Papers by Patricia Jeffery
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2001
Feminist activism in South Asia has contributed both to raising people’s awareness of gender inju... more Feminist activism in South Asia has contributed both to raising people’s awareness of gender injustices and to directly combating them. In part, politicized religion may be a response to the challenges posed by feminist activism and by secular changes in the wider economy (Chhachhi, 1991). More certainly politicized religion has often been implicated in developments that are potentially deeply inimical to women’s interests—and yet many women’s energies have been successfully engaged in their support. Feminists can surely derive little satisfaction, for instance, from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ability to mobilize women in defense of Rām’s birthplace, often in far greater numbers than feminist organizations have managed to mobilize women to protest dowry murder.
Journal of Health Studies, 2009
Oxytocin is a natural hormone with uterine stimulant properties that plays a prominent role in ob... more Oxytocin is a natural hormone with uterine stimulant properties that plays a prominent role in obstetric practice. Clinical guidelines for oxytocin use intrapartum emphasise that injudicious use has serious potential for adverse outcomes for mother and baby. Oxytocin is readily available in South Asia and widely used in ways that flout these guidelines. Yet recommendations for active management of third stage of labour (AMTSL) include the administration of oxytocin to prevent post-partum haemorrhage (PPH). Troublingly, these proposals seem to ignore oxytocin's already extensive life independent of policy interventions. Taking oxytocin as an example, the paper argues that policy-makers urgently need to engage with the everyday realities of drug availability and use in South Asia.
Routledge eBooks, Nov 12, 2012
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 10, 2014
UCL Press eBooks, Jan 24, 2007
The Journal of Asian Studies, Feb 1, 1999
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 13, 1997
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Papers by Patricia Jeffery