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Ghinn: Colorism and gendered revulsion in North India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how colorism is gendered in North India by foregrounding women's narratives of being subjected to ghinn—disgust or repugnance—around their skin tone. I argue that paying attention to the ghinn directed at dark skin shows how colorism here builds on casteism, and how there is a gendered dimension to it: ghinn at women ...
Katyayani Dalmia
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Weaving reproductive justice: Storytelling and conflict‐related reproductive violence in Colombia

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The exhibition “Weaving reproductive justice: Conflict and peace in Colombia,” which is the result of ethnographic, feminist, and arts‐based research, is a collaborative storytelling experience about conflict‐related reproductive violence. Through patchwork, embroidery, and written words, the exhibition takes visitors into the lives of Afro ...
Tatiana Sánchez Parra
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The limits of women's choices in Japan: Pronatalism, autonomy, and narratives of sexual risk in the era of the pill

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The continued assault on women's reproductive freedoms has dampened the critique of the liberal feminist logics of autonomy in reproductive rights activism. This article centers on the Pill, a longtime symbol of women's empowerment, to reorient debates about individual choice.
S. Y. Cheung
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Birthing on one's own terms: Reframing delivery mode choice within reproductive justice in Switzerland

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract A core principle of reproductive justice (RJ) is the right to have children under one's chosen conditions, emphasizing bodily autonomy. While RJ focuses on equitable access to parenthood, the choice of delivery mode is rarely analyzed through this lens.
Caroline Chautems
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Rasquache vulnerability and theories of the flesh: Working through the flesh in (auto)ethnography as a site of disruption

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I blend authoethnography and ethnography to activate a Chicanx feminist theory of the flesh, which is grounded in the sensibilities of vulnerability and rasquachismo. Rasquachismo is a politicized Mexican American visceral modality of being in the world—in art, in politics, in everydayness—that is rooted in purposeful defiance
Andrea M. Lopez
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Advances in labor analgesia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Women's Health, 2009
Cynthia A WongDepartment of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USAAbstract: The pain of childbirth is arguably the most severe pain most women will endure in their lifetimes.
Cynthia A Wong
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