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Book Review: Academic women: Voicing narratives of gendered experiences by Ronksley-Pavia, M., Neumann, M. M, Manakil, J. F., & Pickard-Smith, K. Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Marcie Lazzari
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Book Review: Women who invented the sixties: Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan by Golin, S. Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Molly C. Driessen
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Homelessness and Intimate Partner Violence: Women's Experiences With Accessing Formal Support Services and the Impact of Their Intersecting Identities Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Marissa Rakus, Jill Singleton-Jackson
Many women experiencing homelessness and intimate partner violence (IPV) often do not use formal support services due to barriers such as finances, inaccessibility, controlling partners, and stigma. The current literature lacks studies that examine the formal service experiences of women who have undergone both homelessness and IPV. Therefore, the current study used a qualitative-dominant design and
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Women's High-Conflict Divorce Experiences and Access to Statutory Social Services in Turkey Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Görkem Kelebek-Küçükarslan, Reyhan Atasü-Topcuoğlu
High-conflict divorce proceedings in Turkey typically span 2 years but can extend to 6, reinforcing the perception that institutional violence against women has been widespread under the conservative Justice and Development Party’s 20-year rule. This study poses two primary research questions: (1) What are the legal, sociocultural, financial, and psychological experiences of high-conflict divorced
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Book Review: Just care: Messy entanglements of disability, dependency, and desire by Nishida, A. Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Rebecca Lentjes
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“My Anxiety Was Through the Roof”: The Gendered Nature of Financial Stress and its Impact on Mental Health and Well-Being for Women When Undertaking Social Work Placements Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Lisa Hodge, Heather McIntyre, Christine Morley, Jennie Briese, Joanne Clarke, Tina Kostecki
Social work practice is not a highly paid or high-status occupation. The historical roots of social work lie in charity work directed toward social needs and poverty, with much of this work previously women's unpaid work. This set the stage for a norm of unpaid labor in the predominantly female occupation. Women who are mature-aged, lone parents, carers and on low income have continuously been the
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Reproductive Justice, Bodily Autonomy, and State Violence Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Elizabeth Beck, Kristie Seelman, Moon Charania, Susan M. Snyder, Sophie Saffan
Media stories have highlighted some devastating consequences of attacks on bodily autonomy (i.e., the fundamental right to make decisions about one's own body without constraints or violence), such as the surging maternal mortality rates among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), a 10-year-old rape victim’s travel out of state for an abortion, families’ exodus from Texas to avoid child maltreatment
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“The Risk to Reward for Being an Out Proud Survivor”: Reflections on the #MeToo Movement From Rural and Remote Australia Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jessie Innis, Donna Chung, Darcee Schulze
In October 2017, the #MeToo hashtag went viral on social media; emerging as a global medium for solidarity between women who had experienced sexual violence. However, the contextless nature of a hashtag meant that individual variations of experiences were erased in the positioning of #MeToo as a singular statement. Previous literature exposed a lack of understanding of how geographical factors contributed
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Uncovering the Transformative Labor in Black Women's Community Work Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Resha Terae Swanson, Erin Devorah Carreon
Despite efforts by scholars to visibilize Black women's community work, we still lack a framework that captures the nuances in the work arrangements of Black women serving and advocating for their communities. Our paper introduces a new conceptual framework, the Continuum of Transformative and Reproductive Labor (CTRL), to recognize this hidden multiform labor of racialized women. The CTRL places community
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A Dialogue with Grassroots Romani Women Leaders in Spain About Their Views on Roma Feminism Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Emilia Aiello-Cabrera, Andrea Khalfaoui, Ariadna Munté-Pascual, Teresa Sordé-Martí
Scientific debates surrounding feminism in the 21st century increasingly call for mainstream feminism to include the voices of non-white women, as well as looking also at the work and expressions of feminism taking place in the Global South. While progress has been made in the United States in acknowledging the work and demands of non-white feminism, Europe lags behind in recognizing and amplifying
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The House That Deconstruction Built: Can Post-Structuralism Inform A Liberatory Social Work Praxis? Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Giacinta Talarico
Social work praxis has long been in conversation with feminist praxis and has more recently been informed by an anticolonial feminist praxis that aims to center theorizing, activism, and service de...
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Resistance as a Foundational Commons: Intersectionality, Transfeminism, and the Future of Critical Feminisms Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Suzanne C. Draper, Reshawna Chapple
The paradigms of academic and activist feminisms in the United States in the middle and later half of the 20th century were developed in part as critical explorations of exclusionary practices with...
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“One-by-One, TB Took Everything Away From Me”: A Photovoice Exploration of Stigma in Women with Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Mumbai Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Tahiya Mahbub, Taanya Mathur, Petros Isaakidis, Amrita Daftary
Stigma related to drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), one of the world's most severe infectious diseases, is a major barrier to TB elimination particularly for women living in settings of gender i...
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Understanding the Trajectories of Women who use Violence Through an Intersectional Feminist Analysis Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Dominique Damant, Carole Boulebsol, Valerie Roy, Matis Trudeau
This article discusses the results of a collaborative research project aimed at understanding the life trajectories of women who have self-identified as having used violence in a context other than...
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A Structural Analysis of Gender-Based Violence and Depression in the Lives of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Charmaine C. Williams, Meg Gibson, Emily Mooney, Joellean R. Forbes, Deone Curling, datejie cheko green, Lori E. Ross
This article explores structural mechanisms that are the context for violence and depression in the lives of sexual minority women and trans people in Ontario, Canada. The article draws on intervie...
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“She Must Be Experimental, Resourceful, and Have Sympathetic Understanding”: toxic white femininities as a Persona and Performance in School Social Work Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Samantha Guz, Brianna Suslovic
In this paper, we theorize toxic white femininities as a performance and persona in school social work. To develop the theory and analytic tool of “toxic white femininities,” we used critical disco...
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“No Free Homeland Without Free Women:” Tal’at's Indigenous Feminist Movement Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Jessica Saba
On September 3, 2019, Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old woman was murdered by her family. Soon after, on September 26, 2019, thousands of protestors took to the streets throughout 12 cities including Je...
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Reflections on the Ethical Possibilities and Limitations of Abolitionist Praxis in Social Work Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Bethany Jo Murray, Victoria Copeland, Alan J. Dettlaff
Since 2020, blatant forms of state violence within the United States have reignited attention in the field of social work, where numerous calls have been made to realign and reconsider our standing...
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“Just Be White (JBW)”: Incels, Race and the Violence of Whiteness Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Ruxandra M. Gheorghe
Largely operating online, incels are predominantly male individuals who are frustrated by their involuntary celibacy—their inability to get a romantic or sexual partner. Their worldview is grounded...
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Decolonial Feminism and Practices of Resistance to Sustain Life: Experiences of Women Social Workers Implementing Mental Health Programmes in Chile Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, Mitzi Duboy-Luengo
Feminisms have had a significant impact on social work discussions in Latin America in recent decades. However, the gap between academic discussions and professional practice remains wide. Based on...
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The Challenges of Women Housed in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps During an Armed Conflict in Ethiopia Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Shambel Desalegn, Eyayu Kasseye, Getachew Gebeyaw, Jacquelyn C.A. Meshelemiah
The outbreak of an ethnically and politically motivated armed warfare in Tigray in 2020, spread to the Amhara and Afar regions in Ethiopia, wreaking havoc on civilians. This armed conflict has had ...
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Exploring the Experiences of Transgender & Nonbinary Individuals Working on Cisgender-Led Research Projects Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Brendon T. Holloway, Keanan Gabriel Gottlieb, August R. Cason
Transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals experience significant marginalization, including in the workplace and higher education. Although the number of TNB scholars and educators is growing, li...
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Epistemic Peerhood in Trans Social Work Research Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Vern Harner
Academic research hinges on the role of epistemic peers in order to evaluate newly presented claims and evidence. As social work research is often focused on social problems and systems of oppressi...
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How We Do the Work Is the Work: Building an Intersectional Queer Praxis for Critical Feminist Scholarship Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Gita R. Mehrotra
In this reflection (which is a revised version of a recent keynote address), I invite feminist social work scholars to consider what it might look like to build our scholarship through an intersect...
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“All I was Thinking About was Shattered”: Women's Experiences Transitioning Out of Anti-Trafficking Shelters During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Uganda Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Sophie Namy, Sylvia Namakula, Agnes Grace Nabachwa, Madeleine Ollerhead, Laura Cordisco Tsai, Jean Kemitare, Kelly Bolton, Violet Nkwanzi, Catherine Carlson
Human trafficking is an egregious violation of fundamental human rights and a global challenge. The long-term harms to survivors’ physical, psychological and social wellbeing are profound and well ...
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From Exceptionalism to Relationality: Responding to Mandatory Reporting in Texas Anti-Trans Directives Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sam Harrell, Sid Jordan, Stéphanie Wahab
This manuscript responds to recent directives in Texas that would define the facilitation or provision of gender-affirming medical treatment for minors as “child abuse.” Specifically, we focus on t...
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Latinas Experiences with Sexual Satisfaction, Pleasure and Desire: An Exploratory Qualitative Study Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Christine Marie Velez, Maria Mercedes Ávila, Jared Israel Best, Jaylyn Chalco
While factors related to undesirable consequences of sexual activity for Latinas are well documented, Latinas’ experiences with sexual satisfaction and pleasure in the broader context of sexual hea...
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Harnessing the Lived Experience of Transgender and Gender Diverse People as Practice Knowledge in Social Work: A Standpoint Analysis Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Hannah Kia, Kinnon Ross MacKinnon, Kaan Göncü
Transgender (trans) and gender diverse (TGD) people continue experiencing profound expressions of stigma and discrimination in their attempts at accessing care, including support from the social wo...
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From the Welfare State to the Carceral State: Whither Social Reproduction? Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Mimi Abramovitz
Historical, feminist scholarship demonstrates that the welfare state underwrote the work of social reproduction, enabling procreation, socialization, sexuality, nurturance, and family maintenance. ...
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A Microhistory of Cross-Class Feminism in New York City, 1907–1911: The Activism of Carola Woerishoffer Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Barbara Levy Simon
This microhistory is a study of one woman's efforts in New York City between 1907 and 1911 to join the efforts of three local feminist organizations—Greenwich House, the National Consumers League, ...
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An Epidemic of Virtue: A Review of Social Work's Complicity in “Prostitution” Interventions Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Rachel Welch, Rong Zhao
This article engages with the field of social work's role in humanitarian and criminal legal responses to sex work in the United States over the last century. Our historical review reveals that, th...
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Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Afnan Attrash-Najjar, Einat Lavee, Ariel Wilkis, Roni Strier
Lone-mother–headed families are key targets of poverty research and financial coaching training programs worldwide. Yet, despite the centrality of this population in poverty studies, there is littl...
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“Us too”: Processes of Resistance and (Re)Negotiation Among Women with Functional Diversity Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Gloria Lucena Fernández
Taking a feminist and intersectional approach, this article conducts a socio-political analysis of the traditional paradigms of disability through an ethnographic study of the life histories of wom...
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Fathers in and Against Pain: Father’s Interruptions of Settler-Colonial Technologies of Loss Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Abeer Otman
Bereaved fathers dealing with political loss provide an under-examined experience of living with unbearable pain. Drawing on an anti-colonial feminist framework, this article analyzes the written a...
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When “Time Is Not Your Own”: Experiences of Mothering Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Catherine A. LaBrenz, Erica D. Robinson, Sreyashi Chakravarty, Gladis Vasquez-Schut, Diane B. Mitschke, Sehun Oh
As COVID-19 reached pandemic levels in March 2020, schools shifted to remote learning. Student parents in higher education had to adapt to their own remote learning and assume responsibility for ch...
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Saudi Women's Attitudes Toward Advocacy for Women's Rights Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Wafa Alhajri, Barbara J. Pierce
There is a growing women's rights advocacy movement in Saudi Arabia—much of which explicitly targets the male guardianship system. In this system, Saudi women are restricted by the male-dominated c...
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“My Voice Was Discounted the Whole Way Through”: A Gendered Analysis of Women’s Experiences of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Emma Jane Tseris, Eva Bright Hart, Scarlett Franks
Although it is well established that women experience significant gendered oppressions when accessing mental health services, research exploring the impacts of involuntary mental health services is...
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Black M/Otherhood: A Content Analysis Exploring How Black Mothers Are Represented in Social Work Literature Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Nicole A. Corley, Britney Pitts, Amelia Kirby
The vast range of experiences of Black mothers are not adequately captured in social work scholarship. Motivated by observations made by a 2000 article written by Greif, Hrabowski, and Maton which noted that much of social work literature on Black mothers focused on the negative, this paper describes a content analysis examining how Black mothers are represented in social work literature. The authors
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“It Helped Me Open My Eyes”: Incorporating Lived Experience Perspectives in Social Work Education Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Rebecca J. Moran, Robyn Martin, Sophie Ridley
Working from a trauma informed lens is increasingly recognized as a vital component of social work practice, as is learning from and incorporating lived experience into one's approach to practice. Further, the critical and feminist informed interrogation of dominant ideas around professional power and expertise within social work practice is necessary in learning and teaching about trauma. This conceptual
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Sex Worker Collectives Within the Whorearchy: Intersectional Inquiry with Sex Workers in Los Angeles, CA Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Kimberly Fuentes
Our ability to provide affirming care to individuals who engage in sex work is limited by punitive foundations of social work. This study originates from within the sex worker rights movement. I utilize qualitative dialogues aligned with participatory principles to consider how a Black feminist disability framework can be employed to explore how intersectionality weaves itself into the lives and networks
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Meanings of Loneliness for Women Using Social Services in Spain: An Intersectional Analysis Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Ainara Arnoso, Maitane Arnoso, Edurne Elgorriaga, Nagore Asla, Miren Aiertza, Ane Bengoetxea, Maribel Pizarro
Loneliness and social isolation are widely recognized problems facing society. Women in situations of economic and social vulnerability are particularly impacted by loneliness. Yet, we know less about the intersectional dimensions of women’s experiences. The study, carried out in Basque Country (Spain) used phenomenological interviews and non-random sampling (N = 8) to explore the subjective experiences
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Australia – A Land for Young Women? Exploring Young Women's Positioning in Contemporary Australian Family Violence Discourses Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Bianca Johnston, Catherine Flynn, Faith Gordon
Young women in Australia experience serious risks from intimate partner violence (IPV) as a form of family violence. However, there has been a lack of attention to the impact of this on young women and, as a result, these risks are not well understood. This article critically examines existing literature, policy and research and in doing so, specifically explores the ways in which young women aged
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Feminism, Social Work, Militarization, and War Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Elizabeth Beck, Jennifer R. Zelnick, Sara Goodkind
“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit… declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.” When Dr. Martin Luther King spoke these words during his speech “Beyond Vietnam: A time to break the silence,” on April 4, 1967 in Riverside Church, they were met with condemnation. The backlash was widespread and intense; yet many people consider this speech
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Anti-Racist Research Praxis: Feminist Relational Accountability and Arts-Based Reflexive Memoing for Qualitative Data Collection in Social Work Research Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Christine Mayor
Largely absent from the feminist qualitative social work research literature are practical discussions about the ethics of white researchers who “study up” people and institutions of power. This methodological article grapples with how to conduct data collection from an anti-racist framework. I explore my use of an arts-based self-reflexive memoing process of embodied tableaux to inform my experimentations
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Inclusive Approaches by VAW Shelters: Respecting Women's Choice to be Together With Companion Animals Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Atsuko Matsuoka, John Sorenson
Women often delay moving to VAW shelters if their companion animals’ safety is not ensured. Yet, few shelters accommodate them together. The purpose of this study is to explore what may help to promote services for women with companion animals facing violence, through learning from professionals who already provide support. Our email survey with VAW shelters in Ontario, Canada identified services and
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Supporting Newcomer Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence and Their Children: Insights From Service Providers Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Crystal J. Giesbrecht, Daniel Kikulwe, Ailsa M. Watkinson, Christa L. Sato, David C. Este, Anahit Falihi
This qualitative study adds to research on the experiences of professionals who support newcomer women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Findings from seven focus groups with 32 service providers from newcomer-serving and domestic violence agencies in Saskatchewan, Canada, include newcomer survivors’ experiences of isolation, the impact of IPV on newcomer children, and challenges
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Taking Back the Narrative: Gendered Anti-Blackness in Predominantly White Schools of Social Work Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Kelly F. Jackson, Felicia M. Mitchell, Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya, Cynthia Mackey, Chandra Crudup, Ann Turnlund Carver
Black women scholars have and continue to make significant contributions to the social work profession; however, their experiences within the profession are mostly absent in the literature. In general, Black women face numerous challenges within schools of social work. Black women scholars endure a compound form of anti-Blackness in higher education known as gendered anti-Blackness due to their multiple
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Familial Tensions: Morphing Gender Relations of Power Among Tajik Migrant Workers in Russia Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Takhmina Shokirova
International labor migration impacts gender relations between migrant workers and their families. Social workers need a more nuanced understanding of the gendered aspects of international migration for developing ethical social work practices and research. This article discusses morphing gender relations of power within the family context. The data presented in this paper originated from conversational
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Infertility and Pregnancy Loss in Doctoral Education: Understanding Students’ Experiences Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Rebecca G. Mirick, Stephanie P. Wladkowski
Women enter doctoral programs at higher numbers than ever before, earning half the doctoral degrees in the United States. Some women doctoral students experience pregnancy and parenthood during their studies. As infertility and pregnancy loss are common occurrences, likely many women doctoral students encountered these reproductive challenges as well. This research study (N = 328) explores the experiences
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Book Review: The diseased brain and the failing mind: Dementia in science, medicine and literature of the long twentieth century by Zimmermann, M. Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Patricia Kolb
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Book Review: Women and sport in Asia by D’Amico, R. L., Jahromi, M. K., & Guinto, M. L. M. Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Feng Yan,Muhammad Imran
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Book Review: Bodies of work: The labour of sex in the digital age by Saunders, R. Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Natasha Mulvihill
The digital revolution has impacted every area of social life. Bodies of work: The labour of sex in the digital age, authored by Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Communications Dr. Rebecca Saunders, is one in a series of books published by Palgrave Macmillan looking at how technological change has transformed where people work, when and how. Saunders is interested in the relationship between pornography
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Woman and Finances: Exploring the Place of Women in the Chilean Financial Education Programs Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Lorena Pérez-Roa, Santos Allendes, Catalina Fontecilla
This article explores the suppositions that financial education programs in Chile have on the financial behavior of low-income women. For this purpose, through a documentary analysis of the National Strategy for Financial Education (ENEF) and a series of interviews with different actors involved in the financial education program, we seek to explain how the intervention considers the role of women
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Book Review: Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention by Krizsán, Andrea, & Conny Roggeband Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Galina A. Nelaeva,Elena A. Khabarova
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Restorative Justice and the Dance with the Devil Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Mimi Kim, V. Kalei Kanuha
For now feminists just dance with the devil – demanding that the existing criminal justice system protect women from violence even as we criticize and work toward the abolishment of that system. Mari Matsuda (1996, p. 41)
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Book Review: Bodies in evidence: race, gender, and sexual assault adjudication by Hlavka, H. R., & Mulla, S. Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Molly C. Driessen
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Barriers to Achieving Reproductive Justice for an Indigenous Gulf Coast Tribe Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jessica L. Liddell, Celina M. Doria
Reproductive justice is increasingly being utilized as a framework for exploring women’s reproductive health experiences. However, this topic has not yet been explored among Indigenous state-recognized tribes who do not utilize the Indian Health Service, and little research explores what other factors impact women's ability to reach their reproductive goals. A qualitative descriptive research methodology
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Feminist Except for Palestine: Where Are Feminist Social Workers on Palestine? Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Stéphanie Wahab, Ferdoos Abed-Rabo Al-Issa
Despite international social work commitments to social justice, human dignity, and individual worth, feminist social work remains silent on Palestine. Israeli settler colonial violence pushes us to revisit our responsibilities to stand against colonized militarism. We insist that collective liberation is a feminist ethical constant, a political bosom for decolonization, a compass for critical feminist
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Mormonism and Becoming a Social Worker: Applying an Intersectional Lens During Qualitative Data Analysis Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Jeanna Jacobsen, Justin Lee, M. Candace Christensen, Peter Fawson, Rachel L. Wright
This article demonstrates how to apply intersectionality as a lens during qualitative data analysis of a collective autoethnography study conducted by five social work practitioners and researchers who no longer religiously identify with the Mormon faith in which they were raised. The article presents methods and provides examples of analyzing the intersectionality of a phenomenon, using gender as
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Jewish Bathhouse Attendants as Key Figures for the Identification and Referral of Women in Distress: Contributors to Role Perception Affilia (IF 1.988) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Lea Zanbar, Keren Mintz-Malchi, Efrat Orlin
Social workers often rely on non-professional community figures to identify and refer at-risk populations. One such figure is the Jewish “balanit” (plural: balaniyot), who assists women at the mikveh, a religious bathhouse for monthly purification. Mental health symptoms can come to light in this unique situation. This quantitative study drew on the feminist perspective and concept of the “moral third”