Determinants of institutional delivery in Afghanistan: evidence from the 2022/2023 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). [PDF]
Gardiwal H +6 more
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ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Associations between adverse childhood experiences and breastfeeding initiation and duration: a longitudinal birth cohort study in Pakistan. [PDF]
Egger EE +7 more
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Complementarianism, Pronatalism, and Suppression of Reproductive Rights
ABSTRACT At least since the second wave of the feminist movement, policy issues related to gender have generated deep social and political divisions. Past work has analyzed the role of general religious variables or gender worldviews (such as various forms of sexism), but not the two in combination.
Brooklyn Walker, Paul A. Djupe
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Factors influencing decision-making for facility-based childbirth in rural Nepal: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Acharya S +4 more
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How Gender Bias Shapes Promotion Aspirations
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between employees' gender biases, defined as the belief that men are better suited for managerial positions than women are, and promotion aspirations using online survey data (N = 939). Probit and instrumental variables approaches are used to address the potential endogeneity of gender bias.
Tomo Nishimura +2 more
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The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction training on fear of childbirth and psychological well-being in women experiencing premenstrual syndrome: a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
Akbeniz A, Sabancı Baransel E.
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
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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'I pack two birth bags': women's accounts of preparing for hospital or roadside birth during maternity unit closures in rural northern Sweden. [PDF]
Morian H +5 more
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Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal +3 more
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