Rachel Hurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 347201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Hurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurst |
| SIGNATURE | HURST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Francis Xavier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2589-2805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Countervailing Claims
Why do firms take positions on divisive social issues? In this article, I draw on theories of stigma by association to explain why firms’ mere proximity to controversial political actors may lead stakeholders to presume that firms silent on social issues are misaligned with the stakeholders’ sociopolitical preferences. Firms, in turn, countervail these presumptions of misalignment by eschewing silence and claiming sociopolitical positions. Substa…
Strategically Ambiguous Identities
Existing research illustrates how electoral incentives shape candidates’ decisions to reduce ambiguity by cultivating specific group identities. Extending this literature, I argue that electoral contexts may instead incentivize candidates to cultivate ambiguity around their group identities. Drawing on theories of policy platform ambiguity, I argue that by cultivating an ambiguous identity candidates enhance their ability to attract voters across…
Port Arthur Separate Prison
The paper describes the conservation and interpretation project directed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG) at the Port Arthur penal settlement in Tasmania. Focused on the 1849 Separate Prison, the physical and ideological centrepiece of the Port Arthur settlement, TZG’s brief was to provide a masterplan for the conservation, reconstruction and interpretation of the remaining built fabric
Unsettling gender and sexuality at the Point Barrow, Alaska station of the First International Polar Year (1882–1883)
The American expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska to establish a station for the First International Polar Year (IPY) in 1881 was shaped by familiar gendered and sexualised settler colonial discourses about the North as secretive, unknown, and ethereal, yet knowable by techniques of scientific observation. The First IPY (1882–1883) was a significant moment in colonial scientific exploration and research, as the largest coordinated international eff…
Hil Malatino, Queer Embodiment
Revealing Narratives in Before and After Photographs of Cosmetic Breast Surgeries
Feminist cosmetic surgery scholars have been attentive to cosmetic breast surgeries as emblematic of a range of issues and questions. Breast implant and reduction surgeries have been analyzed by scholars as psychologically beneficial, as representative of unethical practices in the cosmetic surgery industry, as exemplar of the objectification of women’s bodies, and as connected to powerful cultural ideas about breasts. A curious dearth in previou…
Pro Pelle Cutem
In 1920, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) celebrated its 250th anniversary through national and international events, as well as honours and benefits for its employees. The year 1920 was an important moment for the HBC, as it underwent institutional change to support the expansion of its department store operations through public relations and advertising strategies. Central to these strategies was an emphasis on the HBC’s central role in Canadian …
Collapsing the Surfaces of Skin and Photograph in Cosmetic Minimally-Invasive Procedures
This article proposes that cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures - Botox injections, soft-tissue fillers, microdermabrasion, chemical peels and laser treatments - are an under-researched area and provide a number of promising paths for skin studies research. I argue that cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures collapse the difference between the surfaces of the photograph and the skin - the primary surfaces of cosmetic surgery - more successfully…
"Cosmetic Surgery as "Cut-Up
The Pandrogeny project was a collaboration between the artists Lady Jaye Breyer and Genesis P-Orridge that used cosmetic surgery, hormone therapy, cross-dressing, and altered behavior in an effort to merge their two separate identities into a third, singular "pandrogyneous" character called "Breyer P-Orridge." This essay critically explores the practices and theories that comprise the Pandrogeny project, contrasting its use of cosmetic surgery to…
Down the Rathole? Public Support for US Foreign Aid
Americans think the US foreign aid budget is far too generous. Can information change those views? We identified ten prominent arguments about aid in public discussion, five positive and five negative. In a survey experiment, we exposed respondents to one of those arguments with five associated facts. Most of the arguments in favor of aid made respondents more supportive, while most of the arguments against aid made them less supportive. Argument…
Lorene Squire’s Psychical Landscapes of Colonial/Modern Gender in the Canadian North
From 1937 to 1939, Lorene Squire was commissioned by The Beaver (the company magazine of the Hudson’s Bay Company) and Canadian Airways to produce photographs of the Canadian North suitable for their publications, focused on her specialisation in wildfowl photography, as well as landscapes, planes, and people. This article focuses on her 1938 commissions, and in particular two photographs of Indigenous women and two self-portraits. When these pho…
A ‘journey in feminist theory together’
Doing Feminist Theory Through Digital Video is an assignment I designed for my undergraduate feminist theory course, where students created a short digital video on a concept in feminist theory. I outline the assignment and the pedagogical and epistemological frameworks that structured the assignment (digital storytelling, participatory video and feminist approaches to service learning) before presenting an analysis of its learning outcomes glean…
Negotiating femininity with and through mother–daughter and patient–surgeon relationships in cosmetic surgery narratives
To Revise or Not to Revise
This personal analysis of the revision process of the ICIDH is set in the context of the international disability movement. With analogies to feminism, it shows how the medicalisation of disability is itself disablism and, while recognising many flaws in the revised version, encourages the disability movement to use the new version to its own advantage
Choice and Empowerment - lessons from Europe
(1995). Choice and Empowerment - lessons from Europe. Disability & Society: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 529-534
Down the Rathole? Public Support for US Foreign Aid
Americans think the US foreign aid budget is far too generous. Can information change those views? We identified ten prominent arguments about aid in public discussion, five positive and five negative. In a survey experiment, we exposed respondents to one of those arguments with five associated facts. Most of the arguments in favor of aid made respondents more supportive, while most of the arguments against aid made them less supportive. Argument…
To Revise or Not to Revise
This personal analysis of the revision process of the ICIDH is set in the context of the international disability movement. With analogies to feminism, it shows how the medicalisation of disability is itself disablism and, while recognising many flaws in the revised version, encourages the disability movement to use the new version to its own advantage
Strategically Ambiguous Identities
Existing research illustrates how electoral incentives shape candidates’ decisions to reduce ambiguity by cultivating specific group identities. Extending this literature, I argue that electoral contexts may instead incentivize candidates to cultivate ambiguity around their group identities. Drawing on theories of policy platform ambiguity, I argue that by cultivating an ambiguous identity candidates enhance their ability to attract voters across…
Choice and Empowerment - lessons from Europe
(1995). Choice and Empowerment - lessons from Europe. Disability & Society: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 529-534
Collapsing the Surfaces of Skin and Photograph in Cosmetic Minimally-Invasive Procedures
This article proposes that cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures - Botox injections, soft-tissue fillers, microdermabrasion, chemical peels and laser treatments - are an under-researched area and provide a number of promising paths for skin studies research. I argue that cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures collapse the difference between the surfaces of the photograph and the skin - the primary surfaces of cosmetic surgery - more successfully…
A ‘journey in feminist theory together’
Doing Feminist Theory Through Digital Video is an assignment I designed for my undergraduate feminist theory course, where students created a short digital video on a concept in feminist theory. I outline the assignment and the pedagogical and epistemological frameworks that structured the assignment (digital storytelling, participatory video and feminist approaches to service learning) before presenting an analysis of its learning outcomes glean…
Negotiating femininity with and through mother–daughter and patient–surgeon relationships in cosmetic surgery narratives
Choice and Empowerment - lessons from Europe
(1995). Choice and Empowerment - lessons from Europe. Disability & Society: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 529-534
To Revise or Not to Revise
This personal analysis of the revision process of the ICIDH is set in the context of the international disability movement. With analogies to feminism, it shows how the medicalisation of disability is itself disablism and, while recognising many flaws in the revised version, encourages the disability movement to use the new version to its own advantage
Negotiating femininity with and through mother–daughter and patient–surgeon relationships in cosmetic surgery narratives
A ‘journey in feminist theory together’
Doing Feminist Theory Through Digital Video is an assignment I designed for my undergraduate feminist theory course, where students created a short digital video on a concept in feminist theory. I outline the assignment and the pedagogical and epistemological frameworks that structured the assignment (digital storytelling, participatory video and feminist approaches to service learning) before presenting an analysis of its learning outcomes glean…
Lorene Squire’s Psychical Landscapes of Colonial/Modern Gender in the Canadian North
From 1937 to 1939, Lorene Squire was commissioned by The Beaver (the company magazine of the Hudson’s Bay Company) and Canadian Airways to produce photographs of the Canadian North suitable for their publications, focused on her specialisation in wildfowl photography, as well as landscapes, planes, and people. This article focuses on her 1938 commissions, and in particular two photographs of Indigenous women and two self-portraits. When these pho…
Down the Rathole? Public Support for US Foreign Aid
Americans think the US foreign aid budget is far too generous. Can information change those views? We identified ten prominent arguments about aid in public discussion, five positive and five negative. In a survey experiment, we exposed respondents to one of those arguments with five associated facts. Most of the arguments in favor of aid made respondents more supportive, while most of the arguments against aid made them less supportive. Argument…
Pro Pelle Cutem
In 1920, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) celebrated its 250th anniversary through national and international events, as well as honours and benefits for its employees. The year 1920 was an important moment for the HBC, as it underwent institutional change to support the expansion of its department store operations through public relations and advertising strategies. Central to these strategies was an emphasis on the HBC’s central role in Canadian …
Collapsing the Surfaces of Skin and Photograph in Cosmetic Minimally-Invasive Procedures
This article proposes that cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures - Botox injections, soft-tissue fillers, microdermabrasion, chemical peels and laser treatments - are an under-researched area and provide a number of promising paths for skin studies research. I argue that cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures collapse the difference between the surfaces of the photograph and the skin - the primary surfaces of cosmetic surgery - more successfully…
"Cosmetic Surgery as "Cut-Up
The Pandrogeny project was a collaboration between the artists Lady Jaye Breyer and Genesis P-Orridge that used cosmetic surgery, hormone therapy, cross-dressing, and altered behavior in an effort to merge their two separate identities into a third, singular "pandrogyneous" character called "Breyer P-Orridge." This essay critically explores the practices and theories that comprise the Pandrogeny project, contrasting its use of cosmetic surgery to…
Revealing Narratives in Before and After Photographs of Cosmetic Breast Surgeries
Feminist cosmetic surgery scholars have been attentive to cosmetic breast surgeries as emblematic of a range of issues and questions. Breast implant and reduction surgeries have been analyzed by scholars as psychologically beneficial, as representative of unethical practices in the cosmetic surgery industry, as exemplar of the objectification of women’s bodies, and as connected to powerful cultural ideas about breasts. A curious dearth in previou…
Port Arthur Separate Prison
The paper describes the conservation and interpretation project directed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG) at the Port Arthur penal settlement in Tasmania. Focused on the 1849 Separate Prison, the physical and ideological centrepiece of the Port Arthur settlement, TZG’s brief was to provide a masterplan for the conservation, reconstruction and interpretation of the remaining built fabric
Unsettling gender and sexuality at the Point Barrow, Alaska station of the First International Polar Year (1882–1883)
The American expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska to establish a station for the First International Polar Year (IPY) in 1881 was shaped by familiar gendered and sexualised settler colonial discourses about the North as secretive, unknown, and ethereal, yet knowable by techniques of scientific observation. The First IPY (1882–1883) was a significant moment in colonial scientific exploration and research, as the largest coordinated international eff…
Hil Malatino, Queer Embodiment
Countervailing Claims
Why do firms take positions on divisive social issues? In this article, I draw on theories of stigma by association to explain why firms’ mere proximity to controversial political actors may lead stakeholders to presume that firms silent on social issues are misaligned with the stakeholders’ sociopolitical preferences. Firms, in turn, countervail these presumptions of misalignment by eschewing silence and claiming sociopolitical positions. Substa…
Strategically Ambiguous Identities
Existing research illustrates how electoral incentives shape candidates’ decisions to reduce ambiguity by cultivating specific group identities. Extending this literature, I argue that electoral contexts may instead incentivize candidates to cultivate ambiguity around their group identities. Drawing on theories of policy platform ambiguity, I argue that by cultivating an ambiguous identity candidates enhance their ability to attract voters across…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)