Jamie Marsella
Biographic Data
| ID | 1221583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Marsella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsella |
| SIGNATURE | MARSELLA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University , MA , USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5763-187X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Investment Feminism and Women’s Health
In this article, we introduce the term “investment feminism” to characterize the phenomenon in which financial actors position investment as a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. As an analytical tool, investment feminism illuminates patterns and relations incompletely revealed by existing concepts such as commodity feminism and neoliberal feminism. We develop the concept of investment feminism through a close analysis of its role in the …
“An Army of Little Mothers”
This article explores the role of the Little Mothers’ Leagues in New York City, clubs created by public health authorities to educate working-class girls as young as eight years old who took care of their younger siblings while their parents worked. The Little Mothers’ Leagues served as an essential link between social reform and eugenic public health programming during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Eugenic maternalism, as artic…
"Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City"
This paper offers the term "eugenic maternalism" to conceptualize how eugenic thought and practice was disseminated through Progressive Era materialist reform work. Focusing on the Better Babies Contests hosted by the New York City Babies Welfare Association from 1913 to 1916, I argue that the BWA Better Babies Contest provides an opportunity to broaden our understanding of the ways eugenic logic permeated maternalist discussions of child welfare…
Guarding the Golden Gate
Journal Article Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay. J. Gordon Frierson Get access Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay J. Gordon FriersonReno: University of Nevada Press, 2022. 240 pp. Jamie Marsella Jamie Marsella Harvard University, MA, USA [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5763-187X Search for other works by this author on:…
Health Disparities in the United States
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Health Disparities in the United States
“An Army of Little Mothers”
This article explores the role of the Little Mothers’ Leagues in New York City, clubs created by public health authorities to educate working-class girls as young as eight years old who took care of their younger siblings while their parents worked. The Little Mothers’ Leagues served as an essential link between social reform and eugenic public health programming during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Eugenic maternalism, as artic…
"Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City"
This paper offers the term "eugenic maternalism" to conceptualize how eugenic thought and practice was disseminated through Progressive Era materialist reform work. Focusing on the Better Babies Contests hosted by the New York City Babies Welfare Association from 1913 to 1916, I argue that the BWA Better Babies Contest provides an opportunity to broaden our understanding of the ways eugenic logic permeated maternalist discussions of child welfare…
Guarding the Golden Gate
Journal Article Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay. J. Gordon Frierson Get access Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay J. Gordon FriersonReno: University of Nevada Press, 2022. 240 pp. Jamie Marsella Jamie Marsella Harvard University, MA, USA [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5763-187X Search for other works by this author on:…
Investment Feminism and Women’s Health
In this article, we introduce the term “investment feminism” to characterize the phenomenon in which financial actors position investment as a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. As an analytical tool, investment feminism illuminates patterns and relations incompletely revealed by existing concepts such as commodity feminism and neoliberal feminism. We develop the concept of investment feminism through a close analysis of its role in the …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Eugenics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Medical History and Research (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)