Lori Leonard
Biographic Data
| ID | 135591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori Leonard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori |
| FAMILY NAME | Leonard |
| SIGNATURE | LEONARD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1157-3675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
A gendered outlook into the adoption of improved rice varieties in Madagascar
This study investigates the household decision-making process toward adopting improved rice varieties. The mixed-method approach is applied to identify the influential factors and demonstrating the importance of considering gender aspects. The study was conducted in Madagascar Highlands (Vakinankaratra and Haute Matsiatra regions) with a sample of 164 male and female farmers. The quantitative models explored gendered differences for adoption, and…
Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
Journal Article Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. Get access Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 360. Cloth $99.99. Lori Leonard Lori Leonard Cornell University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American His…
Cutting Cultures: Affective Attachments and Clinical Conundrums
Women who change into men: A gendered history of precarity in 'useful' Chad
This article is about two generations of women in south-western Chad - the baou déné and the mosso. It addresses the puzzle of how these groups of women are present in the everyday life of the region known as 'useful' Chad, while women as economic agents are absent from stories about the region and about successive schemes to make it profitable. The baou déné are wealthy farmers, but the last generation of these 'women who have a lot of things' i…
Multilevel influences on acceptance of medical male circumcision in Rakai District, Uganda
Despite access to safe medical male circumcision (MMC) and proven effectiveness of the procedure in reducing acquisition of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, uptake remains suboptimal in many settings in sub-Saharan Africa, including Rakai District, Uganda. This study explored multilevel barriers and facilitators to MMC in focus group discussions (FGDs) (n = 35 groups) in Rakai. Focus groups were conducted from May through July 2012 …
Living in Limbo: Contested Narratives of Patients With Chronic Symptoms Following Lyme Disease
Persistent, subjective symptoms of unknown etiology following treatment for Lyme disease have been termed post- treatment Lyme disease syndrome or chronic Lyme disease (PTLDS/CLD). The objective of this study was to give primacy to the patient experience of this medically contested condition by eliciting patient illness narratives and identifying emergent issues through semistructured interviews conducted among 29 participants. We used thematic n…
Pharmaceutically-Made Men: Masculinities in Chad's Emergent Oil Economy
Uncivil Society
Working ‘off the record’: Polio eradication and state immunity in Chad
The reappearance of polio in Chad generates anxieties about governance as well as public health. Since Chad was declared polio-free in 2003, at least 180 cases of paralytic polio have been linked to importations of wild poliovirus from Nigeria. In efforts to eradicate polio through house-to-house vaccination campaigns, international agencies have aggressively implicated political leaders, placing those authorities in a bind. On the one hand, gove…
The social impact of the Chad–Cameroon oil pipeline: How industrial development affects gender relations, land tenure and local culture
Negotiating Authorship for Doctoral Dissertation Publications: A Reply
On the Modalities of the Domestic
This article focuses on experiences of the domestic-of houses, of intimacy and privacy-and what relation these bear to the kinds of sentiments about life which are given expression as fragile, endangered or fleeting. We think of singularity as lying in the potential for multiple domesticities that emerge at different times and are neither coterminous with family nor indeed with household. Based on fieldwork with African-American and Caribbean fam…
The Story of My Life: Aids and 'Autobiographical Occasions
HIV and Housing Assistance in Four U.S. Cities: Variations in Local Experience
Persons, Places, and Times: The Meanings of Repetition in an STD Clinic
In this article we work the tensions between the way clinical medicine and public health necessarily construct the problem of "repetition" in the context of a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic and the ways patients narrate their illness experiences. This tension-between clinical and epidemiological exigencies and the messiness of lived experience-is a recurring theme of work conducted at the intersections of epidemiology, anthropology, an…
Where there is no state: Household strategies for the management of illness in Chad
The Clinic and Elsewhere: Illness, Sexuality, and Social Experience Among Young African American Men in Baltimore, Maryland
Acquiring goods and services via the Internet: Consumer shopping perceptions
The Internet is transforming communication, collaboration, and commerce. This research focuses on the commerce function and examines the nature of Internet transactions, in terms of the consumer needs fulfilled, the Internet as a contact vehicle (in purchasing) and the Internet’s acquisition function. A questionnaire is administered to undergraduate students to capture their perceptions on the above issues. The findings indicate that the largest …
Looking for Children: The search for fertility among the Sara of southern Chad
Despite the long history of infertility and childlessness in Central Africa, and the ongoing demand for treatment of fertility-related problems, the interpretations and experiences of the men and women living in the region vis-à vis the inability to have children remain largely unrecorded. In this paper I examine what the Sara, one of Chad's largest ethnic groups, have to say about fertility problems, and how these views are linked to changes in …
Adherence to Travel Health Guidelines: The Experience of Nigerian Immigrants in Houston, Texas
Interpreting Female Genital Cutting: Moving beyond the Impasse
Female genital cutting has been practiced in many parts of the world but is now most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly in the last half-century, genital cutting ceremonies have attracted significant scientific and media attention. I review some of the most frequently referenced interpretations of female genital cutting and suggest that ways of explaining such practices are limited. I indicate that the study of genital cutting practice…
We Did It for Pleasure Only: Hearing Alternative Tales of Female Circumcision
This article is based on fieldwork conducted in southern Chad on the recent adoption of female circumcision. In Myabé, a village with a population of about 1,000, girls were first circumcised around 1980. Residents describe female circumcision and their experiences of it in ways that contrast sharply with popular notions of what female circumcision means and how it is practiced, and with the descriptions and interpretations available in the medic…
Female circumcision in southern Chad: Origins, meaning, and current practice
On the Modalities of the Domestic
This article focuses on experiences of the domestic-of houses, of intimacy and privacy-and what relation these bear to the kinds of sentiments about life which are given expression as fragile, endangered or fleeting. We think of singularity as lying in the potential for multiple domesticities that emerge at different times and are neither coterminous with family nor indeed with household. Based on fieldwork with African-American and Caribbean fam…
We Did It for Pleasure Only: Hearing Alternative Tales of Female Circumcision
This article is based on fieldwork conducted in southern Chad on the recent adoption of female circumcision. In Myabé, a village with a population of about 1,000, girls were first circumcised around 1980. Residents describe female circumcision and their experiences of it in ways that contrast sharply with popular notions of what female circumcision means and how it is practiced, and with the descriptions and interpretations available in the medic…
Female circumcision in southern Chad: Origins, meaning, and current practice
Looking for Children: The search for fertility among the Sara of southern Chad
Despite the long history of infertility and childlessness in Central Africa, and the ongoing demand for treatment of fertility-related problems, the interpretations and experiences of the men and women living in the region vis-à vis the inability to have children remain largely unrecorded. In this paper I examine what the Sara, one of Chad's largest ethnic groups, have to say about fertility problems, and how these views are linked to changes in …
Interpreting Female Genital Cutting: Moving beyond the Impasse
Female genital cutting has been practiced in many parts of the world but is now most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly in the last half-century, genital cutting ceremonies have attracted significant scientific and media attention. I review some of the most frequently referenced interpretations of female genital cutting and suggest that ways of explaining such practices are limited. I indicate that the study of genital cutting practice…
Where there is no state: Household strategies for the management of illness in Chad
The Story of My Life: Aids and 'Autobiographical Occasions
Living in Limbo: Contested Narratives of Patients With Chronic Symptoms Following Lyme Disease
Persistent, subjective symptoms of unknown etiology following treatment for Lyme disease have been termed post- treatment Lyme disease syndrome or chronic Lyme disease (PTLDS/CLD). The objective of this study was to give primacy to the patient experience of this medically contested condition by eliciting patient illness narratives and identifying emergent issues through semistructured interviews conducted among 29 participants. We used thematic n…
Pharmaceutically-Made Men: Masculinities in Chad's Emergent Oil Economy
Women who change into men: A gendered history of precarity in 'useful' Chad
This article is about two generations of women in south-western Chad - the baou déné and the mosso. It addresses the puzzle of how these groups of women are present in the everyday life of the region known as 'useful' Chad, while women as economic agents are absent from stories about the region and about successive schemes to make it profitable. The baou déné are wealthy farmers, but the last generation of these 'women who have a lot of things' i…
Female circumcision in southern Chad: Origins, meaning, and current practice
Interpreting Female Genital Cutting: Moving beyond the Impasse
Female genital cutting has been practiced in many parts of the world but is now most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly in the last half-century, genital cutting ceremonies have attracted significant scientific and media attention. I review some of the most frequently referenced interpretations of female genital cutting and suggest that ways of explaining such practices are limited. I indicate that the study of genital cutting practice…
We Did It for Pleasure Only: Hearing Alternative Tales of Female Circumcision
This article is based on fieldwork conducted in southern Chad on the recent adoption of female circumcision. In Myabé, a village with a population of about 1,000, girls were first circumcised around 1980. Residents describe female circumcision and their experiences of it in ways that contrast sharply with popular notions of what female circumcision means and how it is practiced, and with the descriptions and interpretations available in the medic…
Adherence to Travel Health Guidelines: The Experience of Nigerian Immigrants in Houston, Texas
Looking for Children: The search for fertility among the Sara of southern Chad
Despite the long history of infertility and childlessness in Central Africa, and the ongoing demand for treatment of fertility-related problems, the interpretations and experiences of the men and women living in the region vis-à vis the inability to have children remain largely unrecorded. In this paper I examine what the Sara, one of Chad's largest ethnic groups, have to say about fertility problems, and how these views are linked to changes in …
Acquiring goods and services via the Internet: Consumer shopping perceptions
The Internet is transforming communication, collaboration, and commerce. This research focuses on the commerce function and examines the nature of Internet transactions, in terms of the consumer needs fulfilled, the Internet as a contact vehicle (in purchasing) and the Internet’s acquisition function. A questionnaire is administered to undergraduate students to capture their perceptions on the above issues. The findings indicate that the largest …
The Clinic and Elsewhere: Illness, Sexuality, and Social Experience Among Young African American Men in Baltimore, Maryland
Where there is no state: Household strategies for the management of illness in Chad
HIV and Housing Assistance in Four U.S. Cities: Variations in Local Experience
Persons, Places, and Times: The Meanings of Repetition in an STD Clinic
In this article we work the tensions between the way clinical medicine and public health necessarily construct the problem of "repetition" in the context of a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic and the ways patients narrate their illness experiences. This tension-between clinical and epidemiological exigencies and the messiness of lived experience-is a recurring theme of work conducted at the intersections of epidemiology, anthropology, an…
On the Modalities of the Domestic
This article focuses on experiences of the domestic-of houses, of intimacy and privacy-and what relation these bear to the kinds of sentiments about life which are given expression as fragile, endangered or fleeting. We think of singularity as lying in the potential for multiple domesticities that emerge at different times and are neither coterminous with family nor indeed with household. Based on fieldwork with African-American and Caribbean fam…
The Story of My Life: Aids and 'Autobiographical Occasions
The social impact of the Chad–Cameroon oil pipeline: How industrial development affects gender relations, land tenure and local culture
Negotiating Authorship for Doctoral Dissertation Publications: A Reply
Working ‘off the record’: Polio eradication and state immunity in Chad
The reappearance of polio in Chad generates anxieties about governance as well as public health. Since Chad was declared polio-free in 2003, at least 180 cases of paralytic polio have been linked to importations of wild poliovirus from Nigeria. In efforts to eradicate polio through house-to-house vaccination campaigns, international agencies have aggressively implicated political leaders, placing those authorities in a bind. On the one hand, gove…
Uncivil Society
Pharmaceutically-Made Men: Masculinities in Chad's Emergent Oil Economy
Multilevel influences on acceptance of medical male circumcision in Rakai District, Uganda
Despite access to safe medical male circumcision (MMC) and proven effectiveness of the procedure in reducing acquisition of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, uptake remains suboptimal in many settings in sub-Saharan Africa, including Rakai District, Uganda. This study explored multilevel barriers and facilitators to MMC in focus group discussions (FGDs) (n = 35 groups) in Rakai. Focus groups were conducted from May through July 2012 …
Living in Limbo: Contested Narratives of Patients With Chronic Symptoms Following Lyme Disease
Persistent, subjective symptoms of unknown etiology following treatment for Lyme disease have been termed post- treatment Lyme disease syndrome or chronic Lyme disease (PTLDS/CLD). The objective of this study was to give primacy to the patient experience of this medically contested condition by eliciting patient illness narratives and identifying emergent issues through semistructured interviews conducted among 29 participants. We used thematic n…
Women who change into men: A gendered history of precarity in 'useful' Chad
This article is about two generations of women in south-western Chad - the baou déné and the mosso. It addresses the puzzle of how these groups of women are present in the everyday life of the region known as 'useful' Chad, while women as economic agents are absent from stories about the region and about successive schemes to make it profitable. The baou déné are wealthy farmers, but the last generation of these 'women who have a lot of things' i…
Cutting Cultures: Affective Attachments and Clinical Conundrums
A gendered outlook into the adoption of improved rice varieties in Madagascar
This study investigates the household decision-making process toward adopting improved rice varieties. The mixed-method approach is applied to identify the influential factors and demonstrating the importance of considering gender aspects. The study was conducted in Madagascar Highlands (Vakinankaratra and Haute Matsiatra regions) with a sample of 164 male and female farmers. The quantitative models explored gendered differences for adoption, and…
Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
Journal Article Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. Get access Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 360. Cloth $99.99. Lori Leonard Lori Leonard Cornell University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American His…
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
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