Feminist Perspectives and Practice With Young Women

Kelly, Patricia J.; Bobo, Tess J.; Avery, Shana; McLachlan, Kate

doi:10.1080/01460860490451831

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“…47 Such interventions borrow from feminist models of substance abuse, acknowledge past and current trauma and abuse, focus on physical and social power imbalances in women's health care, and take into account women's personal and social resources. 48,49,50 Ideally, these interventions would focus on developing women's abilities to organize their lives and successfully engage within their social networks and communities.…”

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Sexual Health Risk and the Movement of Women Between Disadvantaged Communities and Local Jails

Ramaswamy

Kelly

2015

Behavioral Medicine

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Drawing on cross-sectional data collected in three Kansas City jails, our objective was to describe the social, neighborhood-based context of sexual health risk prior to incarceration for 290 women. Half of the participants were clustered in Kansas City's urban core before their incarceration. Women who lived in these neighborhoods, which had the highest density of our incarcerated participants, were three times as likely to report a history of trading sex for money, drugs, or life necessities, compared to women who lived elsewhere in the city. Living in a neighborhood that was perceived to have low social capital was also associated with sexually transmitted infection history. Gaining an understanding of these social influences in women's lives—particularly at the neighborhood level—provides key insights that will allow future interventions to change the health outcomes of women who move between disadvantaged communities and local jails.

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Sexual Health Risk and the Movement of Women Between Disadvantaged Communities and Local Jails

Ramaswamy

Kelly

2015

Behavioral Medicine

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“…We sought to empower women to tackle the range of their reproductive health needs and make the perception of a more “distant” problem of cervical cancer prevention a priority. The sexual health empowerment component of the intervention stemmed from a feminist perspective on health—understanding women’s experience within their social and political context, as well as a health-focused approach, not disease or illness focused (Andrist & MacPherson, 2001; Kelly & Bobo, 2004). This approach emphasized the context of romantic and sexual partnerships, family, and community in women’s lives; the role of the intersection of race-, class-, and gender-specific health outcomes; and rejection of status quo values and assumptions about women (Kelly & Bobo, 2004).…”

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The Development of a Brief Jail-Based Cervical Health Promotion Intervention

Ramaswamy

Simmons

Kelly

2014

Health Promotion Practice

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The primary objective of this article was to describe the development and pilot implementation of a brief jail-based cervical health promotion intervention. The intervention was guided by a preliminary study of incarcerated women’s cervical health knowledge, awareness, and health literacy, as well as a social and feminist approach to intervention development. We developed and conducted a pilot implementation of the Sexual Health Empowerment Project to increase cervical health knowledge, reduce barriers related to beliefs about cervical cancer, and improve self-efficacy and confidence in navigating health systems. This article offers a framework for how empirically and theory-based interventions are developed and tailored for a jail setting. Future work should include the evaluation of the long-term effects of such a disease-specific program on health behaviors and outcomes among high-risk and vulnerable groups of women as they leave jails and enter communities.

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“…These studies show how gender-sensitive interventions can reach beyond traditional health programmes, because they take into account constraining gender relations, perceptions, and norms – which also may be barriers to recognising mental health symptoms and turning to health services in time. Strategies used in gender-sensitive interventions for young people have, for example, been to address gendered power imbalances and ‘double standards’ in heterosexual partner relationships [38,39], to be open to more complex gendered attitudes and perceptions among youth [38], and to empower young women to seek support in groups [40,41]. Empowerment is, in women-centred or feminist programmes for girls and young women, defined as a ‘process through which individuals are moved to act on their own behalf’, which aims to encourage their specific strengths and resources, including social and relational competences [41].…”

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‘Girls need to strengthen each other as a group’: experiences from a gender-sensitive stress management intervention by youth-friendly Swedish health services – a qualitative study

2013

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BackgroundMental health problems among young people, and girls and young women in particular, are a well-known health problem. Such gendered mental health patterns are also seen in conjunction with stress-related problems, such as anxiety and depression and psychosomatic complaints. Thus, intervention models tailored to the health care situation experienced by young women within a gendered and sociocultural context are needed. This qualitative study aims to illuminate young women’s experiences of participating in a body-based, gender-sensitive stress management group intervention by youth-friendly health services in northern Sweden.MethodsA physiotherapeutic body-based, health-promoting, gender-sensitive stress management intervention was created by youth-friendly Swedish health services. The stress management courses (n = 7) consisted of eight sessions, each lasting about two hours, and were led by the physiotherapist at the youth centre. The content in the intervention had a gender-sensitive approach, combining reflective discussions; short general lectures on, for example, stress and pressures related to body ideals; and physiotherapeutic methods, including body awareness and relaxation. Follow-up interviews were carried out with 32 young women (17–25 years of age) after they had completed the intervention. The data were analysed with qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe overall results of our interview analysis suggest that the stress management course we evaluated facilitated ‘a space for gendered and embodied empowerment in a hectic life’, implying that it both contributed to a sense of individual growth and allowed participants to unburden themselves of stress problems within a trustful and supportive context. Participants’ narrated experiences of ‘finding a social oasis to challenge gendered expectations’, ‘being bodily empowered’, and ‘altering gendered positions and stance to life’ point to empowering processes of change that allowed them to cope with distress, despite sometimes continuously stressful life situations. This intervention also decreased stress-related symptoms such as anxiousness, restlessness, muscle tension, aches and pains, fatigue, and impaired sleep.ConclusionsThe participants’ experiences of the intervention as a safe and exploratory space for gendered collective understanding and embodied empowerment further indicates the need to develop gender-sensitive interventions to reduce individualisation of health problems and instead encourage spaces for collective support, action, and change.

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Feminist Perspectives and Practice With Young Women

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Sexual Health Risk and the Movement of Women Between Disadvantaged Communities and Local Jails

Sexual Health Risk and the Movement of Women Between Disadvantaged Communities and Local Jails

The Development of a Brief Jail-Based Cervical Health Promotion Intervention

‘Girls need to strengthen each other as a group’: experiences from a gender-sensitive stress management intervention by youth-friendly Swedish health services – a qualitative study

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