Identidades dialógicas en migración: experiencias de mujeres latinoamericanas en Sevilla.

El presente trabajo persigue como objetivo comprender la construcción narrativa de la identidad en el contexto migratorio situado a partir de las experiencias de seis mujeres de origen latinoamericano residentes en la provincia de Sevilla. Para ello, partiremos de una noción de identidad como proceso mediado por la cultura y fundamentalmente como construcción simbólica a partir de la negociación de significados culturales entre voces. Situamos las experiencias de migración que conforman este estudio a partir de los datos estadísticos de flujo migratorio, pero también a partir del marco legal que regula su entrada y de cómo es gestionada la diversidad cultural. Nuestra propuesta se nutre también de la noción de intersección como punto en el que dos o más voces se encuentran transformando los significados y las posiciones que se derivan. Estas posiciones tomadas en conjunto conforman la construcción narrativa de la identidad en migración, único para cada uno de los casos analizados, pero también con aspectos en común. De la primera parte, el análisis de los casos individuales, nos permitirá acercarnos a los puntos en la narración donde se produce tensión dialógica entre las voces a partir de las intersecciones de escenarios culturales. Además, al poner el foco en la construcción particular, abre la posibilidad a deconstruir categorías homogeneizadoras como “migrante” y “mujer”. Por otro lado, de los aspectos en común podemos comprender la construcción de otredad desde el discurso de xenofobia y las transformaciones en el discurso de género como algunas cuestiones relevantes del proceso de construcción narrativa de la identidad en la migración

Los cuidados a través de las lentes de los Feminismos Africanos: Una revisión sistemática

Este estudio realiza una revisión sistemática de la investigación sobre prácticas de cuidados de autores/as africanos/as con una perspectiva feminista. La pregunta de investigación se ha desarrollado a través de la estrategia conocida por el acrónimo de PICo: Participantes; fenómeno de interés y contexto. En nuestro caso, consecutivamente, mujeres, feminismo y prácticas de cuidado, y África subsahariana. Tras el proceso de filtrado de los 102 artículos seleccionados, veinte estudios superaron los criterios de inclusión. Mediante análisis temático fueron organizados en tres grandes categorías: Epidemia de VIH; Crisis de reproducción social y Cuidados Afrocomunitarios. Los trabajos analizados exploran los roles tradicionales de género y prácticas culturales como factores de riesgo o protección de contagio de VIH; la sobrecarga de labores de cuidados que afrontan las mujeres africanas ante la crisis de reproducción social; y las propuestas afrocomunitarias relacionadas con los cuidados.This study presents a systematic review of the research into care practices by African authors with a feminist perspective. The research question has been developed through the strategy known as PICo: participants, phenomenon of interest and context. In our case, these are women, feminism and care practices, and sub-Saharan Africa respectively. After the process of filtering 102 selected articles, twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. They were organized into three broad categories using thematic analysis: HIV epidemic; crisis of social reproduction, and Afro-communitarian care. The papers examined explore cultural practices and traditional gender roles as risk or protective factors for contracting HIV; the overload of care work that African women face with regard to the crisis of social reproduction; and the Afro-communitarian proposals in relation to care

Hallazgos fundamentales sobre las renuncias al procedimiento judicial por violencia de género

En primer lugar se expondrán los resultados del análisis exploratorio realizado con el objetivo de recoger la información necesaria para el diseño de la herramienta a utilizar durante la fase de recogida de datos. Seguidamente se expondrán los resultados obtenidos en esta segunda fase de administración de los cuestionarios a las mujeres inmersas en el procedimiento judicial

Women caregivers of dependent relatives and health: Effects of the participation in a stress management workshop

Las tareas de cuidado a dependientes merecen ser objeto de estudio y atención por representar un factor de riesgo para la salud. Por ello analizamos los efectos de ser cuidadora familiar y asistir a un curso de control del estrés, así como la incidencia de dos covariables consideradas relevantes, como son los pensamientos disfuncionales y el tiempo prestando cuidados. Analizamos una muestra de 219 asistentes a talleres psicoeducativos a la que se aplicaron tres instrumentos: cuestionario sociodemográfico, cuestionario de salud general (GHQ28) y pensamientos disfuncionales (CPD). El análisis univariante mostró que ser cuidadora familiar repercute negativamente (p< .001) en todas las escalas del GHQ y que realizar un curso de estrés tiene efectos claramente positivos (p< .05) en la salud general, la somatización y la función social. Asimismo, el análisis de la covarianza mostró que los efectos de ser cuidadora y haber realizado un curso de estrés se mantienen incluso si se consideran los pensamientos disfuncionales y el tiempo cuidando.Dependent care tasks deser ve a special study and attention because of being a health risk factor. That is the reason why we analyzed the effects of working as a family caregiver and of attending a stress management workshop and the impact of two relevant covariables, i.e., dysfunctional thoughts and the time spent providing care. We analyzed a sample of 219 participants attending psychoeducational workshops. Three instruments were applied: A socio-demographic questionnaire, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ28), and the Dysfunctional Thoughts Questionnaire (CPD). Univariate analysis showed that working as a family caregiver has a negative impact (p< .001) on all GHQ scales and that attending a stress management workshop has a positive effect (p< .05) on general health, somatization and social function. Furthermore, covariance analysis showed that the effects of working as a caregiver and attending a stress management workshop remained significant even when the two covariables (dysfunctional thoughts and time providing care) were considered

Home and mental ill-health: Twenty dimensions

In the context of psychiatric rehabilitation and care, home is often associated with health. In the context of deinstitutionalization, however, home has increasingly become the primary site of psychiatric suffering. Drawing on a two-year ethnographic research project with a drama group for young adult mental healthcare service users living in supported housing facilities, this paper presents twenty dimensions of home through which mental ill-health can be approached as a bodily experienced, and discursively and medically structured form of being in the world. These dimensions are here offered as a framework for further exploration of the social, spatial, temporal, structural and embodied aspects of psychiatric suffering

Birth professionals make art: Using participatory arts to think about being a birthing professional

In The Birth Project we are exploring women‘s experience of childbirth and the transition to motherhood using the arts and then presenting the research findings in films and exhibitions. Our overarching research question wishes to explore what role arts engagement might have to play in antenatal and postnatal provision, especially where post-birth trauma is being translated into bodily symptoms or depression. The Birth Project is also interested in investigating to what extent clinically-related birth practices are implicated in iatrogenic outcomes, especially post-natal distress. Furthermore, the research is also concerned to explore the birth experience from the perspective of the birth professionals involved. A suite of films has been produced and several shared at the conference

Intercorporeality: Connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance

Dance plays a role in healing rituals across a number of cultures and is also recognised to promote social bonding. This, of course, includes contemporary Western medicine, in which dance is used in psychotherapeutic contexts in the form of dance/movement therapy (DMT). As a contribution to the burgeoning field of health humanities, this paper seeks to explore the power of dance to mitigate human suffering and reacquaint us with what it means to be human through bringing the embodied practice of dance into dialogue with the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The promise of the health humanities is of a broader and richer understanding of what is healthful and therapeutic through exploration of and insight into the human condition. As such, it celebrates the uses of arts and humanities within traditional healthcare settings, practices and training, but also calls for a reimaging of the boundaries of health and healing, so that our intellectual and therapeutic focus might escape the physical and, perhaps more importantly, the epistemological constraints of the clinical. In this spirit, this paper presents an alternative understanding of dance as therapeutic, which is based in philosophy rather than in the psy-disciplines or the neuroscientific insights that currently dominate the literature of DMT as a clinical practice

Medicine and the muse: Opportunities for connection through education, research and shared experience

Introduction: The Stanford Medicine and the Muse: Medical Humanities and the Arts Program is based at a research intensive medical school, which trains physician-scientists and lauds bench and translational scientific endeavours. However, traits which lead to scientific excellence, such as curiosity and interest in interdisciplinary work, are also traits necessary for innovation in health humanities. The Program began over 15 years ago as a bud of a research grant program for Stanford medical students. Initial emphasis on arts and humanities scholarly work as a track in medical education led to a multi-pronged Program with education, research, community-building and outreach missions. Methodology: Three of the multiple components of the Program will be examined. 1. The Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration which has supported over 120 medical student projects. A qualitative study of alumni of the Scholarly Concentration is currently being analysed 2. Cross-disciplinary elective courses such as The Art of Observation, held in the University‘s art museums with peer-peer interactions between medical and art history graduate students. 3. Community-building through creative writing and literature discussion groups for medical students, health professionals, and the support of Pegasus Physician Writers. Discussion: By initiating the Stanford Medicine and the Muse Program as part of the research mission at the medical school, the Program gained traction in the local culture. Networking across the University and beyond enables meaningful exchange and new opportunities. Program expansion, including writing and literature groups, respond to needs for community building and wellness experiences

Brain fever in Gaskell's Cousin Phillis: Reading and hiding love in the body of Victorian heroines

When we consider Victorian literature, it is striking to note the high number of novels that participated in the growing debate of the time around health, in particular that of women. This debate was encouraged by the attention nineteenth century medicine paid to the female body. Thus, there are countless examples of novels in which the heroine falls mysteriously ill at a certain point in the plot, disconcerting family and friends and requiring the immediate assistance of the doctor and the nurse. Contemporary medical theories warned about the somatic consequences of both emotional excess and repression, particularly in the case of women, considered by nature more emotional than men. Therefore, medical anxieties focused on women, especially bourgeois women, scrutinizing their bodies for external signs of emotion. The female body, subject to the medical gaze, turns into a text that offers her readers privileged access to her emotional life. Its vigilance and the control of her emotions was necessary to grant her health and that of the Empire. Despite the effort of doctors to acquire it, this ability to read bodily signs of emotion was directly attributed to women. However, it is interesting to analyse how novels like Cousin Phillis (1865) provided instruction in the emotional language of the body. Gaskell‘s novel supports medical theories about the threat of emotions to the fragile balance of female health while, simultaneously, questioning the supposedly natural association of women with affective hermeneutics