Approaches to Examining Gender Relations in Health Research

Bottorff, Joan L.; Oliffe, John L.; Kelly, Mary; Chambers, Natalie A.

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“…Gender relations research refers to the study of the interplay of masculinities and femininities within and between genders [ 83 ]. We identified 24 items focussed on gender relations within the context of tobacco cessation or reduction.…”

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Gender, smoking and tobacco reduction and cessation: a scoping review

Bottorff

Haines‐Saah

Kelly

et al. 2014

Int J Equity Health

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Considerations of how gender-related factors influence smoking first appeared over 20 years ago in the work of critical and feminist scholars. This scholarship highlighted the need to consider the social and cultural context of women’s tobacco use and the relationships between smoking and gender inequity. Parallel research on men’s smoking and masculinities has only recently emerged with some attention being given to gender influences on men’s tobacco use. Since that time, a multidisciplinary literature addressing women and men’s tobacco use has spanned the social, psychological and medical sciences. To incorporate these gender-related factors into tobacco reduction and cessation interventions, our research team identified the need to clarify the current theoretical and methodological interpretations of gender within the context of tobacco research. To address this need a scoping review of the published literature was conducted focussing on tobacco reduction and cessation from the perspective of three aspects of gender: gender roles, gender identities, and gender relations. Findings of the review indicate that there is a need for greater clarity on how researchers define and conceptualize gender and its significance for tobacco control. Patterns and anomalies in the literature are described to guide the future development of interventions that are gender-sensitive and gender-specific. Three principles for including gender-related factors in tobacco reduction and cessation interventions were identified: a) the need to build upon solid conceptualizations of gender, b) the importance of including components that comprehensively address gender-related influences, and c) the importance of promoting gender equity and healthy gender norms, roles and relations.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Gender, smoking and tobacco reduction and cessation: a scoping review

Bottorff

Haines‐Saah

Kelly

et al. 2014

Int J Equity Health

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“…C'est le cas de la tendance des hommes «à percevoir tardivement les symptômes, à moins consulter un professionnel de la santé, à moins utiliser les mesures de prévention et, pour certains, à faire preuve d'un radicalisme comportemental ou du moins à adopter plus de comportements à risque » (Tremblay et Déry, 2010, p. 311). C'est principalement pour cette raison que les sciences sociales s'intéressent de plus en plus à l'influence du genre (les masculinités et les féminités) sur les expériences et les pratiques de santé, et inversement, à la façon dont ces expériences et pratiques de santé constituent des manières d'agir le genre (Bottorff, Oliffe, Kelly et Chambers, 2012;Connell, 1995;Courtenay, 2011;Robertson, 2007;Tremblay et Déry, 2010). Parmi les études sur les réalités masculines, plusieurs approches théoriques permettent de mieux comprendre les interactions entre le genre et la santé, et certaines d'entre elles abordent les masculinités rurales.…”

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Comprendre les masculinités rurales : un portrait basé sur la santé psychologique

Roy¹,

Tremblay

2012

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Les hommes ruraux forment une clientèle particulièrement vulnérable en matière de suicide et de détresse psychologique et ils utilisent peu les services de santé. Comme toute inégalité sociale de santé, cette situation se heurte à plusieurs valeurs chères au service social. Malgré son portrait préoccupant, la santé psychologique des hommes ruraux demeure un sujet largement négligé au Québec, comme dans la plupart des pays industrialisés, ce qui contribue à son invisibilité. Cet article vise à mieux comprendre les réalités objectives et subjectives des hommes ruraux qui influencent leur santé psychologique. Un volet de l’analyse aborde les principaux paradigmes compréhensifs des hommes et des masculinités qui se sont intéressées aux masculinités rurales, ce qui ouvre sur des pistes de recherche.

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“…For example, western women are often portrayed as having a positive influence on the health of their male partners (Robertson 2007, Westmaas et al . 2002) as a by‐product of aligning to feminine ideals around nurturing, caring and concern for others (Bottorff et al . 2012).…”

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Women on men’s sexual health and sexually transmitted infection testing: a gender relations analysis

Oliffe

Chabot

Knight

et al. 2012

Sociology Health & Illness

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Sexual health and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing is typically portrayed as a women's issue amid men's estrangement from healthcare services. While the underreporting of men's STIs has been linked to masculinities, little is known about how women interpret and respond to heterosexual men's sexual health practices. The findings drawn from this qualitative study of 34 young women reveal how femininities can be complicit in sustaining, as well as being critical of and disrupting masculine discourses that affirm sexual pleasure and resistance to health help-seeking as men's patriarchal privileges. Our analysis revealed three patterns: looking after the man's libido refers to women's emphasised femininity whereby the man's preference for unprotected sex and reticence to be tested for STIs was accommodated. Negotiating the stronger sex refers to ambivalent femininities, in which participants strategically resist, cooperate and comply with men's sexual health practices. Rejecting the patriarchal double standard that celebrates men as 'studs' and subordinates women as 'sluts' for embodying similar sexual practices reflects protest femininities. Overall, the findings reveal that conventional heterosexual gender relations, in which hegemonic masculinity is accommodated by women who align to emphasised femininity, continues to direct many participants' expectations around men's sexual health and STI testing.

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Approaches to Examining Gender Relations in Health Research

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Gender, smoking and tobacco reduction and cessation: a scoping review

Gender, smoking and tobacco reduction and cessation: a scoping review

Comprendre les masculinités rurales : un portrait basé sur la santé psychologique

Women on men’s sexual health and sexually transmitted infection testing: a gender relations analysis

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