37 research outputs found
Get Well Letter to Ruby Doris Smith From Maria Varela, circa 1967
No full textGet-well letter from Maria Varela to Ruby Doris Smith. 2 pages
A critical analysis of research related to attitudes toward low-income families and services provided by public school systems
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Psychosocial Determinants of Intention to Utilise Human Milk Bank Services among Mothers of Preterm Infants at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Nairobi
No full textMASTERS in Clinical PsychologyKenya experiences a neonatal mortality rate of 21 deaths per 1,000 live births. Many of these deaths are preventable through exclusive access to human milk, yet mothers of preterm infants often struggle with insufficient supply. Donor human milk offers a safe alternative, but its use remains limited in Kenya. This study explored psychosocial factors influencing mothers' intentions to use human milk bank services at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, the country's only operational milk bank. The general objective was to assess psychosocial determinants of intention to utilize human milk bank services among mothers of preterm infants. Specific objectives included examining attitudes toward donating and using donor milk, evaluating perceived social norms surrounding milk donation, assessing perceived behavioral control over donor milk decisions, and identifying barriers and facilitators that influence willingness to donate and accept donor milk. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior and supported by the Health Belief Model and Self Efficacy Theory, this descriptive cross-sectional mixed-methods study investigated key psychosocial constructs. A sample of 85 mothers was recruited from Pumwani Maternity Hospital. Data collection involved structured questionnaires and interviews, with analysis conducted using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and regression models. Findings revealed a notable donation-acceptance paradox. While 75.3 percent of mothers were willing to donate breast milk, only 37.6 percent were willing to accept donor milk, a statistically significant difference. Attitudes toward donor milk were moderately favorable, with strong trust in healthcare providers but persistent safety concerns. Perceived social norms were mixed, showing support from healthcare workers but hesitation among household members. Perceived behavioral control was relatively high. Regression analysis identified prior experience, decision-making confidence, and safety perceptions as significant predictors of acceptance intentions. Key barriers included safety concerns, cultural stigma, and financial limitations. Facilitators included support from healthcare providers, altruistic motivations, and positive peer experiences. The study concludes that improving acceptance of donor human milk requires targeted interventions that address safety misconceptions, involve family decision-makers, and highlight peer testimonials.Daystar Universit
Geschlechterverhältnisse jenseits der Norm
No full textHow is something 'other' possible in relation to patriarchal gender relations and hegemonic masculinity? How can gender relations be captured sociologically in order to analyse the persistence of domination and other aspects? Situated in the triangle of women's and gender studies, sociology of masculinity and queer-feminist perspectives, the author develops a sociological modelling that differentiates various gender relations and their structures. In doing so, she analyses gender sociological concepts in terms of power and substantiates them with a diverse concept of gender
“They don’t help you here” a relational ethnography of domestic violence court
No full textDomestic violence courts are an important subset of specialty courts or problem-solving courts offering a victim-centered alternative to the traditional criminal court setting. Domestic violence courts attempt to bring together the combined expertise of court actors (judges, lawyers, advocates, and social workers) to provide more enduring and less stigmatizing solutions to domestic violence problems. Although these and other specialty courts are generally viewed by policy makers as positive approaches that reduce incarceration and prevent recidivism, there is little scholarship on how these courts function as appendages to the punishment-based criminal justice system.
Using relational ethnographic methods, this study analyzed data from participant and non-participant observations at the Cook County Domestic Violence Court, and key informant interviews with judges, attorneys, court staff, and members of the Chicago Police Department to examine the relationship between domestic violence courts and the larger institutional environment defined by the traditional criminal court system. Three major findings are presented in this dissertation. First, analysis demonstrates that the ways in which alleged victims of domestic violence are funneled into and through the court have implications for how difficult it is to access and obtain protections from the court. Notably, police discretion shapes whether reported domestic violence is considered a criminal or civil matter. Further, the absence of the courtroom workgroup in the domestic violence court, as compared to its presence in traditional court settings, can make the process harder for those utilizing the court as well as the lawyers who work there. Second, findings advance the novel concept of “toxic maternalism” as a key feature of judge interactions with both victims and defendants in the court, such that, in a court primarily staffed by white women, female judges engage in harmful maternalistic behaviors during court interactions. Third, rhetorical racialized and gendered stereotypes and tropes are used against victims, who are predominantly Black women from poor neighborhoods, by court actors which constrains Black women’s access to justice when they experience domestic violence. These findings make a significant contribution to the specialty courts literature, with particular implications for nuanced understandings of the function of reformist approaches to addressing inequalities in the criminal justice system at the court level.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01The student, Meggan Lee, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-12 at 13:00.The student, Meggan Lee, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-12 at 13:07.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-13 at 11:49.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16852 on 2022-01-12 at 13:04:30Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:55:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Carceral civil society: Citizenship and communities in a U.S. prison
No full textCouched in frameworks of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, this dissertation uses the lenses of citizenship and civil society to examine communities in a men’s medium security Illinois state prison. Prisons are spaces removed from free civil society where every aspect of associational life is monitored by the state. This project investigates how people who are incarcerated experience citizenship under these conditions.
Rather than conducting research on people who are incarcerated, this project conducted research with people who are incarcerated. The methodology for this project pairs traditional qualitative interviews with Participatory Action Research (PAR). This dissertation is a collaborative effort with a group of men currently incarcerated at Danville Correctional Center (DCC). Community members at DCC were involved in every stage of the research project: conception, design, implementation, analysis, and follow-up action items. This approach adds an important, yet largely silenced voice to academic discourse—the voice of individuals who are incarcerated.
Carceral civil society is one created and recreated under compounded forms of violence. State-sanctioned violence from the top-down is a process of dehumanization through policies of the institution and actions by corrections staff. From the bottom-up, interpersonal violence takes the form of either physical violence or a culture of mistrust created by a snitch environment. These forces work to break existing communities and hinder the formation of new ones. Yet, in these spaces of exclusion and isolation are stories of care, compassion, concern, collective action, and community building as clear examples of citizenship practices. Despite the oppressive space of carceral civil society, community members in this project shared examples of practices built on a foundation of trust, which facilitated the creation of new communities. Political citizenship practices took place in a specific sociohistorical context and took the form of rights mobilization in boycotts, sit-ins/stand-ins, and acts of civil disobedience. Social citizenship practices occurred in the neighborhood (the gym, yard, or school building) and on the block (in the housing unit). These include: cooking as a form of resistance, mentoring, volunteer teaching in DCC programs, and playing games such as fantasy football and Dungeons & Dragons. Political and social citizenship practices were a form of community building which in turn created the space for a new dimension of identity, one that had the potential to transcend race, gang affiliation and other primary identities.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-05-01The student, Sheri-Lynn Kurisu, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-11 at 16:36.The student, Sheri-Lynn Kurisu, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-04-11 at 16:43.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-04-15 at 10:08.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12198 on 2018-08-31 at 17:27:22Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:47:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Rocking the gender boat: resistance to traditional gender norms among Surface Warfare-qualified Navy women
No full textGiven that the military is widely recognized as one of the central sites of gender definition and production in society, my dissertation explores the ways in which women who voluntarily enter the military, a traditionally male preserve, may be acting in ways that are subversive to the gender order. Most research on women in the military has focused on their efforts to do gender in a manner that helps them fit in to this androcentric environment. The aim of my research was to explore the performance of gender by women in the military from a different perspective: one that focuses on their agency in resisting rather than conforming to traditional gender norms. My project investigated whether or not Navy women actively attempted to “un-do” traditional gender definitions and expectations while simultaneously attempting to expand the boundaries of femininity and what it means to be a woman. Military women often must walk a gender tightrope. They seek acceptance as legitimate warriors, but must at the same time be cautious not to ultimately surrender their femininity to the hegemony of masculinity within this institution by “doing masculinity” instead. This study used qualitative methodology to investigate: (1) the performance of gender among military women, focusing specifically on their resistance to traditional gender norms; (2) how women’s social location in the military bureaucracy and rank structure influences their resistance to traditional gender norms; and (3) how race and class are implicated in women’s resistance to traditional gender norms within the military context. My work is grounded in Navy women’s personal experiences and daily interactions with their male colleagues. Data was collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 23 active-duty officer and 9 enlisted Surface Warfare-Qualified Navy women. Data was analyzed using grounded theory methodologies. In moving beyond theory to explore the experiences of women in the military empirically from this unconventional perspective, I hoped to further illuminate our understanding of gender and the gendering process, and resistance to it. I found outcomes differing from those we might expect given existing gender theory. Specifically, I found that women who focus on presenting their “authentic selves” while doing gender “a la carte” offer the greatest hope for altering the gender order, even if their actions seem least satisfying to the outside observer as forms of “resistance.” Furthermore, I found that women who actively project their femininity or, conversely, downplay their femininity do so in response to negative male stereotypes of military women. Several intervening variables not presently addressed in gender literature have combined over the past decade to make the Surface Navy more welcoming to women, especially officers. These include: the establishment of the All-Volunteer Force, short-term and long term structural manpower shortages, differences in the way the military justice system handles officer and enlisted misconduct, and uneven support for and enforcement of Navy policy at the deckplate level. I conclude from my research that recent high-profile problems of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the Navy are rooted in mundane daily practices and attitudes associated with underground sexism.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2017-12-01The student, Judith Vendrzyk, accepted the attached license on 2015-10-24 at 22:53.The student, Judith Vendrzyk, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-10-24 at 23:08.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-10-26 at 16:53.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8742 on 2016-03-02 at 14:12:31Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T21:06:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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Challenging Male Hegemony: A Case History of Women's Experiences in British and US Higher Education, 1970-2002
No full textThis thesis is located within the discipline of history, and centres around the
experiences of women in US and British universities. Higher education in both the US and
the UK, as throughout the world, has historically been male-led and male-controlled. This
male hegemony of higher education continues to the present, as evidenced by the low
percentage of women in the upper echelons of academia (for example, professors).
Women in the US and the UK have been challenging this male hegemony since their
admittance to higher education institutions in the nineteenth century. They faced fierce
opposition in their efforts to open higher education to women. This opposition was later
echoed in the resistance to twentieth-century feminists' efforts to found women's studies
programmes.
The male hegemony of higher education is evident in the case histories of the
experiences of women at Appalachian State University (ASU) and the University of
Gloucestershire (UG) in the latter part of the twentieth century. ASU and UG, although
located in different countries, have similarities which make a comparison interesting. The
male hegemony of the institutions, and women's challenges to it, is especially illustrated
when analysing three areas: residence hall life (living), staff issues (working), and the
women's studies programmes (teaching and learning).
Women students at both institutions experienced, and successfully challenged,
strict residence rules through the 1960s. National influences, such as the change in the age
of majority, and pressure from the students themselves brought a loosening of these rules
in the 1970s and 1980s. The conservative nature of the institutions also influenced the
experience of women academic staff. Institutional management was not proactive
regarding women's issues, and there is strong evidence of a `glass ceiling' at both
institutions. The male hegemony of the institutions was also illustrated in the struggle to
found and maintain women's studies programmes
Trajetórias de criação do mamulengo do professor Benedito em chão de estrelas e mais além
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
Anatomy and neurophysiological data for "Vocal learning-associated convergent evolution in mammalian proteins and regulatory elements"
No full textDataset and companion notebook in Matlab for reproducing the neuroanatomy and neurophysiological result figures in "Vocal learning-associated convergent evolution in mammalian proteins and regulatory elements" by:Morgan E. Wirthlin1,2†‡, Tobias A. Schmid3†, Julie E. Elie3,4†, Xiaomeng Zhang1§, Amanda Kowalczyk1,2, Ruby Redlich, Varvara A. Shvareva5, Ashley Rakuljic5, Maria B. Ji6, Ninad S. Bhat5, Irene M. Kaplow1,2, Daniel E. Schäffer1¶, Alyssa J. Lawler2,7§, Andrew Z. Wang1, BaDoi N. Phan1,2, Siddharth Annaldasula1, Ashley R. Brown1,2, Tianyu Lu1, Byungkook Lim8, Eiman Azim9, Nathan L. Clark10, Wynn K. Meyer11, Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond12, Maria Chikina, Michael M. Yartsev3,4#, Andreas R. Pfenning1,2*#Affiliations:1Department of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.2Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.3Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94708, USA4Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94708, USA.5Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94708, USA.6Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94708, USA.7Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.8Neurobiology section, Division of Biological Science, University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.9Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; La Jolla, CA 92037, USA10Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.11Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University; Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA.12Department Of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].†These authors contributed equally to this work‡Present address: Allen Institute for Brain Science; Seattle, WA 98109, USA.§Present address: Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.¶Present Address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA 02139#These authors jointly supervised the workZoonomia Consortium Members listed at the end of the Main Text document</p
