Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Antipodean Intimacies: Medical Sex Advice for Women in the Australian colonies, 1857-1890 [PDF]
This article examines a genre of medical sex advice literature that emerged in colonial Australia at the close of the 19th century. While historians have examined medical discourse as a site for the production of raced bodies, this article points out ...
Samia Khatun
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The objective of this work is to propose a study associating transfeminist theorization and filmic analysis of an Argentine film, The Fish Child, by Lucía Puenzo (2009) which portrays the figure of the domestic servant in an interracial and lesbian ...
Laurence Mullaly
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Sketchy Lesbians: Carol as History and Fantasy [PDF]
Rather than a forward-looking lesbian representation, Todd Haynes\u27s Carol, an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith\u27s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, looks to images and affective investments of the past to explore lesbian ...
White, Patricia
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Sources of Sex Information Used by Young British Women Who Have Sex with Women (WSW) and Women Who Have Sex Exclusively with Men (WSEM): Evidence from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles [PDF]
There is little consideration about the provision of information about sex to women who have sex with women (WSW). This study drew on data from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle, a nationally representative survey of people in ...
A Bleakley +26 more
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Who’s got the “Reel” power? The problem of female antagonisms in blaxploitation cinema
Between 1973 and 1975, films starring Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson such as Cleopatra Jones (Jack Starrett, 1973), Coffy(Jack Hill, 1973) and Foxy Brown (Hill, 1974) introduced leading black women into the predominantly male blaxploitation scene as ...
Melissa DeAnn Seifert
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Directions in Gender Research in American Indian Societies: Two Spirits and Other Categories [PDF]
Indigenous social role categories that represent third and fourth gender characteristics, such as the Lakota (Sioux) winkte and the Dino (Navajo) n and other Native terms, mark the status of these individuals.
Medicine, Beatrice
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SEXUALITY / GENDER DEVIATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF THE CONSTRUCTIONIST FEMINIST LITERARY TRADITION IN AFRICAN FICTION [PDF]
: This article investigates, in Stanley Kenani’s “Love on Trial” (2011) and “In the Best Interests of the Child” (2011 ) ”, Monica Arac De Nyeko’s “Jambula Tree” ( 2013) and Beatrice Lamwaka’s “Chief of the Home” (2013), homosexuality, lesbianism and ...
Tchilabalo ADI
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Gender in translating lesbianism in The Second Sex [PDF]
Drawing on three Chinese translations of the lesbian chapter in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, this paper examines at the micro level how the discussions on lesbianism in the work are translated and what role gender identity plays in the process of
Yu, Zhongli
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“Sottosotto”: contraddizioni manifeste. La critica lesbofemminista al pensiero della differenza
This contribution addresses the debate that took place in Italy at the beginning of the Eighties between the “sexual difference theory” (“pensiero della differenza”) and lesbofeminism, when the Libreria delle Donne in Milan published the issue of ...
Elena BIAGINI
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