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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
wiley   +1 more source

An opportunity to be grateful for? Exploring discourses about international medical graduates from India and Pakistan to the UK between 1960 and 1980. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Arfeen Z, Diaz B, Whitehead CR, Rashid MA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Steel and Skin: Corporeal Colonization of Women Workers and Gendered Organizations in Heavy Industry

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “I felt as if my body was being occupied by the factory.” The words of one woman working in Turkey's heavy industry were repeated in many accounts, capturing how industrial infrastructures calibrated to male norms press directly into women's bodies.
Esra Kasap, Janset Özen‐Aytemur, Cihat Erbil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appropriating Aid and Its Multiple Histories

ABE Journal, 2023
Hannah le Roux, Viviana d’Auria
doaj   +1 more source

Greater China and the twenty-first century

, 1997
On the occasion of this meeting of Chinese comparatists, and as a conclusion of the fifth annual meeting of the American Association of Comparative Literature, I wish to offer some fin de siècle meditations and reminiscences along with some prospects, if
EOYANG, Chen, Eugene
core  

Boundaries of Work: Elite Black African Identities and Place of “(Re)productive” Labor in Kenya's Extractive Industries

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the positioning of elite Black African women in extractive labor spaces, arguing that their experiences are shaped by interrelated feminist concepts of care, time, experience, equality, and difference. Using an African feminist theoretical framework, the study recenters African epistemologies of work and embodiment to ...
Nerea Amisi Okong'o
wiley   +1 more source

The first recorded outbreak of epidemic dropsy, 1877-80: Climate, empire, and colonial medical science between India, Bengal, and Mauritius. [PDF]

Med Hist
Deerpaul Y, Springer A, Gooding P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Respectfully Excluded: Symbolic Violence, Space and Benevolent Sexism in Academia in Pakistan

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Feminist scholars have long recognized the gender‐based challenges that women in academia face. We undertake a qualitative study of how women in academic institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), a province in Pakistan, experience exclusion. We draw on narratives elicited through hypothetical vignettes from 10 women academics in KPK, collected
Fatima Junaid, Mian Shakeel Ahmad, Sunbal Taj   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source