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Fearon K. Infertility, reproductive timing and 'cure' in families affected by Turner Syndrome. Soc Sci Med 2023; 328:116005. [PMID: 37295207 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This article discusses the influence of a chromosome condition affecting women's reproductive capacity, Turner Syndrome (TS), on affected women's social timing, examining the strategic decisions that are made within families in relation to reproduction, to navigate these disruptions. Based on photo elicitation interviews with 19 women with TS and 11 mothers of girls with TS in the UK, it presents findings from an under-researched topic, TS and reproductive choices. In a social context where motherhood is not only desirable, but expected (Suppes, 2020), the social imaginary of infertility anticipates a future of unhappiness and rejection, an undesirable condition that should be avoided. Accordingly, mothers of girls with TS often expect that their daughter will want to have children. Infertility diagnosed in childhood has a distinctive impact on reproductive timing, as future options may be anticipated for years. This article uses the concept of 'crip time' (Kafer, 2013) to explore how women with TS and mothers of girls with TS experience temporal misfitting based on a childhood diagnosis of infertility, and manage, resist and re-frame this to minimise stigma. The 'curative imaginary' (Kafer, 2013), a social norm where disabled people are expected to desire a cure for their condition, is used as an analogy for infertility, describing how mothers of girls with TS respond to social pressure to plan for their daughter's reproductive future. These findings may be useful both for families navigating childhood infertility and practitioners who support them. This article demonstrates the cross-disciplinary potential of applying disability studies concepts to the context of infertility and chronic illness, where concepts shed new light on the dimensions of timing and anticipation in this context, improving our understanding of the lived experience of women with TS, and how they view and use reproductive technologies.
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- Kriss Fearon
- Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, 0.23 Edith Murphy House, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK.
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Raneberg A, MacCallum F. 'Living in two worlds': A qualitative analysis of first-time mothers' experiences of maternal ambivalence. J Reprod Infant Psychol 2023:1-15. [PMID: 37158007 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2206842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this qualitative study was to examine experiences and meanings of maternal ambivalence in first-time mothers with young children. BACKGROUND In contrast with normative expectations surrounding contemporary motherhood, there is growing recognition that becoming and being a mother involves ambivalent feelings, and that these feelings are normal and have positive psychological consequences. Yet, little attention has been paid to women's subjective experiences of maternal ambivalence, and capacity to acknowledge and manage ambivalent feelings. METHODS Eleven semi-structured online interviews, with first-time mothers, were conducted and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) methodology. RESULTS Two group experiential themes were identified: Crossing boundaries of acceptable mothering feelings and Mothering from a place of 'enough'. Ambivalent mothering feelings challenged participants' expectations about motherhood and themselves as mothers, producing anxiety, self-doubt and feelings of failure. Distress accompanying maternal ambivalence was especially acute when participants perceived their feelings to be unacceptable. Viewing conflicting feelings with compassion, however, helped participants to cope with their diverse and fluctuating emotional mothering experiences, allowing them to mother with a greater sense of equanimity, agency and competence. CONCLUSION The study's findings indicate the potential benefits of providing information about the emotional turbulence of early motherhood as part of routine maternity care, as well as the potential value of offering parenting interventions that promote self-compassion to mothers struggling to manage feelings of ambivalence.
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- Agne Raneberg
- Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Ahlvik-Harju C. Finding more constructive ways forward in the debate over vaccines with increased disability cultural competence. Med Humanit 2023; 49:9-16. [PMID: 35487682 PMCID: PMC9985754 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The aim of this article is to study the discursive construction of disability that takes place in the vaccine-autism controversy from the 1990s to 2000s, and an attempt to develop a more holistic framework to understand vaccine decisions and their motivations. It is argued that the debate over vaccines produces knowledge and meanings about disability, and that the vaccine-autism controversy is kept alive largely because of how it reproduces stigmatising accounts of disability and autism. The suggestion is that if the stigmatising elements of disability were removed in the debate over vaccines, there would be no controversy to keep alive in the broader vaccine debate. Hence, this article is an attempt to increase disability cultural competence in the media and among health authorities and health professionals and therethrough broaden the shared understanding of what it means to be or become disabled. By investigating the driving forces for past vaccine controversies, the goal is to find more constructive ways forward in present day and future debates over vaccines.
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- Carolin Ahlvik-Harju
- Theology, Åbo Akademi University Faculty of Arts Psychology and Theology, Turku, Finland
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Roeschley A. Symbiosis or friction: Understanding participant motivations for information sharing and institutional goals in participatory archive initiatives. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 2023. [DOI: 10.1177/09610006231154912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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There is no participatory archive without an individual participant’s willingness to share their archival records and relevant background information about their records. Yet, information sharing as it comes to archives is not centered or adequately explored in work on participatory archive initiatives—leaving questions about participant motivations and how these motivations line up with the archive’s goals. Through a combination of primary source data analysis and ethnographic field data collection and analysis, this study aims to close that knowledge gap. The ties between archival institutions and archival record creators in participatory archives are investigated in order to understand what motivations for information sharing participants bring to participatory archives and how these correspond to the goals of archival institutions which engage with participatory initiatives. Findings show that key actors in participatory archives, the participants who contribute their stories and records to the archive, are largely driven by self-fulfillment when contributing to the archives. Meanwhile, goals from institutional archives include both inclusive community-building and collection-building. While participant motivations and institutional goals can lead to moments of friction between archives and participants, they can also be symbiotic foundations of participatory archive initiatives.
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Neely E. Theorising mother-baby-assemblages: The vital emergence of maternal health. Soc Sci Med 2023; 317:115601. [PMID: 36508990 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Revised: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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First-time motherhood is a well-studied yet poorly understood determinant of health. Giving birth has significant physical, mental and social health impacts across the life course. Maternal transition research has attempted to understand first-time mothers' psychological and social needs to improve overall health. However, much of this research struggles to capture the fluid and fluctuating nature of affects, senses and bodies across human and non-human spheres, and has reached conceptual saturation. In this paper, I develop mother-baby-assemblages as a way forward in theorising first-time motherhood to better understand how maternal health is produced intra-actively through the relationality between human and non-human actants. I achieve this by plugging into feminist psychoanalytic and new materialist theory, diffractively reading across published qualitative maternal transition literature spanning five decades and enriching affectively through my own mothering encounters. I engage with topics at the forefront of maternal health research, including bodies, babies, vibrant matter, physical and online spaces and paid employment demands. I theorise trans-subjective and more-than-human emergent mother-baby-assemblages that invite relationality and difference over identity and linearity in the becoming-mother to replace human agency with the capacity to affect and be affected through human and non-human forces. I weave together theory, published data and personal encounters to move beyond understanding becoming-mother as a linear process, and instead think of this becoming-through-each-other as mother-baby-assemblages. Maternal health therewith becomes a product of distributed, emerging, fluctuating, and affecting agencies across human and non-human spheres. Such an approach can steer towards health initiatives for first-time mothers that are socio-materially grounded, consider reciprocity of needs, diversify responsibilities for child-rearing, and encourage future scholarship of the human and non-human emergence of maternal health.
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Chasson M, Taubman – Ben-Ari O. The contribution of childhood experiences, maternal disintegrative responses, and self-compassion to maternal self-efficacy and role satisfaction: a prospective study. Curr Psychol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-04085-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Jokela-Pansini M. Beyond "toxic bodies": Multiplied rationalities of women's reproductive health in a high-risk environmental area (Taranto, Italy). Health Place 2022; 77:102900. [PMID: 36044813 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2021] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This study investigates women's reproductive health concerns in Taranto, a steel town and a "high-risk environmental area" in Italy. It draws on participatory ethnographic research (body mapping, interviews and fieldnotes) and analyses political and social aspects of women's reproductive health in relation to pollution. I argue that in highly polluted environments, both political rationalities and women's health concerns over their bodies are multiplied, extending beyond a focus on their bodies as shaped by toxic exposure. Women make sense of knowledge about their reproductive health and questions of responsibility in relation not only to societal norms, but also through reference to the wider polluted environment and the political-economic structures they inhabit. By focusing on women's own experiences, the study contributes to our understanding of women's agency over their environment-health relations and seeks to complicate women's role as environmental subjects beyond "toxic bodies".
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- Maaret Jokela-Pansini
- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom.
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Fegitz E. Neoliberal feminism in old age: Femininity, work, and retirement in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Gender Work & Organization 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Ella Fegitz
- Department for the Study of Culture University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmark
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Cook M, Pennay A, MacLean S, Dwyer R, Mugavin J, Callinan S. Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of 'competent' parenting: A qualitative analysis. Sociol Health Illn 2022; 44:1009-1026. [PMID: 35488431 PMCID: PMC9544359 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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How parents manage potential tensions between normative discourses of 'competent parenting' and their desires to consume alcohol has received little attention. In this article, we explore the elements that encourage or constrain parents' drinking and investigate how parents consider and manage their alcohol use in the context of multiple social roles with sometimes conflicting demands and expectations around 'competent parenting'. Our analysis draws on 30 semi-structured interviews with Australian parents, conducted as part of a broader project which aimed to explore how home drinking is integrated into everyday life. While parents' accounts of drinking alcohol highlighted effects such as embodied experiences of relaxation and facilitating shared adult moments, many participants described drinking less than they otherwise would if their children were not present. Participants discussed various social roles and routines which constrained consumption, with drinking bounded by responsibility. As such, drinking emerged as something needing to be actively negotiated, particularly in light of discourses that frame expectations of what constitutes 'competent parenting'. When considering parents' alcohol consumption in the future, we argue that it is important to destigmatise their consumption by acknowledging the importance of adults' pleasure and wellbeing, alongside children's needs for safety and modelling of safer alcohol consumption.
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- Megan Cook
- Centre for Alcohol Policy ResearchLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy ResearchLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy ResearchLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
- School of Allied Health, Human Services and SportLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy ResearchLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy ResearchLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy ResearchLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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Dalessandro C, Thorpe R, Sanders J. "For Me, It's Having Something Meaningful": Women's Emotional Understandings of Sex and the Sexual Acceptability of Contraception. J Sex Res 2022; 59:445-456. [PMID: 34357808 PMCID: PMC8818050 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2021.1958194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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While the sexual acceptability of contraception - or, the impact of contraceptive methods on individuals' sexual experiences - is a growing area of research, less frequently do studies engage the importance of individual emotions around sex when it comes to perceptions of sexual acceptability. Building on Higgins and Smith's model of sexual acceptability and drawing upon insights from the sociology of gender, we used qualitative interview data with 30 women in Utah (USA) to explore the importance of emotional understandings of sex for women's assessments of the sexual acceptability of different contraceptives. Here we posit that emotional understandings of sex are not just individualistic - they are also structured by experiences with sexual partners and broader gendered expectations. This work adds insight into the importance of emotions in sexual acceptability and suggests the need for an amendment to Higgins and Smith's model that reflects the synergistic nature of the micro/individual, meso/interactional, and macro factors related to sexual acceptability. We conclude that assessing the sexual acceptability of contraceptives requires a nuanced multi-level interaction framework.
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- Cristen Dalessandro
- Division of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 N 1900 E, 2B200, Salt Lake City, UT USA 84132
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- Division of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 N 1900 E, 2B200, Salt Lake City, UT USA 84132
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- Division of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 N 1900 E, 2B200, Salt Lake City, UT USA 84132
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Hall SM. For feminist geographies of austerity. Prog Hum Geogr 2022; 46:299-318. [PMID: 35400792 PMCID: PMC8984925 DOI: 10.1177/03091325211065118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Austerity policies and austere socio-economic conditions in the UK have had acute consequences for everyday life and, interconnectedly, the political and structural regimes that impact upon the lives of women and marginalised groups. Feminist geographies have arguably been enlivened and reinvigorated by critical engagements with austerity, bringing to light everyday experiences, structural inequalities and multi-scalar socio-economic relations. With this paper I propose five areas of intervention for further research in this field: social reproduction, everyday epistemologies, intersectionality, voice and silence, and embodied fieldwork. To conclude, I argue for continuing feminist critique and analyses given the legacies and futures of austerity.
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- Sarah Marie Hall
- Sarah Marie Hall, Geography, School of Environment,
Education & Development, The University of Manchester, 1.056 Arthur Lewis Building,
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
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Salles C. [The role of visual and audio-visual representations for acknowledging the concept of obstetrical violence in France and Belgium]. Sante Publique 2022; Vol. 33:655-662. [PMID: 35485122 DOI: 10.3917/spub.215.0655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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INTRODUCTION In France and Belgium, since 2013, written and oral testimonies on the Internet, on the radio, in podcasts and in comics have made the notion of obstetrical violence public. Since the summer of 2017, audiovisual representations show the faces of victims and their allies. This media coverage has not yet been studied. PURPOSE OF RESEARCH The aim of the study is to describe the formal characteristics and dissemination strategies of audiovisual representations of obstetric violence in France and Belgium. Their place in the history of the media emergence of the concept is described. RESULTS The result of the study is to qualify as “facing” (envisagement) the showing of faces in audiovisual representations of obstetrical violence. Seeing the faces of victims underlines their legitimacy, which contributes to the recognition of the concept of obstetric violence. CONCLUSIONS The face-to-face testimony to denounce obstetric violence is thus part of the feminist tradition of showing the body in the fight against gender violence.
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Bellhouse C, Bilardi J, Temple-Smith M, Newman L. Subjective experiences of participating in the Supporting Transitions, Attachment and Relationships (STAR Mums) program, a psychological group intervention for high-risk pregnant women. SSM - Mental Health 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Daly R. Disrupting Phallic Logic: (Re)thinking the Feminine with Hélène Cixous and Bracha Ettinger. Australian Feminist Studies 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.2011706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Ruth Daly
- School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Rimon-Zarfaty N, Kostenzer J, Sismuth LK, de Bont A. Between "Medical" and "Social" Egg Freezing : A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Frameworks in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the Netherlands. J Bioeth Inq 2021; 18:683-699. [PMID: 34783957 PMCID: PMC8724162 DOI: 10.1007/s11673-021-10133-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Egg freezing has led to heated debates in healthcare policy and bioethics. A crucial issue in this context concerns the distinction between "medical" and "social" egg freezing (MEF and SEF)-contrasting objections to bio-medicalization with claims for oversimplification. Yet such categorization remains a criterion for regulation. This paper aims to explore the "regulatory boundary-work" around the "medical"-"social" distinction in different egg freezing regulations. Based on systematic documents' analysis we present a cross-national comparison of the way the "medical"-"social" differentiation finds expression in regulatory frameworks in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the Netherlands. Findings are organized along two emerging themes: (1) the definition of MEF and its distinctiveness-highlighting regulatory differences in the clarity of the definition and in the medical indications used for creating it (less clear in Austria and Germany, detailed in Israel and the Netherlands); and (2) hierarchy of medical over social motivations reflected in usage and funding regulations. Blurred demarcation lines between "medical" and "social" are further discussed as representing a paradoxical inclusion of SEF while offering new insights into the complexity and normativity of this distinction. Finally, we draw conclusions for policymaking and the bioethical debate, also concerning the related cryopolitical aspects.
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- Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty
- Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Centre Göttingen, Humboldtallee 36, 37073, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Department of Human Resource Management Studies, Sapir Academic College, D.N. Hof Ashkelon, 7915600, Hof Ashkelon, Israel.
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- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Centre Göttingen, Humboldtallee 36, 37073, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, The Netherlands
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Longley O. Olive and me in the archive: a Black British woman in an archival space. Feminist Review 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/01417789211041898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This article aims to explore how the archival life of Olive Morris might radically rebuff the devaluation of Black womanhood and identity in Britain. Harnessing a Black feminist framework, I approach Lambeth Archives, where the Olive Morris Collection is found as a therapeutic space. Through an understanding of Olive as complex, I disrupt hegemonic expectations of Black women and propose that within the space of this research, Black womanhood be allowed the freedom of self-definition. In a conglomeration of the documents and voices of the community that remembers Olive, marginalised epistemologies are legitimised. Their sometimes-conflicting accounts generate an unbounded image of Olive as a figure of Black British women’s history that harbours meaning as it is mobilised in social consciousness. Incorporating my own auto-ethnographic reflections, I explore the internal and external impact of Olive and my existence in this archival space.
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Wallenberg L, Jansson M. “On and off screen: Women's work in the screen industries”. Gender Work & Organization 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences Örebro University Örebro Sweden
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O'Brien A, Liddy S. The price of motherhood in the Irish film and television industries. Gender Work & Organization 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Anne O'Brien
- Department of Media Studies Maynooth University Maynooth Ireland
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- Department Media and Communication Studies Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick Limerick Ireland
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What role does difference play in relationships between partners in solidarity? In this article we add to debates on difference-in-solidarity by proposing fascinance as a critical aspect of intersubjective relations in solidarity networks. We build upon extant feminist and affect theory scholarship in doing so. Our novel approach is informed by our analysis of in-depth empirical data from a special case of solidarity – whistleblowing advocacy groups – and by Bracha Ettinger’s concept of the matrixial borderspace. Whistleblower support is a critical factor in enabling disclosures about organisational wrongdoing to come to light. Examining the experiences of workers in advocacy groups, we find that difference-in-solidarity is multi-faceted, compelling compassion while simultaneously generating ambivalence and tendencies towards exclusion. Where such contrary affects are enabled to co-exist, and where boundaries between self and other begin to be troubled, the impetus for people to work towards a common cause is enhanced. Our specific contribution is to add a matrixial perspective to debates on difference-in-solidarity: the concept of fascinance represents a powerful aspect of connection between self and other that is at once elusive, affectively felt, and invokes earlier experiences of interdependency between infant and mother. Our study also provides a unique examination of the difficulties and affordances that can accompany whistleblowing advocacy work.
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- JE Cairnes School of Business and Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, Ireland
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Leeming D, Marshall J, Hinsliff S. Self-conscious emotions and breastfeeding support: A focused synthesis of UK qualitative research. Matern Child Nutr 2021; 18:e13270. [PMID: 34651437 PMCID: PMC8710115 DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Research on women's experiences of infant feeding and related moral discourse suggests that self‐conscious emotions may be highly relevant to breastfeeding support interactions. However, the emotional impact of receiving support has not been fully explored. The aim of this review is to re‐examine qualitative UK research on receiving breastfeeding support, in order to explore the role of self‐conscious emotions and related appraisals in interactions with professional and peer supporters. From 2007 to 2020, 34 studies met criteria for inclusion. Using template analysis to identify findings relevant to self‐conscious emotions, we focused on shame, guilt, embarrassment, humiliation and pride. Because of cultural aversion to direct discussion of self‐conscious emotions, the template also identified thoughts about self‐evaluation, perceptions of judgement and sense of exposure. Self‐conscious emotions were explicitly mentioned in 25 papers, and related concerns were noted in all papers. Through thematic synthesis, three themes were identified, which suggested that (i) breastfeeding ‘support’ could present challenges to mothering identity and hence to emotional well‐being; (ii) many women managed interactions in order to avoid or minimise uncomfortable self‐conscious emotions; and (iii) those providing support for breastfeeding could facilitate women's emotion work by validating their mothering, or undermine this by invalidation, contributing to feelings of embarrassment, guilt or humiliation. Those supporting breastfeeding need good emotional ‘antennae’ if they are to ensure they also support transition to motherhood. This is the first study explicitly examining self‐conscious emotions in breastfeeding support, and further research is needed to explore the emotional nuances of women's interactions with supporters.
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- Dawn Leeming
- Department of Psychology, School of Human & Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, UK
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- Division of Maternal Health, School of Human & Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, UK
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- Division of Maternal Health, School of Human & Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, UK
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Leung AQ, Baker K, Vaughan D, Shah JS, Korkidakis A, Ryley DA, Sakkas D, Toth TL. Clinical outcomes and utilization from over a decade of planned oocyte cryopreservation. Reprod Biomed Online 2021; 43:671-679. [PMID: 34474973 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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RESEARCH QUESTION What is the clinical experience of patients who have undergone planned oocyte cryopreservation and oocyte thawing and warming? DESIGN Retrospective observational cohort study. All women who completed planned oocyte cryopreservation at a single large university-affiliated fertility centre between June 2006 and October 2020 were identified, including the subset who returned to use their oocytes. Patients who underwent oocyte cryopreservation for medical reasons were excluded. Baseline demographics, oocyte cryopreservation and thawing-warming cycle parameters, and clinical outcomes, were extracted from the electronic medical record. The primary outcome was cumulative live birth rate (LBR), and secondary outcomes were cumulative clinical pregnancy rate (CPR), and CPR and LBR per transfer. Results were stratified by age at time of cryopreservation (<38 and ≥38 years). RESULTS Of 921 patients who underwent planned oocyte cryopreservation, 68 (7.4%) returned to use their oocytes. Forty-six patients (67.6%) completed at least one embryo transfer. The CPR per transfer was 47.5% and LBR was 39.3%. The cumulative LBR per patient who initiated thawing-warming was 32.4%. Cycle outcomes were not significantly different in patients aged younger than 38 years and those aged 38 years or over. No patient aged 40 years or older (n = 6) was successful with their cryopreserved oocytes. Ten patients (14.7%) who were unsuccessful with their cryopreserved oocytes achieved a live birth using donor oocytes, with most (7/10) of these patients aged 38 years and older. CONCLUSION Only a small percentage of patients returned to use their oocytes, and 32% of those were able to achieve a live birth.
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- Angela Q Leung
- Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham Massachusetts 02451, USA; Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
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- Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham Massachusetts 02451, USA; Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
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- Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham Massachusetts 02451, USA; Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
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- Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham Massachusetts 02451, USA; Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
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- Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham Massachusetts 02451, USA; Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham Massachusetts 02451, USA
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- Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham Massachusetts 02451, USA; Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
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Milk provides a way of thinking about how the body is enacted in science, policy and popular culture. This paper follows the currents of moral and biomedical epistemologies circulating around milk, including via notions of inheritance, the practices of wet nursing, and emerging scientific knowledge about the health-related benefits of breastfeeding. By situating milk's flows historically and culturally it shows how constructions of milk production, lactation, and infant feeding have long served as a 'cultural signal' of prevailing conceptions of bodies and social identities. In so doing, it explores the simultaneous power of milk as both a source of dispositional and somatic health, and an index of customary forms of unity and division. A focus on breast milk further contributes to augmenting and expanding recent debates about the biology-society nexus in science and technology studies (STS), anthropology, and sociology. Seen within biomedicine today as a carrier of somatic signals about the environment, the article reflects on how milk is bound up in the responsibilisation of women's bodies and the internalising of potential risks to the health of their offspring. This implies an unlimited agency for women in averting health risks and in future-proofing their children to be better than well, elides the socioeconomic, and environmental forces pragmatically limiting this assumed agency, and the distinct lack of material and inter-personal support for the perinatal period in many nations.
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- Roslyn Malcolm
- Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Boydell V, Dow K. Adjusting the analytical aperture: propositions for an integrated approach to the social study of reproductive technologies. Biosocieties 2021; 17:732-757. [PMID: 34426746 PMCID: PMC8374034 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00240-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The ever-expanding availability of reproductive technologies, the continued roll-out of 'family planning' and maternity services across low- and middle-income settings and the rapid development of the fertility industry mean that it is more likely than ever that individuals, especially women and gender non-conforming people, will engage with more than one RT at some point in their life. These multiple engagements with RTs will affect users' expectations and uptake, as well as the technologies' availability, commercial success, ethical status and social meanings. We argue that an integrated approach to the study of RTs and their users not only makes for better research, but also more politically conscious research, which questions some of the ideological precepts that have led to reproduction being parcelled out into biomedical specialisations and a disproportionate focus on particular forms of reproduction in particular disciplines within public health and social science research. We offer this article as part of a wider movement in the study of reproduction and reproductive technologies, which takes inspiration from the reproductive justice framework to address forms of exclusion, discrimination and stratification that are perpetuated in the development and application of reproductive technologies and the ways in which they are studied and theorised.
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- Victoria Boydell
- The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2A, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB UK
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Reproduction is a considerable concern in contemporary Europe and has attracted growing academic interest in the context of austerity. This paper brings together literature on social reproduction, the life-course and vital conjunctures, and develops innovative methodologies to understand reproduction in the context of everyday life in austerity. Using biographical vignettes from family ethnographies, themes of welfare restructuring, debt and care responsibilities emerge. Empirical insights explore social reproduction and defaulted futures, indebtedness and indecision as reproductive conjuncture, and incongruous biographies and absent possibilities. Conclusions call for further research on the relationship between reproductive futures and austerity, and methodological experimentation.
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- Sarah Marie Hall
- Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, Arthur Lewis Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Singh S. Punishing Mothers for Men's Violence: Failure to Protect Legislation and the Criminalisation of Abused Women. Fem Leg Stud 2021; 29:181-204. [PMID: 33967410 PMCID: PMC8096629 DOI: 10.1007/s10691-021-09455-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This article explores the gender dynamics of 'causing or allowing a child to die', contrary to the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, section 5. This offence was intended to allow for prosecution where a child had been killed and it was uncertain who had killed him/her, but also to allow for prosecution of non-violent defendants who failed to protect him/her. More women than men have been charged and convicted of this offence signifying a reversal of usual patterns of prosecution and conviction. This analysis interrogates how section 5 criminalises women who have experienced domestic abuse. Drawing on a case observation, reported cases and media reports of cases, I suggest this offence derives from and perpetuates patriarchal constructs of motherhood. Grounded in a feminist approach building on women's concrete experiences of law, I conclude that section 5 should be amended so that it is only used where it cannot be ascertained which defendant actively harmed a child.
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- Sarah Singh
- Lecturer in Law, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, Chatham Street, L69 7ZR Liverpool, UK
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Majumdar A. Ageing and Reproductive Decline in Assisted Reproductive Technologies in India: Mapping the 'Management' of Eggs and Wombs. Asian Bioeth Rev 2021; 13:39-55. [PMID: 33717346 DOI: 10.1007/s41649-020-00161-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In this paper, I discuss the ethical underpinnings to the anthropological analysis of age and reproductive decline in the 'management' of infertility, by suggesting that assisted reproductive technologies (ART) 'use' age and reproductive decline to further endanger women's bodies by subjecting it to disaggregation into parts that do not belong to them anymore. Here, the category of age becomes a malleable concept to manipulate women seeking fertility management. In ethnographic findings from two Indian ART clinics, amongst women aged between 20 and 35 years visiting an IVF/ART clinic in Hyderabad city in South India, and women above 50 years of age visiting an IVF/ART clinic in Hisar in North India-reproductive bodies are similarly disaggregated. In case of younger women, the treatment is fixated on rescuing eggs that may be in 'decline', and in case of older women, the aim is to engineer a viable pregnancy. Thus, the constant focus on eggs and wombs in infertility treatment creates a body that is not only not whole but also completely without agency. Age becomes a category that has rhetorical value to 'push' or persuade women into particular forms of fertility management through infertility medicine. I undertake a problematization of the egg and the uterus through the identification of the recurring motif of the menstrual cycle within IVF treatment to suggest that bodily holism is not part of ART discourse that unethically thrives on promoting technological intrusions to promote its use and normalization.
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- Anindita Majumdar
- Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana, India
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Bellhouse C, Komiti A, Temple-Smith M, Bilardi J, Newman L. A psychological group intervention for high-risk pregnant women: a protocol of a feasibility and acceptability study of the STAR Mums program. J Reprod Infant Psychol 2021; 40:342-351. [PMID: 33522292 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2021.1880001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND In pregnancy, the attachment relationship between a mother and her baby begins to develop and women are more motivated and willing to make changes to become more engaged and responsive mothers and have better relationships with their children. A transgenerational framework has proposed that dysfunctional relationship patterns are often repeated across generations and this has broadened the understanding of early difficulties in parenting. Despite this there has been little research specifically examining high-risk perinatal women and how their interactions with their infants are related to attachment or relational outcomes. METHODS This pilot study aims to evaluate, and to explore the acceptability and feasibility, of participating in the Supporting Transitions, Attachment and Relationships (STAR Mums) program, a psychodynamic attachment-based group intervention, for pregnant women with risk factors for attachment difficulties. The STAR Mums program aims to intervene during pregnancy to assist women with risk factors in the transition to parenthood with the desired outcome to improve the quality of mother-infant emotional interactions, regulation and the attachment relationship. This is a mixed-methods design study incorporating both qualitative and quantitative assessments of five groups of five first-time mothers over a 12-month period. CONCLUSIONS This paper outlines the STAR Mums intervention and protocol for assessing acceptability and feasibility. The STAR Mums program takes a preventative approach and supports early intervention for parents at risk of attachment difficulties with their infants. The results of this study will inform revisions to the current treatment manual and a larger-scale program evaluation to further examine the efficacy of this intervention.
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- Clare Bellhouse
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Segal L. Embedding Mothering at the Heart of Politics: Mamsie, Ten Years On. Studies in the Maternal 2020. [DOI: 10.16995/sim.272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Curk P. Mothers and Others. Studies in the Maternal 2020. [DOI: 10.16995/sim.281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The centenary of Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920a/1955) falls in 2020, a year dominated globally by the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the effects of the pandemic has been to reveal the increasingly fragile interconnectedness of human and non-human life, as well as the ongoing effects of social inequalities, particularly racism, on the valuing of life and its flourishing. Drawing on earlier work, this paper develops the notion of a ‘maternal death drive’ that supplements Freud’s death drive by accounting for repetition that retains a relation to the developmental time of ‘life’ but remains ‘otherwise’ to a life drive. The temporal form of this ‘life in death’ is that of ‘dynamic chronicity’, analogous to late modern narratives that describe the present as ‘thin’ and the time of human futurity as running out. I argue that the urgency to act on the present in the name of the future is simultaneously ‘suspended’ by the repetitions of late capitalism, leading to a temporal hiatus that must be embraced rather than simply lamented. The maternal (death drive) alerts us to a new figure of a child whose task is to carry expectations and anxieties about the future and bind them into a reproductive present. Rather than seeing the child as a figure of normativity, I turn to Greta Thunberg to signal a way to go on in suspended ‘grey’ time.
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- Ea Høg Utoft
- Department of Political ScienceAarhus University
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Lilley R, Sedgwick M, Pellicano E. Inclusion, acceptance, shame and isolation: Attitudes to autism in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia. Autism 2020; 24:1860-1873. [PMID: 32529835 DOI: 10.1177/1362361320928830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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LAY ABSTRACT There has been almost no research done about autism in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia. This article is the first detailed report on attitudes to autism in these communities. Understanding attitudes to autism is important because they influence whether or not children are diagnosed, as well as the kinds of support autistic people are getting. Twelve families who lived in different parts of Australia were interviewed. They told us that there is a range of attitudes to autism in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. These include negative ideas such as sometimes feeling shame associated with children's unusual behaviour, as well as feeling stigmatised and socially isolated. The negative attitudes reported may mean that some children are missing out on an autism diagnosis or being wrongly diagnosed with a different condition in these communities. They also included positive ideas such as the importance of looking after each other and of accepting autistic people and their differences. We can all learn from these positive attitudes. It will be interesting to know in future projects whether these accepting attitudes lead to better outcomes for autistic children and adults in these communities. This research helps us to understand how autism is thought about in different cultures and how attitudes impact diagnosis and support. It will also help people to plan supports that reflect what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families actually want and need.
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- Macquarie University, Australia.,Australian National University, Australia
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Baraitser L. Denise Riley and Lisa Baraitser in conversation. Feminist Theory 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/1464700120928320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bell V. ‘Always another breath in my breath’: on Denise Riley, the polyvocality of the subject and poetry. Feminist Theory 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/1464700120928318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Dryer R, Graefin von der Schulenburg I, Brunton R. Body dissatisfaction and Fat Talk during pregnancy: Predictors of distress. J Affect Disord 2020; 267:289-296. [PMID: 32217229 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND During pregnancy, women are vulnerable to mood and anxiety disorders due to the significant physical and emotional changes that occur during this period. For some women, pregnancy can also present as a period of immense body dissatisfaction due to the substantial changes in body shape and size. OBJECTIVES This study examined the mediating role of Fat Talk (i.e., engaging in disparaging comments about one's body shape and size with others) in the relationship between (a) body dissatisfaction and distress in pregnant women (i.e., pregnancy-related anxiety, depression and eating disorder symptomatology), and (b) sociocultural pressure to meet the thin ideal and distress. METHOD A nonclinical sample of 408 pregnant women (Mage = 28.24 years, SDage = 5.04, range 18-44 years) completed measures of body dissatisfaction, sociocultural pressure, pregnancy-related anxiety, depression and eating disorder symptomatology. FINDINGS Analyses confirmed the partial mediating role of Fat Talk between body dissatisfaction and all three measures of distress, when examined individually. Fat Talk also mediated the relationship between sociocultural pressure (i.e., peers/family and media) and the three measures of distress. Age also partially mediated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and a composite measure of pregnancy distress. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that women face sociocultural pressures for thinness and body dissatisfaction even when pregnant, and that engaging in Fat Talk contribute to greater levels of pregnancy-related anxiety, depression and eating disorder symptomatology. The role of Fat Talk in regard to pregnancy distress may be more pertinent to younger women.
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- Rachel Dryer
- School of Behavioural & Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, New South Wales 2135, Australia.
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- School of Psychology, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, New South Wales 2795, Australia
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Home-school relations, home learning and parental engagement are prominent educational policy issues, constituting one aspect of a wider parenting support agenda that has suffused the landscape of social policy over the last two decades. This article examines a parenting support initiative distinctive for its use of link workers in mobilising ‘hard to reach’ parents to engage more effectively with their children’s education. Drawing on qualitative data gathered during the evaluation of the initiative, the article frames link worker–parent interactions as a form of everyday government and pastoral power. Link workers constitute a new educational pastorate; through friendship, care and control they exercise pastoral power over parents. Building on recent research into the role of ‘pastors’ in producing neoliberal subjectivities within the National Health Service, the article foregrounds their efforts to foster responsible, self-disciplined agency in parents. Link workers, it is argued, contribute to a responsibilisation and pedagogicalisation of the family, which has produced new figures of mothering/parenting, reconfigured the meaning of the home and extended the scope of state intervention into family life.
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Lindhout P, van der Werff K, Reniers GLLME. Improving Education and Training of Dutch Major Hazard Control Inspectors: A 15 Years Longitudinal Case Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E1959. [PMID: 32192085 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17061959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2020] [Revised: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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The education and training program for inspectors of Major Accident Hazard Establishments, specifically the EC Seveso III directive implicated Dutch chemical companies, changed considerably over a fifteen year period. This longitudinal, time-series cross sectional case study describes the development of the education and training program for Major Hazard Control inspectors, acting as regulators from the Labour inspectorate, belonging to the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. A blueprint had to be constructed in order to assess the development and quality of this program in four cross sections over time. The description highlights both the safety related content and the regulator skills parts of the program in its changing context. Professional standards, educational objectives, quality of education, evaluation method, education change process and the response to the dynamic operational environment were examined. The main findings are that the education and training program kept the same main structure over the time period while its contents were adapted to respond to external context changes. Internal evaluation of performance data and education style led to a shift in contents from theoretical knowledge towards safety management and inspection practice oriented experience related knowledge. An active teaching style, increased usage of professional standards and more systematic evaluation, starting from the blue print in this study, offer the best opportunities for further improvement. Current insights on regulatory performance lead to a recommended future perspective for the inspectors’ role to be translated into education and training: balancing empathy, inquisitiveness and support with control and enforcement, or rather: exert tough love, staying between too soft and too hard.
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This essay is in four parts. The first offers a critique of James Elkins and Michael Newman’s book The State of Art Criticism (Routledge, 2008) for what it tells us about art criticism in academia and journalism and feminism; the second considers how a gendered analysis measures the “state” of art and art criticism as a feminist intervention; and the third, how neo-liberal mis-readings of Linda Nochlin and Laura Mulvey in the art world represent feminism in ideas about “greatness” and the “gaze”, whilst avoiding feminist arguments about women artists or their work, particularly on “motherhood”. In the fourth part, against the limits of the first three, the state of feminist art criticism across the last fifty years is reconsidered by highlighting the plurality of feminisms in transnational, transgenerational and progressive alliances.
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Huopalainen A, Satama S. ‘Writing’ aesth‐ethics on the child's body: Developing maternal subjectivities through clothing our children. Gender Work Organ 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Management and Organization, Turku School of EconomicsUniversity of Turku Finland
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Messer J. Even Womb Surrogates Think: Rethinking Labour and Maternal Work. Studies in the Maternal 2019. [DOI: 10.16995/sim.264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Johnson C. Maternal Art and Post-Natal Wellbeing: Proximity and Separation in Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time (2007–8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008). Studies in the Maternal 2019. [DOI: 10.16995/sim.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Pamela Ward
- Centre for Nursing Studies, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada
- Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada
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- Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Hayfield N, Terry G, Clarke V, Ellis S. “Never Say Never?” Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Lesbian Women’s Accounts of Being Childfree. Psychology of Women Quarterly 2019. [DOI: 10.1177/0361684319863414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Feminist scholars have identified a “motherhood imperative” in Western cultures, when heterosexual women are understood to both want and to have children. However, social shifts have resulted in a decrease in pronatalism as well as an increase in social recognition of the parenting desires of same-sex parents. Despite a resurgence of interest in childfree identities, research to date has predominantly focused on heterosexual women’s explanations for being childfree and their experiences of marginalization. Our aim in the current study was to explore how childfree heterosexual, lesbian, bisexual, and queer women negotiate their childfree lives and identities in the context of their personal and social relationships within changing cultural contexts. Data from 23 interviews with women in the United Kingdom, who responded to a call for childfree participants, were thematically analyzed. We constructed two themes: (1) Never say never? Negotiating being childfree as ever precarious, which shows how women constructed being childfree as requiring constant revisiting and renegotiating to maintain and (2) An ordinary life: Constructing being childfree as rational and reasonable, in which we identify the rhetorical efforts of participants to establish their being childfree as an ordinary, reasonable, and rational position. We conclude that for these women, childfreedom was constantly in flux and that maintaining a positive childfree identity required considerable identity work in order to manage intimate personal relationships and wider friendships. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index
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- Nikki Hayfield
- Department of Health and Social Sciences, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Health and Social Sciences, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Education, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Búriková ZS. Au Pairs, Nannies and Babysitters: Paid Care as a Temporary Life Course Experience in Slovakia and in the UK. Feminist Review 2019. [DOI: 10.1177/0141778919848636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This article argues that intersectional analyses of care work also need to include a temporal aspect. Drawing on ethnographic research on Slovak au pairs working in the UK and on interviews with both providers and employers of paid childcare in Slovakia, I examine how the temporariness of care work is created within both migrant and non-migrant settings. In particular, I demonstrate that both employers and providers conceptualise paid childcare as a temporary period in their lives and show the consequences of this conceptualisation in their valuing of care work. In both examined cases, I focus on the role of care/welfare and migration regimes in the production of temporariness in care work and argue that both providers and employers of paid care construct their involvement in domestic work as a specific life course experience. While for au pairs, working stays in the UK represent a specific transition period from adolescence to adulthood, employers in Slovakia decide to employ particular types of domestic workers in relation to the particular developmental phases of their families and households.
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Gürtin ZB, Morgan L, O’Rourke D, Wang J, Ahuja K. For whom the egg thaws: insights from an analysis of 10 years of frozen egg thaw data from two UK clinics, 2008-2017. J Assist Reprod Genet 2019; 36:1069-1080. [PMID: 31119440 PMCID: PMC6603120 DOI: 10.1007/s10815-019-01429-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To better understand the characteristics of patients who returned to thaw their frozen eggs to attempt conception and their outcomes. METHODS A retrospective analysis of clinical records for all own egg thaw patients in two UK fertility clinics across 10 years, 2008-2017. RESULTS There were 129 patients who returned to thaw their eggs, of which 46 had originally frozen their eggs for social reasons and 83 for a variety of clinical, incidental, and ethical reasons (which we have called "non-social"). Women who had frozen their eggs for social reasons were single at time of freeze, with an average age of 37.7. They kept their eggs in storage for just under 5 years, returning to use them at the average age of 42.5. 43.5% were single at time of thaw, and 47.8% used donor sperm to fertilise their eggs. Women whose eggs were frozen for non-social reasons were almost all (97.6%) in a relationship at both time of freeze and thaw. They had an average age of 37.2 at first freeze and 37.6 at thaw, having kept their eggs in storage for an average of 0.4 years. Overall, there was a 20.9% success rate among women attempting conception with frozen-thawed eggs. CONCLUSIONS Despite widespread assumptions, many women attempting conception with thawed eggs had not initially frozen them for social reasons. Women who froze their eggs for social reasons presented distinctly and statistically different characteristics at both time of freeze and thaw to women whose eggs were frozen for non-social reasons.
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- Zeynep B. Gürtin
- Institute for Women’s Health, UCL, 84-96 Chenies Mews, London, WC1E 6HU UK
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- Sociology Department, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB UK
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- London Women’s Clinic, 113-115 Harley Street, London, W1PG 6AP UK
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- London Women’s Clinic, 113-115 Harley Street, London, W1PG 6AP UK
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This article discusses the formation of shame in a group of white heterosexual British women originally from middle-class backgrounds. Narrative interviews convey how participants perceive their lives to have been “spoiled” and stigmatised through becoming single mothers. They articulate perceptions of how their lives have fallen short of idealised heteronormative, middle-class trajectories of neoliberal success and adopt a range of narrative strategies to counter this, informed by the politics of shame in relation to single motherhood in contemporary Britain.
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Reuter SZ. Certainty as social justice: Understanding childless academic women's reproductive decisiveness. Women's Studies International Forum 2019; 74:104-113. [DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2019.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Islam S, Small N, Bryant M, Bridges S, Hancock N, Dickerson J. Assessing community readiness for early intervention programmes to promote social and emotional health in children. Health Expect 2019; 22:575-584. [PMID: 30972905 PMCID: PMC6543141 DOI: 10.1111/hex.12887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Revised: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Objective Evidence for early intervention and prevention‐based approaches for improving social and emotional health in young children is robust. However, rates of participation in programmes are low. We explored the dynamics which affect levels of community readiness to address the issues of social and emotional health for pregnant women, young children (0‐4 years) and their mothers. Setting A deprived inner‐city housing estate in the north of England. The estate falls within the catchment area of a project that has been awarded long‐term funding to address social and emotional health during pregnancy and early childhood. Methods We interviewed key respondents using the Community Readiness Model. This approach applies a mixed methodology, incorporating readiness scores and qualitative data. A mean community readiness score was calculated enabling the placement of the community in one of nine possible stages of readiness. Interview transcripts were analysed using a qualitative framework approach to generate contextual information to augment the numerical scores. Results An overall score consistent with vague awareness was achieved, indicating a low level of community readiness for social and emotional health interventions. This score suggests that there will be a low likelihood of participation in programmes that address these issues. Conclusion Gauging community readiness offers a way of predicting how willing and prepared a community is to address an issue. Modifying implementation plans so that they first address community readiness may improve participation rates.
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- Shahid Islam
- Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.,Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub, Born in Bradford, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK
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- Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
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- Diet, Obesity & Lifestyle Portfolio lead, Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub, Born in Bradford, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK
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- Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub, Born in Bradford, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK
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Morley-Hewitt AG, Owen AL. A systematic review examining the association between female body image and the intention, initiation and duration of post-partum infant feeding methods (breastfeeding vs bottle-feeding). J Health Psychol 2019; 25:207-226. [DOI: 10.1177/1359105319833744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A systematic review was conducted to examine female body image in relation to the intention, initiation and duration of post-partum infant feeding methods. A search of 10 databases was conducted to identify studies. A total of nine studies were included in the systematic review. All studies were of a non-randomised control design with a total of 13,046 participants. Findings suggest that exclusive breastfeeding is more likely in pregnant women with a higher body image, while those with body concerns had less intention to breastfeed or initiate, with those who start having a shorter duration.
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