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This paper focuses on migrant women's strategic intimacies in cross-border marriages in light of Türkiye's new migration and citizenship regulations since the early 2000s. Based on in-depth interviews with 18 Kyrgyz women in 2021 and 2022, this paper offers different typologies of marriage related migration in order to gain a deeper understanding of marriage migration and migrant women's positions in these intimacies. It can be argued that cross-border marriages in Türkiye are shaped by different factors, including the state's restrictions to access permits, stigmatisation of migrant women and local men's desire for sexual relationships on the one hand, women's desire for an upward social mobility and for emotional connection as well as social protection on the other. It is argued that women strategically bargain through their cultural capital such as education, professional skills, age, experience and hardworking in order to realise an upward social mobility. Regardless of their marriage status, women use their cultural capital to bargain with patriarchy and to resist a set of concrete constrains in a “passive form” as they embrace traditional gender roles.

The article offers a decolonial and diasporic reading of global gender norms as sites of power where nested hierarchies – of gender, race, class, among others – are constantly being contested, refused, and negotiated by and within bodies that resist. It departs from a Latin American/Ladin Amefrican perspective, which assumes an alternative genealogy of human rights that begins with the embodied experience and struggles of people, instead of assuming the existence of an international normative framework. It looks particularly at the struggle of domestic workers for labor rights in Brazil as a case of embodied human rights activism. By evidencing their agency in the formulation of global and local norms, the article claims that domestic workers' struggles were central not only for negotiating, disrupting and (re)creating spaces of power and agenda-setting, but also for confronting the structures of coloniality that sustain the modern matrix of power.

School-based sexuality education is a globally controversial topic. While adopted as a human right-based international norm and is part of numerous frameworks (e.g., SDGs and Maputo Protocol for African countries), one of the main controversies in the Global South is the question of norm ownership. The case of sexuality education in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a powerful example of debates around norm spoiling and the so-called (un-)Africanness of sexuality education. In this article, I ask how a generational perspective, influences our understanding of translating sexuality education, which challenges a young generation of actors working in Addis Ababa face and how they counteract politicized cultural differences. Based on my empirical research in Addis Ababa during 2019–2020, I illustrate that resistance to sexuality education is culturized and therefore a transnational challenge for actors striving to enhance school-based sexuality education. Demands to better include youth generations in political decision-making, strengthen bottom-up translation, and to counter the politicization of cultural differences remains largely confined to subaltern counterpublics, particularly within educational settings and NGO-based projects.

This article challenges the boundaries and binaries that legal frameworks, which attempt to exceptionalise abortion, create for the spectrum of reproductive experience. Specifically, this paper articulates the extent to which the meaning of abortion is contested in a number of ways, to the extent to which it could be argued that it does not hold a fixed understanding, and the ramifications this has for the operation of law in this area. Any legal framework which attempts to exceptionalise abortion is bound to transgress a range of experiences and impact the provision and accessibility of care in a range of ways. Building on the theme of this Special Issue, ‘transgression’, the article shows the instability and transgressive potential of law in the regulation of miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth. Miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth exist on a spectrum of experience and may engage a range of clinical encounters that are not straightforwardly distinguished from each other. The paper contributes to the scholarship calling for the decriminalization of abortion and does so by highlighting often overlooked aspects of the impacts and unworkability of criminal exceptionalisation. The claim being made in this paper is twofold: first, abortion involves a number of features which are problematic within an exceptionalist framework. This leads to the second claim which is that any exceptionalist abortion frameworks will by definition encroach on and negatively impact experiences of reproductive loss in myriad ways.

Korea, once a recipient turned donor, faces deficit in addressing gender mainstreaming within its Official Development Assistance (ODA). This paper asserts that it is imperative to close gender gaps, as it seeks to consolidate its standing as a reliable donor. The article starts by examining efforts to establish a Korean development model rooted in the historical Saemaul Undong (SMU). Recognizing that SMU lacks a substantial legacy in terms of gender projects and acknowledging the dissenting points of debate regarding the model's contribution to the partner country's local ownership, this research dissects the meaning and practical application of local ownership. Shifting to the specific context of Vietnam, a major partner country of Korea where the preference for ODA loans has been increasing, the article draws from field research to expose the selective ownership of the government. The research emphasizes the crucial role of the local gender network in such selective ownership, where the government shows interest solely in the lending terms of loans, with no attention to gender mainstreaming. Alongside the active involvement of national women's machinery and civil society activists, the significance of national gender consultants in loan projects is stressed, who play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between global donors' gender mainstreaming policies and on-the-ground local implementation.

Public sector organizations, particularly intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), are expected to integrate gender-responsive practices into their operations to promote gender mainstreaming and diversity. Such initiatives can also be incorporated into these IGOs' corporate procurement endeavors since they have more control over their corporate spending, and it can directly affect the socioeconomic development of the stakeholders involved. In the following research, the gender-responsive procurement (GRP) practices of four major development-focused IGOs - the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), UN Women, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the World Bank Group (WBG)—are assessed. Utilizing in-depth key-informant interviews and interpretive document analysis, case studies are developed to log the goals, efforts, policies, etc. of the selected IGOs towards gender-responsive corporate procurement. Lastly, this study also demonstrates a summary of various actionable tools and approaches utilized by these organizations, thereby expanding the research area on GRP to encompass the efforts of IGOs.

Despite the increasing number of women studying built environment and engineering courses, the participation of professional women in construction remains low in Australia. Interviews with early career professional women in construction showed a misalignment between career aspiration and career reality because of gender bias, discrimination and harassment, procedural bias, and a demanding work environment based on a male work model. Due to structural and cultural career constraints, many women had already given up thinking they could achieve their goals and were considering an alternative career path. Practical implications highlight that organisations can support the retention and success of early career professional women by fundamentally re-shaping workplace culture and work practices. This change is essential so that early career women are certain that a long-term career in construction is viable and that they will be able to combine work and family commitments if they choose to do so without a career penalty.

Women have been portrayed in a variety of ways in Ghanaian rap music, popularly known as hiplife. These discursive constructions represent the subjective interpretations that artists assign to women based on societal gender stereotypes, which present women as inferior and subordinate to men. Using a qualitative content analysis of nine purposively selected hiplife songs released in the past decade, this paper explores the lyrical depictions of women's persona and roles in their relationships with men. From the analyses, three gender-related themes – women as sexual objects, women as ‘gold diggers’, and women as ‘heart breakers’ – predominantly prevailed. Going beyond the content analysis, this paper further underscores the paradox of hiplife music in the (mis)education of its growing listeners.

Women and single mother families constitute one of the fastest growing segments of individuals experiencing homelessness. While women experiencing homelessness may temporarily use emergency shelters, second-stage shelters, or transitional housing, whose services range from basic life necessities to extensive supports, many women experience ongoing housing instability after leaving a shelter. We conducted a scoping review to explore outcomes for women after leaving a shelter, as well as factors influencing post-shelter transitions to prevent housing instability and identify research and policy gaps. After removing duplicates, we screened 6895 titles and abstracts, selected 457 articles for full-text review, and a total of 20 articles met our selection criteria. In this paper, we included the outcomes in the quantitative (n = 16) and mixed methods (n = 4) articles. A companion scoping review paper of processes and experiences of women in the post-shelter transition is forthcoming. The majority of the included studies were conducted in the US (n = 16; 80 %) and Canada (n = 3; 15 %). The quantitative data reported outcomes related to five domains of community integration: physical integration, economic integration, psychological integration, social integration, and health. We also summarized individual, service-related, and system-level facilitators and obstacles affecting women's post-shelter trajectories. The results highlight that for women and children leaving a shelter stay, living with housing precarity and financial insecurity continues, along with living with multiple unmet needs, and thus being housed is not an endpoint to a homeless episode. Furthermore, health and safety concerns are on-going and can be worsened by difficulty accessing supports. To advance research and practice, there is a need shift focus away from crisis management and to consider sustainability of housing and intentional gender-specific and trauma-informed opportunities for community integration for women and women-led families post-shelter.

Many women Veterans have access to firearms owned by their partners; therefore, understanding partners' perspectives, experiences, and needs regarding firearm lethal means safety (LMS) is essential. Twenty-five partners of women Veterans with a history of household firearm access participated in this mixed methods study. Nearly all participants expressed that if their partner was suicidal, they would be willing to take steps to reduce their partner's firearm access and to participate in firearm LMS discussions with their partner's healthcare provider. However, only a subset reported engaging in such behaviors. Participants reported needing information and guidance regarding actionable firearm LMS strategies (e.g., safe storage locations). Firearm LMS can be facilitated by supporting women Veterans' partners in recognizing and responding to suicide risk and providing them with guidance and tools to support reducing firearm access when suicide risk is elevated.