Denise A Copelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 249951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise A Copelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise A |
| FAMILY NAME | Copelton |
| SIGNATURE | COPELTON D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Brockport |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conversations: A Symposium on Stephanie Coontz’s A Strange Stirring
Film Review: Eating Alaska
Output that counts: Pedometers, Sociability and the Contested Terrain of Older Adult Fitness Walking
Based on five months of participant observation and interviews with members of a hospital-sponsored walking club, I explore the rejection of pedometer technology among older adult walkers. Health researchers praise pedometers as a useful tool for measuring walking activity, setting fitness goals, and charting progress towards goals. Older adult walkers, however, viewed pedometers and the monitoring they enable as anathema to walking group norms t…
You don't need a prescription to go gluten-free: The scientific self-diagnosis of celiac disease
Women's Empowerment
Women's empowerment is a central concern of the women's movement. It refers to the general process through which women gain knowledge about the structures that oppress them, and seek to alter the power imbalances in society. Bookman and Morgen (1988: 4) define empowerment broadly as the “process aimed at consolidating, maintaining, or changing the nature and distribution of power in a particular cultural context” that can range from “acts of indi…
You are What You Eat: Nutritional Norms, Maternal Deviance, and Neutralization of Women's Prenatal Diets
This article uses neutralization theory to examine women's responses to prenatal nutritional norms. Based on 55 qualitative interviews with pregnant women, I explore women's prenatal nutritional narratives, their talk about food and nutrition. Women link healthful eating in pregnancy with the good mother ideal and construct identities as mothers through monitoring prenatal diets. When they violate nutritional norms, they are subject to charges of…
The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness
With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available
You are What You Eat: Nutritional Norms, Maternal Deviance, and Neutralization of Women's Prenatal Diets
This article uses neutralization theory to examine women's responses to prenatal nutritional norms. Based on 55 qualitative interviews with pregnant women, I explore women's prenatal nutritional narratives, their talk about food and nutrition. Women link healthful eating in pregnancy with the good mother ideal and construct identities as mothers through monitoring prenatal diets. When they violate nutritional norms, they are subject to charges of…
Output that counts: Pedometers, Sociability and the Contested Terrain of Older Adult Fitness Walking
Based on five months of participant observation and interviews with members of a hospital-sponsored walking club, I explore the rejection of pedometer technology among older adult walkers. Health researchers praise pedometers as a useful tool for measuring walking activity, setting fitness goals, and charting progress towards goals. Older adult walkers, however, viewed pedometers and the monitoring they enable as anathema to walking group norms t…
You don't need a prescription to go gluten-free: The scientific self-diagnosis of celiac disease
The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness
With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available
Women's Empowerment
Women's empowerment is a central concern of the women's movement. It refers to the general process through which women gain knowledge about the structures that oppress them, and seek to alter the power imbalances in society. Bookman and Morgen (1988: 4) define empowerment broadly as the “process aimed at consolidating, maintaining, or changing the nature and distribution of power in a particular cultural context” that can range from “acts of indi…
You are What You Eat: Nutritional Norms, Maternal Deviance, and Neutralization of Women's Prenatal Diets
This article uses neutralization theory to examine women's responses to prenatal nutritional norms. Based on 55 qualitative interviews with pregnant women, I explore women's prenatal nutritional narratives, their talk about food and nutrition. Women link healthful eating in pregnancy with the good mother ideal and construct identities as mothers through monitoring prenatal diets. When they violate nutritional norms, they are subject to charges of…
You don't need a prescription to go gluten-free: The scientific self-diagnosis of celiac disease
Output that counts: Pedometers, Sociability and the Contested Terrain of Older Adult Fitness Walking
Based on five months of participant observation and interviews with members of a hospital-sponsored walking club, I explore the rejection of pedometer technology among older adult walkers. Health researchers praise pedometers as a useful tool for measuring walking activity, setting fitness goals, and charting progress towards goals. Older adult walkers, however, viewed pedometers and the monitoring they enable as anathema to walking group norms t…
Film Review: Eating Alaska
Conversations: A Symposium on Stephanie Coontz’s A Strange Stirring
Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)