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  • Overbooking in Endoscopy: Ensure No-One is Left Behind!

    Harewood   Gavin C  

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  • One size fits no-one: A response to national strategy for cancer care

    Jervis, N.   Bouvier, C.  

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  • Time as a commodity waits for no-one

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  • \"History repeats itself, has to, no-one listens

    McMahon   A.  

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  • Chechnya Campaign; Hostage-taker detained inMakhachkala, noone harmed

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  • Army; Mil Mi-28N helicopter makes crash landing inNorth Ossetia, noone hurt

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  • ‘No-one likes us; we don't care’: ‘Dissident’ Irish Republicans and Mandates

    JONATHAN TONGE  

    The episodic dissident republican activity evident in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement has been accompanied by regular assertions from the police, politicians and commentators that dissidents have no backing. This article examines the historic importance of mandates and support for previous and contemporary republican armed campaigns. It explores whether violent republicans have ever enjoyed widespread support in Ireland and assesses the extent to which a lack of backing has precluded violent campaigns. The piece analyses the evidence regarding the lack of sympathy for current dissident violence, assessing the degree to which armed republicanism has reached a new level of isolation.
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  • Nova that no-one saw

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  • \"How do you get your voice heard when no-one will let you?\" Victimization at work

    Snell, K.   Tombs, S.  

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  • Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

    Gabay, Clive   Ilcan, Suzan  

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  • Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

    Clive Gabay   Suzan Ilcan  

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  • \"Everybody has won but no-one must have prizes\"

    Ernst   E.  

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  • “No-one took me, no-one left me”

    Künstlicher   Annika Hirdman  

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  • Invisible Television: The Programmes No-One Talks about Even Though Lots of People Watch Them

    Mills Brett  

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  • ‘NO-ONE WILL EVER CALL ME MUMMY’:MAKING SENSE OF THE END OF IVF TREATMENT

    Karen Throsby  

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  • 'NO-ONE WILL EVER CALL ME MUMMY': MAKING SENSE OF THE END OF IVF TREATMENT

    Karen Thros  

    This paper has attempted to explore some of the ways in which people make sense of the end of IVF treatment and account for the transition to acceptance of the unlikelihood of future pregnancy. The analysis has focused primarily on the accounts of the female participants, but it is important to note that the experience of IVF failure is profoundly gendered – an issue which has been explored elsewhere13. While this analysis certainly cannot claim to be exhaustive, there are two preliminary conclusions which can be drawn. Firstly, the meaning of the withdrawal from IVF is mediated by conventional normative standards of womanhood, to which motherhood is constructed as integral. Voluntary childlessness is replete in the popular imagination with negative associations, and those who are involuntarily childless find themselves indistinguishable to the eyes of others from those who have chosen to live without children. Consequently, a primary function of the accounts of the end of treatment is to refute those characteristics, conventionally assumed to reside in those who have chosen childlessness – most notably, selfishness and the dislike of children. Significantly, while a few of the participants expressed resistance to the construction of women as exclusively maternal, the fundamental concern in the accounts was to distinguish the self from the negative stereotype rather than to challenge the stereotype itself. Therefore, while IVF can be seen as potentially transgressive, the accounts are oriented towards communicating conformity to, rather than transgression of, those norms, even though, ultimately, the absence of a child precludes that conformity. Women without children are subjected to constant questioning about their reproductive plans (Morell 1994), and the extensive explanatory work that this discursive demonstration of conformity necessitates can only be relieved by the acceptance at a wider social and cultural level of the equal validity of a life without children – a project which is clearly beyond the scope of this paper! And secondly, the transition from ‘not yet pregnant’ to ‘not going to be pregnant’ is a long and complex process requiring considerable resources – personal, material and social. There is little formal support or recognition of the difficulties inherent in moving on from IVF, and those experiencing IVF failure easily become invisible to treatment providers, as well as in media representations of IVF, leaving them to work out for themselves how best to move forwards. Consequently, those with limited recourse to the necessary resources can easily be left in suspension, unable to move constructively in either direction. This state of suspension is readily represented as resulting from personal weakness, but this is to ignore the inescapability of social and cultural pressure on women to be mothers, and the differential ways in which those pressures bear down upon different women. The seeking out of female insufficiency that currently prevails in relation to IVF failure is counterproductive in terms of facilitating the transition towards accepting childlessness. This transition would be more effectively facilitated, for example, by means of the prompt and equitable provision of health authority funded treatment, which would enable more effective planning in the engagement with IVF. More broadly, continuing to address the traditionally liberal feminist concerns about discriminatory practices in the workplace and education that prevent women from achieving their full potential in areas outside the institution of motherhood, alongside increased positive representations of women living without children, are important steps in helping those for whom IVF has failed to make the difficult decision to stop treatment.
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