Heather Laine Talley

Biographic Data

ID177956
NAMEHeather Laine Talley
GIVEN NAMESHeather Laine
FAMILY NAMETalley
SIGNATURETALLEY H L
AFFILIATIONSTzedek Social Justice Fellowship, Asheville, NC, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance

    Heather Laine TalleyBOOKSaving Face2020

  • Feminist Disability Studies

    Open AccessMonica J Casper, Heather Laine TalleyOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    This entry traces the development of feminist disability studies (FDS), including its mutual emergence from feminist studies and disability studies. It explores tensions between the two fields and the ways that “disability” is often elided within feminist studies and “gender” and “women” are often left out of disability studies. Pointing to connections between feminist disability studies and fields such as critical body studies, symbolic interact…

  • I Don't Take My Tuba to Work at Microsoft: Arts Graduates and the Portability of Creative Identity

    Open AccessDanielle J Lindemann, Steven J Tepper et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2017Cited by: 5References: 49

    Drawing on data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project ( N = 13,581) and the Teagle Study of double majors ( N = 1,736), we examine how arts alumni and students view their creative skills as transferable across contexts. Based on these preliminary analyses, we find that people with similar training interpret the relationship between their creativity and their work differently. We postulate that variations in creative identity may be one …

  • Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance

    Heather Laine TalleyBOOKSaving Face2014Cited by: 7References: 2

    Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological AssociationImagine yourself without a face—the taskseems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our faceis how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces arealso functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means ofeating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement canendanger our funda…

  • Feminist Disability Studies

    Open AccessMonica J Casper, Heather Laine TalleyOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Feminist disability studies is an emergent interdisciplinary field of inquiry shaped by a productive yet tense dialogue between feminist studies and disability studies. It is framed as a collaborative enterprise between feminist studies, which highlights vectors through which social relations and bodies are gendered and sexed, and disability studies, which focuses on the ways socio‐medico‐legal discourses and practices construct impaired bodies a…

  • A Response to the Motion Picture Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

    Open AccessHeather Laine Talley, Monica J CasperARTICLEJournal of Sport and Social Issues2007Cited by: 2

    Synopsis: National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing superstar Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) and his racing partner and best friend Cal Noughton Jr. (John C. Reilly) win at all costs, in positions #1 and #2, respectively. That is, until flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen) challenges the duo and threatens to supplant their racing dynasty. A dramatic wreck, complete with invisible fire and Ricky Bobby stripping dow…