Defining and Exploring Modesty in Jewish American Women

Whether culture-based modesty may be a barrier to women's health care has been a longstanding question. Numerous studies have noted that, in certain cultures, modesty is considered a barrier to mammography screening and breast feeding. Though modesty has been noted as an inherent aspect of the...

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Auteur principal: Andrews, Caryn Scheinberg (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2011]
Dans: Journal of religion and health
Année: 2011, Volume: 50, Numéro: 4, Pages: 818-834
Sujets non-standardisés:B Q-methodology
B Culture
B Jewish
B Modesty
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Résumé:Whether culture-based modesty may be a barrier to women's health care has been a longstanding question. Numerous studies have noted that, in certain cultures, modesty is considered a barrier to mammography screening and breast feeding. Though modesty has been noted as an inherent aspect of the lived experience of many cultures, no extant measures or clear definitions were found. Jewish women, some having strict rules regarding modesty, were sampled to understand their definition of modesty. These perspectives were objectively analyzed using Q methodology. We found that although some perspectives on modesty may be accounted for by culture, there are others that are not.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-010-9435-7