Sue Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3593812 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sue Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Sue |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS S |
| AFILIACIONES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6628-3328 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 92 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 832 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Invisible Armor
Scholars, officeholders, advocacy organizations, and the media have expressed concern that the growing violence against officeholders harms democracy by increasing politicians’ self-censorship in office. Self-censoring includes avoiding contact with constituents, avoiding addressing controversial issues, and depressed political ambition. This may be particularly true for women as they are more likely than men to experience violence and more of sp…
Reporting requirement type matters
BACKGROUND: In the context of the maternal overdose crisis and concerns that child welfare reporting is a barrier to care and treatment, current policy discussions in the U.S. focus on alternatives to child welfare reporting requirements. Thus, we examine associations between different state-level reporting requirements and birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization. METHODS: We use U.S. state-level policy data from the Alcohol Policy Informati…
Reading the Spiritual Worlds of Mary Prince
The approach to reading the array of texts that now constitute the editions of The History of Mary Prince is both historical and literary critical, attentive to Caribbean and British evangelical contexts and the practices and vocabularies of Christian religious denominations. The interdisciplinary and archival reach of the reading of Mary Prince’s spiritual worlds deepens understandings of her plural religious identity, as well as the meanings of…
Trends in U.S. State Alcohol and Other Drug Use During Pregnancy Policies from 2016 to 2020
Prior to the U.S. Comprehensive Addiction and Reovery Act of 2016 (CARA) , policymaking on alcohol and drug use during pregnancy was more concentrated on alcohol than drug use policy - although the overlap between the two types of policy was high. Further, the highest levels of legislative activity were requirements to report pregnant women who used alcohol or other drugs and child abuse/neglect policy. This research brief uses rigorous legal epi…
Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations Leading the Way in Child Health Research
Historically, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research in Australia has adhered to Western research paradigms and contributed to the adverse impacts of colonisation. However, recent developments driven by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and scholars, and development of ethical guidelines for research, have promoted a more inclusive and collaborative research landscape. In this study, published papers and internal documents aris…
Reparatory Justice and the Afterlives of Slavery in Twenty- First-Century Creative Rememberings of Mary Prince
The Effects of Violence against U.S. Officeholders
Using an original 2021 survey of mayors in U.S. mayors in cities of 10,000 in population and above, we explore the individual costs of psychological and physical violence. These costs include emotional distress, diverted attention from the job, and considerations about leaving the job. Overall, we find that 95 percent of mayors faced violence in office. Among those who did, the more violence reported, the more likely they were to have faced such …
Afterlives of Slavery in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s “Demerara Sugar”
An Intersectional Exploration of Psychological Violence, Threats, and Physical Violence of Mayors in 2021
Using an original dataset, we offer an intersectional exploration of psychological violence, threats, and physical violence against U.S. mayors in 2021 in cities of 10,000+ in population. We also explore violence that is gendered and raced. Overall, we find significant and meaningful differences among gender/race groups. Women of color and non-Hispanic white women faced higher rates of threats, gendered, and sexualized violence than men, and wome…
The haunting influence of Jean Rhys on Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela, a devout Islamic writer, first read Jean Rhys’s fiction after she arrived in Scotland from Sudan in 1990 in her mid-twenties. She acknowledges that her writing is haunted by Rhys’s fiction, especially Voyage in the Dark. The influence of Voyage in the Dark (1934) is most marked in Aboulela’s second novel Minaret (2005). There her finely nuanced translations of the narrative logic of and motifs from Voyage in the Dark across histor…
Embedding the Model of Engaging with Communities Collaboratively (Mecc) in the Jandu Yani U (For All Families) Project in Aboriginal communities of the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia
This study evaluated the use of the Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively (MECC) to guide the Jandu Yani U (For All Families) project, in which the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program was collaboratively adapted for use in very remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. The communities’ responses to the MECC processes were evaluated through interview-style or selfadministered surveys, semiformal interviews, focus group discussi…
Jandu Yani U (for all families)
Objectives Although evidence-based parenting programs are widely available, they remain inaccessible to many families of children with social, emotional and behavioural problems, particularly in remote settings. In partnership with Aboriginal communities in the remote Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia, we introduced and evaluated the Indigenous Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, with additional Stepping Stones Triple P strategies (for childre…
Research note
Background Although there is an emerging literature in the United States about violence against officeholders, to date there is no research examining trends in violence against U.S. politicians. Objectives To examine whether volence against US mayors increased from 2017 to 2021 and whether social and political factors help account for the rise. Methods we report the results of two surveys of mayors in the United States: one in 2017 and the other …
Gender, Power, and Colleague Aggression in U.S. State Senates
In this paper, we present analysis of an original dataset of levels of colleague aggression among U.S. state senators, whether women senators face more of these behaviors than men, and whether numerical and positional gender inequality in state senates affects these relationships. The results indicate that, overall, colleague aggression in U.S. state senates is relatively rare, and, in general, women do not face more aggression than men. Under ce…
Jean Rhys’s Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics
Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys’s experimental aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys’s experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys’s practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, a…
Gendered violence in state house races
There is a growing body of literature suggesting that women politicians face greater hostility and violence than men and that this depresses the willingness of women to serve and ultimately descriptive representation. Here we add to this burgeoning literature by examining gender differences in the psychological and physical violence experienced by state house candidates in the 2020 election cycle. Using a survey administered in 18 states, we find…
Violence among State House Candidates during the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Although there is an established comparative literature addressing electoral violence, and an emerging literature on violence against US officeholders, research has not examined levels of violence perpetrated by constituents against US candidates, nor how a crisis, such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, including the political polarization connected to it, may affect violence. This note presents findings from a survey of state house candidates from 18 US…
Not Just Sticks and Stones
In this study, we report results of a survey of U.S. state senators about their experiences of psychological abuse, physical violence, and sexualized abuse and violence on the job, as well as gender differences among senators. Overall, our results indicate that more than 80% of state senators reported having faced abuse and violence, and women senators reported more physical violence than men. Moreover, we found differences in the factors that co…
Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively
The Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively was developed with the integration of literature reviews in cultural adaptation approaches, engagement and implementation approaches; and international Indigenous feedback to inform the processes of implementing evidence-based practices (EBP) with Indigenous populations. This model synthesises the collective strengths of these approaches and feedback and provides checklists for practicality of use…
Reading Polly Teale’s Dog Women in After Mrs Rochester and Brontë
Playwright and director Polly Teale’s biodramas After Mrs Rochester (2003) and Brontë (2005) boldly feature dog women to embody the psychological shadows of Jean Rhys and Charlotte Brontë respectively. In developing the figures Teale draws inspiration most explicitly from artist Dame Paula Rego’s Dog Woman series (1994) and Charlotte Brontë’s blurring of the species boundary human/animal in her representation of Bertha Mason Rochester in Jane Eyr…
State Policies Targeting Alcohol Use during Pregnancy and Alcohol Use among Pregnant Women 1985–2016
Physical violence and psychological abuse against female and male mayors in the United States
Despite reports of physical violence and psychological abuse against US officeholders, the subject has not been addressed in research at any level of government. This study reports results from survey research of mayors with three aims: examination of the frequency, types, and correlates of experiences of physical violence and psychological abuse among mayors; exploration of gender differences; and estimates of the effects of violence and abuse o…
Differential Effects of Pregnancy-Specific Alcohol Policies on Drinking Among Pregnant Women by Race/Ethnicity
Purpose: Alcohol use during pregnancy is a significant public health concern. Nearly all U.S. states have enacted policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy, but there has been little research examining their impact, particularly across racial/ethnic groups. Methods: Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and about eight state-level, pregnancy-specific alcohol policies from 1985 to 2016, the aim of this study was to e…
Drug Use During Pregnancy Policies in the United States From 1970 to 2016
As U.S. states legalize marijuana and as governmental attention is paid to the “opioid crisis,” state policies pertaining to drug use during pregnancy are increasingly important. Little is known about the scope of state policies targeting drug use during pregnancy, how they have evolved, and how they compare to alcohol use during pregnancy policies
Victorian Traffic
Organised around the themes Home and Abroad, Performative Traffic, and Image, Circulation, Mobility, Victorian Traffic: Identity, Performance, Exchange variously addresses the cultural dimensions of traffic in the long Victorian period: cross-cultural experience; colonial and racial imaginaries; everyday, literary, autobiographical and professional stagings of identity; and trade in metaphors, communications, texts, images, celebrity, character t…
The Impact of Women on State Legislative Policies
Do women in public office make a difference? If so, what kind and under what circumstances? This study offers preliminary answers to these questions by examining the relationship between the percentage of women in state legislatures and their policy priorities. It also examines the impact women legislators have on overall legislative policy. Findings reveal that women in states with the highest percentages of female representatives introduce and …
The Impact of Gender on Activities and Priorities of State Legislators
The gender gap in comparative perspective
Although the ‘gender gap’ in Western democratic publics has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention, one interesting anomaly has not been addressed. At the level of many specific issues, women appear to be more liberal than men. However, at the level of general ideological orientations, women are either more conservative, or there are no significant gender differences. We explore this disjuncture between levels of cognitive abstracti…
Physical violence and psychological abuse against female and male mayors in the United States
Despite reports of physical violence and psychological abuse against US officeholders, the subject has not been addressed in research at any level of government. This study reports results from survey research of mayors with three aims: examination of the frequency, types, and correlates of experiences of physical violence and psychological abuse among mayors; exploration of gender differences; and estimates of the effects of violence and abuse o…
Recontextualising policy discourses
This paper contributes to critical policy research by theorising one aspect of policy enactment, the meaning making work of a cohort of mid-level policy actors. Specifically, we propose that Basil Bernstein’s work on the structuring of pedagogic discourse, in particular, the concept of recontextualisation, may add to understandings of the policy work of interpretation and translation. Recontextualisation refers to the relational processes of sele…
The Effects of Race and Gender On Constituency Service
Not Just Sticks and Stones
In this study, we report results of a survey of U.S. state senators about their experiences of psychological abuse, physical violence, and sexualized abuse and violence on the job, as well as gender differences among senators. Overall, our results indicate that more than 80% of state senators reported having faced abuse and violence, and women senators reported more physical violence than men. Moreover, we found differences in the factors that co…
The Personal Is the Political
Voting Patterns in the California Assembly
The literature on roll call voting behavior in the United States Congress points to small, but significant, differences in the ideological proclivities and voting decisions of male and female legislators. However, comparable studies have not been done on the state level. This article explores gender differences in roll call voting behavior in the California Assembly on two measures, liberalism and support for women's issues. The findings suggest,…
Voting patterns in the California assembly
The Trouble with Our Schools
This paper gives an account of competing public discourses on schooling. In particular, it investigates one newspaper's coverage of the release of an educational report. The paper combines interview data with a critical discourse analysis of newspaper texts to show how media reporting of Queensland schools constructed a preferred discourse on education that represented schools as being in crisis, 'in trouble'. The analysis describes how the paper…
Explaining Legislative Success in the U. S. Senate
Michael K. Moore, Sue Thomas, Explaining Legislative Success in the U. S. Senate: The Role of the Majority and Minority Parties, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 959-970
Explaining the Gender Gap in British Public Opinion
The gender gap in British public opinion is explored using data from the 1983 British Election Study. Differences in opinions between men and women are examined in light of three explanations frequently offered to explain gender differences in political behavior: socialization, situational factors such as employment and marital status, and structural factors. Findings indicate that there appears to be no major gender gap on basic ideology, but th…
Health Benefits of Pets for Families
During the last decade, the common belief that pets are good for their owners has gained concrete scientific support. In this paper we review the evidence for the health benefits of pets, discuss the importance of pets in the family system, and explore the implications of this information for therapists. Pets play a variety of health promoting roles which are particularly important for individuals lacking support from family members or close frie…
Gender and Perceptions of Candidate Competency
Following an innovative study showing rapid inferences about the competence of candidates based on photos correlated with electoral success, we examine the effects of the sex of the subjects and candidates on these results. Our results indicate that the relationship between inferences of competence and electoral success are more complex than previously believed. We found a gender gap in evaluations of competence and maturity of candidate faces an…
Teachers and public engagement
In the context of public debates on teacher quality, both media and education policy texts construct deficit discourses about teachers, discourses that work together to inform public, commonsense understandings of teacher quality. This paper explores the interrelationships between discourses on teachers constructed on television and in policies in the Australian policy context. Critical discourse analysis was employed to trace the links between t…
The Glass Ceiling Revisited
Using the results of a recent survey of federal employees and focus groups of the same population, this article extends previous research on the existence of a glass ceiling in the federal bureaucracy. Even when controlling for differences between the sexes in human capital factors, work habits, work opportunities, and personal circumstances, women who have been in the federal bureaucracy from zero to 10 years and from 20 to 30 years have not adv…
The Modern United States Senate
The modern U.S. Senate is often seen as being hopelessly personalistic and little concerned with such quaint standards as party discipline, loyalty to the institution, and improving public policy. In this paper, by determining the specific behaviors and traits that are associated with respect, we attempt to test the veracity of these widely-held beliefs. Our measure of respect was obtained from a survey of top-level staffers, and our efforts to e…
Do Term Limits Make a Difference
Arguments for term limits often focus on the need for politicianswhoare less motivated by career goals and more motivated by public policy goals. Yet little is known about whether term limits result in officeholders who are different from others. In this article, the authors examine whether the political motivations and ambitions of term-limited legislators differ from those of nontermlimited legislators. A survey of legislators in 15 states serv…
Backlash” and Its Utility to Political Scientists
The global warming backlash, the managed care backlash, the Bush backlash, the corporate backlash, the 9/11 backlash, the Obama backlash, the Clinton backlash, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill backlash, the antigay backlash, the immigration backlash, the backlashes against globalization, student testing, the social, economic, and political progress of Latinos, African Americans, and Asian Americans, and, central to this “Crit…
Gays and Lesbians in Local Races
Although lesbians and gays are more visible in the political arena than in the past, there is little published research on their electoral viability. This article helps to fill that void by presenting results of experimental research featuring respondents' reactions to a hypothetical candidate for a non-partisan city council seat. Sex and sexual orientation of the candidates were manipulated so that six categories were tested: a straight woman, a…
Discourses of the good parent in attributing school success
Recent education policy places a heavy emphasis on parents in relation to students' success at school. This paper explores how parents and teachers account for school success. Using membership categorisation analysis, it interrogates data collected in different interview situations across sites over a period of 20 years. The analysis shows how parents and teachers use talk as moral work to conversationally constitute particular agreed versions of…
From “Green Blur” to Ecofashion
Language is created or co-opted to map and navigate the new territory of developing ideas. Ecofashion is part of that mapping: encompassing terms, adopting, and adapting many theories. The signpost for the ecofashion movement was the launch of Esprit Ecollection in November 1991. Over the last fifteen years the fashion industry, educational institutions, media, and consequently consumers have become more aware of the environmental and ecological …
Contesting education policy in the public sphere
This paper investigates the work of media discourses on education policy in public debates over the Queensland school curriculum. It draws on theories of discourse, theories that have recently influenced the field of policy sociology, to outline a conceptualization of policy and media texts as discourses in the public sphere. In so doing, it notes the significant contribution such public discourses on education make to the policy process. The pap…
Why Gender Matters
Using interviews of over 50 women state legislators from across six states, I explore their perceptions of the ways in which women's legislative life differs from men's. Specifically, I investigate their views of the ways the role of woman and the role of legislator affect career success and effectiveness, as well as the collective implications of those perceptions. The theoretical framework used to ground the empirical findings concerns women's …
Sleep-Waking Changes in Cardiac Arrhythmia in a Coronary Care Patient
A single case is reported in whom ventricular cardiac arrhythmias were related to the occurrence of polygraphically verified sleep. A strong relationship was found to exist between the heart rate in any one minute and the number of premature ventricular contractions, with higher rates associated with a greater number of these ectopic beats
Health Benefits of Pets for Families
During the last decade, the common belief that pets are good for their owners has gained concrete scientific support. In this paper we review the evidence for the health benefits of pets, discuss the importance of pets in the family system, and explore the implications of this information for therapists. Pets play a variety of health promoting roles which are particularly important for individuals lacking support from family members or close frie…
Some Religious Icons and Biblical Allusions in William Golding’s the spire
Explaining the Gender Gap in British Public Opinion
The gender gap in British public opinion is explored using data from the 1983 British Election Study. Differences in opinions between men and women are examined in light of three explanations frequently offered to explain gender differences in political behavior: socialization, situational factors such as employment and marital status, and structural factors. Findings indicate that there appears to be no major gender gap on basic ideology, but th…
Explaining the gender gap in British public opinion
Voting Patterns in the California Assembly
The literature on roll call voting behavior in the United States Congress points to small, but significant, differences in the ideological proclivities and voting decisions of male and female legislators. However, comparable studies have not been done on the state level. This article explores gender differences in roll call voting behavior in the California Assembly on two measures, liberalism and support for women's issues. The findings suggest,…
Voting patterns in the California assembly
The Modern United States Senate
The modern U.S. Senate is often seen as being hopelessly personalistic and little concerned with such quaint standards as party discipline, loyalty to the institution, and improving public policy. In this paper, by determining the specific behaviors and traits that are associated with respect, we attempt to test the veracity of these widely-held beliefs. Our measure of respect was obtained from a survey of top-level staffers, and our efforts to e…
Explaining Legislative Success in the U.S. Senate
Explaining Legislative Success in the U. S. Senate
Michael K. Moore, Sue Thomas, Explaining Legislative Success in the U. S. Senate: The Role of the Majority and Minority Parties, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 959-970
The Impact of Women on State Legislative Policies
Do women in public office make a difference? If so, what kind and under what circumstances? This study offers preliminary answers to these questions by examining the relationship between the percentage of women in state legislatures and their policy priorities. It also examines the impact women legislators have on overall legislative policy. Findings reveal that women in states with the highest percentages of female representatives introduce and …
Indicators of Activities of United States Senators
In this article, several heretofore little used indicators of legislative activity by senators are described and demonstrated. The purpose of this exercise is to generate debate about how Congress and its members are assessed, and the effects new methods of assessment can have on scholarly research, citizen judgments and vote choices, and even member behavior
The Impact of Gender on Activities and Priorities of State Legislators
Religion and Feminist Attitudes Among African-American Women
Using data from a 1988 telephone survey of randomly selected African-American residents of Washington, D.C., we test the association between religious attitudes and practices of African-American women and support for gender equality and abortion. We find that religious involvement and orthodoxy are strong predictors of opposition to legal abortion among African-American women, but are not associated with opposition to gender equality. Indeed, som…
Killing the Hysteric in the Colonized's House
Religion and feminist attitudes among African-American women
The Effects of Race and Gender On Constituency Service
Difference, Intersubjectivity, and Agency in the Colonial and Decolonizing Spaces of Hélène Cixous's “Sorties”
In this essay I examine Hélène Cixous's readings and figurings of women in colonial and decolonizing cultural spaces and slippages between universalized Western metaphors and metonyms and their colonial and orientalist significance. These readings, figurings, and slippages provide a supplementary framing of Cixous's utopian model of intersubjective exchange, her representation of the relation between materiality and textuality, and her universali…
The gender gap in comparative perspective
Although the ‘gender gap’ in Western democratic publics has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention, one interesting anomaly has not been addressed. At the level of many specific issues, women appear to be more liberal than men. However, at the level of general ideological orientations, women are either more conservative, or there are no significant gender differences. We explore this disjuncture between levels of cognitive abstracti…
The New Woman and Her Sisters
The Glass Ceiling Revisited
Using the results of a recent survey of federal employees and focus groups of the same population, this article extends previous research on the existence of a glass ceiling in the federal bureaucracy. Even when controlling for differences between the sexes in human capital factors, work habits, work opportunities, and personal circumstances, women who have been in the federal bureaucracy from zero to 10 years and from 20 to 30 years have not adv…
Battlefield and sky
(1996). Battlefield and sky: Sex‐consciousness in a room of one's own. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 160-175
Why Gender Matters
Using interviews of over 50 women state legislators from across six states, I explore their perceptions of the ways in which women's legislative life differs from men's. Specifically, I investigate their views of the ways the role of woman and the role of legislator affect career success and effectiveness, as well as the collective implications of those perceptions. The theoretical framework used to ground the empirical findings concerns women's …
Trends in Research on U. S. State Legislatures
Why gender matters
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