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V. problem presentation and advice-giving on a home birth helpline [PDF]

, 2007
The rate of home births in the UK is very low (around 2%) and many women who would like to give birth at home find it impossible to get midwifery cover or are advised of medical contraindications.
Kitzinger, C., Shaw, R.
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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The Home nurse : home nursing in all cases of sickness, childbirth, and accidents

, 1937
The Home nurse : home nursing in all cases of sickness, childbirth, and ...
V.A. Wawn (13795657)
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The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Health system support for childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: results from a health facility census. [PDF]

, 2013
Progress towards reaching Millennium Development Goals four (child health) and five (maternal health) is lagging behind, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite increasing efforts to scale up high impact interventions.
Ronsmans, Carine, Godfrey Mbaruku, Manzi, Fatuma, Carine Ronsmans, Jenny Jaribu, Marcel Tanner, Suzanne Penfold, Fatuma Manzi, Hassan Mshinda, Claudia Hanson, Werner Maokola, Schellenberg, Joanna, Mbaruku, Godfrey, Hanson, Claudia, Jaribu, Jenny, Joanna Schellenberg, Penfold, Suzanne, Maokola, Werner, Mshinda, Hassan, Tanner, Marcel, Ronsmans, C, Mbaruku, G, Manzi, F, Penfold, S, Maokola, W, Hanson, C,, Schellenberg, J, Mshinda, H, Tanner, M, Jaribu, J   +29 more
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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EMBODIED DATA/SUBALTERN DATAFICATION: Reimagining the Data‐Based City Through Quantified Lived Experience

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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Social support network of Brazilian Amazonian women to subsidise the decision-making power of planned home birth: a qualitative study

BMJ Open
Objective To understand the social support network of Amazonian women when making decisions about planned home births.Method Descriptive, exploratory, qualitative research.Setting Planned home birth care, accompanied by obstetric nurses, in the state of ...
Andressa Tavares Parente, Laena Costa dos Reis, Jannaina Campos Beviláqua, Valdecyr Herdy Alves, Lucia Helena Garcia Penna, Sílvio Éder Dias Da Silva, Bianca Dargam Gomes Vieira, Audrey Vidal Pereira, Marcia Simão Carneiro, Natalia Tifanny da Conceição, Tatiana do Socorro dos Santos Calandrini, Rafaela Chagas Pereira, Malena da Silva Almeida, Diego Pereira Rodrigues   +13 more
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Understanding the preference for homebirth; an exploration of key barriers to facility delivery in rural Tanzania

Reproductive Health, 2017
Background There is limited information on the effect of expectant parents’ socio-cultural perceptions and practices on the use of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) in rural Tanzania.
Fabiola Moshi, Tumaini Nyamhanga
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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