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Journal articles on the topic "Women's agency"

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Palin, Tutta, and Elina Oinas. "Professional Fields, Women's Agency." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 16, no. 1 (March 2008): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08038740801886011.

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Isaacs, Tracy. "Feminism and Agency." Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 28 (2002): 129–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2002.10717585.

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Given conditions of oppression presupposed by a feminist understanding of social structures, feminist agency is paradoxical. I am going to understand feminist agency as women's ability to be effective agents against their own oppression. The paradox of feminist agency arises because feminist assumptions about women's socialization seem to entail that women's agency is compromised by sexist oppression. In particular, women's agency appears to be diminished in ways that interfere with their capacity for feminist action, that is, action against sexist oppression.Feminist philosophers have taken issue with traditional conceptions of agency, claiming that these conceptions are overly individualistic and valorize an illusory and unattractive ideal of agents and agency. If the paradox arises because women do not attain traditional ideals of independence, control, choice, and free action, then, if we reject the tradition, we may be able to articulate a preferable ideal of agency. This alternative may be one that women satisfy. Hence, a feminist reconstrual of the self could dispel the paradox.
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Pollack, Shoshana. "Reconceptualizing Women's Agency and Empowerment." Women & Criminal Justice 12, no. 1 (October 12, 2000): 75–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j012v12n01_05.

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GERAMI, SHAHIN, and MELODYE LEHNERER. "WOMEN'S AGENCY AND HOUSEHOLD DIPLOMACY." Gender & Society 15, no. 4 (August 2001): 556–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124301015004004.

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Redhead, Robin. "Imag(in)ing Women's Agency." International Feminist Journal of Politics 9, no. 2 (June 2007): 218–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616740701259879.

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KALBIAN, ALINE H. "NARRATIVE ARTIFICE AND WOMEN'S AGENCY." Bioethics 19, no. 2 (April 2005): 93–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2005.00428.x.

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LEWIS, JANE. "Women's Agency, Maternalism and Welfare." Gender & History 6, no. 1 (April 1994): 117–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.1994.tb00198.x.

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Eduards, Maud L. "Women's agency and collective action." Women's Studies International Forum 17, no. 2-3 (March 1994): 181–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(94)90024-8.

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González Ramos, Ana M., and Esther Torrado Martín-Palomino. "Addressing women's agency on international mobility." Women's Studies International Forum 49 (March 2015): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2014.12.004.

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Herr, Ranjoo Seodu. "Islamist Women's Agency and Relational Autonomy." Hypatia 33, no. 2 (2018): 195–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12402.

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Mainstream conceptions of autonomy have been surreptitiously gender‐specific and masculinist. Feminist philosophers have reclaimed autonomy as a feminist value, while retaining its core ideal as self‐government, by reconceptualizing it as “relational autonomy.” This article examines whether feminist theories of relational autonomy can adequately illuminate the agency of Islamist women who defend their nonliberal religious values and practices and assiduously attempt to enact them in their daily lives. I focus on two notable feminist theories of relational autonomy advanced by Marina Oshana and Andrea Westlund and apply them to the case of Women's Mosque Movement participants in Egypt. I argue that feminist conceptions of relational autonomy, centered around the ideal of self‐government, cannot elucidate the agency of Women's Mosque Movement participants whose normative ideal involves perfecting their moral capacity.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women's agency"

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Heinemann, Chloe Janelle. "Women's Agency in Gothic Literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595049.

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The objective of this thesis is to argue for and analyze the progression of women's agency in the first century of Gothic literature. Starting with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), there are stirrings of women's agency as female protagonists begin to challenge male authority and attempt to escape the entrapment of the patriarchal hierarchy. As we move from Otranto to Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), we can see the progression of women's agency as the heroine acquires social, financial, and romantic control through her strong moral disposition. Finally, a new level of agency appears in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), as the protagonist stands up to male authority and openly declares the idea that women should be treated equally with men. Women's agency continues to evolve in Gothic works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) and the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), even if some limitations are still present. These works grant women more independent agency than ever before, but they also suggest that there are still constraints, even in the twenty-first century.
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De, Angelis Maria Ivanna. "Human trafficking : women's stories of agency." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5823.

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This thesis is about women’s stories of agency in a trafficking experience. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which demarcate and define trafficking. In response to the three Ps of trafficking policy (prevention and protection of victims and the simultaneous prosecution of traffickers) official discourse constructs trafficking agency in singular opposition to trafficking victimhood. The ‘true’ victim of trafficking is reified in attributes of passivity and worthiness, whereas signs of women’s agency are read as consent in their own predicament or as culpability in criminal justice and immigration rule breaking. Moving beyond the official lack or criminal fact of agency, this research adds knowledge on agency constructed with, on, and by women possessing a trafficking experience. This fills an internationally recognised gap in the trafficking discourse. Within the thesis, female agency is explored in feminist terms of women’s immediate well-being agency (their physical safety and economic needs) and their longer term requirements for agency freedom (their capacity to construct choices and the conditions affecting choice). This feminist exploration of the terrain on trafficking found ways in which female agency takes shape in relationship and in degrees to women’s subjective and structural victimisation. Based upon the stories of twenty six women gathered through an in-depth qualitative study, agency is visible in identity, decision making and actions. Women fashioned individual trafficking identities from their subjective engagement with the official trafficking descriptors. Additionally, their identification with ties to home (expressed via family relationships, occupational roles, national dress and ethnic food) helped to sustain their pre-trafficking personas. Women exhibited agency in risk taking and choices (initial, shared, constrained and precarious), which characterised their journeys and explained their grading of trafficking ‘pains’. Significantly, the fieldwork raised women’s engagement with ‘the rules’ and practices of the host society, as a way of realising new social, recreational, educational, employment, sexual and consumer related freedoms. Acknowledging the international and UK serious organised crime frame on trafficking, the fieldwork also included fifteen interviews with anti-trafficking professionals involved in delivering the three Ps of trafficking policy. This complementary standpoint to women’s stories presents ways in which official actors helped and hindered women’s achievement of well-being and agency freedoms. Crucially, in addressing trafficking as an evolving and integral aspect in contemporary global movement - displaying similarity and cross over with migration, smuggling, asylum and refugee accounts - this research unearthed trafficking exploitations and experiences around transnational marriage, which have been traditionally isolated and overlooked by UK trafficking discourse and policy platforms.
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Nomdo, Christina. "Who helps women cope? : women's agency in households, families and communities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12782.

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Women’s experiences of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa are made real in their struggles to access resources and assets to survive. They survive sudden shocks and entrenched poverty by constructing and drawing on social support networks that provide access to adequate housing, secure tenure and sufficient income to sustain households. The social support networks of households, families and communities are investigated in the adjacent but diverse townships of Manenberg and Guguletu - resettlement areas for those who were forcibly removed from the city centre of Cape Town. Theoretical perspectives on: the South African context of support; reciprocity; social networks; and the morality inherent in networks, fail to provide information of the complexities and nuances in the lives of the women. Women are required to negotiate gender roles and position in every relationship in order to be eligible for support. Discourses on how the South African city shaped reciprocity and gender identity within households and families provide insight into the context in which support is negotiated. Drawing on these sets of literature an analysis of life histories (constructed from a semi-structured, open ended questionnaire) is conducted of fifteen women from each township that document their struggles, frustrations, joys and aspirations. The evidence from the case studies suggests that women's experiences of poverty are actualised in their marginalisation from adequate housing, secure tenure and sustainable livelihoods. Moreover, the mechanisms they employ to bridge these challenges, their support networks, further entrenches gender inequalities and the inferior position of women in society. A detailed analysis of their relationships reveals that in order to access support women sublimate their challenges of traditional gender identities in order conform to normative behaviour and access resources and assets required for survival. A comparison of the configuration, utilisation and value of strategic relationships within women's households, families and communities demonstrates their agency. The women interact with their context, making strategic decisions and choices that influence not only the social fabric of their communities but also their own identity.
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Deeks, Emma. "The agency of anonymity : reading women's autobiographical blogs." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2016. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/8942/.

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This thesis uses previously unstudied female authored blog narratives to explore the role the author’s anonymity plays in the way they textually construct themselves and their offline experiences. It thereby reconceptualises not only what it means to be anonymous online, but also how anonymity is utilised by users regardless of their perceived level of hiddenness. Unlike previous research into the genre, it considers blogs as part of the trajectory of life-writing, which includes autobiography and diaries, and therefore examines the narratives using close textual literary analysis. The thesis also acknowledges the fact that the content of blogs is inherently influenced by the form itself, and therefore looks at the texts in the context of their online platform and its technological features. It subsequently shows blogs to be a constantly updated example of contemporary culture, which represent not just an individual voice, but new ways of examining broader social realities. The analysis examines how the blogosphere could specifically offer a platform for women, who are often discouraged from speaking up in the offline public sphere, to share their stories and have a ‘public’ voice online. It therefore provides a detailed insight into a selection of female authors who have chosen this medium, interrogates the ways in which they utilise the potential anonymity that the online world offers them, and demonstrates to what extent the blogosphere could therefore be regarded as a space where women can represent alternative, and potentially transgressive, performances of self. Its methodology and theoretical framework mean that the analysis provides a more detailed insight into how and why women are seen to dominate this platform than existing research has thus far been able to. The findings therefore go beyond previous conceptualisations of female blog users, and of the blogosphere more broadly; highlighting the extent to which the medium of blogging represents a powerful place for women to write themselves.
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Bosworth, Mary. "Resisting identities : agency and power in women's prisons." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273057.

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Rein, Sandra. "Women's revolutionary agency, re-igniting the Marxist/Feminist debate." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0007/MQ28906.pdf.

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Garcia, Mariechristine. "Explorations of Women's Narrative Agency in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2155.

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This paper explores the extent to which the female characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exercise any degree of narrative agency. Using both literary and historical approaches, this paper specifically discusses the cases of three of Chaucer’s women: Virginia, Griselda, and the Wife of Bath.
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Averett, Paige. "Parental Communications and Young Women's Struggle for Sexual Agency." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30091.

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This qualitative study examined how 14 young women's sexual desire and agency was influenced by the messages communicated from their parents and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Previous research results were supported, such as: parents do not communicate about sex frequently, or only about limited topics; mothers communicate more frequently than fathers, and peers communicate more sexual information. Utilizing a postmodern, feminist position, themes of parental transmission of patriarchal social controls were found, such as: fear of being viewed as a slut, gender roles that demand female passivity, sex is scary, and young women are not to have sex, or only in the context of committed relationships. Implications for parenting practices and the importance of developing sexual agency are discussed.
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Langsdale, Samantha. "Damaged bodies : women's agency in trecento Florentine soteriological discourses." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2014. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18251/.

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This thesis examines the formation of identity in religious discourse as necessarily gendered and embodied. I will establish that while theories of corporeality, bodies and embodiment have explored diverse processes of bodily identity formation, the production of bodies within religious discourses has not been adequately addressed. I develop a critical feminist analysis that demonstrates how and why religious discourses are formative of embodied, gendered identities. Specifically, I argue that historically Christian soteriology has been productive of embodied, gendered identities in multiple ways: (1) soteriological discourses produce normative ideals of embodiment; (2) these normative ideals result in the materialisation of human desires for their own bodies to approximate those ideals; (3) the disparity between normative ideals of religious embodiment and actual bodies produces material effects that are damaging for those bodies which are farthest from the religious, and thus normative ideal. I assert that this final layer of production becomes apparent through reading religious discourses as performative; that is, bodily identities do not materialise in a 'singular or deliberate "act", but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names' (J. Butler 1993: 2). I test my hypothesis via a historical case study of those fourteenth-century Florentine soteriological discourses and doctrines which necessitated the materialisation of female bodies as 'damaged' alongside the articulation of women's desires for their bodies to approximate the normative ideal (specifically the resurrected male body of Christ). My reading of these discourses indicates how the normative ideal, because of its necessary iteration, was elastic, enabling gendered, embodied subjects to negotiate their discursive positions and I argue that this negotiation enables identification of female agency in the historical record. However, I depart from some feminist scholarship by disputing that this agency must necessarily be read in terms either of collusion or subversion. Instead, I argue that in contexts where Christian soteriological discourses produce not only normative ideals, but also desires within embodied subjects to approximate those normative ideals, it is contradictory to suggest that agential action must be only either subversive of or collusive with discourse. Female agency in trecento Florence was far more complex.
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Petersen, Emily J. ""Reasonably Bright Girls": Theorizing Women's Agency in Technological Systems of Power." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4924.

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A woman’s experience in the workplace is an inductive process into a technological, hierarchical, and often male-dominated system. This study examines how female practitioners in technical and professional communication confront the technological system of the workplace. I trace the forces that contribute to the hierarchy and power struggles women face, I present how they claim authority and agency within such hierarchical and technological systems, and I show how these experiences can lead to activism and advocacy.In addition, my findings suggest that some women leave the workplace altogether in favor of less structured and more innovative ways of communicating about technologies, particularly technologies and processes they find more applicable to their lives as women. The data from 39 interviews with female practitioners reveals that the traditional notion of the workplace is in crisis, and that women are asserting agency in order to disrupt the system and ensure a place for themselves within it.
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Books on the topic "Women's agency"

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Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, ed. Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729321.

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Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women’s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from various disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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Beyond women's empowerment in Africa: Exploring dislocation and agency. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Crisafulli, Lilla Maria. Women's romantic theatre and drama: History, agency, and performativity. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010.

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Writing childbirth: Women's rhetorical agency in labor and online. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.

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Women's romantic theatre and drama: History, agency, and performativity. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010.

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Women's activism and feminist agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.

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I, Lakshmi, and Satyanarayana A. 1952-, eds. Privileging women agency in history: Work, worship, leisure, and pleasure. New Delhi: Research India Press, 2012.

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University of Dhaka. Dept. of Women and Gender Studies, ed. Household diplomacy: Access to income and women's agency in Bangladesh. Dhaka: Dept. of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, 2009.

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He, Qiliang. Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89692-2.

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Women in India: Negotiating body, reclaiming agency. Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Women's agency"

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Boden, Alison L. "The Question of Agency." In Women's Rights and Religious Practice, 129–52. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230590069_6.

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Soetan, Olusegun. "Transnational agency, Nollywood feminist auteurs, and patriarchy." In Transnational Africana Women's Fictions, 117–29. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003177272-10.

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Bhana, Deevia. "Girls’ Sexuality Between Agency and Vulnerability." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies, 1–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77030-7_39-1.

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Ziemer, Ulrike. "Women Against Authoritarianism: Agency and Political Protest in Armenia." In Women's Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus, 71–100. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25517-6_4.

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Ranasinha, Ruvani. "Resistance and Religion: Gender, Islam and Agency in Kamila Shamsie, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali and Ameena Hussein." In Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction, 129–74. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40305-6_4.

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"Promoting Women's Agency." In World Development Report 2012, 150–93. The World Bank, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/9780821388105_ch4.

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Yanikkaya Aydemır, Pervin. "Women's Agency and Sustainability." In Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency, 102–33. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4829-5.ch005.

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The critical multitasking role that women play in agriculture, production, and ecological sustainability and their contribution as possessors of knowledge and skills have been almost ignored by the institutionalized patriarchy, such that women constituting almost half of the world's population have lacked equitable participation in decision-making, responsibilities, and benefits of development. In this chapter, the author discusses women's agency and sustainability, focusing on the activist work of two remarkable women from different socio-economic backgrounds in Turkey with whom she conducted in-depth interviews during fieldwork in İspir, Erzurum in 2012. Both women provide examples of how they have responded to issues relating to the upsurge of hydropower projects in Turkey. Although it has been almost eight years since she was in the field, she finds their perspectives and experiences relevant and important for representation of female voices and women's agency in terms of management and sustainability of water resources, particularly given the current climate crisis.
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"Women's agency and fertility." In Population, Gender and Politics, 117–64. Cambridge University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511621550.006.

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"Finland: Women's Enterprise Agency." In The Missing Entrepreneurs 2014, 194–95. OECD, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264213593-22-en.

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Brunsdon, Charlotte. "Women's Genres and Female Agency." In The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera, 19–37. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159803.003.0002.

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Conference papers on the topic "Women's agency"

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Qutteina, Yara, Laurie James-Hawkins, Buthaina A. Al-Khelaifi, and Kathryn M. Yount. "Meanings of Women's Agency: Improving Measurement in Context." In Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings. Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qfarc.2016.sshaop2331.

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Vernekar, Nisha, and Karan Singhal. "Women‟s Agency Freedoms and Education Levels in the Post-marital Household: Evidence from Rural India." In World Conference on Women's Studies. The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.17501/wcws.2017.2105.

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Wang, Hua. "Chinese women's rhetorical agency in reproduction and social media." In SIGDOC '19: The 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3328020.3353910.

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Maule, Cathrine Fox. "Denmark: Getting Equity Back on the Agenda." In WOMEN IN PHYSICS: 2nd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics. AIP, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2128290.

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Ferreira, Ana Paula Lüdtke, and Márcia Maria Lucchese. "Computação e linguagem: uma nova abordagem para aproximar meninas em idade escolar das áreas STEM." In Women in Information Technology. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/wit.2020.11293.

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Alinhada com a Agenda 2030 da ONU, a sociedade civil organizada tem envidado esforços para a diminuição das desigualdades de gênero nos cursos e carreiras das áreas STEM. Este trabalho apresenta uma abordagem linguística para introdução à Computação no Ensino Básico tirando partido do estereótipo de gênero de que mulheres são mais interessadas em cursos das Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Os resultados preliminares mostram que mesmo as estudantes sem interesse prévio em ingressar na Computação no Ensino Superior mostraram-se interessadas na execução das atividades propostas.
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Almeida, Teresa, Rob Comber, and Madeline Balaam. "HCI and Intimate Care as an Agenda for Change in Women's Health." In CHI'16: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858187.

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Kurniagung, Philipus Prihantiko, and Vitri Widyaningsih. "Fertility Determinants in Indonesia: Analysis of Indonesian Basic Health Survey Year 2017." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.03.120.

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ABSTRACT Background: The current fertility rate for Indonesia in 2020 is 2.28 births per woman. High fertility, particularly when it involves conception either too early or too late in the fertility cycle or when short birth intervals are involved, is known to pose higher risks for both mothers and infants. This study aimed to investigate fertility determinants in Indonesia. Subjects and Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out using Indonesian basic health survey year 2017. A sample of 34,199 women of reproductive age aged 15-49 years was selected for this study. The dependent variable was live birth children. The independent variables were education, knowledge toward contraception, employment status, literacy, family discussion, health insurance membership, child birth last year, contraceptive method, residence, province, and source of information. The data were analyzed by a multiple logistic regression. Results: The likelihood of women to have children >2 increased with low education (OR= 2.67; 95% CI= 2.53 to 2.81; p<0.001), low literacy (OR= 1.59; 95% CI= 1.44 to 1.75; p<0.001), and no family discussion (OR= 1.2; 95% CI= 1.13 to 1.24; p<0.001). The likelihood of women to have children >2 decreased with no health insurance membership (OR= 0.73; 95% CI= 0.69 to 0.76; p<0.001), use contraception (OR= 0.33; 95% CI= 0.31 to 0.34; p<0.001), child birth delivery last year (OR= 0.77; 95% CI= 0.71 to 0.83; p<0.001), lived in province in West Indonesia (OR= 0.69; 95% CI= 0.66 to 0.72; p<0.001), received information from private agency (OR= 0.83; 95% CI= 0.78 to 0.89; p<0.001), and worked (OR= 0.72; 95% CI= 0.69 to 0.75; p<0.001). Conclusion: The likelihood of women to have children >2 increases with low education, low literacy, and no family discussion. The likelihood of women to have children >2 decreases with no health insurance membership, use contraception, child birth delivery last year, lived in province in West Indonesia, received information from private agency, and worked. Keywords: fertility, women of reproductive age, demography Correspondence: Philipus Prihantiko Kurniagung. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret. Jl. Ir. Sutami 36A, Surakarta 57126, Central Java. Email: prihantiko@gmail.com. Mobile: 089688103450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.03.120
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Hájková, Petra, and Lea Květoňová. "DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH-PROMOTING BEHAVIOUR OF A CHILD AS AN EDUCATIONAL GOAL IN FAMILIES OF HANDICAPPED MOTHERS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end087.

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The mental health of adult women is an important attribute of their motherhood. Weakening of mental health poses a threat to activities in the field of self-care and healthy development of their children. Even under these conditions of health disadvantage, women-mothers remain as the main mediators of health-promoting habits for their children, thus they become theirs first educators. The health literacy of these women also plays a role in this regard. For this reason, it is crucial to provide these women with sufficient special education that takes their individual needs into account. This research project is focused on finding connections between the mental health disorder of mothers, their health literacy with manifestations in the field of health-promoting behaviour, and with the need for support in the relevant area of childcare by professionals and close family members. The author will present an overview of research focused on this issue as well as her own proposal for a research solution, which received the support of the Charles University Grant Agency for the years 2021-2022.
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Nurhadi, Iwan. "Women Agency and the Ambiguity of Their Role in Disaster Management." In 1st UPI International Conference on Sociology Education. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icse-15.2016.64.

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Sinsuat, Dr Bai Soraya Quesada. "Muslim Women Leaders as Agency Executives in Mindanao: Their Capabilities and Challenges." In International Conference on Responsive Education and Socio-Economic Transformation. Sons and Daughters Publishing House Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21016/icreset.2018.au14ef26o.

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Reports on the topic "Women's agency"

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Aldridge, Jo. Identifying the Barriers to Women's Agency in Domestic Violence: The Tensions between Women's Personal Experiences and Systemic Responses. Librello, April 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12924/si2013.01010003.

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Jayachandran, Seema, Monica Biradavolu, and Jan Cooper. Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w28626.

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Mosha, Devotha B., John Jeckoniah, Aida Isinika, and Gideon Boniface. The Influence of Sunflower Commercialisation and Diversity on Women's Empowerment: The Case of Iramba and Mkalama Districts, Singida Region. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2021.014.

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There is a growing body of literature that argues that normally women derive little benefit from cash crops. Some of the barriers leading to women having less benefit from cash crop value chains include cultural norms and power differences in access to, and control over, resources among actors in value chains. It is also argued that women’s participation in different forms of collective action help women to increase benefits to them through their increased agency, hence enabling them to utilise existing and diverse options for their empowerment. This paper explores how women have benefited from their engagement in sunflower commercialisation and how culture has influenced changes in access to, and control over, resources, including land, for their empowerment.
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Setiawan, Ken M. P., Bronwyn A. Beech Jones, Rachael Diprose, and Amalinda Savirani, eds. Women’s Journeys in Driving Change: Women’s Collective Action and Village Law Implementation in Indonesia. University of Melbourne with Universitas Gadjah Mada and MAMPU, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124331.

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This volume shares the life journeys of 21 women from rural villages from Sumatra, to Java, to Kalimantan, Sulawesi and East and West Nusa Tenggara (for ethical reasons, all names have been anonymised). In each of these villages, CSOs introduced and/or strengthened interventions to support gender inclusion, women’s collective action and empowerment. The stories of these village women offer unique insights into women’s aspirations, the challenges they have encountered and their achievements across multiple scales and domains, illustrating the lived complexities of women in rural Indonesia, particularly those from vulnerable groups. The stories shared highlight women’s own pathways of change and their resilience and determination often in the face of resistance from their families and communities, to ultimately reduce rural gender inequities and bolster gender inclusiveness. The stories also illustrate the important role CSOs—those that are focused on gender inclusion and facilitating grassroots women’s agency and empowerment—can play in supporting women’s voice and agency as they undertake this journey.
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Setiawan, Ken M. P., Bronwyn A. Beech Jones, Rachael Diprose, and Amalinda Savirani, eds. Women’s Journeys in Driving Change: Women’s Collective Action and Village Law Implementation in Indonesia. University of Melbourne with Universitas Gadjah Mada and MAMPU, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124331.

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This volume shares the life journeys of 21 women from rural villages from Sumatra, to Java, to Kalimantan, Sulawesi and East and West Nusa Tenggara (for ethical reasons, all names have been anonymised). In each of these villages, CSOs introduced and/or strengthened interventions to support gender inclusion, women’s collective action and empowerment. The stories of these village women offer unique insights into women’s aspirations, the challenges they have encountered and their achievements across multiple scales and domains, illustrating the lived complexities of women in rural Indonesia, particularly those from vulnerable groups. The stories shared highlight women’s own pathways of change and their resilience and determination often in the face of resistance from their families and communities, to ultimately reduce rural gender inequities and bolster gender inclusiveness. The stories also illustrate the important role CSOs—those that are focused on gender inclusion and facilitating grassroots women’s agency and empowerment—can play in supporting women’s voice and agency as they undertake this journey.
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Yıldız, Dilek, Hilal Arslan, and Alanur Çavlin. Understanding women’s well-being in Turkey. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res2.3.

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The results of empirical studies focusing on gender differences in subjective wellbeing based on either national or comparative international data are inconclusive. In Turkey, where levels of gender inequality are high, women tend to report higher levels of life satisfaction than men. This study investigates the relationship between factors related to women’s empowerment and life satisfaction for both ever-married and never-married women using the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS), which collected data on life satisfaction for the first time in a TDHS series. The results show that in addition to their material resources and living environment, factors related to women’s agency – i.e., education and participation in decisionmaking – are associated with women’s levels of life satisfaction.
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Moore, Janelle L. The Risk, Care, and Imagination of Moral Agency: Two Women’s Narratives of Life After Refugee Resettlement. Center for Migration Studies of New York, September 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14240/cmsesy090320.

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Eissler, Sarah, Jessica Heckert, Emily Myers, Gregory Seymour, Sheela Sinharoy, and Kathryn M. Yount. Exploring gendered experiences of time-use agency in Benin, Malawi, and Nigeria as a new concept to measure women’s empowerment. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134275.

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Pelham, Sarah, Tamara Göth, Jorrit Kamminga, Husnia Alkadri, Manizha Ehsan, and Anna Tonelli. 'Leading the Way': Women driving peace and security in Afghanistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Yemen. Oxfam, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2021.7222.

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In Afghanistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Yemen, women’s rights organizations are leading efforts to realize the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, in spite of ongoing conflict, insecurity and occupation. But without national duty bearers and international actors stepping up to meet their commitments, implement National Action Plans (NAPs) and provide resources and support, the full potential of the agenda will not be reached. This briefing paper explores challenges, lessons learned and opportunities related to realizing the WPS agenda, and makes recommendations to a range of national and international stakeholders on how to support its implementation in Afghanistan, OPT and Yemen.
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Enfield, Sue. Promoting Gender Equality in the Eastern Neighbourhood Region. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.063.

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This helpdesk report synthesises evidence on the drivers and opportunities for promoting gender equality in the Eastern Neighbourhood region. Although equality between women and men is enshrined in the constitutions and legal systems of all Eastern Neighbourhood countries, and all countries have ratified most of the important international conventions in this area without reservations; women are still subject to social discrimination. Discriminatory laws, social norms, and practices rooted in patriarchal systems inherited from the Soviet era have negative consequences and act as drags upon gender equality. Former Soviet states making the transition from a command economy to a market-driven system need to make changes in governance and accountability systems to allow for women to have agency and to benefit from any nominal status of gender equality. This report considers areas where there are outstanding opportunities to improve women’s situation in Eastern Neighbourhood countries.
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