By Sarah Bonato, Reference/Research Librarian, CAMH Library
It’s International Women’s Day!
This is an unprecedented time of global activism for women’s rights, equality and justice. The 2018 theme is #MyFeminism, to convey how feminism shapes Canada and other countries worldwide. See below for a selection of research with a #MyFeminism focus.
Decolonizing Feminism: From Reproductive Abuse to Reproductive Justice, by Karen Stote
From Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice/Études critiques sur le genre, la culture, et la justice social 38, no. 1 (2017): 110-124
- This article explores how Western feminism might support decolonization and reproductive justice.
Access at http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/4767
Feminist Approaches to Anorexia Nervosa: a Qualitative Study of a Treatment Group, by Sy Holmes, Sarah Drake, Kelsey Odgers, and Jon Wilson
From Journal of Eating Disorders 5, no. 1 (2017): 36.
- This article has information on a feminist orientated approach to eating disorders at a residential clinic.
Access at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158897
The Health Needs of Young Women: Applying a Feminist Philosophical Lens to Nursing Science and Practice, by Candace W. Burton
From Advances in Nursing Science 39, no. 2 (2016): 108.
- This article discusses how a feminist theoretical perspective offers a useful lens for understanding the needs of both nurses and their clients.
Access at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225983/
Towards a Feminist Understanding of Intersecting Violence Against Women and Children in the Family, by Sophie Namy, Catherine Carlson, Kathleen O’Hara, Janet Nakuti, Paul Bukuluki, Julius Lwanyaaga, Sylvia Namakula et al.
From Social Science & Medicine 184 (2017): 40-48.
- This article discusses domestic violence within a feminist analysis.
Access at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28501019
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