Meika Loe
Biographic Data
| ID | 195025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meika Loe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meika |
| FAMILY NAME | Loe |
| SIGNATURE | LOE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4758-0469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pandemic Pathways: College Graduates Stalling, Regressing, and Pivoting during Covid-19
This study focuses on young adults as they navigated work, relationships, and health disruptions during 21 months of “amplified uncertainty” in the United States. Using a longitudinal approach, I interviewed 20 diverse college graduates from seven selective four-year universities across the United States three times over the course of the pandemic to understand change over time in approaches to work, health, and relationships. Study participants …
Apprehensive about retirement: Women, life transitions, and relationships
Understanding women's attitudes toward retirement is crucial for being able to help women adjust to this transition. The present study uses interviews and questionnaires to understand retirement ambivalence and the role that close relationships play in women's retirement experiences. Findings indicate that women have mixed feelings about retirement; they are both excited and fearful. They particularly enjoy the freedom and control this transition…
Professional women “rebalancing” in retirement: Time, relationships, and body
This is an interview-based study focused on how professional baby boomer women negotiate and narrate postretirement lives. This group came of age in the 1960s and represents a socially privileged segment of the baby boomer generation, a cohort that created new gendered pathways in employment. Today, these retired professional women are attempting to make sense of their multilayered complex and changing realities. In their accounts, the most salie…
Doing it my way: Old Women, Technology and Wellbeing
This article focuses on women in their nineties (nonagenarians) who are ageing in place - or ageing at home - in upstate New York. I analyse these old women's use of everyday technological tools to care for themselves and construct meaning. I argue that despite what we may expect, nonagenarian women can be and are technogenarians in their active and creative uses of everyday technologies. Old women utilise lifelong care work repertoires to identi…
A sociological approach to ageing, technology and health
This special monograph issue builds on sociology of health and illness scholarship and expands the analytical lens to examine how old people, healthcare professionals, and technology designers create, use, and modify science and technology to negotiate and define health and illness. Far from passive consumers, elders are technogenarians, creatively utilising and adapting technological artefacts such as walking aids and medications to fit their ne…
The New View in Action: College Students Discuss 21st-Century Sexuality
This article explores how junior and senior college students enrolled in `Women, Health, and Medicine' discuss and critique women's sexual problems in the 21st century during one 90-minute class structured around cultural artifacts. The discussion touches on medical marketing, the gendering of sex, social measures and definitions of sexuality, and the cultural ambivalence in US social policy and sex education. Throughout the discussion these stud…
Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students
Drawing on interview data, this article is a case study of the 'medicated self.' Specifically, we analyze how ADHD-diagnosed college students construct how they are shaped by the behavioral effects of medicine. Students may perceive that pharmaceutical enhancement is necessary in the context of a competitive academic ethic. In this context something akin to Lareau's concept of concerted cultivation thrives as students practice what we call concer…
Viagra
Viagra is a blood‐circulation drug (the first in its drug class as a PDE5 inhibitor) prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction. This drug, marketed by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and approved by the FDA in 1998, has been widely cited for its record‐breaking sales and its “blockbuster” status. Specifically, Viagra set records as the fastest‐selling drug in America, and netted over a billion dollars in its first year. Viagra was the first FDA‐approved or…
Sex and the Senior Woman: Pleasure and Danger in the Viagra Era
This article reveals women aged 67 to 86 making sense of sexuality in the Viagra era. Drawing from interviews, survey data and content analysis of newspaper advice columns, I argue that senior women use Viagra as a vehicle to discuss and critique sexualized masculinity, sexualized culture, sexual obligation in marriage, and sexual health and pleasure. This data complicates and fills out existing qualitative research on aging and sexuality, while …
Fixing broken masculinity: Viagra asa technology for the production of gender and sexuality
Feminism for Sale: Case Study of a Pro-Sex Feminist Business
This article is a case study of a woman-owned and-operated sexual products business, conceived in the midst of a fragmenting women's movement in 1977. The article tracks the evolution of pro-sex feminist ideology within this business during the past 22 years. Whereas most feminist organizations research focuses on nonprofit organizations and their relationship to the state, this study focuses on a political organization that depends on profits fo…
Working for Men-at the Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality
This article examines the dynamics of Bazooms. a 'restaurant' in which power, gender, and sexuality come together to color relations between the three major 'players' involved: waitresses, managers, and customers. Job-based power relations and inequities, gender roles, implicit and explicit sexual roles, and sexual harassment are all 'at work' in such a workplace. But definitions of power, gender roles, sexual identities. and harassment are in co…
Fixing broken masculinity: Viagra asa technology for the production of gender and sexuality
A sociological approach to ageing, technology and health
This special monograph issue builds on sociology of health and illness scholarship and expands the analytical lens to examine how old people, healthcare professionals, and technology designers create, use, and modify science and technology to negotiate and define health and illness. Far from passive consumers, elders are technogenarians, creatively utilising and adapting technological artefacts such as walking aids and medications to fit their ne…
Sex and the Senior Woman: Pleasure and Danger in the Viagra Era
This article reveals women aged 67 to 86 making sense of sexuality in the Viagra era. Drawing from interviews, survey data and content analysis of newspaper advice columns, I argue that senior women use Viagra as a vehicle to discuss and critique sexualized masculinity, sexualized culture, sexual obligation in marriage, and sexual health and pleasure. This data complicates and fills out existing qualitative research on aging and sexuality, while …
Doing it my way: Old Women, Technology and Wellbeing
This article focuses on women in their nineties (nonagenarians) who are ageing in place - or ageing at home - in upstate New York. I analyse these old women's use of everyday technological tools to care for themselves and construct meaning. I argue that despite what we may expect, nonagenarian women can be and are technogenarians in their active and creative uses of everyday technologies. Old women utilise lifelong care work repertoires to identi…
Working for Men-at the Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality
This article examines the dynamics of Bazooms. a 'restaurant' in which power, gender, and sexuality come together to color relations between the three major 'players' involved: waitresses, managers, and customers. Job-based power relations and inequities, gender roles, implicit and explicit sexual roles, and sexual harassment are all 'at work' in such a workplace. But definitions of power, gender roles, sexual identities. and harassment are in co…
Feminism for Sale: Case Study of a Pro-Sex Feminist Business
This article is a case study of a woman-owned and-operated sexual products business, conceived in the midst of a fragmenting women's movement in 1977. The article tracks the evolution of pro-sex feminist ideology within this business during the past 22 years. Whereas most feminist organizations research focuses on nonprofit organizations and their relationship to the state, this study focuses on a political organization that depends on profits fo…
Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students
Drawing on interview data, this article is a case study of the 'medicated self.' Specifically, we analyze how ADHD-diagnosed college students construct how they are shaped by the behavioral effects of medicine. Students may perceive that pharmaceutical enhancement is necessary in the context of a competitive academic ethic. In this context something akin to Lareau's concept of concerted cultivation thrives as students practice what we call concer…
The New View in Action: College Students Discuss 21st-Century Sexuality
This article explores how junior and senior college students enrolled in `Women, Health, and Medicine' discuss and critique women's sexual problems in the 21st century during one 90-minute class structured around cultural artifacts. The discussion touches on medical marketing, the gendering of sex, social measures and definitions of sexuality, and the cultural ambivalence in US social policy and sex education. Throughout the discussion these stud…
Working for Men-at the Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality
This article examines the dynamics of Bazooms. a 'restaurant' in which power, gender, and sexuality come together to color relations between the three major 'players' involved: waitresses, managers, and customers. Job-based power relations and inequities, gender roles, implicit and explicit sexual roles, and sexual harassment are all 'at work' in such a workplace. But definitions of power, gender roles, sexual identities. and harassment are in co…
Feminism for Sale: Case Study of a Pro-Sex Feminist Business
This article is a case study of a woman-owned and-operated sexual products business, conceived in the midst of a fragmenting women's movement in 1977. The article tracks the evolution of pro-sex feminist ideology within this business during the past 22 years. Whereas most feminist organizations research focuses on nonprofit organizations and their relationship to the state, this study focuses on a political organization that depends on profits fo…
Fixing broken masculinity: Viagra asa technology for the production of gender and sexuality
Sex and the Senior Woman: Pleasure and Danger in the Viagra Era
This article reveals women aged 67 to 86 making sense of sexuality in the Viagra era. Drawing from interviews, survey data and content analysis of newspaper advice columns, I argue that senior women use Viagra as a vehicle to discuss and critique sexualized masculinity, sexualized culture, sexual obligation in marriage, and sexual health and pleasure. This data complicates and fills out existing qualitative research on aging and sexuality, while …
Viagra
Viagra is a blood‐circulation drug (the first in its drug class as a PDE5 inhibitor) prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction. This drug, marketed by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and approved by the FDA in 1998, has been widely cited for its record‐breaking sales and its “blockbuster” status. Specifically, Viagra set records as the fastest‐selling drug in America, and netted over a billion dollars in its first year. Viagra was the first FDA‐approved or…
The New View in Action: College Students Discuss 21st-Century Sexuality
This article explores how junior and senior college students enrolled in `Women, Health, and Medicine' discuss and critique women's sexual problems in the 21st century during one 90-minute class structured around cultural artifacts. The discussion touches on medical marketing, the gendering of sex, social measures and definitions of sexuality, and the cultural ambivalence in US social policy and sex education. Throughout the discussion these stud…
Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students
Drawing on interview data, this article is a case study of the 'medicated self.' Specifically, we analyze how ADHD-diagnosed college students construct how they are shaped by the behavioral effects of medicine. Students may perceive that pharmaceutical enhancement is necessary in the context of a competitive academic ethic. In this context something akin to Lareau's concept of concerted cultivation thrives as students practice what we call concer…
Doing it my way: Old Women, Technology and Wellbeing
This article focuses on women in their nineties (nonagenarians) who are ageing in place - or ageing at home - in upstate New York. I analyse these old women's use of everyday technological tools to care for themselves and construct meaning. I argue that despite what we may expect, nonagenarian women can be and are technogenarians in their active and creative uses of everyday technologies. Old women utilise lifelong care work repertoires to identi…
A sociological approach to ageing, technology and health
This special monograph issue builds on sociology of health and illness scholarship and expands the analytical lens to examine how old people, healthcare professionals, and technology designers create, use, and modify science and technology to negotiate and define health and illness. Far from passive consumers, elders are technogenarians, creatively utilising and adapting technological artefacts such as walking aids and medications to fit their ne…
Professional women “rebalancing” in retirement: Time, relationships, and body
This is an interview-based study focused on how professional baby boomer women negotiate and narrate postretirement lives. This group came of age in the 1960s and represents a socially privileged segment of the baby boomer generation, a cohort that created new gendered pathways in employment. Today, these retired professional women are attempting to make sense of their multilayered complex and changing realities. In their accounts, the most salie…
Apprehensive about retirement: Women, life transitions, and relationships
Understanding women's attitudes toward retirement is crucial for being able to help women adjust to this transition. The present study uses interviews and questionnaires to understand retirement ambivalence and the role that close relationships play in women's retirement experiences. Findings indicate that women have mixed feelings about retirement; they are both excited and fearful. They particularly enjoy the freedom and control this transition…
Pandemic Pathways: College Graduates Stalling, Regressing, and Pivoting during Covid-19
This study focuses on young adults as they navigated work, relationships, and health disruptions during 21 months of “amplified uncertainty” in the United States. Using a longitudinal approach, I interviewed 20 diverse college graduates from seven selective four-year universities across the United States three times over the course of the pandemic to understand change over time in approaches to work, health, and relationships. Study participants …
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Human sexuality (4 works) · Law (4 works)