Browsing by Author "Davy, Zowie"
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A balancing act: Agency and constraints in university students’ understanding of and responses to sexual violence in the night-time economy
Anitha, Sundari; Jordan, Ana; Jameson, Jill; Davy, Zowie (Article)This paper extends our understanding of how university students make sense of, and respond to, sexual violence in the night-time economy (NTE). Based on semi-structured interviews with 26 students in a city in England, we ... -
Commentary on the construction of Gender Dysphoria at Classifying Sex: Debating DSM 5.
Davy, Zowie (Article)On the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) website the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is promoted as the “most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical ... -
Democratising diagnoses? The role of the depathologisation perspective in constructing corporeal trans citizenship
Davy, Zowie; Sørlie, Anniken.; Suess Schwend, Amets. (Article)In the scope of the current revision process of the diagnostic manuals Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Other Health Problems (ICD), ... -
The Disabling Affects of a Sexed System: An Exploration of Intersexuality, Transgender and Sexual Citizenship
Davy, Zowie (Book chapter)Transsexual, intersexual and disabled bodies occasionally cross paths in disability studies as illustrations of the medical model’s negativity towards “unsound” body morphologies (Shildrick 2002). Medical discourse about ... -
The DSM 5 and the politics of diagnosing transpeople
Davy, Zowie (Article)In the DSM-5, there has been a change in the diagnosis for transpeople of all ages from Gender Identity Disorder (GID) to Gender Dysphoria (GD), in part to better indicate the distress that transpeople may experiencewhen ... -
The effect of a national quality improvement collaborative on prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in England
Siriwardena, A. N.; Shaw, D.; Essam, N.; Togher, F. J.; Davy, Zowie; Spaight, A.; Dewey, M. (Article)Background Previous studies have shown wide variations in prehospital ambulance care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a Quality Improvement Collaborative ... -
Facilitating LGBT Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching
Davy, Zowie; Amsler, Sarah; Duncombe, Karen (Article)Increasingly, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) health care is becoming an important quality assurance feature of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare in Britain. While acknowledging these very positive ... -
Freedom affects in Trans Erotica
Davy, Zowie (Book chapter)This chapter begins to chart some reconfigurations of trans sexualities in trans erotica productions. Trans erotica expands on and reconfigures trans sexualities beyond psychosexological and mainstream trans (auto)biographical ... -
Gendered School Cultures as Limit-Situations: The Roles of Friendship and Friends in Challenging Gender-Normativity
Davy, Zowie (Conference)The effects of friends and friendships have been discussed in academic literature for decades and particularly from a social psychological perspective. Questions about how friendship dynamically affects a child’s development, ... -
Genderqueer(ing): On this side of the world against which it protests
Davy, Zowie (Article)Deconstructionism as a method in transgender studies has been useful to collapse concepts and ideas about (trans) gender and sexuality. In spite of the usefulness of undoing the gender and sexuality canon, by way of ... -
Integrating online communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia: a qualitative study
Davy, Zowie; Siriwardena, A. N.; Middlemass, J.; Cavanagh, K.; Linehan, C.; Morgan, Kevin; Lawson, Shaun (Article)Background Insomnia is a common psychological complaint. Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), although effective, is little used because of lack of trained providers. Computerised CBT-I (CCBT-I) may be a ... -
Investigating qualitative and quantitative validity of PSYCHLOPS: a novel Patient Reported Outcome Measure in a pilot study of primary care management of insomnia
Davy, Zowie; Siriwardena, A. N.; Quinn, C.; Togher, F. J.; Wilson, H. (Article)PSYCHLOPS (‘Psychological Outcome Profiles’) is an idiographic patient reported outcome measure that attempts to evaluate therapeutic progress. We aimed to assess the validity of PSYCHLOPS within a study of insomnia. ... -
Patients' and clinicians' experiences and perceptions of the primary care management of insomnia: qualitative study.
Davy, Zowie; Middlemass, J; Siriwardena, A. N (Article)Background: Insomnia is common leading to patients with sleep problems often presenting to primary care services including general practice, community pharmacies and community mental health teams. Little is known about how ... -
Patients’ and ambulance service clinicians’ experiences of prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke: a qualitative study
Togher, F. J; Davy, Zowie; Siriwardena, A. N. (Article)Background: Patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke commonly present first to the ambulance service. Little is known about experiences of prehospital care which are important for measuring the ... -
SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities (Vol. 1 and 2)
The domain of sexualities has occupied the imaginary of the forbidden and the unspoken since early times. Taboo became an umbrella category to describe things best left unspoken, hidden behind closed doors or buried in the ... -
School cultures and Gender Diverse Children: Parents’ and guardians’ perspectives
Davy, Zowie (Presentation)Children’s transgender issues have emerged from the periphery of general consciousness to center stage within human rights discourses, and as a controversial medical topic. Moreover, gender diverse children, known sometimes ... -
School Cultures and Trans and Gender Diverse Children: Parents' Perspectives
Davy, Zowie; Cordoba, Sebastian (Article)In the United Kingdom, trans and gender-diverse children are increasingly visible within the school system. We examined data obtained from 23 parents who are supportive of their trans and gender-diverse children. We draw ... -
'Sexing Up' Bodily Aesthetics: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality.
Davy, Zowie; Steinbock, E. (Book chapter)In this chapter we suggest that the organizing medical concept of ‘transsexuality’ either overtly represses and denies sexuality as a factor in trans experience, or explicitly understands transitioning as originating in a ...