OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare sexual function and sexual response, attitude toward sexuality and relationships with sexual partners in women diagnosed with PCOS and healthy controls. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 73 women (aged 23-42 years) diagnosed with PCOS using the Rotterdam criteria and 45 healthy controls. All participants completed a questionnaire assessing socioepi...

Women contribute significantly to the economy and the labor market through their paid and unpaid work in the public and private sector. The increased recognition of women’s important contribution to the global economy through their productive and reproductive roles, and the recognition of their marginalization have led to a consensus among all stakeholders about the importance and need to bring...

stories and fictions are important cultural resources which in many cultures are narrated by women.these storiescan bea reflection of ideals and desires of women in different levels of a society. therefore, reviewing these stories and fictions would bebeneficial to better understand the various aspects of women’s life in a society.this research aims to study women’s positionin bakhtiary’s cultu...

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© 2011. The Authors. Licensee: OpenJournals Publishing. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The article, from a gender-sensitive perspective, is critical of patriarchal values that are harmful to women and other non-dominant groups. When the focus on women and women’s roles is usurped by male control, the androcentric self-interest of interpreters and authors b...

background: menopause and its physical, hormonal and psychosocial changes could affect women’s sexual function. there are controversial results regarding relationship between sexual attitudes and function. objective: we aimed to evaluate sexual attitudes and sexual function among iranian menopausal age women. materials and methods: this population based cross-sectional study was carried out on ...

The present paper explores the metaphoric and symbolic meaning of feminized nature in Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers! through perspective ecofeminism. reveals that invasion human beings into is related to patriarchy, inequality between men women binary opposition man nature.It primarily focuses on characters towards especially two ways – desirable peaceful as a virgin chaotic destructive witch...