by admin | Jul 17, 2017 | Cultural safety, Health, Inequalities, Maternity, Racism, Refugees, Research
Social and economic disadvantage are important contributors to poor maternal and perinatal outcomes in high-income countries such as Australia. For example Australian research shows women from refugee backgrounds have higher rates of stillbirth, fetal death in utero...
by admin | Jun 11, 2016 | Cultural safety, Inequalities, Maternity, Migration, Multiculturalism, Nursing, Power relations, Racism, Refugees, Women, Writing
Cite as: DeSouza, R. (2016, June 1st). Keynote address-Providing Culturally Safe Maternal and Child Healthcare, Multicultural Health Research to Practice Forum: Early Interventions in Maternal and Child Health, Program, Organised by the Multicultural Health Service,...
by admin | Jun 11, 2016 | Aotearoa New Zealand, Cultural safety, Feminism, Maternity, Migration, Nursing, Research, Women, Writing
Unpublished manuscript that never found an appropriate institutional home, but sharing for those who might be interested. Cite as: DeSouza, R., & Butt, D. (2016, June 11). “I had to keep my options open”: White mothers and neoliberal maternity. [Web log post]....
by admin | Nov 6, 2014 | Feminism, Food, Inequalities, Maternity, Migration, Multiculturalism, Nursing, Power relations, Women, Writing
I attended the 5th International Conference on Nutrition and Nurture in Infancy and Childhood: Relational, Bio-cultural and Spatial Perspectives from Wednesday, 5 November 2014 – Friday, 7 November 2014. Those who know me or follow my work will know that I am...
by admin | May 14, 2014 | Cultural safety, Fathers, Inequalities, Maternity, Men, Migration, Multiculturalism, Nursing, Power relations, Professional development, Writing
Article first published online: 13 MAY 2014 De Souza, Ruth Noreen Argie. (2014). ‘This child is a planned baby’: skilled migrant fathers and reproductive decision-making. Journal of Advanced Nursing. doi: 10.1111/jan.12448 Risk management and life planning are a...
by admin | May 11, 2014 | Fathers, Feminism, Inequalities, Maternity, Women, Writing
I’ve written a lot about maternity, an interest derived from my clinical nursing practice and an interest in the intellectual and political ways in which women’s bodies have been mobilised in nationalist state interests. My interest in...
