Barbara Keddy

Biographic Data

ID7594977
NAMEBarbara Keddy
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMEKeddy
SIGNATUREKEDDY B
AFFILIATIONSDalhousie University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX0

  • Demands Out of Context: Tanzanian Women Combining Exclusive Breastfeeding With Employment

    Rose Mlay, Rose Shao Mlay et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2004

    This research, conducted in Tanzania, involved 6 women and their experiences as they combined exclusive breastfeeding with work outside their home. Additional data were collected at a conference in Tanzania and from women in North America. We found that while public health officials did a spectacular job of convincing the women of the advantages of exclusive breastfeeding in terms of their babies' health and their own, they then left the women to…

  • Women Living With Environmental Illness

    Andrea Chircop, Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2003

    We used a case study approach to explore the experiences of 4 women who live with environmental illness (EI). From the unstructured interviews we found a variety of themes that pointed to the complexity of EI and its severe impact on the lives of these women, their families, and their significant others. The methodology was guided by an ecofeminist approach, which enabled a critical analysis of the data to move beyond the personal to the broader …

  • Interrupted work histories: Retired women telling their stories

    Barbara Keddy, Beryl Cable et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1993

    The issue of women and work is a contemporary one which affects the private as well as the public sphere of women's lives. The social conditions which affect the present cohort of retired older women, have their roots in their work lives. In this article, we analyzed the oral histories of 7 retired women using a modified grounded theory approach to explore the long-term effects of having interrupted their work histories in order to care for famil…

  • Women and Aging: Directions for Research

    Margaret Ann MacQuarrie, Barbara KeddyARTICLEJournal of Women & Aging1992

    After an analysis of a 1985 Canadian national survey, a lack of conclusive results encouraged the researchers to examine how traditional research has failed women in terms of ignoring- ag-e.. gender, class, race, and sexual orientation. In additih, alternate research methodoloeies based on aualitative and feminist principles are discussed in order to direct future research

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1992

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1992

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1991

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1991

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1991

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1990

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1990

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1990

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1990

  • Communication networks

    Barbara KeddyARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1989

  • The nurse as mother surrogate: Oral histories of Nova Scotia nurses from the 1920s and 1930s

    Barbara Keddy, Mary LeDrew et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1984

    This study was conducted to gain a perspective on the social history of nursing during the 1920s and 1930s. Fifteen nurses who worked or who trained during this time were interviewed. These nurses were recruited for the study using a snowball technique of a cross‐sectional, nonrandom sample of older Nova Scotian nurses throughout the province. The interview followed a semi‐structured interview technique. The grounded theory methodology was employ…