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'For Women Scotland' - Fractured reality of legal gender and the push towards trans legal personhood
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The Lost Manifestos on Social Reproduction: Revisiting Wages For/Against Housework
Full text linkIn light of the resurgence of feminist attention to social reproduction, this essay revisits the manifestos of the 1970s ‘wages for housework’ campaign, in particular Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James’ ‘The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community’ (1972), Silvia Federici’s ‘Wages Against Housework’ (1975) and Nicole Cox and Silvia Federici’s ‘Counter-Planning From the Kitchen Table’ (1975). While feminist legal scholarship has been less inclined than other feminist disciplines to draw upon these 1970s manifestos, this essay argues that they offer important provocations and lines of inquiry for feminist legal scholars today. First, the essay considers how the manifestos problematize the domains of the nuclear heteropatriarchal ‘family’, and the ‘market’, what counts as ‘work’, and who gets to be a ‘worker’, including by historicizing how the domains of family and market were spatially, economically, ideologically and legally split apart. Second, it offers a reparative reading of the manifestos’ ‘housewife’ figure. Third, the essay considers the manifestos’ more radical challenge to the dominant liberal paradigm of modest incrementalist legal reform in relation to matters of care and gender equality. Most vitally, these manifestos continue to push legal feminists to more ambitiously reimagine the possibilities for revaluing and redistributing reproductive labour and what a new social reproduction bargain might look like
Lung injury from Chest Tubes and Applied Suction: A Scoping Review.
Full text linkBackground: This is a scoping review aimed to investigate the incidence and nature of lung injury resulting from thoracostomy procedures, with a specific focus on the use of suction. Currently, there is very sparse evidence on this research topic and what is available is outdated. Therefore, this review aimed to identify gaps in the literature and provide a comprehensive overview of the complications and impact of chest tubes and suction.
Methods: The PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta- Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews) checklist and explanation were used to guide this scoping review. The scoping review also utilised a mixed methodological approach, reviewing both quantitative and qualitative literature.
Results: The scoping review identified a range of factors contributing to lung injury from thoracostomy, including patient positioning, equipment and technique, complications of tube thoracostomy, and the use of suction. The findings highlighted significant gaps in knowledge and emphasised the need for further research into tube thoracostomy causing lung injury and the safety and efficacy of negative pressure suction.
Conclusions: The scoping review concluded that there are gaps in the literature based on the association between lung injury and tube thoracostomy. There is also a lack of robust evidence supporting the use of suction and the potential complications of this. Furthermore, the need for clinical standardisation, training, and education to mitigate complications associated with thoracostomy procedures has been highlighted. This scoping review provides a rationale for future research and guidance on clinical practice in this area
Key factors that influence allied health professional therapists to remain working within a stroke unit.
Full text linkThe National Health Service is experiencing significant workforce shortages due to lack of adequate workforce planning. Stroke units (SUs) needs to retain highly skilled staff to deliver specialised services. Currently in the Southeast of England, workforce retention issues pose a high operational risk within stroke services. This case study completed semi-structured interviews of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists, termed Allied Health Professional Therapists (AHPTs), with the aim to provide up-to-date insights into key retention factors. Recruitment was via purposive selection and ethical approval was gained from the Research Ethics Advisory Group of [University]. Thematic analysis and verification techniques of member checking and inter-rater reliability were completed. Four key factors arose: 1) multi-faceted development system; 2) driving change; 3) intrinsic value; and 4) extrinsic motivators, overarched by personal evolution. Interconnection of the factors anchored AHPTs within SU retention and each factor’s importance was unique to individuals and fluid in nature
The Current Status of Risk Assessing Undergraduate Medical Electives: A UK Consensus to Inform Recommendations for Future Practice
Full text linkBackground: Electives are well established in healthcare education, particularly medicine. They usually involve extended placements in the home country or across the world. The benefits are well-documented in terms of student maturation, exposure to new settings, professional development, clinical skills and so forth. The majority take place outside of the home institution. Supporting students to develop comprehensive risk assessments is crucial for their safety, and that of patients and public. The Medical Schools Council (MSC) Elective Committee, comprising elective leads from all UK medical schools, collaborate on improving electives practices and pooling expertise. As risk assessment has been a topic of debate (exacerbated by Covid) it was decided to survey members regarding their risk assessment practices, with the aim of generating a set of recommendations that UK medical school, and others, can employ as a benchmark when developing risk assessments and updating safety processes.
Method: Elective leads from 26 of 32 UK Medical Schools, shared their approaches to electives risk assessment via a mix-method questionnaire. An elected subgroup of the MSC Electives Committee collated responses in order to generate a comprehensive set of electives risk and safely recommendations. Free text additions were considered thematically.
Results: The study found variation in risk assessment approaches and inclusions as well as variation in where responsibility lies for risk assessing. Results enabled us to generate a template that can be applied flexibly and according to the individual requirements of any healthcare programme that includes an elective placement. Risk assessment items such as “local custom”, “laws”, “location safety”, “ethics and discrimination” are examples of additions which were added to the more traditional risk assessment considerations such as “travel insurance”, “communicable diseases” and “Personal Protective Equipment”.
Conclusions: It is recognised that differences in location, learning objectives, length and type of elective placement, prevents a more formalised and rigid risk assessment recommendation. However, for any medical school or other organisation undertaking risk assessment of an elective, a flexible template of recommendations is offered by this consensus paper. Replication of the study to capture post-pandemic additions would be a worthwhile exercise
Introduction to the Special Section - Feminism, Law and Citizenship: An International Collection
Full text linkIntroduces the special section, its background and the four papers included
Children's Perspectives on Violence and Discrimination Against Girls in Nepal
Full text linkViolence against girls is a global problem with grave implications for girls and society at large. This paper details findings from field research that employed a child rights-based approach to explore Nepali children’s and young people’s views about violence and discrimination against girls. This research shows that in Nepal, violence and discrimination against girls encompass a wide range of harmful behaviours and treatment, including physical, sexual and emotional abuse, exploitation, menstrual discrimination, neglect, preferential treatment of boys and exposure to violence in the home. Participants expressed their views about endemic and structural discrimination against Nepali girls, and the prevalence and impact of men’s violence toward girls in Nepal, particularly in public places such as the community and on the streets. This research demonstrates children’s and young people’s comprehensive understandings of violence and discrimination against girls in their community, their knowledge about laws that deem this unlawful and their views about the widespread non-enforcement of these laws. The findings presented in this paper suggest that engaging children and young people in governmental efforts to combat violence and discrimination against girls presents a promising, yet often overlooked, opportunity to enhance girls’ citizenship rights
Sexual Politics in the Twenty-First Century: Practices of Silencing
Full text linkThis paper examines the spectrum of sexual violence that permeates women's lives, among others, often unnoticed by most of society. To do so, I revisit arguments from Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics (1970) and Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975), which to a large extent gave rise to the theoretical contention that under conditions of patriarchy there is a constant coercive factor in sexuality, which is a hostile sphere for women. I go on to examine current practices of silencing that can be seen as surreptitious ways of perpetuating this continuum of sexual violence: testimonial epistemic injustice, hermeneutical epistemic injustice, the legal discourse of gender-based violence and the naturalistic discourse of sexuality. I conclude that current legal feminist scholarship has the imperative challenge of imagining new frames of reference that allow us to collectively and socially interpret this entire spectrum of violence outside the legal framework
Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Report: Alternative Executive Summary
Full text linkThis document builds on the methodology developed by feminist judgments projects to rewrite the Executive Summary to the Final Report of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, published in January 2021. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation was established in February 2015 to investigate experiences in certain of Ireland’s residential institutions for single mothers and their young children between 1922 and 1998. In our rewritten Executive summary, twenty-five academics examined the evidence in the Commission’s original report, and offered a feminist, human rights-based analysis of the evidence presented there. Our document was first published open access on the Technological University Dublin website as the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Draft Alternative Executive Summary in July 2021.
 
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