Teena Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 238669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teena Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teena |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9159-462X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
She - nature, woman, Goddess
This manuscript pairs Margaret Atwood's poem 'Marsh Languages' with Luce Irigaray's recent philosophical text In the Beginning She Was. By doing so, an important conceptual resonance emerges between the two texts on the status of the loss of a maternal language and more broadly of the founding Mother at the origins of Western thought. Advancing a feminist poetics and ethics of the maternal, with its roots in nature, Atwood and Irigaray's works ar…
Unauthorized Storytelling
This article revisits Julia Alvarez’s critically acclaimed historical novel In the Time of the Butterflies (1994). While much scholarship has paid attention to the novel as historiographic metafiction, its depiction of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s regime (1930-61), and its feminist perspective on the Dominican Republic, its racial politics are under-studied. In particular, scholars have overlooked Fela, the Afra-Dominican servant, spirit medium, an…
Revisiting Irigaray’s Essay “Women on the Market”
Woman is not born a commodity, but rather becomes one. This is Luce Irigaray’s argument in her 1977 essay “Women on the Market” (1997). In this work, Irigaray expands on and reinterprets Marx’s cri
Doubting the Experts
Many homeless and runaway adolescents may be at a high risk for HIV infection. Ideas about the severity of AIDS, possible modes of transmission, and the integrity of those who provide information about HIV/AIDS come into play as youths make safer sex decisions. Information on youths' ideas about these issues can be used to improve the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS education programs that target them. We interviewed 98 adolescents at two youth shelter…
Paolo Giovio
Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, and Aids Knowledge among Midwestern Runaways
The authors evaluated sexual behaviors, drug use, and AIDS knowledge among Cleveland runaways (N = 108). Results indicated variable rates of risky sexual behaviors, minimal illicit drug use, and high levels of knowledge about true behavioral risks for HIV infection. These runaways demonstrated less frequent health-compromising sexual behavior and drug use compared to runaways described in other studies. Assumptions should not be made that all run…
Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, and Aids Knowledge among Midwestern Runaways
The authors evaluated sexual behaviors, drug use, and AIDS knowledge among Cleveland runaways (N = 108). Results indicated variable rates of risky sexual behaviors, minimal illicit drug use, and high levels of knowledge about true behavioral risks for HIV infection. These runaways demonstrated less frequent health-compromising sexual behavior and drug use compared to runaways described in other studies. Assumptions should not be made that all run…
Paolo Giovio
Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, and Aids Knowledge among Midwestern Runaways
The authors evaluated sexual behaviors, drug use, and AIDS knowledge among Cleveland runaways (N = 108). Results indicated variable rates of risky sexual behaviors, minimal illicit drug use, and high levels of knowledge about true behavioral risks for HIV infection. These runaways demonstrated less frequent health-compromising sexual behavior and drug use compared to runaways described in other studies. Assumptions should not be made that all run…
Doubting the Experts
Many homeless and runaway adolescents may be at a high risk for HIV infection. Ideas about the severity of AIDS, possible modes of transmission, and the integrity of those who provide information about HIV/AIDS come into play as youths make safer sex decisions. Information on youths' ideas about these issues can be used to improve the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS education programs that target them. We interviewed 98 adolescents at two youth shelter…
Revisiting Irigaray’s Essay “Women on the Market”
Woman is not born a commodity, but rather becomes one. This is Luce Irigaray’s argument in her 1977 essay “Women on the Market” (1997). In this work, Irigaray expands on and reinterprets Marx’s cri
Unauthorized Storytelling
This article revisits Julia Alvarez’s critically acclaimed historical novel In the Time of the Butterflies (1994). While much scholarship has paid attention to the novel as historiographic metafiction, its depiction of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s regime (1930-61), and its feminist perspective on the Dominican Republic, its racial politics are under-studied. In particular, scholars have overlooked Fela, the Afra-Dominican servant, spirit medium, an…
She - nature, woman, Goddess
This manuscript pairs Margaret Atwood's poem 'Marsh Languages' with Luce Irigaray's recent philosophical text In the Beginning She Was. By doing so, an important conceptual resonance emerges between the two texts on the status of the loss of a maternal language and more broadly of the founding Mother at the origins of Western thought. Advancing a feminist poetics and ethics of the maternal, with its roots in nature, Atwood and Irigaray's works ar…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)