The current article reflects on the challenges of selecting and accessing participants from societies where power relations are gender-based. paper discusses methodological difficulties gaining research access to professionally educationally elite women in Pakistan's patriarchal society suggests a strategy "referral in-group" for recruiting interview participants. Drawing author's purposive sam...

Abstract The rise of patriarchal populist leaders over the past decade has fortified a long-standing campaign by conservative governments and advocacy groups to undermine women’s international human rights. Their efforts have increasingly focused on revising language as means challenge weaken norms organizations essential girls’ equality health. Through our textual analysis UN records, governme...

What are the ethics of hymenoplasty? In this commentary, I argue that doctors must take seriously the risks involved in not performing the procedure when stigmatization and credible threats of violence are at stake. However, the ultimate source of harm in this example is not the absence of a girl’s hymen, but rather an ugly suite of discriminatory attitudes and patriarchal social conventions. T...