Ann Heilmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1025528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Heilmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Heilmann |
| SIGNATURE | HEILMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8188-5087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Violence prevention through legislative change
Physical punishment violates children's rights as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and has consistently been linked to detrimental outcomes, yet it remains legal in most countries. In the UK, it is prohibited in Scotland and Wales, whereas in England and Northern Ireland, the defence of 'reasonable punishment' remains available to parents. We report findings from a qualitative study that sought to understand how law reform…
Neighbourhood belonging, social cohesion, and mental wellbeing of children and parents in an ethnically diverse community sample in England
Neighbourhood cohesion is considered an important and modifiable determinant of mental health that interacts with factors such as deprivation and ethnicity in complex ways. UK studies adequately representing ethnic minority groups are however scarce. We examined associations between neighbourhood belonging, social cohesion, and mental wellbeing of children and parents in an ethnically diverse community sample in England. We analysed cross-section…
The Radical Politics of Laughter
The ploy of dissimulation that the suffragette movement harnessed in political practice also played an important role in suffrage literature and stage drama. Here, the trope of comic misdirection (such as the misrecognition of suffrage identities) served to expose the foolishness of anti-feminists, encouraging readers and spectators to dismiss the upholders of the law while applauding suffrage activists. In the process, femininity was reconceptua…
Life course socioeconomic position and general and oral health in later life
The relationship between SEP and health is bidirectional, but with a clearly stronger role for the social causation pathway
Head injuries in early childhood in the UK; is there a social gradient
OBJECTIVES: To examine if there is a social gradient in early childhood head injuries among UK children. METHODS: Cross-sectional study, using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). The second, third and fourth sweeps of the MCS were analysed separately, when children were 3, 5 and 7 years old. Logistic regression models were used to explore the associations between head injuries and family socioeconomic position (social class, household…
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence
Evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the ‘strengthening families, strengthening communities’ group-based parenting programme
Prospectively registered Randomised Controlled Trial ISRCTN15194500
Dental attendance and behavioural pathways to adult oral health inequalities
BACKGROUND: While inequalities in oral health are documented, little is known about the extent to which they are attributable to potentially modifiable factors. We examined the role of behavioural and dental attendance pathways in explaining oral health inequalities among adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. METHODS: Using nationally representative data, we analysed inequalities in self-rated oral health and number of natural teeth. Hig…
Importance of socioeconomic factors in predicting tooth loss among older adults in Japan
Breastfeeding practices in the United Kingdom
A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. Logistic regression was carried out on a sample of 17,308 respondents, adjusting for individual- and familial-level socio-demographic characteristics. Neighbourhood deprivation was independently and inversely associated with breastfeeding initiation. Compared with the least deprived areas, the likelihood of initiating breastfeeding was 40% lower in the most depr…
Introduction
Walter Moody had told nobody at all [. . . .] His reasons for this concealment were deeply felt, but vaguely articulated. A man should not be made to answer for his family. It was wrong to expose a man’s private correspondence without his consent. He did not want to perform this exposure himself. But these reasons, even when taken together, did not quite comprise the whole truth, which was that Moody had compared himself to both men many times ov…
The Victorians, Sex, and Gender
This chapter provides an overview of changes and cultural shifts around questions of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. Against a backdrop of change and dissonance, the Victorians saw considerable upheaval across normative codes of social, sexual, and gendered behaviour. In this chapter, we want to look at some current themes in Victorian studies around the topics of gender and sexuality and place these into the contexts of the multipl…
Social relationships and health related behaviors among older US adults
Social relationships of older Americans were independently associated with different health-related behaviors, even after adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic determinants. Availability of emotional support did not however mediate these associations. More research is needed to assess if strengthening social relationships would have a significant impact on older people's health behaviors and ultimately improve their health
The Victorians now
OP57 The Contribution of Neighbourhoods and Schools to Cognitive Test Performance at Age Seven - Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Background The relevance of neighbourhoods for children’s cognitive development, while receiving increasing attention, is still subject to debate. One mechanism that has been proposed is via institutional resources such as schools. Another hypothesis is that neighbourhood aspects influence maternal psychological well-being and parenting practices. However, the contribution of schools to the neighbourhood effect is understudied, and findings regar…
Gender and essentialism
Sally Ledger
This appreciation of Sally Ledger, formerly Hildred Carlile Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, who died in January 2009, is written by a colleague and fellow board member of Women’s History Review. It focuses upon her professional career as a Victorianist and literary gender specialist who made a major contribution to international scholarship on Victorian to fin‐de‐siècle culture, women’s writing, literary gender studi…
Political Hystories
The New Woman in the New Millennium
This essay offers an overview of the current state of criticism on New Woman fiction. Starting with a brief survey of the critical perspectives established in the last thirty years of the twentieth century, it moves to a more detailed discussion of three trends since the turn of the millennium. As I argue, critical literature since 2000 has explored the specifically ‘feminine’ aesthetic of New Woman writers, and scrutinized the racialist and impe…
The rebel, the lady and the ‘anti’
The New Woman in the New Millennium
This essay offers an overview of the current state of criticism on New Woman fiction. Starting with a brief survey of the critical perspectives established in the last thirty years of the twentieth century, it moves to a more detailed discussion of three trends since the turn of the millennium. As I argue, critical literature since 2000 has explored the specifically ‘feminine’ aesthetic of New Woman writers, and scrutinized the racialist and impe…
New Woman Hybridities
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts …
Hystorical fictions
Forbidden histories are the only stories worth reading, or so Oscar Wilde might have phrased it. But what is it about history that suggests the secret or forbidden, and why should contemporary wome
Visionary Desires
The tide was coming in. The water ... was ... bright dark sapphire blue, with crisp white crests to the waves, which were merry and tumbled. It was the sea for an active, not for a meditative mood; its
Neither man nor woman'? Female Transvestism, Object Relations and Mourning in George Moore's 'Albert Nobbs
Heilmann offers a psychoanalytic reading of Moore's narrative of cross-gender impersonation 'Albert Nobbs'. First published in A Story-Teller's Holiday (1918) and later transferred to Celibate Lives (1927), the story features a woman who passes herself off as a man, until a chance meeting with another male impersonator happily equipped with a wife galvanizes her desire for a companion. Her inability to reveal the secret of her body to her prospec…
Visionary Desires
The tide was coming in. The water ... was ... bright dark sapphire blue, with crisp white crests to the waves, which were merry and tumbled. It was the sea for an active, not for a meditative mood; its
The rebel, the lady and the ‘anti’
Hystorical fictions
Forbidden histories are the only stories worth reading, or so Oscar Wilde might have phrased it. But what is it about history that suggests the secret or forbidden, and why should contemporary wome
(Un)Masking Desire
Journal Article (Un)Masking Desire: Cross-dressing and the crisis of gender in New Woman fiction Get access Ann Heilmann Ann Heilmann 1University of Wales Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 83–111, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.1.83 Published: 01 January 2000
Mona Caird (1854-1932)
This paper, which makes available previously unknown pictures and personal information drawn from interviews, introduces aspects of the life and work of a neglected First Wave feminist writer. In particular, it examines Caird's analysis of the social construction of marriage and motherhood and the dynamics of mother-daughter relationships. The conceptual framework within which Caird wrote, while being embedded in its historical context, bears str…
Masquerade, sisterhood and the dilemma of the feminist as artist and woman in late nineteenth-century British women's writing
Fin‐de‐siècle feminist writers solved the dilemma of having to “defy the cultural definition of artist or woman if [they were] to remain artist[s] and wom[e]n” (Stewart, 1979, p. 14) by braving patriarchal notions of submissive femininity and male‐engendered art in their own artistic lives, and by re‐asserting their feminist beliefs in the personae of their protagonists. As women intending to create rather than be created by male society, their h…
Over that Bridge Built with our Bodies the Entire Human Race Will Pass
Mona Caird (1854-1932)
This paper, which makes available previously unknown pictures and personal information drawn from interviews, introduces aspects of the life and work of a neglected First Wave feminist writer. In particular, it examines Caird's analysis of the social construction of marriage and motherhood and the dynamics of mother-daughter relationships. The conceptual framework within which Caird wrote, while being embedded in its historical context, bears str…
Making a space for women
New Woman Fiction
The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the
(Un)Masking Desire
Journal Article (Un)Masking Desire: Cross-dressing and the crisis of gender in New Woman fiction Get access Ann Heilmann Ann Heilmann 1University of Wales Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 83–111, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.1.83 Published: 01 January 2000
Interview with Margaret Atwood, Hay-on-Wye, 27 May 2001
This interview took place during the 2001 literature festival in Hay-on-Wye in which Margaret Atwood featured prominently. Here she talks about her work as a writer, with particular reference to her latest, Booker-Prizewinning novel, The Blind Assassin , which was also nominated for the Orange Prize and which won the International Crime Writers' Association's Dashiell Hammett Award
Words as Deeds
(2002). Words as Deeds: debates and narratives on women's suffrage. Women's History Review: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 565-576
Neither man nor woman'? Female Transvestism, Object Relations and Mourning in George Moore's 'Albert Nobbs
Heilmann offers a psychoanalytic reading of Moore's narrative of cross-gender impersonation 'Albert Nobbs'. First published in A Story-Teller's Holiday (1918) and later transferred to Celibate Lives (1927), the story features a woman who passes herself off as a man, until a chance meeting with another male impersonator happily equipped with a wife galvanizes her desire for a companion. Her inability to reveal the secret of her body to her prospec…
New Woman Hybridities
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts …
Hystorical fictions
Forbidden histories are the only stories worth reading, or so Oscar Wilde might have phrased it. But what is it about history that suggests the secret or forbidden, and why should contemporary wome
Visionary Desires
The tide was coming in. The water ... was ... bright dark sapphire blue, with crisp white crests to the waves, which were merry and tumbled. It was the sea for an active, not for a meditative mood; its
The New Woman in the New Millennium
This essay offers an overview of the current state of criticism on New Woman fiction. Starting with a brief survey of the critical perspectives established in the last thirty years of the twentieth century, it moves to a more detailed discussion of three trends since the turn of the millennium. As I argue, critical literature since 2000 has explored the specifically ‘feminine’ aesthetic of New Woman writers, and scrutinized the racialist and impe…
The New Woman in the New Millennium
This essay offers an overview of the current state of criticism on New Woman fiction. Starting with a brief survey of the critical perspectives established in the last thirty years of the twentieth century, it moves to a more detailed discussion of three trends since the turn of the millennium. As I argue, critical literature since 2000 has explored the specifically ‘feminine’ aesthetic of New Woman writers, and scrutinized the racialist and impe…
The rebel, the lady and the ‘anti’
Political Hystories
Sally Ledger
This appreciation of Sally Ledger, formerly Hildred Carlile Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, who died in January 2009, is written by a colleague and fellow board member of Women’s History Review. It focuses upon her professional career as a Victorianist and literary gender specialist who made a major contribution to international scholarship on Victorian to fin‐de‐siècle culture, women’s writing, literary gender studi…
Gender and essentialism
The Victorians now
OP57 The Contribution of Neighbourhoods and Schools to Cognitive Test Performance at Age Seven - Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Background The relevance of neighbourhoods for children’s cognitive development, while receiving increasing attention, is still subject to debate. One mechanism that has been proposed is via institutional resources such as schools. Another hypothesis is that neighbourhood aspects influence maternal psychological well-being and parenting practices. However, the contribution of schools to the neighbourhood effect is understudied, and findings regar…
The Victorians, Sex, and Gender
This chapter provides an overview of changes and cultural shifts around questions of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. Against a backdrop of change and dissonance, the Victorians saw considerable upheaval across normative codes of social, sexual, and gendered behaviour. In this chapter, we want to look at some current themes in Victorian studies around the topics of gender and sexuality and place these into the contexts of the multipl…
Social relationships and health related behaviors among older US adults
Social relationships of older Americans were independently associated with different health-related behaviors, even after adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic determinants. Availability of emotional support did not however mediate these associations. More research is needed to assess if strengthening social relationships would have a significant impact on older people's health behaviors and ultimately improve their health
Introduction
Walter Moody had told nobody at all [. . . .] His reasons for this concealment were deeply felt, but vaguely articulated. A man should not be made to answer for his family. It was wrong to expose a man’s private correspondence without his consent. He did not want to perform this exposure himself. But these reasons, even when taken together, did not quite comprise the whole truth, which was that Moody had compared himself to both men many times ov…
Breastfeeding practices in the United Kingdom
A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. Logistic regression was carried out on a sample of 17,308 respondents, adjusting for individual- and familial-level socio-demographic characteristics. Neighbourhood deprivation was independently and inversely associated with breastfeeding initiation. Compared with the least deprived areas, the likelihood of initiating breastfeeding was 40% lower in the most depr…
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence
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