Rebecca Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1253-6243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adverse childhood and school experiences: A retrospective cross-sectional study examining their associations with health-related behaviours and mental health
For children who grow up in adverse home environments, exposure to further adversity at school may amplify risks of poorer health and life outcomes. However, schools are opportune settings for children who lack safety and support at home to recover from stress, develop resilience and access support. Trauma-informed approaches in schools that recognise the impacts of adversity and support children to overcome it have the potential to improve educa…
Spirits of Resistance: A Politics of Feeling in Behrouz Boochani’s Prison Writing
Determinants of behavior towards hemp-based products: An application of the theory of planned behavior
Purpose This paper examines how U.S. consumer intentions to adopt hemp vary across product types using the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected via an online survey of U.S. residents in 2022 (n = 1,948). Two-step structural equation modeling is used to examine how TPB constructs and background factors influence intent to use five different hemp-based products: cannabidiol (CBD), clothing, food, persona…
Inequality in agricultural production and health of hohokam era irrigation farmers, ce 1200 to 1400
Characteristics and outcomes of infants admitted to a parent–infant inpatient psychiatric unit: A pilot study
Inpatient parent–infant psychiatric units (PIUs) are considered “gold standard” for treating maternal mental illness, with well‐documented positive outcomes for mothers. However, little research addresses outcomes for infants in these units, who often face significant developmental and socio‐emotional adversity. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the characteristics and progress of an Australian PIU population, focusing on the impact of PIU admis…
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre
Journal Article Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre Get access Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre. Ed. by Michael Pierce and Calvin White. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2022. x, 237 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $29.95.) Rebecca Hill Rebecca Hill Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia Search for other works by this a…
An evaluation of a short film promoting kindness in Wales during Covid-19 restrictions #TimeToBeKind
Film can be an effective tool to promote behaviour change for kindness. Films that provoke strong emotional reactions can still be perceived positively and lead to behaviour change. With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating a move online for many, the findings of the present evaluation are relevant to how public health messaging can adapt and utilise this space to target individuals and promote behaviour change
Complex emergencies and the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases in Africa: Developing a practical approach for implementing safe and effective mapping and intervention strategies
The paper presents a new methodological approach for implementing safe and effective mapping and intervention strategies in NTD endemic countries with ongoing complex emergencies, which will help to address challenges and make progress toward the NTD Roadmap targets of 2030
Identifying Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Infant Growth: A Structural Equation Modelling Based Cohort Analysis
Promoting healthy weight amongst women of child bearing age is important in preventing childhood obesity, and increasing daily infant PA is as important as a healthy infant diet
Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis
Reviewed by: Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis Rebecca Hill (bio) Astrida Neimanis, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 230 pp. ISBN 978-1-4742-7538-5 Astrida Neimanis's new book makes a persuasive case for reimagining " embodiment from the perspective our of bodies' wet constitution" (1). We are not embodied, on the one hand, and consisting of water, on the other hand, w…
Philosophies of Difference: Nature, Racism, and Sexuate Difference
Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
Compares the anti-lynching movement (epitomized the NAACP) to the movement in defense of labor activists (epitomized by the ACLU), and the rhetorical strategies they used to shape public opinion
Parent recommendations to support physical activity for families with young children: Results of interviews in deprived and affluent communities in South Wales (United Kingdom)
BACKGROUND: Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of mortality worldwide. Early childhood is a critical period when healthy behaviours can be instilled for a future active lifestyle. We explored community, societal and environmental factors affecting child and family physical activity and sought parent recommendations to support physical activity in families with young children. METHODS: We interviewed 61 parents expecting a child or wi…
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
We, the women, have a big stake in these issues,” proclaimed Florence Sillers Ogden as she spoke in favor of segregation to eight hundred women assembled in Mississippi in 1948 (p. 132). The description of the speech comes at the midpoint in Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's brilliantly argued Mothers of Massive Resistance, encapsulating the book's central thesis: white southern women were deeply committed to Jim Crow. McRae locates the roots of “massi…
A Hundred Years of Fake News
A Hundred Years of Fake News Rebecca Hill (bio) Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics. By Marjorie Spruill. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. viii + 437 pp. $33.00 (cloth). $19.00 (paper). $23.10 (e-book). Nut Country: Right Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy. By Edward H. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 256 pp. $25.00 (cloth). $18.00 (paper). $18.00 (e-bo…
Philosophies of Difference
This special issue has its origins in the Philosophies of Difference seminars, which were established in Melbourne in 2016 by Simone Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill, and Helen Ngo. The seminars set out to
Onto-Ethics and Difference: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth Grosz is the author of ten books and an influential contributor to the elaboration of the philosophy of difference and feminist thinking on sexual difference. Rebecca Hill, one of the co-editors of this special issue, invited Grosz to speak further about some central concepts and themes in her two most recent books, Becoming Undone and The Incorporeal and the article 'Irigaray, the Untimely, and the Constitution of an Onto-Ethics'. The …
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
At Least Two: The Tendencies of Sexual Difference
Drawing on Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution and sexual difference feminism, this article elaborates a figuration of sexual difference as different tendencies in the evolution of life on Earth. While Bergson's philosophy is not feminist, his durational account of evolution articulates a cluster of concepts that offer significant insight into the effort to theorize sexual difference both in human beings and in many forms of life on Earth. I argue…
Active children through incentive vouchers – evaluation (Active): A mixed-method feasibility study
Adolescents, teachers and activity providers supported the voucher scheme and felt the vouchers enabled deprived adolescents to access more physical activity opportunities. Voucher usage was associated with improved attitudes to physical activity, increased socialisation with friends and improved fitness and physical activity; presenting interesting avenues for further exploration in a larger intervention trial
What Is This Thing Called Interdisciplinarity: Teaching Interdisciplinary Methods Courses in American Studies
The Multiple Readings of Irigaray's Concept of Sexual Difference
Luce Irigaray's project elaborates an original concept of sexual difference. While this concept is widely discussed in feminist philosophy, there are multiple readings of sexual difference and some of these are contradictory. This essay surveys the various readings of sexual difference in English. Foci include the debate over the status of essentialism, ontology, and the controversy over the primacy of sexual difference, including discussion of w…
Parental recommendations for population level interventions to support infant and family dietary choices: A qualitative study from the Growing Up in Wales, Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) study
There is a need for parent directed community/population level interventions that aims to reduce socio-ecological barriers to making healthy dietary choices. Parents desired improvements in meals provided in workplaces, schools and hospitals, as well as increased access to healthy foods by increasing local healthy food outlets and reducing unhealthy, fast food outlets. Knowledge and skills could then be enhanced in line with these improvements, w…
Milieus and Sexual Difference
Irigaray's critique of the phallocentric subject's implicit dependence on the maternal-feminine “outside” is compelling. Her postulation of nonhierarchical sexual difference gives the relational world of woman specificity and Irigaray brings the subject's worldview to earth as merely the relation of the male human to the world. But the focus of her transvaluation remains largely anthropocentric; and she maintains too many aspects of the privilege…
Factors associated with low fitness in adolescents – A mixed methods study
Low fitness in the non-obese child can reveal a hidden group who have high risk factors for heart disease and diabetes but may not be identified as they are normal weight. In deprived communities low fitness is associated with non-achievement in education but in non-deprived communities low fitness is associated with female gender. Interventions need to target deprived families and schools in deprived areas with community wide campaigns
Climatic Signatures in Yucatecan Wills and Death Records
Dense collections of eighteenth-century wills and death registers from Tekanto and Ixil, two towns in northern Yucatan, represent hitherto unexplored sources for documenting the relationship between natural disasters and mortality patterns among the Yucatecan Maya during colonial times. They provide detailed, sometimes daily, records of the impact of famines caused by multiyear droughts, hurricanes, and plagues of locusts on the agrarian populati…
The Common Enemy Is the Boss and the Inmate”: Police and Prison Guard Unions in New York in the 1970s–1980s
The essay examines the activities of police and prison guard unions in New York State in the 1970s and 1980s. The author explains how these two groups avoided public employment budget cuts associated with the rise of neoliberalism. The ways in which prison guard activism affected prison reform in New York are detailed as well. The author also examines how police involvement in public employee labor movements alienated working-class minorities
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
We, the women, have a big stake in these issues,” proclaimed Florence Sillers Ogden as she spoke in favor of segregation to eight hundred women assembled in Mississippi in 1948 (p. 132). The description of the speech comes at the midpoint in Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's brilliantly argued Mothers of Massive Resistance, encapsulating the book's central thesis: white southern women were deeply committed to Jim Crow. McRae locates the roots of “massi…
A Hundred Years of Fake News
A Hundred Years of Fake News Rebecca Hill (bio) Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics. By Marjorie Spruill. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. viii + 437 pp. $33.00 (cloth). $19.00 (paper). $23.10 (e-book). Nut Country: Right Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy. By Edward H. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 256 pp. $25.00 (cloth). $18.00 (paper). $18.00 (e-bo…
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre
Journal Article Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre Get access Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre. Ed. by Michael Pierce and Calvin White. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2022. x, 237 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $29.95.) Rebecca Hill Rebecca Hill Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia Search for other works by this a…
Philosophies of Difference
This special issue has its origins in the Philosophies of Difference seminars, which were established in Melbourne in 2016 by Simone Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill, and Helen Ngo. The seminars set out to
The Multiple Readings of Irigaray's Concept of Sexual Difference
Luce Irigaray's project elaborates an original concept of sexual difference. While this concept is widely discussed in feminist philosophy, there are multiple readings of sexual difference and some of these are contradictory. This essay surveys the various readings of sexual difference in English. Foci include the debate over the status of essentialism, ontology, and the controversy over the primacy of sexual difference, including discussion of w…
Fosterites and Feminists, Or 1950s Ultra-Leftists and the Invention of AmeriKKKa
‘It suffices but to mention the chauvinist ideology which still penetrates the core and culture of our national life, rendering many people susceptible to infliction from this social disease.’—Claudia Jones
Fosterites and Feminists, Or 1950s Ultra-Leftists and the Invention of AmeriKKKa
‘It suffices but to mention the chauvinist ideology which still penetrates the core and culture of our national life, rendering many people susceptible to infliction from this social disease.’—Claudia Jones
Interval, Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson's philosophy has attracted increasing feminist attention in recent years as a fruitful locus for re-theorizing temporality. Drawing on Luce Irigaray's well-known critical description of metaphysics as phallocentrism, Hill argues that Bergson's deduction of duration is predicated upon the disavowal of a sexed hierarchy. She concludes the article by proposing a way to move beyond Bergson's phallocentrism to articulate duration as a se…
Older people and internet engagement: Acknowledging social moderators of internet adoption, access and use
Purpose – This paper seeks to describe a deep investigation of the phenomenon of internet engagement amongst older people. The likelihood of internet engagement has been shown in previous work to rapidly decrease with age, and patterns of disengagement are most pronounced amongst older people. Design/methodology/approach – The study comprises a qualitative investigation consisting of observation and interviews conducted within a programme of inte…
Phallocentrism in Bergson: Life and Matter
Henri Bergson's philosophy presents the relationship between life and matter in both dualistic and monistic terms. Life is duration, a rhythm of incalculable novelty that approaches pure creative activity. In stark contrast, matter is identified with the determinism of homogeneous space. After Time and Free Will, Bergson concedes some share of duration to matter. In this context, his dualism can be understood as a methodological step towards the …
Climatic Signatures in Yucatecan Wills and Death Records
Dense collections of eighteenth-century wills and death registers from Tekanto and Ixil, two towns in northern Yucatan, represent hitherto unexplored sources for documenting the relationship between natural disasters and mortality patterns among the Yucatecan Maya during colonial times. They provide detailed, sometimes daily, records of the impact of famines caused by multiyear droughts, hurricanes, and plagues of locusts on the agrarian populati…
Protocol of the baseline assessment for the Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) Wales cohort study
The baseline assessment of EHL will provide information concerning the impact of gestational and postnatal environments on birth outcomes and maternal and infant health. The findings can be used to inform the development of complex interventions targeted at structural, environmental factors, intended to reduce ill-health. Long-term follow-up of the cohort will focus on relationships between environmental exposures and the later development of adv…
Recommendations to improve physical activity among teenagers- A qualitative study with ethnic minority and European teenagers
This study takes a child-focused approach to explore how interventions should be designed to promote physical activity in youth. Interventions need to improve access to facilities but also counteract attitudes that teenagers should be studying or working and not 'hanging about' playing with friends. Thus, the value of activity for teenagers needs to be promoted not just among the teenagers but with their teachers, parents and members of the commu…
The Common Enemy Is the Boss and the Inmate”: Police and Prison Guard Unions in New York in the 1970s–1980s
The essay examines the activities of police and prison guard unions in New York State in the 1970s and 1980s. The author explains how these two groups avoided public employment budget cuts associated with the rise of neoliberalism. The ways in which prison guard activism affected prison reform in New York are detailed as well. The author also examines how police involvement in public employee labor movements alienated working-class minorities
Is Resistance Futile: Cultural Studies at the Zenith of Neoliberalism
The article reviews several books including "Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics," by Jodi Dean, "Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America," by Gillian Harkins, and "The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era," by Janice Peck
Mothers’ perspectives on the delivery of childhood injury messages: A qualitative study from the growing up in Wales, environments for healthy living study (EHL)
The findings suggest that timely childhood injury-related risk messages should be delivered during pregnancy and in line with developmental milestones of the child, through a range of sources including social networks, mass media, face-to-face advice from health professionals and other suitably trained mothers. In addition information on the safe use of home appliances around children and use of child safety equipment should be targeted specifica…
Factors associated with low fitness in adolescents – A mixed methods study
Low fitness in the non-obese child can reveal a hidden group who have high risk factors for heart disease and diabetes but may not be identified as they are normal weight. In deprived communities low fitness is associated with non-achievement in education but in non-deprived communities low fitness is associated with female gender. Interventions need to target deprived families and schools in deprived areas with community wide campaigns
Parental recommendations for population level interventions to support infant and family dietary choices: A qualitative study from the Growing Up in Wales, Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) study
There is a need for parent directed community/population level interventions that aims to reduce socio-ecological barriers to making healthy dietary choices. Parents desired improvements in meals provided in workplaces, schools and hospitals, as well as increased access to healthy foods by increasing local healthy food outlets and reducing unhealthy, fast food outlets. Knowledge and skills could then be enhanced in line with these improvements, w…
Milieus and Sexual Difference
Irigaray's critique of the phallocentric subject's implicit dependence on the maternal-feminine “outside” is compelling. Her postulation of nonhierarchical sexual difference gives the relational world of woman specificity and Irigaray brings the subject's worldview to earth as merely the relation of the male human to the world. But the focus of her transvaluation remains largely anthropocentric; and she maintains too many aspects of the privilege…
Active children through incentive vouchers – evaluation (Active): A mixed-method feasibility study
Adolescents, teachers and activity providers supported the voucher scheme and felt the vouchers enabled deprived adolescents to access more physical activity opportunities. Voucher usage was associated with improved attitudes to physical activity, increased socialisation with friends and improved fitness and physical activity; presenting interesting avenues for further exploration in a larger intervention trial
What Is This Thing Called Interdisciplinarity: Teaching Interdisciplinary Methods Courses in American Studies
The Multiple Readings of Irigaray's Concept of Sexual Difference
Luce Irigaray's project elaborates an original concept of sexual difference. While this concept is widely discussed in feminist philosophy, there are multiple readings of sexual difference and some of these are contradictory. This essay surveys the various readings of sexual difference in English. Foci include the debate over the status of essentialism, ontology, and the controversy over the primacy of sexual difference, including discussion of w…
Philosophies of Difference
This special issue has its origins in the Philosophies of Difference seminars, which were established in Melbourne in 2016 by Simone Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill, and Helen Ngo. The seminars set out to
Onto-Ethics and Difference: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth Grosz is the author of ten books and an influential contributor to the elaboration of the philosophy of difference and feminist thinking on sexual difference. Rebecca Hill, one of the co-editors of this special issue, invited Grosz to speak further about some central concepts and themes in her two most recent books, Becoming Undone and The Incorporeal and the article 'Irigaray, the Untimely, and the Constitution of an Onto-Ethics'. The …
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
At Least Two: The Tendencies of Sexual Difference
Drawing on Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution and sexual difference feminism, this article elaborates a figuration of sexual difference as different tendencies in the evolution of life on Earth. While Bergson's philosophy is not feminist, his durational account of evolution articulates a cluster of concepts that offer significant insight into the effort to theorize sexual difference both in human beings and in many forms of life on Earth. I argue…
A Hundred Years of Fake News
A Hundred Years of Fake News Rebecca Hill (bio) Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics. By Marjorie Spruill. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. viii + 437 pp. $33.00 (cloth). $19.00 (paper). $23.10 (e-book). Nut Country: Right Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy. By Edward H. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 256 pp. $25.00 (cloth). $18.00 (paper). $18.00 (e-bo…
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
We, the women, have a big stake in these issues,” proclaimed Florence Sillers Ogden as she spoke in favor of segregation to eight hundred women assembled in Mississippi in 1948 (p. 132). The description of the speech comes at the midpoint in Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's brilliantly argued Mothers of Massive Resistance, encapsulating the book's central thesis: white southern women were deeply committed to Jim Crow. McRae locates the roots of “massi…
Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis
Reviewed by: Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis Rebecca Hill (bio) Astrida Neimanis, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 230 pp. ISBN 978-1-4742-7538-5 Astrida Neimanis's new book makes a persuasive case for reimagining " embodiment from the perspective our of bodies' wet constitution" (1). We are not embodied, on the one hand, and consisting of water, on the other hand, w…
Philosophies of Difference: Nature, Racism, and Sexuate Difference
Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
Compares the anti-lynching movement (epitomized the NAACP) to the movement in defense of labor activists (epitomized by the ACLU), and the rhetorical strategies they used to shape public opinion
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