O'Mahony, Denis Cruz-Jentoft, Alfonso J. Gudmundsson, Adalsteinn Soiza, Roy L. Petrovic, Mirko Cherubini, Antonio Byrne, Stephen Rochon, Paula
Background: Older women experience more adverse drug reactions (ADRs) than older men. However, the underlying basis for this sex difference is unclear. Sex (biological status) and/or gender (sociocultural constructs) influences on patterns of inappropriate prescribing in multimorbid older adults may be one reason for this ADR sex difference. In thi...
Salman, Lana
How are poor women politicized in the post-revolution city? I highlight women's everyday experiences of homemaking, where the intimacy of the home shaped through debt becomes a terrain of politicization that spills outside the confines of domestic spaces. Connecting the literature on popular city-making in the Middle East and North Africa with the ...
Geeraert, Joke Rocha, Luis E C Vandeviver, Christophe
Purpose: Research into adolescent co-offending has predominantly focused on individual differences in cooffender selection, with less attention to diversity in offending behavior. Research suggests that offenders with a violent history may be less desirable as co-offenders, potentially leading to homophily based on offending behavior. This study ai...
Van Den Berghe, Lana Pouille, Aline Vandevelde, Stijn De Pauw, Sarah
Worldwide, students with a migration background are over-represented in statistics of early school leavers. Too often, educational inequalities are attributed to culture as the primary barrier to successful educational outcomes. This group tends to be regarded as potential dropout students, culminating in stigmatization and stereotyping biases. Thi...
De Graeve, Katrien Rahbari, Ladan Looman, Nika
This paper looks into ageist and generationalist assumptions that penetrate queer spatio-temporal imageries and explore how to resist oppressive temporalities. It draws on fieldwork in a queer advocacy group and qualitative interviews with trans-, lesbian-, and women-identifying participants in Belgium to explore notions of age and ageism in queer ...
Woelk, Mandy; 126573; Hagenaars, Muriel A.; Krans, Julie; 90868;
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Van Bauwel, Sofie
This article is a theoretical exploration of the nuanced connections between the notion of affect and representations of sexuality in postfeminist television series. Drawing on gender studies, media studies and affect theory, it addresses the manifestation of postfeminist ideals in popular media and how it shapes the audience's understanding of gen...
Inac, Yasemin D'Hooghe, Suzannah De Ridder, Karin Dury, Sarah Van de Weghe, Nico De Clercq, Eva M. Van Dyck, Delfien Deforche, Benedicte Vandevijvere, Stefanie
Food insecurity is a global public health issue associated with noncommunicable diseases. Individual factors are strongly associated with food insecurity, but there is limited literature on the broader impact of both the social and food environments on food insecurity in non-English speaking European countries, given that the research was predomina...
Seynhaeve, Shauny Vanbuel, Marieke Kavadias, Dimokritos Deygers, Bart
Introduction: Previous research has uncovered various inequalities for immigrant students in education systems worldwide. Yet, the degree to which diverse background factors, such as socio-economic status and prior educational trajectory, contribute to these educational disadvantages remains uncertain. Methods: Using data from the Flemish administr...
Mardones Leiva, Karen Saavedra Gallo, Gonzalo
This paper explore social representations of men. Studies have shown that corporality is a central axis of definitions of men. The methodology used was qualitative, combining interviews with open questionnaires answered by undergraduate students of different courses and universities in the city of Valdivia; a total of 13 male students and 18 female...