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• Textfamily planninggender

  Bodies, kin, and flow: Family planning in rural Jamaica

  Analysis of family planning investigates the links between embodied experiences, sociocultural forms, and ethnophysiological concerns.
  Focuses on the rural Jamaican concept of flow, which appears in ethnophysiological ideas and kinship beliefs and has ramifications for contraceptive practice.
• TextgenderHIV/AIDS...1 more

  Urban low-income African American men, HIV?AIDS, and gender identity

  Suggests that perhaps the key to better understanding sex-related health-risk behavior is to conduct more systematic research on gender identity, and the historical and sociocultural origins of such identities.
• Textgenderhealth

  Hospital trash: Cleaners speak of their role in disease prevention

  The fact that cleaning, especially cleaning performed by women, is invisible to managers, other hospital personnel, and patients has important consequences for cleaners' and for patients' health.
• Textgenderviolence...1 more

  Embodiment of terror: Gendered violence in peacetime and wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

  Discusses parallels between the patterns of everyday domination and aggression during times of peace and war.
• Textgenderurinary incontinence

  "Part and parcel of being a woman": Female urinary incontinence and constructions of control

  Draws on extensive interviews with middle-aged Australian women experiencing urinary incontinence.
• Textgendersexuality...1 more

  Machos and sluts: Gender, sexuality, and violence among a cohort of Puerto Rican adolescents

  Describes the beliefs and rationale for gender-based violence among a cohort of low-income, predominantly second-generation, mainland Puerto Rican adolescents.
• Textgendermenopause

  Menopause and the transmission of women's knowledge: African American and white women's perspectives

  Analysis of 70 interviews with African American women and Euro-American women shows that their perceptions of the intergenerational transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers shaped their attitudes toward menopause and the health-care technologies surrounding it.
• TextgenderSTD

  Giving birth to gonolia: "Culture" and sexually transmitted disease among the Huli of Papua New Guinea

  Argues for the importance of a sociology of knowledge approach to understanding local nations of etiology.
• Textgenderreproduction

  Invoking Vali: Painful technologies of modern birth in south India

  The reason of lower-class women in south India in the 1990s were demanding to have childbirth labors induced with oxytocin drugs while rejecting anesthesia.