Katherine Parkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Parkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkin |
| SIGNATURE | PARKIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monmouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9016-230X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Right Number of Children”—Emko Birth Control in Puerto Rico and the US, 1962–1966
The population control ideologue Joseph Sunnen distributed his spermicidal vaginal foam Emko, first in Puerto Rico and then surreptitiously to poor and working-class women in the United States through the mail and in concert with Planned Parenthood in clinics and their workplace. He sought to limit the country's population by advancing an idealized American family of only one or two children. With a coordinated public relations campaign, he creat…
The Business of Abortion
This article explores the growth of abortion-related businesses in New York State that emerged to encourage Canadian women to travel across the border to access care. Referral agencies and clinics advertised their services, publicized their fees, and competed with each other. Canadian women living near the border were used to crossing to access goods and services not available in their home market. Their practice of traveling to New York for abor…
The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition & the Abortion Tribunals, 1971–1972
The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition organized for abortion rights, an end to forced sterilization, and accessible birth control. From its formation in July 1971 to its demise with the January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, it was an inclusive, far-reaching network that spearheaded the call for reproductive justice. Assembling a coalition, including high school and college students and those who called themselves Third World women (Black, H…
Sadie Hawkins in American Life, 1937-1957
In 1937, Al Capp introduced Sadie Hawkins Day in his Li’l Abner comic strip. In its first year, Americans embraced the day with girl-chase-boy races and girl-ask-boy fall dances. Cream of Wheat used Sadie Hawkins to sell their cereal, further entrenching it in American life. Sadie Hawkins purported to be an empowering opportunity for girls. However, a belief that men feared marriage, even to beautiful women, and that women were always desperate t…
Marketing justice
This article explores the tension over whether to boycott Christmas in 1963 to protest the murder of six children in Birmingham, Alabama. The Association of Artists for Freedom, formed in the aftermath of the murders, was led by John O. Killens, James Baldwin, Odetta, Louis Lomax, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis. They took a leadership role in condemning the murders and demanding a national response; they called for the first national no-spending Chris…
Joy Turned to Sorrow
This examination of north central Indiana between 1890 and 1940 offers a unique insight into the historic response to stillborn and newborn infant deaths. With a remarkable record of those interred, as well as local newspapers from these communities, the records of families who endured these losses allow us to discover their public responses to stillbirths. This examination also considers the broader social and cultural forces that shaped how fam…
K elly E rby . Restaurant Republic
In exploring the individual and social significance of eating in diverse public spaces in nineteenth-century Boston, Kelly Erby’s Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston reveals how this custom emerged to define American identity. This concise study, smartly structured around the evolution of the city’s restaurants, argues that public eating, whether it was in upscale hotel buffets or at counters arranged in basements of houses, …
Carolyn M. GOLDSTEIN. Creating Consumers
In the first half of the twentieth century, leaders in the home economics movement assumed that knowing how to cook and sew were prerequisites for homemakers. Instead, Carolyn M. Goldstein argues, home economists' professional identities and practices centered on fostering what she calls rational consumption in homemakers (p. 3). After first formally organizing and then making their mark by offering scientific support for nutrition and efficient …
Glittering Mockery
This article considers the unconventional and chimerical custom of women proposing to men during a leap year. Capturing the imagination of Americans from 1904 into the 1960s, shame and ridicule made it difficult for women to take advantage of the opportunity to propose to men. Critics held that women who asked men to marry them were desperate, aggressive, and unfeminine. Considering postcards, advertisements, and newspaper columns, this article c…
A Mess of Greens
The relative scarcity of research on the history of southern foods is surprising, especially given how strongly food is bound up in the region's identity. Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt's study of the social, political, and economic significance of southern women and food between the 1870s and the 1930s is, therefore, a welcome addition to the literature. She argues that gender, class, and race shaped women's acquisition, production, and consumption …
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It's Up to the Women’
Glittering Mockery
This article considers the unconventional and chimerical custom of women proposing to men during a leap year. Capturing the imagination of Americans from 1904 into the 1960s, shame and ridicule made it difficult for women to take advantage of the opportunity to propose to men. Critics held that women who asked men to marry them were desperate, aggressive, and unfeminine. Considering postcards, advertisements, and newspaper columns, this article c…
A Mess of Greens
The relative scarcity of research on the history of southern foods is surprising, especially given how strongly food is bound up in the region's identity. Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt's study of the social, political, and economic significance of southern women and food between the 1870s and the 1930s is, therefore, a welcome addition to the literature. She argues that gender, class, and race shaped women's acquisition, production, and consumption …
Carolyn M. GOLDSTEIN. Creating Consumers
In the first half of the twentieth century, leaders in the home economics movement assumed that knowing how to cook and sew were prerequisites for homemakers. Instead, Carolyn M. Goldstein argues, home economists' professional identities and practices centered on fostering what she calls rational consumption in homemakers (p. 3). After first formally organizing and then making their mark by offering scientific support for nutrition and efficient …
K elly E rby . Restaurant Republic
In exploring the individual and social significance of eating in diverse public spaces in nineteenth-century Boston, Kelly Erby’s Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston reveals how this custom emerged to define American identity. This concise study, smartly structured around the evolution of the city’s restaurants, argues that public eating, whether it was in upscale hotel buffets or at counters arranged in basements of houses, …
Marketing justice
This article explores the tension over whether to boycott Christmas in 1963 to protest the murder of six children in Birmingham, Alabama. The Association of Artists for Freedom, formed in the aftermath of the murders, was led by John O. Killens, James Baldwin, Odetta, Louis Lomax, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis. They took a leadership role in condemning the murders and demanding a national response; they called for the first national no-spending Chris…
Joy Turned to Sorrow
This examination of north central Indiana between 1890 and 1940 offers a unique insight into the historic response to stillborn and newborn infant deaths. With a remarkable record of those interred, as well as local newspapers from these communities, the records of families who endured these losses allow us to discover their public responses to stillbirths. This examination also considers the broader social and cultural forces that shaped how fam…
Sadie Hawkins in American Life, 1937-1957
In 1937, Al Capp introduced Sadie Hawkins Day in his Li’l Abner comic strip. In its first year, Americans embraced the day with girl-chase-boy races and girl-ask-boy fall dances. Cream of Wheat used Sadie Hawkins to sell their cereal, further entrenching it in American life. Sadie Hawkins purported to be an empowering opportunity for girls. However, a belief that men feared marriage, even to beautiful women, and that women were always desperate t…
The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition & the Abortion Tribunals, 1971–1972
The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition organized for abortion rights, an end to forced sterilization, and accessible birth control. From its formation in July 1971 to its demise with the January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, it was an inclusive, far-reaching network that spearheaded the call for reproductive justice. Assembling a coalition, including high school and college students and those who called themselves Third World women (Black, H…
The Business of Abortion
This article explores the growth of abortion-related businesses in New York State that emerged to encourage Canadian women to travel across the border to access care. Referral agencies and clinics advertised their services, publicized their fees, and competed with each other. Canadian women living near the border were used to crossing to access goods and services not available in their home market. Their practice of traveling to New York for abor…
The Right Number of Children”—Emko Birth Control in Puerto Rico and the US, 1962–1966
The population control ideologue Joseph Sunnen distributed his spermicidal vaginal foam Emko, first in Puerto Rico and then surreptitiously to poor and working-class women in the United States through the mail and in concert with Planned Parenthood in clinics and their workplace. He sought to limit the country's population by advancing an idealized American family of only one or two children. With a coordinated public relations campaign, he creat…
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