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Unveiling hidden knowledge: discovering the hygiene needs of perimenopausal women
journal contribution
posted on 2018-12-11, 10:35 authored by Amita Bhakta, Julie Fisher, Brian ReedThe provision of adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to ensure good health and wellbeing for all is incorporated into the Sustainable Development Goals, with the aim to ‘leave no-one behind’. The WASH needs of perimenopausal (PM) women are largely absent from academic literature.
These personal needs are hidden knowledge. However, this article demonstrates the use of participative methodologies to ‘unveil’ these. A UK-based phenomenological review set the research agenda using PM women’s narratives; this was later developed in urban Ghana using oral history interviews,
participatory mapping and PhotoVoice. Allowing for some adaption of these tools to account for local taboos in the global South, issues were revealed that are invisible to many but still warrant attention. Moving beyond theoretical discourse, practical approaches identified infrastructural issues and ensured
the inclusion of PM experience. Unveiling hidden knowledge in this way has wider implications for other issues in development agendas.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
International Development Planning ReviewCitation
BHAKTA, A., FISHER, J. and REED, B., 2019. Unveiling hidden knowledge: discovering the hygiene needs of perimenopausal women. International Development Planning Review, 41 (2), pp. 149–171.Publisher
Liverpool University PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-09-17Publication date
2019Notes
This article was published in International Development Planning Review (© Liverpool University Press) and the definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2018.34ISSN
1478-3401eISSN
1474-6743Publisher version
Language
- en