Allison L Hepler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1062027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison L Hepler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hepler |
| SIGNATURE | HEPLER A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine at Farmington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paternity
This book's most compelling story—it has many—describes how war, race, and nation building inscribed paternity onto the bodies of an Italian woman who gave birth to a child after World War II, her legal husband, and the child who was clearly the product of a relationship with an African American soldier. In this scenario, as in the other cases that the author describes, paternal identity was not only biologically derived but was also based on var…
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies
Reviewed by: Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor Allison L. Hepler Daniel E. Bender . Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 272 pp. Ill. $62.00 (cloth, 0-8135-3337-6), $23.95 (paperbound, 0-8135-3338-4). Sweatshops, an integral part of the global economy today, evoke images of exploited workers laboring under poor …
The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades
Reviewed by: The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Vol. 68 of Clio Medica Allison L. Hepler P. W. J. Bartrip . The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Vol. 68 of Clio Medica. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002. iv + 344 pp. Tables. $75.00, €75.00 (cloth, 90-420-1228…
Women in Labor
Allison L. Hepler's tudy examines the crucial role that gender has played in the development of the field of occupational health in the United States. Early occupational health reform centered around identifying and ameliorating dangers to female workers' reproductive health. Reformers viewed fatigue as the most significant risk because women performed physically taxing labor both at work and at home. Led by the National Consumers' League, occupa…
Magic Mineral to Killer Dust
Particles of asbestos, when inhaled, cause inflammation and then scarring of the lungs, which slowly strangle the victim. As a result, many "asbestotics" also develop heart failure and become susceptible to pneumonia and other infections. Asbestos also gives its victims a greater chance of developing lung cancer. The most dramatic effect of asbestos on the body, however, is mesothelioma, a pleural cancer that "can encase and constrict the entire …
Shaping the Life of the Pre-Natal
At the beginning of this century, a broad understanding of motherhood based on socially defined characteristics provided the rationale for legislation limiting the hours of working women. Modern medicine transformed the industrial workplace by emphasizing individual characteristics over group ones and by establishing policies that kept women from working with reproductive hazards like lead. While such practices reflected a more biological definit…
"And We Want Steel Toes Like the Men"
“And We Want Steel Toes Like the Men”: Gender and Occupational Health during World War II Allison L. Hepler* (bio) Alma worked the night shift in 1943 in order to have her days free for the house and kids. She slept about five to six hours a day, and never all at one time. Irregular heat and ventilation in the plant where she worked and the cold she caught there left her with a cough, but she did not go home sick. When her husband and children ca…
Paternity
This book's most compelling story—it has many—describes how war, race, and nation building inscribed paternity onto the bodies of an Italian woman who gave birth to a child after World War II, her legal husband, and the child who was clearly the product of a relationship with an African American soldier. In this scenario, as in the other cases that the author describes, paternal identity was not only biologically derived but was also based on var…
Shaping the Life of the Pre-Natal
At the beginning of this century, a broad understanding of motherhood based on socially defined characteristics provided the rationale for legislation limiting the hours of working women. Modern medicine transformed the industrial workplace by emphasizing individual characteristics over group ones and by establishing policies that kept women from working with reproductive hazards like lead. While such practices reflected a more biological definit…
"And We Want Steel Toes Like the Men"
“And We Want Steel Toes Like the Men”: Gender and Occupational Health during World War II Allison L. Hepler* (bio) Alma worked the night shift in 1943 in order to have her days free for the house and kids. She slept about five to six hours a day, and never all at one time. Irregular heat and ventilation in the plant where she worked and the cold she caught there left her with a cough, but she did not go home sick. When her husband and children ca…
Shaping the Life of the Pre-Natal
At the beginning of this century, a broad understanding of motherhood based on socially defined characteristics provided the rationale for legislation limiting the hours of working women. Modern medicine transformed the industrial workplace by emphasizing individual characteristics over group ones and by establishing policies that kept women from working with reproductive hazards like lead. While such practices reflected a more biological definit…
Magic Mineral to Killer Dust
Particles of asbestos, when inhaled, cause inflammation and then scarring of the lungs, which slowly strangle the victim. As a result, many "asbestotics" also develop heart failure and become susceptible to pneumonia and other infections. Asbestos also gives its victims a greater chance of developing lung cancer. The most dramatic effect of asbestos on the body, however, is mesothelioma, a pleural cancer that "can encase and constrict the entire …
Women in Labor
Allison L. Hepler's tudy examines the crucial role that gender has played in the development of the field of occupational health in the United States. Early occupational health reform centered around identifying and ameliorating dangers to female workers' reproductive health. Reformers viewed fatigue as the most significant risk because women performed physically taxing labor both at work and at home. Led by the National Consumers' League, occupa…
The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades
Reviewed by: The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Vol. 68 of Clio Medica Allison L. Hepler P. W. J. Bartrip . The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Vol. 68 of Clio Medica. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002. iv + 344 pp. Tables. $75.00, €75.00 (cloth, 90-420-1228…
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies
Reviewed by: Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor Allison L. Hepler Daniel E. Bender . Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 272 pp. Ill. $62.00 (cloth, 0-8135-3337-6), $23.95 (paperbound, 0-8135-3338-4). Sweatshops, an integral part of the global economy today, evoke images of exploited workers laboring under poor …
Paternity
This book's most compelling story—it has many—describes how war, race, and nation building inscribed paternity onto the bodies of an Italian woman who gave birth to a child after World War II, her legal husband, and the child who was clearly the product of a relationship with an African American soldier. In this scenario, as in the other cases that the author describes, paternal identity was not only biologically derived but was also based on var…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Occupational safety and health (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Business (2 works)