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Facilitating Ethical Participatory Visual Research in Taboo Spaces
Gender intersects in interesting ways with practices of witchcraft globally, with people’s sexuality used as a yardstick towards possible witchcraft...
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Breaking the Taboo: Determinants of Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Among Egyptian Women
Drawing on 32 semi structured in-depth interviews with Egyptian women, this paper discusses determinants of sexual knowledge and attitudes among...
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FemTech and Taboo Topics: Raaji as a Tool for Educating Women in Pakistan
Menstruation and, therefore, menstrual hygiene management are considered taboo topics in the patriarchal society of Pakistan. With limited resources...
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Risks and Challenges in Fieldwork on Gender-Based Violence: Gendered Identity, Social Taboo and Culture
This paper provides an overview of the extent and nature of risks and challenges of doing fieldwork on gender-based violence (GBV), especially on...
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Unwed and Unwanted: Sofia and the Taboo of Single Motherhood in Morocco
Unlike the situation in many western countries, falling pregnant outside of wedlock remains an unspeakable taboo in Moroccan society. Unmarried women...
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Folklore, Traditional Beliefs, Taboo and Practices on Climate and Weather Forecasting by the Meitei Community of Manipur, North East India
Manipur state, which falls within the “Indo-Burma” centre of biodiversity “hotspot” of global significance and a part of the tertiary ranges of the...
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The Ambivalence of Sexuality: The Dialogic Taboo Around Pregnancy
This chapter analyzes the testimonies of 30 Paraguayan women regarding their affective, sexual, and reproductive relationships in the Paraná...
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Bursting volcano, rushing river and heartbeat monitors: inscribing subjective experiences of childbirth in contemporary fiction
Placing contemporary representations of subjective experiences of childbirth at the centre of the analysis, the article examines birth scenes in Inga...
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Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature
Sardinia is one of the five Longevity Blue Zones (LBZs) in the world. Compared to other LBZs, the percentage of male centenarians in Sardinia is much...
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“It’s No Longer Taboo, is It?” Stories of Intimate Citizenship of People with Disabilities in Today’s Russian Public Sphere
This article examines how disability and sexuality are represented in today’s Russian media, and how disabled people navigate these understandings....
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Impediment to communication in adolescent sexual and reproductive health knowledge: a study in secondary level students in Khulna City
In the conservative society, adolescent and reproductive health education is difficult, where discussion about sexual and reproductive health is a...
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The Link between Human Emotions and Sociality in Westermarck’s Sociology
Westermarck has probably written more about emotions than almost any other sociologist or anthropologist. In this chapter, I focus on the importance...
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Transnational Engagements: Smashing the Last Taboo—Caring Corporations in Conversation
Bacalja Perianes delves into the relationship between capitalism and social change by focusing on how three companies balance profit-making with...
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Traditional ecological knowledge on the slope of Mount Lawu, Indonesia: all about non-rice food security
As a country with rice as the staple food, the dominant traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) on food in Indonesia is rice. However, in Tawangmangu...
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Menstrual Bodies and Gender The Transnational Business of Menstruation from Latin America
This book interrogates how the so-called “Feminine Care” industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable...
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Crip** Incest Discourse(s)
In this article, I chart the ableist presuppositions associated with the incest taboo. Specifically, I interrogate two ways in which incest is...
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Geoengineering’s Past: From Mastery to Taboo
This Chapter explores the history and understandings of geoengineering in the period prior to 2005 and draws out the continuities and discontinuities...
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Killer Whales and Killer Women: Exploring Menopause as a ‘Satellite Taboo’ that Orbits Madness and Old Age
Taboo research has established that women’s menstrual cycle has been a prevailing taboo topic across societies. There is, however, another M-word...
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An Examination of Redditors’ Metaphorical Sensemaking of Prenuptial Agreements
Through a reflexive thematic analysis of user-generated Reddit threads and a sensemaking lens, this study investigated how people made sense of...