George O Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 653367 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | George O Roberts |
| NOMBRES | George |
| APELLIDO | O Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS G O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders
In Sierra Leone, motherhood is being transformed into a moral career for women with sickle cell disorders. This qualitative participatory study, conducted in 2018, involved thirty-six semi-structured interviews with female care-givers and women with sickle cell disorders. Mothers argued that medical models of disease, combined with caring practices, are means to morally manage ideas of 'spoiled identity' and rethink the sick role, disability and …
"You have to find a caring man, like your father!" gendering sickle cell and refashioning women's moral boundaries in Sierra Leone
Most research on sickle cell disorders has tended to be gender-blind. This qualitative study undertaken in 2018, explores if and how sickle cell disorders become gendered in Sierra Leone through the analytical framework of a feminist ethics of care. It argues that women have to navigate moral blame when they have children with the condition. At the same time women refashion moral boundaries so that gendered norms around childhood and parenting fo…
Afro-Arab Fraternity
Geography as a Determinant of Lifestyles in Terramedia
It is often not realized that the exciting social and political upheavals that receive so much publicity in the world press are integrally related to geography and ecology. While it is true that modernized cultures are technologically able to modify the environment in ways that would have seemed impossible not long ago, most of Terramedia (Africa and the Middle East) remains subject to the limitations of geography and the traditional adaptations …
Afro-Arab Fraternity
Making Independence a Reality in Terramedia
The Role of Foreign Aid in Independent Sierra Leone
Certain prognoses about Sierra Leone development, and the areas in which assistance would be sought, were made shortly before and after independence. The mining sector which had become the backbone of Sierra Leone industrialization by 1945 was expected to expand, and this in spite of the illicit and wasteful mining of diamonds between 1953 and 1959 (see Van der Laan, 1965). At independence in 1961, the director of geological survey (Sierra Leone …
Nationalism
Province of Freedom
Province of Freedom
"You have to find a caring man, like your father!" gendering sickle cell and refashioning women's moral boundaries in Sierra Leone
Most research on sickle cell disorders has tended to be gender-blind. This qualitative study undertaken in 2018, explores if and how sickle cell disorders become gendered in Sierra Leone through the analytical framework of a feminist ethics of care. It argues that women have to navigate moral blame when they have children with the condition. At the same time women refashion moral boundaries so that gendered norms around childhood and parenting fo…
Nationalism
Province of Freedom
Nationalism
The Role of Foreign Aid in Independent Sierra Leone
Certain prognoses about Sierra Leone development, and the areas in which assistance would be sought, were made shortly before and after independence. The mining sector which had become the backbone of Sierra Leone industrialization by 1945 was expected to expand, and this in spite of the illicit and wasteful mining of diamonds between 1953 and 1959 (see Van der Laan, 1965). At independence in 1961, the director of geological survey (Sierra Leone …
Making Independence a Reality in Terramedia
Geography as a Determinant of Lifestyles in Terramedia
It is often not realized that the exciting social and political upheavals that receive so much publicity in the world press are integrally related to geography and ecology. While it is true that modernized cultures are technologically able to modify the environment in ways that would have seemed impossible not long ago, most of Terramedia (Africa and the Middle East) remains subject to the limitations of geography and the traditional adaptations …
Afro-Arab Fraternity
Afro-Arab Fraternity
"You have to find a caring man, like your father!" gendering sickle cell and refashioning women's moral boundaries in Sierra Leone
Most research on sickle cell disorders has tended to be gender-blind. This qualitative study undertaken in 2018, explores if and how sickle cell disorders become gendered in Sierra Leone through the analytical framework of a feminist ethics of care. It argues that women have to navigate moral blame when they have children with the condition. At the same time women refashion moral boundaries so that gendered norms around childhood and parenting fo…
I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders
In Sierra Leone, motherhood is being transformed into a moral career for women with sickle cell disorders. This qualitative participatory study, conducted in 2018, involved thirty-six semi-structured interviews with female care-givers and women with sickle cell disorders. Mothers argued that medical models of disease, combined with caring practices, are means to morally manage ideas of 'spoiled identity' and rethink the sick role, disability and …
Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · African history and culture studies (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Sierra leone (3 obras) · Ancient history (2 obras) · Digital Games and Media (2 obras)