Les contraintes sociales aux pratiques d'activite physique de femmes cheffes de families monoparentales

Seven interviews were conducted with women heads of single parent families and the analysis concludes that they understand the importance of physical activity but hardly participate. The constraints identified are the lack of time and financial resources, "forced internalization of the ethic of care giving," overwork and exhaustion.Sept entrevues ont ete realisees aupres de femmes cheffes de families monoparentales et l'analyse permet de conclure qu'elles reconnaissent Pimportance de Pactivite physique mais s'y adonnent peu. Les contraintes identifiees sont le manque de temps et de ressources financieres, Pinteriorisation «forcee» de Pethique du soin, le surmenage et Pepuisement

The cancer's Margins project: access to knowledge and Its mobilization by LGBQ/T cancer patients

Sexual and/or gender minority populations (LGBQ/T) have particular cancer risks, lower involvement in cancer screening, and experience barriers in communication with healthcare providers. All of these factors increase the probability of health decisions linked with poor outcomes that include higher levels of cancer mortality. Persistent discrimination against, and stigmatization of, LGBQ/T people is reflected in sparse medical curriculum addressing LGBQ/T communities. Marginalization makes LGBQ/T persons particularly reliant on knowledge derived from online networks and mainstream media sources. In what is likely the first nationally-funded and nation-wide study of LGBQ/T experiences of cancer, the Cancer's Margins project (www.lgbtcancer.ca) conducted face-to-face interviews with 81 sexual and/or gender minority patients diagnosed and treated for breast and/or gynecological cancer in five Canadian provinces and the San Francisco Bay area (US). With specific attention to knowledge access, sharing, and mobilization, our objective was to document and analyze complex intersectional relationships between marginalization, gender and sexuality, and cancer health decision-making and care experiences. Findings indicate that cancer care knowledge in online environments is shaped by cisnormative and heteronormative narratives. Cancer knowledge and support environments need, by contrast, to be designed by taking into account intersectionally diverse models of minority identities and communities

A social phenomenological study of physical contact in women's varsity basketball

This study examines physical contacts, as they are experienced by women competing in varsity basketball. The interpretive and social phenomenological method offered by Denzin (1984) is used and five methodological phases are followed: (a) deconstruction, where the existing literature concerning the phenomenon is reviewed and deconstructed; (b) capture, where multiple instances of the phenomenon are obtained; (c) reduction, where the essential properties of the phenomenon are disclosed; (d) construction, where the phenomenal structures are put together to construct the phenomenon in an interpreted form; and (e) contextualization, where the phenomenon is situated back in the lives of the individuals. According a primary importance to the "lived experiences" of participants, the interpretation and understanding of physical contact is based on the content analysis of in-depth, open-ended interviews with members (N = 14) of a women's varsity basketball team competing in Canada, and the detailed analysis of game sequences containing physical contacts in which these players are involved.Two main types of physical contact emerge from the analyses: (a) playful contact, in which a player tenders a physical action in a playful manner; and (b) violent contact, in which a player attempts to recuperate, through the use of emotional and physical force, something that has been lost or taken away from her self. The "essence" of physical contact is identified as the self and emotionality. Four essential properties are also identified: (a) the natural attitudes toward physical contact; (b) the interpretive frames to categorize interactants; (c) the display of emotional self-definitions through symbolic interaction; and (d) the interactional orientation toward communication or alienation.Emotions and the self are considered as foundations for the construction of the physical contact phenomenon, and upon them are laid three essential structures: (a) the phenomenological field, or the player's internalized structure of meanings and feelings; (b) the body, through which she absorbs or inflicts a physical contact; and (c) the symbolic interaction involved in the physical contact. With the use of thickly contextualized materials, physical contact is interpreted and described both as an event in the world that penetrates the player and reaches her self, and as an embodied emotion that reveals the player's self, meaning, and interpretation of the world.In the conclusion, it is argued that physical contacts, as expressions of a wide variety of emotions, provide occasions for the unfolding of a player's real self and meaning. Through multiple experiences of physical contact, she learns not only her emotions and how to feel inside them, but who she is and who she can be.U of I OnlyETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissio

Responsible Girlhood and 'Healthy' Anxieties in Britain: Girls' Bodily Learning in School Sport

This chapter situates public health concerns around childhood obesity within a broader trend towards 'healthification.' I draw on scholarly research on the body and schooling as well as on longitudinal research into girls' sports involvement in the UK in order to make sense of how young girls construct themselves as 'healthy subjects' and perform 'successful girlhood'. I understand 'risk' as a regulatory discourse which constructs specific versions of girlhood as acceptable, desirable, and importantly responsible in ongoing efforts to avoid certain dangers, such as obesity. I consider the ways in which obesity as a 'discourse of anxiety' came to regulate girls' activities and available identities in school and in relation to dieting regimes and advertising campaigns