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Are We Willing to Change? A Feminist Agenda for the Study of Men in Families

Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public concern over the increasingly visible crisis of hegemonic masculinity is growing. Young men are showing a rise in antifeminist rhetoric, worsening mental health, and a loneliness epidemic. Although it is tempting, and not without merit, to frame men's struggles as male fragility and aggrieved entitlement resulting from feeling unseated ...
Aran Garnett‐Deakin, Caroline Sanner
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Telehealth Acceptance among Appalachian Respondents During COVID 19: A Secondary Data Analysis

Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between telehealth use, telehealth satisfaction, and chronic medical conditions among residents living in Appalachian and non-Appalachian communities.
Victoria Hood-Wells, Florence M Weierbach, Amy E. Wahlquist, Janet Keener, Manik Ahuja, Hadii Mamudu   +5 more
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Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Persistent disparities in smoking among rural Appalachians: evidence from the Mountain Air Project

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Adult smoking prevalence in Central Appalachia is the highest in the United States, yet few epidemiologic studies describe the smoking behaviors of this population. Using a community-based approach, the Mountain Air Project (MAP) recruited the
Kathryn Cardarelli, Susan Westneat, Madeline Dunfee, Beverly May, Nancy Schoenberg, Steven Browning   +5 more
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The association between grandparents as caregivers and overdose mortality in Appalachia and non-Appalachia counties

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectiveTo assess the association of drug overdose mortality with grandparents serving as caregivers of children in Appalachia and non-Appalachia in the U.S.MethodsThis study used a cross-sectional design, with percent of grandparents as caregivers and ...
Kate E. Beatty, Kate E. Beatty, Stephanie M. Mathis, Abby R. McCurry, Margaret M. Francisco, Margaret M. Francisco, Michael Meit, Amy E. Wahlquist   +7 more
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Appalachian Farmers: Building Value from Values [PDF]

, 2012
This trio of authors has presented a microcosm of values-based shared business practices, involving local food production and distribution in a small, rural Appalachian region in the United States.
Rosado Feger, Ana L, Shubert, Natalie, Taylor-Blanco, Amy   +2 more
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An information approach to the dynamics in farm income: implications for farmland markets [PDF]

, 2010
The valuation of farmland is a perennial issue for agricultural policy, given its importance in the farm investment portfolio. Despite the significance of farmland values to farmer wealth, prediction remains a difficult task.
Charles B. Moss, Copeland, Davis, Ingersoll, Matthew J. Salois, Shiller, Theil   +6 more
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“I Can Do It, We Can Change It”: Protest as a Catalyst for Political Efficacy

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how protest episodes foster political efficacy among ordinary citizens. Based on 44 in‐depth interviews with participants in two major 2018 mobilizations in Spain—the feminist strike of International Women's Day and the pensioners' protests—the analysis identifies discursive expressions that reflect attitudinal change ...
Manuel Jiménez‐Sánchez, Lucía Rubio Vicedo, Patricia García‐Espín   +2 more
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An Excerpt from Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Southern Spaces, 2018
In the following introduction and an excerpt from his book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (New York: Hill and Wang, 2017), Steven Stoll offers a "thought experiment"—the Commons Communities Act—to provoke public policy discussion with the aim of ...
Steven Stoll
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Strategies to Strengthen Youth Leadership and Youth Participation Opportunities in Central Appalachia [PDF]

, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess opportunities for strengthening youth leadership and participation in the Central Appalachian region. In particular, authors Rebecca O’Doherty, Ada Smith, Ben Spangler, Elandria Williams, and Katie Richards ...
O\u27Doherty, Rebecca, Richards-Schuster, Katie, Smith, Ada, Spangler, Ben, Williams, Elandria   +4 more
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