Tag: female body
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The embodiment of patriarchy into docile female bodies; from ancient Mesopotamia to today’s West Nepal
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…
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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…