From the biology of the sexes to the social construction of gender “Sexual attributes are a biological given, but gender is a product of historical process. The fact that women bear children is due to sex; that women nurture children is due to gender, a cultural construct. It is gender which has been chiefly responsible… Continue reading The embodiment of patriarchy into docile female bodies; from ancient Mesopotamia to today’s West Nepal
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The experience of immigrant African women with the western maternity care system; a feminist analysis of the female body
Abstract In this paper I look onto the experiences of immigrant African women with the western maternity system. I start with a short exploration on the difference between the Western and the African maternity care system. I use the papers of Berggren et al. (2006) and Brown et al. (2010) as primary references and I… Continue reading The experience of immigrant African women with the western maternity care system; a feminist analysis of the female body