Postmoderne und Geschlechter-Beziehungen in der feministischen Theorie

Die Autorin geht davon aus, daß sich die westliche Gesellschaft und Kultur in einem grundlegenden Transformationsprozeß befinden. Dieser Prozeß wird theoretisch wiedergegeben und repräsentiert durch die Psychoanalyse, die feministische Theorie und die postmoderne Philosophie. In dem vorliegenden Aufsatz befaßt sich die Autorin im Kontext der Postmoderne mit der feministischen Theorie, ihren Zielen, Logiken und Problempunkten. Sie ordnet die feministische Theorie in ihren sozialen und philosophischen Kontext ein, dessen Kritik sie darstellt und dem sie zugleich angehört. Neben der Reflexion der Geschlechterverhältnisse als grundlegendem Ziel feministischer Theorie befaßt sich die Autorin auch mit der Art und Weise, wie feministische Theoretikerinnen über das Geschlechterverhältnis und andere soziale Verhältnisse denken. In diesem Sinne bewegt sie sich zwischen der Reflexion der Geschlechterverhältnisse und dem Nachdenken darüber, wie über sie gedacht wird bzw. gedacht werden könnte. (pag

Digitising diabetes education for a safer Ramadan:Design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in Ramadan-focused diabetes education

AIMS: Ramadan-focused diabetes education is critical to facilitate safer Ramadan fasting amongst Muslim people living with diabetes. We present the design, delivery, and evaluation of two parallel massive open online courses (MOOCs) in Ramadan-focused diabetes education for people with diabetes and HCPs.METHODS: Two Ramadan-focused diabetes education MOOCs were developed and delivered for Ramadan 2023: one for HCPs in English, and another for people with diabetes in English, Arabic and Malay. A user-centred iterative design process was adopted, informed by user feedback from a 2022 pilot MOOC. Evaluation comprised a mixed-methods evaluation of pre- and post-course user surveys.RESULTS: The platform was utilised by people with diabetes and their family, friends and healthcare professionals. Overall, a total of 1531 users registered for the platform from 50 countries, 809 started a course with a 48% subsequent completion rate among course starters. Qualitative analysis showed users found the course a user-friendly and authoritative information source. In the HCP MOOC, users reported improved post-MOOC Ramadan awareness, associated diabetes knowledge and ability to assess and advise patients in relation to their diabetes during Ramadan (p&lt;0.01).CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate the potential of MOOCs to deliver culturally tailored, high-quality, scalable, multilingual Ramadan-focused diabetes education to HCPs and people with diabetes.</p

Effect of cytomegalovirus infection on breastfeeding transmission of HIV and on the health of infants born to HIV-infected mothers

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection can be acquired in utero or postnatally through horizontal transmission and breastfeeding. The effect of postnatal CMV infection on postnatal HIV transmission is unknown

Plasma Micronutrient Concentrations Are Altered by Antiretroviral Therapy and Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements in Lactating HIV-Infected Malawian Women

Background: Little is known about the influence of antiretroviral therapy with or without micronutrient supplementation on the micronutrient concentrations of HIV-infected lactating women in resource-constrained settings

Adherence to extended postpartum antiretrovirals is associated with decreased breast milk HIV-1 transmission

Estimate association between postpartum antiretroviral adherence and breastmilk HIV-1 transmissio

Thinking fragments: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism in the contemporary West

Thinking Fragments provides a brilliant critique of psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodern theory. Examining the writings of Freud, Winnicott, Lacan, Chodorow, Irigaray, Derrida, Rorty, and Foucault, among others, Flax conducts a "conversation" among psychoanalysts, feminist thinkers, and postmodern theorists, evaluating the ways in which each group of thinkers succeeds in coming to terms with crises in contemporary Western culture. As she analyzes each theory in turn, the others are used to identify and interrogate its gaps and omissions. The result is a postmodern text of intertwined ideas, devoid of clear beginnings, endings, conclusions.Flax addresses the question, "how is it possible to theorize in the contemporary West?" With the demise of objective notions of truth, knowledge, self and power, intellectuals have devised these new modes of thinking which both reflect and contribute to the uncertainties of the contemporary West. Each also addresses at least one aspect of what has become most problematic to modern individuals: How to come to terms with self, gender, knowledge and power without resorting to concepts that stress objectivity, universal knowledge, and a unitary self.Flax finds that neither psychoanalysis, nor feminism, nor postmodernism is adequate to the task for which it was conceived. Each can illuminate certain aspects of problems of self, gender, knowledge, and power, but none is sufficient on its own. In fact, each incorporates characteristic blindnesses rooted in part in the very difficulties it addresses. Despite their failures, Flax concludes that these modes of theorizing are our best tools thus far, compelling us to use them even while we grapple with the problems they raise. Thinking Fragments is a wide-ranging study that will elicit much discussion and debate. It is an essential text for social scientists and humanists alike, as well as anyone else who thinks about how to "do" theory in the contemporary West

Psicoanálisis y feminismo: pensamientos fragmentarios [reseña]

Interlocución, diálogo, intercambio, son intereses que atraviesan en su totalidad esta obra, que como lo expresa su autora, no pretende proponer un nuevo paradigma para el conocimiento, ni construir nuevas verdades, sino permitir que el pensamiento fluya, circule, se movilice y anime los complejos procesos de búsqueda de explicaciones a la realidad humano social. Jane Flax escribe desde la riqueza de su experiencia como terapeuta analítica, epistemóloga, politóloga, y feminista, haciendo que cuatro planos que constituyen sus opciones vitales se entrelacen para identificar los principales desarrollos del psicoanálisis, las teorías feministas y las filosofías postmodernas acerca de la identidad, el género, el conocimiento, el poder y la justicia