Janet Lees
Biographic Data
| ID | 182553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Lees |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Lees |
| SIGNATURE | LEES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6030-4207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Alluring or Alarming? The Polarizing Effect of Forbidden Knowledge in Political Discourse
“Forbidden knowledge” claims are central to conspiracy theories, yet they have received little systematic study. Forbidden knowledge claims imply that information is censored or suppressed. Theoretically, forbidden knowledge could be alluring or alarming, depending on alignment with recipients’ political worldviews. In three studies ( N = 2363, two preregistered), we examined censorship claims about (conservative-aligned) controversial COVID-19 t…
Anti-Egalitarians Are Lenient Toward Corporate Misconduct
Although people’s ideological beliefs are key to understanding how they make moral judgments, existing research has been silent on how such ideological beliefs drive their psychological perceptions of corporations and their responses to corporate misconduct. Across multiple studies we consistently found that people high in social dominance orientation (SDO) judge organizational transgressions less harshly. These results generalized across organiz…
Is socially responsible capitalism truly polarizing
Objective We assess the hypothesis that socially responsible capitalism (SRC) is fundamentally partisan and primarily supported by people on the left, or whether this perception is another example of “false polarization”—overestimation of disagreement between the left and right. Methods We conduct two studies: (1) a survey of Americans' opinions on a general definition of SRC and five examples of recent prominent firm actions corresponding to dis…
Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive
Implicit attitudes matter for social judgments of others' preference, but do not make those judgments more or less accurate
The general fault in our fault lines
Rangeland Ecology & Management Highlights Volume 73, Issue 2
Inaccurate group meta-perceptions drive negative out-group attributions in competitive contexts
Knights of the Air
In this paper I investigate ‘joyful slaughter’, the pleasures of sanctioned killing, as represented in diaries and letters written during combat by World War I airmen of the British Royal Flying Corps. I suggest killing as only one, and potentially the least pleasurable, aspect of combat scenarios by examining its connection to a range of ‘regulating’ and ‘mobilising’ emotional practices centred in the interdependent geographies of chivalrous dut…
The influence of religion on adolescent family life in England
The majority of adults in England describe themselves as affiliated to a religious faith. However, little is known about the influence religion has on family life, particularly in relation to ways in which religion influences the parenting of adolescents. The authors seek to add to the limited body of knowledge by reporting the findings of a qualitative study of young people and parents who held a range of religious beliefs and engaged in varied …
Speech and Language Disorders in Kenyan Children
This study sought to adapt a battery of Western speech and language assessment tools to a rural Kenyan setting. The tool was developed for children whose first language was KiGiryama, a Bantu language. A total of 539 Kenyan children (males=271, females=268, ethnicity=100% Kigiryama. Data were collected from 303 children admitted to hospital with severe malaria and 206 age-matched children recruited from the village communities. The language asses…
Marriage 'Among the Murkans
Stella Miles Franklin (1879–1954) is best known for contributions to a uniquely Australian literary tradition. However, during her American years (1906–1915) when she worked in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League, Franklin wrote much unpublished fiction in the New Woman literary genre common to early-twentieth-century US women's traditions. This paper focuses on two such little-known unpublished stories: 'Uncle Robert's Wedding P…
The Modern Period
Assessing the Influence of Religious Beliefs and Practices on Parenting Capacity
The 1989 Children Act emphasizes the importance of giving due consideration to the child's religious persuasion. Yet, government assessment guidance provides practitioners with very little assistance in terms of establishing ways in which religious beliefs and practices influence family life. This is concerning at a time when considerable attention is being paid in the media to the negative influences of religious beliefs on parenting and Britain…
‘Religious Parents… Just Want the Best for Their Kids’
Challenging some of the current predominantly negative representations of the effects of religion on young people requires further research into faith and family life, particularly from the perspective of young people themselves. This article presents a preliminary report of a study of 40 young people, mostly Christians and Muslims, aged 13–15 years. Three themes – defining religion, religious parenting and life in a religious family – are illust…
A Kotex and a Smile
This article explores the menarche or first-period narratives of 155 young women, focusing on their relationships with their mothers at this time. It finds that maternal scripts are changing as young women of this cohort, most of whom started their periods around the new millennium, recalled supportive mothers who were emotionally engaged with them. Although such support is related to positive experiences of menarche, it is not a guarantee, as su…
Girls in Power
A Nurse and a Soldier
In this article the author explores the ways Grace McDougall, Commandant of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and Flora Sandes, Captain and combatant in the Serbian Army, negotiated gender, class and national identity and enhanced women’s claim to personal and collective power during their work at the Front during the First World War. The author analyses Sandes and McDougall’s writings and their accounts of personal heroism and focuses on tw…
Comrades and Partners
Attitudes towards organ donation in Hong Kong
The Utility of a Strategic Postmodernism
Although the postmodern turn has profound implications for the social sciences, its reception in sociology has been mixed. In this article I briefly review these encounters and suggest an embrace of a 'strategic postmodernism.' Such an approach explicitly integrates both the institutional basis of discursive understandings of the self and the empirical project of knowledge construction within the context of change and transformation
Menarche and the (Hetero)sexualization of the Female Body
Menarche-or a woman's first menstrual period-is a central aspect of body politics. Through explorations of oral and written narratives, I suggest that girls' subjective sense of themselves as maturing women at menarche develops simultaneously with a process of sexualization whereby young women experience themselves as sexualized, and their bodies are produced as sexual objects. While women internalize negative scripts associated with the bleeding…
Our Hearts Are Collectively Breaking
This article discusses teaching survivors of violence in an introductory women's studies course and addresses the pedagogical question of whether we are able to promote individual agency and empowerment effectively and, if so, how might we best go about it. Survivors spoke out in their journals and in the classroom about their experiences, shared feelings about empowerment, and assessed the ways and extent to which the course helped them to heal.…
Social Organization, Spousal Resources, and Marital Power
This study investigates the effects of selected features of family and kinship structures on wives' power in marriage. Ethnographic data on over one hundred nonindustrial societies are employed to test the hypotheses that wives have more power in marriage in societies with nuclear rather than extended family structures, and in societies with matrilateral rather than patrilateral customs of residence and descent. Both hypotheses are supported. Res…
Inaccurate group meta-perceptions drive negative out-group attributions in competitive contexts
The general fault in our fault lines
Menarche and the (Hetero)sexualization of the Female Body
Menarche-or a woman's first menstrual period-is a central aspect of body politics. Through explorations of oral and written narratives, I suggest that girls' subjective sense of themselves as maturing women at menarche develops simultaneously with a process of sexualization whereby young women experience themselves as sexualized, and their bodies are produced as sexual objects. While women internalize negative scripts associated with the bleeding…
Social Organization, Spousal Resources, and Marital Power
This study investigates the effects of selected features of family and kinship structures on wives' power in marriage. Ethnographic data on over one hundred nonindustrial societies are employed to test the hypotheses that wives have more power in marriage in societies with nuclear rather than extended family structures, and in societies with matrilateral rather than patrilateral customs of residence and descent. Both hypotheses are supported. Res…
Assessing the Influence of Religious Beliefs and Practices on Parenting Capacity
The 1989 Children Act emphasizes the importance of giving due consideration to the child's religious persuasion. Yet, government assessment guidance provides practitioners with very little assistance in terms of establishing ways in which religious beliefs and practices influence family life. This is concerning at a time when considerable attention is being paid in the media to the negative influences of religious beliefs on parenting and Britain…
A Kotex and a Smile
This article explores the menarche or first-period narratives of 155 young women, focusing on their relationships with their mothers at this time. It finds that maternal scripts are changing as young women of this cohort, most of whom started their periods around the new millennium, recalled supportive mothers who were emotionally engaged with them. Although such support is related to positive experiences of menarche, it is not a guarantee, as su…
Attitudes towards organ donation in Hong Kong
Marriage 'Among the Murkans
Stella Miles Franklin (1879–1954) is best known for contributions to a uniquely Australian literary tradition. However, during her American years (1906–1915) when she worked in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League, Franklin wrote much unpublished fiction in the New Woman literary genre common to early-twentieth-century US women's traditions. This paper focuses on two such little-known unpublished stories: 'Uncle Robert's Wedding P…
Is socially responsible capitalism truly polarizing
Objective We assess the hypothesis that socially responsible capitalism (SRC) is fundamentally partisan and primarily supported by people on the left, or whether this perception is another example of “false polarization”—overestimation of disagreement between the left and right. Methods We conduct two studies: (1) a survey of Americans' opinions on a general definition of SRC and five examples of recent prominent firm actions corresponding to dis…
Implicit attitudes matter for social judgments of others' preference, but do not make those judgments more or less accurate
Our Hearts Are Collectively Breaking
This article discusses teaching survivors of violence in an introductory women's studies course and addresses the pedagogical question of whether we are able to promote individual agency and empowerment effectively and, if so, how might we best go about it. Survivors spoke out in their journals and in the classroom about their experiences, shared feelings about empowerment, and assessed the ways and extent to which the course helped them to heal.…
Social Organization, Spousal Resources, and Marital Power
This study investigates the effects of selected features of family and kinship structures on wives' power in marriage. Ethnographic data on over one hundred nonindustrial societies are employed to test the hypotheses that wives have more power in marriage in societies with nuclear rather than extended family structures, and in societies with matrilateral rather than patrilateral customs of residence and descent. Both hypotheses are supported. Res…
Our Hearts Are Collectively Breaking
This article discusses teaching survivors of violence in an introductory women's studies course and addresses the pedagogical question of whether we are able to promote individual agency and empowerment effectively and, if so, how might we best go about it. Survivors spoke out in their journals and in the classroom about their experiences, shared feelings about empowerment, and assessed the ways and extent to which the course helped them to heal.…
Menarche and the (Hetero)sexualization of the Female Body
Menarche-or a woman's first menstrual period-is a central aspect of body politics. Through explorations of oral and written narratives, I suggest that girls' subjective sense of themselves as maturing women at menarche develops simultaneously with a process of sexualization whereby young women experience themselves as sexualized, and their bodies are produced as sexual objects. While women internalize negative scripts associated with the bleeding…
The Utility of a Strategic Postmodernism
Although the postmodern turn has profound implications for the social sciences, its reception in sociology has been mixed. In this article I briefly review these encounters and suggest an embrace of a 'strategic postmodernism.' Such an approach explicitly integrates both the institutional basis of discursive understandings of the self and the empirical project of knowledge construction within the context of change and transformation
Attitudes towards organ donation in Hong Kong
Comrades and Partners
A Nurse and a Soldier
In this article the author explores the ways Grace McDougall, Commandant of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and Flora Sandes, Captain and combatant in the Serbian Army, negotiated gender, class and national identity and enhanced women’s claim to personal and collective power during their work at the Front during the First World War. The author analyses Sandes and McDougall’s writings and their accounts of personal heroism and focuses on tw…
Girls in Power
‘Religious Parents… Just Want the Best for Their Kids’
Challenging some of the current predominantly negative representations of the effects of religion on young people requires further research into faith and family life, particularly from the perspective of young people themselves. This article presents a preliminary report of a study of 40 young people, mostly Christians and Muslims, aged 13–15 years. Three themes – defining religion, religious parenting and life in a religious family – are illust…
A Kotex and a Smile
This article explores the menarche or first-period narratives of 155 young women, focusing on their relationships with their mothers at this time. It finds that maternal scripts are changing as young women of this cohort, most of whom started their periods around the new millennium, recalled supportive mothers who were emotionally engaged with them. Although such support is related to positive experiences of menarche, it is not a guarantee, as su…
Assessing the Influence of Religious Beliefs and Practices on Parenting Capacity
The 1989 Children Act emphasizes the importance of giving due consideration to the child's religious persuasion. Yet, government assessment guidance provides practitioners with very little assistance in terms of establishing ways in which religious beliefs and practices influence family life. This is concerning at a time when considerable attention is being paid in the media to the negative influences of religious beliefs on parenting and Britain…
Marriage 'Among the Murkans
Stella Miles Franklin (1879–1954) is best known for contributions to a uniquely Australian literary tradition. However, during her American years (1906–1915) when she worked in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League, Franklin wrote much unpublished fiction in the New Woman literary genre common to early-twentieth-century US women's traditions. This paper focuses on two such little-known unpublished stories: 'Uncle Robert's Wedding P…
The Modern Period
The influence of religion on adolescent family life in England
The majority of adults in England describe themselves as affiliated to a religious faith. However, little is known about the influence religion has on family life, particularly in relation to ways in which religion influences the parenting of adolescents. The authors seek to add to the limited body of knowledge by reporting the findings of a qualitative study of young people and parents who held a range of religious beliefs and engaged in varied …
Speech and Language Disorders in Kenyan Children
This study sought to adapt a battery of Western speech and language assessment tools to a rural Kenyan setting. The tool was developed for children whose first language was KiGiryama, a Bantu language. A total of 539 Kenyan children (males=271, females=268, ethnicity=100% Kigiryama. Data were collected from 303 children admitted to hospital with severe malaria and 206 age-matched children recruited from the village communities. The language asses…
Knights of the Air
In this paper I investigate ‘joyful slaughter’, the pleasures of sanctioned killing, as represented in diaries and letters written during combat by World War I airmen of the British Royal Flying Corps. I suggest killing as only one, and potentially the least pleasurable, aspect of combat scenarios by examining its connection to a range of ‘regulating’ and ‘mobilising’ emotional practices centred in the interdependent geographies of chivalrous dut…
Inaccurate group meta-perceptions drive negative out-group attributions in competitive contexts
Rangeland Ecology & Management Highlights Volume 73, Issue 2
Implicit attitudes matter for social judgments of others' preference, but do not make those judgments more or less accurate
The general fault in our fault lines
Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive
Is socially responsible capitalism truly polarizing
Objective We assess the hypothesis that socially responsible capitalism (SRC) is fundamentally partisan and primarily supported by people on the left, or whether this perception is another example of “false polarization”—overestimation of disagreement between the left and right. Methods We conduct two studies: (1) a survey of Americans' opinions on a general definition of SRC and five examples of recent prominent firm actions corresponding to dis…
Alluring or Alarming? The Polarizing Effect of Forbidden Knowledge in Political Discourse
“Forbidden knowledge” claims are central to conspiracy theories, yet they have received little systematic study. Forbidden knowledge claims imply that information is censored or suppressed. Theoretically, forbidden knowledge could be alluring or alarming, depending on alignment with recipients’ political worldviews. In three studies ( N = 2363, two preregistered), we examined censorship claims about (conservative-aligned) controversial COVID-19 t…
Anti-Egalitarians Are Lenient Toward Corporate Misconduct
Although people’s ideological beliefs are key to understanding how they make moral judgments, existing research has been silent on how such ideological beliefs drive their psychological perceptions of corporations and their responses to corporate misconduct. Across multiple studies we consistently found that people high in social dominance orientation (SDO) judge organizational transgressions less harshly. These results generalized across organiz…
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