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gender, family and the global reproductive health market are revealed in current U.S. media coverage of and public discourses …
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rights. I argue that existing class, gender, and age hierarchies have shaped how the Defilement Law has been applied locally … their autonomy. This paper demonstrates how ethnography and critical gender theory—which emphasizes the intersectionality of … gender, age, and class in the (re)production of inequalities—can be used to examine consequences of macro-level interventions …
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Multiple studies have found that women report being in worse health despite living longer. Gender gaps vary cross … whether gender gaps in health are smaller in more gender equal societies. We analyze gender gaps in self-rated health (SRH … countries. We use means, odds ratios, logistic regressions, and multilevel random slopes logistic regressions. Gender gaps in …
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Since the early 2000s a new form of progesterone based emergency contraception with no side effects has been on the African market, aimed at reducing contraceptive failure rates and the mortality associated with the practice of unsafe abortion. Studies of emergency contraception (EC) carried out...
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Understanding current patterns of population smoking by socioeconomic position (SEP) can be substantially enhanced by research that follows birth cohorts over long periods of time, yet such data in the US are rare. Information from birth cohorts followed during critical time periods when the...
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The chance of dying within any given year probably depends not only on marital status in that year but also on earlier partnership history. There is still not much knowledge about such effects, however. Our intention is to see how mortality is associated with time since divorce, bereavement and...
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continue to report instances of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. The full spectrum of such experiences and their … during the 2006–2007 academic year. Using theoretical frameworks of gender performance and the centrality of student …
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of explanations to enhance our understanding of the interactions between gender identities, embodied experiences and … perceptions of men and women regarding their gender identity and living conditions as health determinants within different … gender system. They also point to how the dynamics of social change have developed around a strong division between the …
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reliance on gender socialization theory and a focus on straight (i.e., heterosexual) marriage. We extend this work with an …
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The experience of menopause can vary strongly from one society to another: frequency of hot flushes, other somatic and psychological symptoms, and changes in family and social relations. Several studies have shown that country of residence, country of birth, ethnicity, and social class all play...
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