Rebecca M Herzig
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca M Herzig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca M |
| FAMILY NAME | Herzig |
| SIGNATURE | HERZIG R M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trigger Warning
Trigger warnings, statements alerting readers, listeners, or viewers to the presence of content that might revive distressing memories, have become a flash point in recent discussions about the US academy. Providing a genealogy of the concept and practice in US colleges and universities, this article situates the trigger warning's growing cultural prominence within twined changes in computer-mediated communication and legal understandings of embo…
Alma Mater
Placing the neoliberal academy's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Norman O. Brown's May 1960 Phi Beta Kappa speech, “Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind,” this essay considers the place of madness, sacrifice, and monstrous motherhood in approaches to the university
"The interpretation of "culture: Diverging perspectives on medical provision in rural Montana
Suffering For Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America
Cleavage: Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-Made Breast (review)
Glass balls, paraffin, olive oil, Teflon, silicon, nylon, Plexiglas--the stunning range of substances inserted into women's breasts over the past hundred years evokes the wide history of human innovation. For that reason alone, historians of technology will find much of interest in Nora Jacobson's thorough, detailed study of breast implants. A helpful addition to a growing literature on medical and cosmetic technologies, Jacobson's book confirms …
The Woman Beneath the Hair: Treating Hypertrichosis, 1870-1930
Seeking to elucidate understandings of sexual difference held in past, this article examines emergence of one disease, hypertrichosis. Prior to 1930, hypertrichosis (excessive hairiness) was a disease defined, in part, by a confusion of sexed appearances. Diagnosing and treating this condition, then, necessitated some operative definition of sex, an index of normal against which to distinguish truly pathological. The standard of normal female ide…
Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society
Reviewed by: Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society* Rebecca Herzig (bio) Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society. Edited by Boel Berner. Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University; distributed by Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1997. Pp. 288; tables, notes. SKr 211. Like many contemporary feminist scholars, the eighteen contributors to Gendered Practices share a desire to “avoid simple certainties”…
Removing Roots: "North American Hiroshima Maidens" and the X Ray
Removing Roots “North American Hiroshima Maidens” and the X Ray Rebecca Herzig (bio) On 25 February 1940, an officer with the San Francisco police department’s homicide detail reported a “rather suspicious business” operating in the city. At 126 Jackson Street sat an old, three-story rooming house, recently leased by Dr. Henri F. St. Pierre of the Dermic Laboratories. As Assistant Special Agent J. W. Williams later described the scene, “women had…
"The interpretation of "culture: Diverging perspectives on medical provision in rural Montana
Removing Roots: "North American Hiroshima Maidens" and the X Ray
Removing Roots “North American Hiroshima Maidens” and the X Ray Rebecca Herzig (bio) On 25 February 1940, an officer with the San Francisco police department’s homicide detail reported a “rather suspicious business” operating in the city. At 126 Jackson Street sat an old, three-story rooming house, recently leased by Dr. Henri F. St. Pierre of the Dermic Laboratories. As Assistant Special Agent J. W. Williams later described the scene, “women had…
Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society
Reviewed by: Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society* Rebecca Herzig (bio) Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society. Edited by Boel Berner. Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University; distributed by Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1997. Pp. 288; tables, notes. SKr 211. Like many contemporary feminist scholars, the eighteen contributors to Gendered Practices share a desire to “avoid simple certainties”…
Removing Roots: "North American Hiroshima Maidens" and the X Ray
Removing Roots “North American Hiroshima Maidens” and the X Ray Rebecca Herzig (bio) On 25 February 1940, an officer with the San Francisco police department’s homicide detail reported a “rather suspicious business” operating in the city. At 126 Jackson Street sat an old, three-story rooming house, recently leased by Dr. Henri F. St. Pierre of the Dermic Laboratories. As Assistant Special Agent J. W. Williams later described the scene, “women had…
The Woman Beneath the Hair: Treating Hypertrichosis, 1870-1930
Seeking to elucidate understandings of sexual difference held in past, this article examines emergence of one disease, hypertrichosis. Prior to 1930, hypertrichosis (excessive hairiness) was a disease defined, in part, by a confusion of sexed appearances. Diagnosing and treating this condition, then, necessitated some operative definition of sex, an index of normal against which to distinguish truly pathological. The standard of normal female ide…
Cleavage: Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-Made Breast (review)
Glass balls, paraffin, olive oil, Teflon, silicon, nylon, Plexiglas--the stunning range of substances inserted into women's breasts over the past hundred years evokes the wide history of human innovation. For that reason alone, historians of technology will find much of interest in Nora Jacobson's thorough, detailed study of breast implants. A helpful addition to a growing literature on medical and cosmetic technologies, Jacobson's book confirms …
Suffering For Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America
"The interpretation of "culture: Diverging perspectives on medical provision in rural Montana
Alma Mater
Placing the neoliberal academy's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Norman O. Brown's May 1960 Phi Beta Kappa speech, “Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind,” this essay considers the place of madness, sacrifice, and monstrous motherhood in approaches to the university
Trigger Warning
Trigger warnings, statements alerting readers, listeners, or viewers to the presence of content that might revive distressing memories, have become a flash point in recent discussions about the US academy. Providing a genealogy of the concept and practice in US colleges and universities, this article situates the trigger warning's growing cultural prominence within twined changes in computer-mediated communication and legal understandings of embo…
Art (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)