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Gender-inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice. [PDF]
BirthA recent focus in reproductive healthcare on “sexed language” reflects an ideology of unchangeable sex‐binary and fear of erasure, from both cisgender women and the profession of midwifery. In this paper, we highlight how privileging sexed language causes harm to all who birth—including pregnant cisgender women, trans, gender diverse, and non‐binary ...
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Literature Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10-12, October-December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines David Lodge's novel Deaf Sentence (2008), which focuses on the life of Desmond, a retired professor of linguistics. I argue that this text offers a standpoint through which readers can visualise the global phenomenon of population ageing and address the question of global responsibility. I look at Deaf Sentence within the
Stefano Rossoni
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The shiny new object: Deconstructing the patient‐oriented paradigm in health sciences
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 700-708, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Rationale A ‘patient‐oriented’ research paradigm, also known as patient and public engagement, has infiltrated the field of health sciences and continues to spread. At first blush, it is difficult to reprove anything labelled ‘patient‐oriented’; however, the patient‐oriented paradigm may easily become an ideological ‘good’, leading to ...
Pier‐Luc Turcotte +2 more
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Breaking the plaster: Making do with the fragility of the body
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1450-1467, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Drawing on a personal experience with temporary impairment following a foot bone fracture, I here reflect on forms of marginalization fragile bodies face under normative social and organizational structures. Combining reflexive narratives, poetry, art‐making, diary notes and open questions I ask myself and the reader, with feminist literature ...
Emmanouela Mandalaki
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“A hitherto unheard‐of and harmful thing”: Breastfeeding and Violence in Russian Literature
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 486-507, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the construction of maternal subjectivity in the context of breastfeeding narratives in Russian literature, from the early 1800s to the 1920s. It draws on historical and contemporary socio‐economic contexts, in Russia and the West, to support its major contention that, in literature, breastfeeding and violence are ...
Muireann Maguire
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Obstetric Violence: An Intersectional Refraction through Abolition Feminism
Feminist Anthropology, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 91-114, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Obstetric violence, a term coined by activists in Latin America to describe violence during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, is a controversial feminist term in global health policymaking as well as in obstetric and midwifery practice and research.
Rodante van der Waal +3 more
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Beyond the uncanny: Shirley Jackson’s poetics of alienation
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 217-237, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Shirley Jackson is one of the most important authors of the uncanny of the twentieth century. Forgotten after her death in 1965, she is currently being rediscovered. This paper attributes her mastery to the depiction and evocation of extreme mental states, especially alienation and estrangement from oneself.
Dominic Angeloch
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La langue des alliances. Mon Algériance [PDF]
, 2001 Il s'agit d'une lecture au plus près des alliances des langues et des cultures dans le récit d'Hélène Cixous intitulé : Mon Algériance. Où se dessinent les liaisons-déliaisons à l'Algérie, et où l'écriture décuple les facultés de la littérature lorsqu ...
Calle-Gruber, Mireille
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Cenas da escrita: Cixous e Akhmatova
Outra Travessia, 2014 Este artigo debruça-se sobre a peça de Hélène Cixous Vela Preta Vela Branca, encontrando nela uma interessante provocação para se discutir a definição e o alcance da escrita feminina.
Olga Donata Guerizoli Kempinska
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Coalescence: an approach to Hélène Cixous' writing style
Feminismo/s, 2006 Departing from a relatively unknown narrative experiment by Hélène Cixous, Angst, this article aims to explore the peculiar application that this French feminist writer and critic makes of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction within the field of sexual ...
Gerardo Rodríguez Salas
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