, ethical relations between people. Further to this, an understanding of cultural ideals of femininity as oppressive may encourage women to reconceptualise the feminine, and indeed themselves, nurturing a love of self and as a result, love of others. © Inter-Disciplinary Press 2015.
Examining Nepalese forestry governance from gender perspectives
- Authors: Wagle, Radha , Pillay, Soma , Wright, Wendy
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Public Administration Vol. 40, no. 3 (2017), p. 205-225
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- Description: This article examines Nepalese forestry governance from gender perspectives. We argue that gendered institutional norms and values are associated with forest-governing institutions, such as forest bureaucracies, shaping the nature, and extent of women’s involvement in decision-making processes in the Nepalese forest bureaucracy. Studies on Nepalese forestry reveal that substantial progress has been made in forming policies and initiating activities for including women in forestry governance of Nepal; however despite this, gendered dynamics create difficulties for women to enter and progress in the forestry profession, thereby creating gendered employment territories through institutional, legislative, normative, and infrastructural measures. © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Informal healthcare sector and marginalized groups: Repeat visits in rural North India
- Authors: Iles, Richard
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: PLoS One Vol. 13, no. 7 (2018), p. e0199380-e0199380
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- Description: The interrelationship between the public and private sectors, and formal and informal healthcare sectors effects market-level service quality, pricing behaviour and referral networks. However, health utilisation analysis of national survey data from many low and middle income countries is constrained by the lack of disaggregated health provider data. This study is concerned with the pattern of repeat outpatient consultations for a single episode of fever from public and private qualified providers and private unqualified providers. Cross-sectional survey data from 1173 adult respondents sampled from three districts within India's most populous state-Uttar Pradesh is analysed. Data was collected during the monsoon season-September to October-in 2012. Regression analysis focuses on the pattern of repeats visits for a single episode of mild-sever fever as the dependent variable. Results show that Women and Muslims in rural north India are more likely to not access healthcare, and if they do, consult with low quality unqualified outpatient healthcare providers. For fever durations of four or more days, men are more likely to access unqualified providers compared to women. Results of the current study supports the literature that women's utilisation of outpatient healthcare for communicable illnesses in LMICs is often less than men. A relative lack of access to household resources explains why fever duration parameter estimates for women and men differ.
Negotiated voices: Reflections on educational experiences and identity by two transnational migrant women
- Authors: Belford, Nish , Roy, Reshmi
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Women's studies international forum Vol. 70, no. (2018), p. 24-31
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- Description: In this paper, as two transnational migrant women of colour we explore both privilege and disempowerment as afforded us by our education, laden with postcolonial influences and reinscribed patriarchal limits. We also examine our sense of vulnerability and ‘voicelessness’ as migrants in defining our positionalities and gendered identities within a transnational space. Within the conjunctures in our stories we analyse the impacts of postcolonialism, education, gender, patriarchy, identity discourses and transnationality. Using evocative autoethnography through ‘intimate landscapes’ of self-confession we focus on intergenerational female relationships, in particular with our mothers. Through socio-cultural, postcolonial and transnational feminist lenses we substantiate our arguments on the denial of ‘voice,’ irrespective of educational achievements. Our stories contribute to discourses surrounding the ambiguities around contested and intersecting notions of education, gender, social and cultural differences and identities within the spaces of postcolonial histories and transnationalism. •Transnational women of colour exploring privilege and disempowerment within education and migration experiences•Evocative autoethnographic accounts of ‘intimate landscapes of self-confessions’ based on personal ethnographic accounts•Negotiating ‘voices’ and ‘identities’ as wrought by gender and intergenerational female conflicts
Barriers and enablers to women's access to services during childbearing in Timor-Leste
- Authors: King, Rosemary
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Background: In Timor-Leste the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is one of the highest in Southeast Asia, in some districts only 15-25% of women birth in a facility with a skilled birth attendant (SBA). Care from SBA is the international benchmark for quality maternity care. Purpose: Determine the barriers and enablers to women's access to services during childbearing in Timor-Leste, including women’s expectations and needs. Methodology: Qualitative research using focused ethnography, data collection methods included semi-structured interviews, focus groups and participant observation. Seventeen stakeholders and thirty women from three districts in Timor-Leste participated. Thematic analysis and coding of data with triangulation of the findings between separate participant groups. Results: Barriers to woman’s access to SBA include poor roads, lack of transport, costs associated with accessing SBA, lack of availability and poor quality services. Lack of privacy, multiple care-givers and poor interpersonal communication from SBA were also noted. Stakeholders emphasise health promotion and antenatal care to counteract the influence of traditional beliefs and promote demand for SBA. Many women demonstrate their agency in health seeking behaviours and choices for care during pregnancy and childbirth. Discussion: Women understand that pregnancy and childbirth poses potential risks to their health. Rural women, women from low socio-economic and other marginalised groups have less access to services. Perceptions of poor quality services also reduce women’s demand. Conclusion: Barriers and enablers to woman’s access to services are identified using an amended AAAQ framework introducing the domain of Antecedents in addition to domains of Access, Availability, Acceptability and Quality (AAAQA). Further expenditure on health service infrastructure, staff training and community outreach will improve access and quality SBA. Culturally safe SBA services may also improve the uptake of SBA service in Timor-Leste. Key words: Timor-Leste, Skilled birth attendance, cultural safety, women’s agency, quality maternity care.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Depression across pregnancy and the postpartum, antidepressant use and the association with female sexual function
- Authors: Galbally, Megan , Watson, Stuart , Permezel, Michael , Lewis, Andrew
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Psychological Medcine Vol. 49, no. 9 (2019), p. 1490-1499
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- Description: There is an established relationship between depression and sexual functioning in women. However, there is limited research examining the relationship between perinatal depression and sexual functioning. This study draws on the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Wellbeing Study and reports on 211 women recruited in early pregnancy and followed to 12 months postpartum. Women were assessed for depression using the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV, repeated measurement of depressive symptoms using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and sexual functioning using the Female Sexual Functioning Inventory. Data were also collected on antidepressant use, mode of delivery, history of childhood trauma, breastfeeding and partner support. Women showed a decline in sexual functioning over pregnancy and the first 6 months postpartum, which recovered by 12 months. For women with depression, sexual functioning was lower throughout pregnancy and continued to be lower at 6 months postpartum than those without depression. Ongoing depressive symptoms at 12 months were also associated with lower sexual functioning. Sexual functioning was not predicted by mode of delivery, antidepressant use or childhood trauma. Breastfeeding predicted lower sexual functioning only at 6 months. Higher partner support predicted higher female sexual functioning. Pregnancy and the postpartum are a time of reduced sexual functioning for women however, women with depression are more likely to have lower levels of sexual functioning and this was not predicted by antidepressant use. In women with perinatal depression, consideration of the impact on sexual functioning should be an integral part of care.
From making do to making home : gender and housewifery on the Victorian goldfields
- Authors: Dernelley, Katrina
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Labour History Vol. , no. 117 (Nov 2019), p. 1-21
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- Description: Feminist historians have been strong advocates for the recognition of women's domestic lives, yet housework remains an underexplored area of labour history. Scholars of material culture have explored individual aspects of domestic life on the goldfields, particularly needlework; however, the broader focus has remained on women's activities outside the home. Although typically interpreted through narratives of masculine adventure, hardship and goldseeking, the goldfields were also domesticated landscapes. Both men and women consciously made attempts to create home, even when the concept of home was transitory. Commonly, the task of transforming an industrial landscape into a domestic one fell to women, who had been assigned the "natural" responsibility of household labour for centuries. The expectation was that women would attend to the daily labour-intensive work of creating and maintaining home.
The role of trauma and partner support in perinatal depression and parenting stress: An Australian pregnancy cohort study
- Authors: Galbally, Megan , Watson, Stuart , Boyce, Philip , Lewis, Andrew
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Social Psychiatry Vol. 65, no. 3 (2019), p. 225-234
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- Description: Background: Improving our understanding of the relationship between maternal depression and parenting stress is likely to lie in the range of additional factors that are associated with vulnerability to depression and also to parenting stress. Objectives: To examine the role of trauma and partner support, in understanding the relationship between perinatal depression and parenting stress. Methods: This study utilises data from 246 women in a pregnancy cohort study that followed women from early pregnancy until their infant was 12 months. Included were both women with a diagnosis of depression and those without depression. The measures included Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, Social Support Effectiveness Questionnaire and the Parenting Stress Index. Results: We found women with depression were more likely to report a history of childhood trauma. Depressive symptoms were positively associated with parenting stress while partner support was negatively associated with parenting stress. The protective role of partner support for parenting distress was observed in those with no history of childhood abuse and low depressive symptoms, but not in those with a trauma history and high depressive symptoms. Conclusions: These findings highlight the importance of early trauma in understanding the protective role of support on the relationship between parenting and depression. These findings can inform future studies and the refinement of future interventions aimed at both perinatal depression and parenting.