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2012
Farhadifar, F., Taymoori, P., Berry, T.
Objective: Despite evidence that screening for breast cancer is effective, adherence with screening recommendations in Iranian women is low. The purposes of this study were to (1) identify the associations between individual characteristics, related health beliefs, and stages of mammography...
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Resistance and Encroachment in Everyday Life: A Feminist Epistemological Study of Qajar Era Iranian Women’s Travel Journals
DownloadSpring 2020
Mohaghegh Neyshabouri, Safaneh
This dissertation is a study of Iranian women’s everyday resistances in Qajar-era Iran, the period prior to the Constitutional Revolution (1906). Mobilizing feminist epistemology, and specifically feminist standpoint theory, which calls for the uncovering of women’s hidden knowledge, I analyze...
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Soul Cysters Dot Net: Configuring the Feminine Body Through the Life Writing of Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Download2017-01-01
Although PCOS includes an array of varying symptoms that produce medical complications, this paper looks specifically at the condition of androgen excess (an increase of “male” hormones such as testosterone) and the ways it is written about in SoulCysters.net. This resistance to the normative...