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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 ...
Pezaro S +12 more
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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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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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Writing bodies and bodies of text: Thinking vulnerability through monsters
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 561-574, March 2022., 2022 Abstract In this article, we suggest approaching writing as a vulnerable practice marked by an unstable boundary between bodies: bodies of text and bodies of writers. We present an exercise‐method that we refer to as Monster Writing, which we have developed in order to engage with these instabilities as well as in order to address experiences of ...
Line Henriksen +9 more
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Maternities: Dorothea Tanning's Aesthetics of Touch
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 12-34, February 2022., 2022 This essay explores the concern in Dorothea Tanning's work of the late 1960s and early 1970s with touch, contiguity, and the concept of maternity. In addition to a series of paintings and drawings that connote intimacy and whose titles allude to maternity, during this period Tanning also gave form to a group of soft sculptures, which similarly evince a
Anna Watz
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Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 28, Issue 5, Page 1956-1979, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and ...
Amal Abdellatif +11 more
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What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism?
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 1579-1599, July 2021., 2021 Abstract The #MeToo and the Time's Up movements have captured the urgency to address systemic manifestations of sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny in all aspects of society. Among the myriad discourses that have been catalyzed by these contemporaneous movements includes one related to the role of men in achieving gender egalitarianism.
Ajnesh Prasad +6 more
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