Helen Gremillion
Biographic Data
| ID | 177708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Gremillion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gremillion |
| SIGNATURE | GREMILLION H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Unitec Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9219-2366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rainbow students’ experiences in New Zealand’s vocational education system
Existing international and national research on rainbow students’ experiences in tertiary education focuses primarily on universities; such research within polytechnics is rarer. This study explores how safe, welcoming, and inclusive 14 polytechnic campuses are for rainbow students in New Zealand. The article reports rainbow student perspectives on the topic, drawn from responses to open‐field online survey questions. Two hundred and fifty‐six ra…
Confronting gender and sex binaries in transgender healthcare for adolescents
Evaluating Unitec’s Ally workshop on diverse sexuality and gender inclusivity
This article presents findings from a mixed-method, utilisation-focused evaluation of an education workshop on diverse sexuality and gender (DSG) inclusivity offered at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Workshop completion enables participants to make a public commitment to DSG inclusivity by joining Unitec’s ALLY Network. A questionnaire was designed to ascertain whether workshop participation achieves the following outcom…
O’Connor, Richard & Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice
One size does not fit all
New Zealand tertiary ethics committees may work from similar ethical principles but this article demonstrates that the way in which they operate is idiosyncratic. The paper builds on commentaries offered by current or former members of five New Zealand ethics committees on the organisation and practices of their committees. It examines differences among the committees with the aim of initiating an ongoing conversation about the work of ethics com…
Developing a collaborative methodology for research with community groups
This ‘short communication’ considers four different methodological approaches for ethnographic research projects that engage community groups when the research topic is contested amongst group members. I locate my comments in the context of a proposed project on concepts of gender in the ‘mythopoetic’ men's movement, and on feminist responses to these concepts; however, many of the points raised are applicable to a range of community projects. I …
The Cultural Politics of Body Size
Scholarly interest in body size has increased in concert with recent efforts to shape and assess bodies in particular ways within industrialized social contexts. Attending to both overt and covert references to Eurocentric body projects, this chapter reviews literature in anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies that addresses the cultural politics of body size in various parts of the world. It begins with a discussion of biocultural paradig…
Feeding Anorexia
Fat Talk
Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting. Mimi Nichter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix. 263 pp., appendixes, notes, index
In Fitness and in Health
Psychiatry as social ordering
The Cultural Politics of Body Size
Scholarly interest in body size has increased in concert with recent efforts to shape and assess bodies in particular ways within industrialized social contexts. Attending to both overt and covert references to Eurocentric body projects, this chapter reviews literature in anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies that addresses the cultural politics of body size in various parts of the world. It begins with a discussion of biocultural paradig…
Psychiatry as social ordering
In Fitness and in Health
Fat Talk
Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting. Mimi Nichter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix. 263 pp., appendixes, notes, index
Rainbow students’ experiences in New Zealand’s vocational education system
Existing international and national research on rainbow students’ experiences in tertiary education focuses primarily on universities; such research within polytechnics is rarer. This study explores how safe, welcoming, and inclusive 14 polytechnic campuses are for rainbow students in New Zealand. The article reports rainbow student perspectives on the topic, drawn from responses to open‐field online survey questions. Two hundred and fifty‐six ra…
Developing a collaborative methodology for research with community groups
This ‘short communication’ considers four different methodological approaches for ethnographic research projects that engage community groups when the research topic is contested amongst group members. I locate my comments in the context of a proposed project on concepts of gender in the ‘mythopoetic’ men's movement, and on feminist responses to these concepts; however, many of the points raised are applicable to a range of community projects. I …
Psychiatry as social ordering
Fat Talk
Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting. Mimi Nichter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix. 263 pp., appendixes, notes, index
In Fitness and in Health
Feeding Anorexia
The Cultural Politics of Body Size
Scholarly interest in body size has increased in concert with recent efforts to shape and assess bodies in particular ways within industrialized social contexts. Attending to both overt and covert references to Eurocentric body projects, this chapter reviews literature in anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies that addresses the cultural politics of body size in various parts of the world. It begins with a discussion of biocultural paradig…
Developing a collaborative methodology for research with community groups
This ‘short communication’ considers four different methodological approaches for ethnographic research projects that engage community groups when the research topic is contested amongst group members. I locate my comments in the context of a proposed project on concepts of gender in the ‘mythopoetic’ men's movement, and on feminist responses to these concepts; however, many of the points raised are applicable to a range of community projects. I …
One size does not fit all
New Zealand tertiary ethics committees may work from similar ethical principles but this article demonstrates that the way in which they operate is idiosyncratic. The paper builds on commentaries offered by current or former members of five New Zealand ethics committees on the organisation and practices of their committees. It examines differences among the committees with the aim of initiating an ongoing conversation about the work of ethics com…
O’Connor, Richard & Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice
Evaluating Unitec’s Ally workshop on diverse sexuality and gender inclusivity
This article presents findings from a mixed-method, utilisation-focused evaluation of an education workshop on diverse sexuality and gender (DSG) inclusivity offered at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Workshop completion enables participants to make a public commitment to DSG inclusivity by joining Unitec’s ALLY Network. A questionnaire was designed to ascertain whether workshop participation achieves the following outcom…
Rainbow students’ experiences in New Zealand’s vocational education system
Existing international and national research on rainbow students’ experiences in tertiary education focuses primarily on universities; such research within polytechnics is rarer. This study explores how safe, welcoming, and inclusive 14 polytechnic campuses are for rainbow students in New Zealand. The article reports rainbow student perspectives on the topic, drawn from responses to open‐field online survey questions. Two hundred and fifty‐six ra…
Confronting gender and sex binaries in transgender healthcare for adolescents
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (5 works) · Anorexia (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Diversity (politics (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)