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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals Within and Between Policy Programmes: The Case of Kenya's Dairy Sector

Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 6, Page 8180-8194, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa, Sylvia Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, Todd Andrew Crane, Art R. P. J. Dewulf   +3 more
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The evolution of civil society and the rule of law regarding female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2015
International human rights law relies on state sovereignty to localize suggested policy with codification and enforcement in an attempt to reconcile universalism with particularity.
Rebecca Cardone
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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 6, Page 8775-8788, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Female genital cutting or mutilation refers to the cutting of girls' external genitalia. Due to migration from contexts where female genital cutting is common, it is estimated that around 38 000 cut women and girls live in Sweden. Clitoral reconstruction,
Malin Jordal, Hannes Sigurjonsson, Gabriele Griffin, Anna Wahlberg   +3 more
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S1 guideline sweat gland carcinoma

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 24, Issue 9, Page e1356-e1385, September 2026.
Summary The current classification of sweat gland carcinomas is based on histomorphological characteristics and distinguishes between more than 20 entities. Most patients are older, but some subtypes also affect middle‐aged and younger patients. The majority of tumors arise de novo. Sweat gland carcinomas have nonspecific clinical features.
Mirjana Ziemer, Michael Erdmann, Abbas Agaimy, Jürgen C. Becker, Almut Böer‐Auer, Doris Helbig, Cornelia Erfurt‐Berge, Alexander Frisman, Conrad Hempel, Ulrike Leiter, Friedegund Meier, Thomas Mentzel, Lara Racz, Silke Redler, Stefan Schliep, Clemens Seidel, Alpaslan Tasdogan, Jochen Utikal, Carsten Weishaupt, Selma Ugurel   +19 more
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Pulling the Lever Without Moving the Machine: English Teacher Education and the Limits of Sexuality Education Reform

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper we draw on complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to explore how changing systems of teacher education constrain attempts to introduce expanded sexuality education curricula. We report findings from a mixed methods study of teacher educators' perceptions of their provision in relation to England's statutory Relationships, Sex and ...
Joshua Heyes, Pujitha Kanakam
wiley   +1 more source

‘Moving People up the Sympathy Spectrum’: Building Hypotheses About How Abortion Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation (VCAT) Can Change Healthcare Provider Behaviours

Health Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Abortion stigma limits access to person‐centred abortion care globally. Values clarification and attitude transformation (VCAT) is widely used to address abortion stigma and recommended by the World Health Organization to train abortion providers.
Shelly Makleff, Carrie Van Rensburg, Bronwen Merner, Alexandra Wollum, Louise Keogh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female Genital Mutilation in Sierra Leone: Forms, Reliability of Reported Status, and Accuracy of Related Demographic and Health Survey Questions

Obstetrics and Gynecology International, 2013
Objective. To determine forms of female genital mutilation (FGM), assess consistency between self-reported and observed FGM status, and assess the accuracy of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) FGM questions in Sierra Leone. Methods.
Owolabi Bjälkander, Donald S. Grant, Vanja Berggren, Heli Bathija, Lars Almroth   +4 more
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