Mairead Moloney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mairead Moloney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mairead |
| FAMILY NAME | Moloney |
| SIGNATURE | MOLONEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6598-9401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Rural health research in the 21st century: A commentary on challenges and the role of digital technology
Rural health research, fundamental to US public health, has faced significant challenges including inconsistencies in defining rural areas, methodological constraints in studying dispersed populations, and complex social and cultural factors.1, 2 This commentary reexamines these enduring issues and proposes innovative solutions leveraging digital technologies. While acknowledging the potential of these technological approaches, we also address ba…
Hatespeech or Tatespeech? Andrew Tate and the rise of the radical misogynist
This study examines influencer Andrew Tate’s social media content as embodying virtual manhood acts (VMA)—technologically facilitated misogyny in online spaces. Through content analysis of 13 Tate videos from 2022, we demonstrate how his performances of masculinity extend beyond reinforcing gender binaries to potentially facilitating gender radicalization leading to misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic attitudes and behaviors. Applying McCau…
Evaluating the effect of a virtual reality digital therapeutic on maternal stress among expectant and postpartum Black and Latina mothers: A protocol paper
The Nurturing Moms study seeks to create a more inclusive and equitable healthcare landscape, demonstrating that digital interventions like NurtureVR are essential for providing high-quality maternal care. By democratizing access to clinical research and healthcare, this decentralized trial promotes equity, improves the generalizability of findings, and accelerates the development of new treatments. The study's innovative approach has the potenti…
Preterm Birth Prevention in Appalachia: Restructuring Prenatal Care to Address Rural Health Disparities and Establish Perinatal Health Equity
Purpose: This perspective piece reflects off previously published qualitative work to explore (1) themes surrounding equitable prenatal care in Appalachia and (2) strategies to restructure care delivery in a population with disparate rates of preterm birth (PTB). Methods: This study reflects in-depth interviews with 22 Appalachian women who experienced PTB and 14 obstetric providers. Results: Our findings underscore the need for greater cultural …
Pregnancy‐Related Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity in Rural Appalachia: Established Risks and the Need to Know More
PURPOSE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology have called for researchers to further elucidate medical and social determinants of pregnancy-related death and severe maternal morbidity. This report begins to answer this call in the context of rural Appalachia. METHODS: This report identifies risk factors exposing women in rural Appalachia to pregnancy-related death and severe ma…
The medicalization of sleeplessness: Results of U.S. office visit outcomes, 2008–2015
Previous analysis of U.S. physician office visits (1993-2007) indicated that the medicalization of sleeplessness was on the rise and had potentially negative implications for population health. Our study asks if the medicalization of sleeplessness at the level of patient-physician interaction has persisted over time. Using the most recent years available (2008-2015) of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey we calculated nationally represent…
Intersectionality, Work, and Well-Being: The Effects of Gender and Disability
Intersectionality emphasizes numerous points of difference through which those who occupy multiple disadvantaged statuses are penalized. Applying this consideration to the workplace, we explore ways in which status-based and structural aspects of work undermine women and people with physical disabilities and diminish psychological well-being. We conceptually integrate research on the workplace disadvantages experienced by women and people with di…
Going the Extra Mile: Disclosure, Accommodation, and Stigma Management among Working Women with Disabilities
Although research has quantitatively evaluated the impacts of stigma on working women with disabilities (WWD), nuanced, qualitative accounts voiced by these women are rare. To address this literature gap, we conducted seven focus groups with forty-two WWD. We asked: "What are women's experiences of disability disclosure and accommodation in the workplace?" Findings reveal that WWD face intentional and unintentional structural discrimination and m…
Assessing online misogyny: Perspectives from sociology and feminist media studies
Scholarly and lay publications have highlighted increasing online misogyny. We review the dominant, cross‐disciplinary analyses and conceptualizations of cisnormative, heterosexist, misogynistic discourses. From feminist media scholarship, we highlight four terms intended to describe acts of online misogyny: online sexual harassment, gendertrolling, e‐bile, and disciplinary rhetoric. We then review the nascent sociological concept of virtual manh…
Selling slumber: American neoliberalism and the medicalization of sleeplessness
Sleeplessness is an ancient and cross‐cultural phenomenon that is socially structured and restructured against a backdrop of ideology and inequality. In an effort to make sense of sleeplessness, some scholars have invoked the medicalization framework, which highlights consumerism, managed care, biotechnology, and physicians as key “engines” that foster the transformation of this formerly “normal” condition to one that people view as a medical pro…
Gender differences in the processes linking public stigma and self‐disclosure among college students with mental illness
This study investigated predictors of self‐disclosure among college students with mental illness. Participants were 1,393 current college students with a mental illness at 5 universities. Moderated mediation tests were used to analyze the data. Findings of the analysis reveal that public stigma is associated with mental illness disclosure among college students in part because it is associated with an increased perceived stress burden, particular…
TheFappening: Virtual Manhood Acts in (Homo)Social Media
Using an interactionist framework, we analyze publicly available data from Twitter to track real-time reactions to the widely publicized celebrity nude photo hacking of 2014 ('The Fappening'). We ask: 'Related to The Fappening, what manhood acts are employed in virtual social space?' Using search terms for 'fappening' or '#thefappening,' we collected 100 tweets per hour from August 31 to October 1, 2014 (Average: 1,700/day). Coding and qualitativ…
Sometimes, it's easier to write the prescription: Physician and Patient Accounts of the Reluctant Medicalisation of Sleeplessness
The medicalisation of sleep is a rich and growing area of sociological interest. Previous research suggests that medicalisation is occurring within the context of physician office visits, but the inner workings remain unclear. This study is the first to provide perspectives on the office visit interaction from both sleepless patients (n = 27) and the physicians (n = 8) who treat them. Analyses of semi-structured qualitative interviews reveal that…
You’re Not Good Enough”: Teaching Undergraduate Students about the Sexualization of Girls and Women
Sociologists have developed compelling pedagogical strategies to focus the undergraduate gaze on problems of gender and sexuality. Nested within the social construction of gender norms, the sexualization of girls and women negatively impacts individual, interpersonal, and societal levels of social interaction. Nevertheless, this important issue remains under-explored in the sociology of teaching and learning. This article reports on a pedagogical…
The Medicalization of Sleeplessness: A Public Health Concern
Sleeplessness, a universal condition with diverse causes, may be increasingly diagnosed and treated (or medicalized) as insomnia. We examined the trend in sleeplessness complaints, diagnoses, and prescriptions of sedative hypnotics in physician office visits from 1993 to 2007. Consistent with the medicalization hypothesis, sleeplessness complaints and insomnia diagnoses increased over time and were far outpaced by prescriptions for sedative hypno…
Celebrity Status
Max Weber's fragmentary writings on social status suggest that differentiation on this basis should disappear as capitalism develops. However, many of Weber's examples of status refer to the United States, which Weber held to be the epitome of capitalist development. Weber hints at a second form of status, one generated by capitalism, which might reconcile this contradiction, and later theorists emphasize the continuing importance of status hiera…
The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. By Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully and Neil G. Bennett and Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral D…
Journal Article The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. By Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully and Neil G. Bennett and Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder. By Elizabeth M. Armstrong Get access Mairead Moloney Mairead Moloney University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 83, Issue 4, June…
Celebrity Status
Max Weber's fragmentary writings on social status suggest that differentiation on this basis should disappear as capitalism develops. However, many of Weber's examples of status refer to the United States, which Weber held to be the epitome of capitalist development. Weber hints at a second form of status, one generated by capitalism, which might reconcile this contradiction, and later theorists emphasize the continuing importance of status hiera…
Going the Extra Mile: Disclosure, Accommodation, and Stigma Management among Working Women with Disabilities
Although research has quantitatively evaluated the impacts of stigma on working women with disabilities (WWD), nuanced, qualitative accounts voiced by these women are rare. To address this literature gap, we conducted seven focus groups with forty-two WWD. We asked: "What are women's experiences of disability disclosure and accommodation in the workplace?" Findings reveal that WWD face intentional and unintentional structural discrimination and m…
Assessing online misogyny: Perspectives from sociology and feminist media studies
Scholarly and lay publications have highlighted increasing online misogyny. We review the dominant, cross‐disciplinary analyses and conceptualizations of cisnormative, heterosexist, misogynistic discourses. From feminist media scholarship, we highlight four terms intended to describe acts of online misogyny: online sexual harassment, gendertrolling, e‐bile, and disciplinary rhetoric. We then review the nascent sociological concept of virtual manh…
TheFappening: Virtual Manhood Acts in (Homo)Social Media
Using an interactionist framework, we analyze publicly available data from Twitter to track real-time reactions to the widely publicized celebrity nude photo hacking of 2014 ('The Fappening'). We ask: 'Related to The Fappening, what manhood acts are employed in virtual social space?' Using search terms for 'fappening' or '#thefappening,' we collected 100 tweets per hour from August 31 to October 1, 2014 (Average: 1,700/day). Coding and qualitativ…
Intersectionality, Work, and Well-Being: The Effects of Gender and Disability
Intersectionality emphasizes numerous points of difference through which those who occupy multiple disadvantaged statuses are penalized. Applying this consideration to the workplace, we explore ways in which status-based and structural aspects of work undermine women and people with physical disabilities and diminish psychological well-being. We conceptually integrate research on the workplace disadvantages experienced by women and people with di…
Sometimes, it's easier to write the prescription: Physician and Patient Accounts of the Reluctant Medicalisation of Sleeplessness
The medicalisation of sleep is a rich and growing area of sociological interest. Previous research suggests that medicalisation is occurring within the context of physician office visits, but the inner workings remain unclear. This study is the first to provide perspectives on the office visit interaction from both sleepless patients (n = 27) and the physicians (n = 8) who treat them. Analyses of semi-structured qualitative interviews reveal that…
Selling slumber: American neoliberalism and the medicalization of sleeplessness
Sleeplessness is an ancient and cross‐cultural phenomenon that is socially structured and restructured against a backdrop of ideology and inequality. In an effort to make sense of sleeplessness, some scholars have invoked the medicalization framework, which highlights consumerism, managed care, biotechnology, and physicians as key “engines” that foster the transformation of this formerly “normal” condition to one that people view as a medical pro…
You’re Not Good Enough”: Teaching Undergraduate Students about the Sexualization of Girls and Women
Sociologists have developed compelling pedagogical strategies to focus the undergraduate gaze on problems of gender and sexuality. Nested within the social construction of gender norms, the sexualization of girls and women negatively impacts individual, interpersonal, and societal levels of social interaction. Nevertheless, this important issue remains under-explored in the sociology of teaching and learning. This article reports on a pedagogical…
The Medicalization of Sleeplessness: A Public Health Concern
Sleeplessness, a universal condition with diverse causes, may be increasingly diagnosed and treated (or medicalized) as insomnia. We examined the trend in sleeplessness complaints, diagnoses, and prescriptions of sedative hypnotics in physician office visits from 1993 to 2007. Consistent with the medicalization hypothesis, sleeplessness complaints and insomnia diagnoses increased over time and were far outpaced by prescriptions for sedative hypno…
Gender differences in the processes linking public stigma and self‐disclosure among college students with mental illness
This study investigated predictors of self‐disclosure among college students with mental illness. Participants were 1,393 current college students with a mental illness at 5 universities. Moderated mediation tests were used to analyze the data. Findings of the analysis reveal that public stigma is associated with mental illness disclosure among college students in part because it is associated with an increased perceived stress burden, particular…
Hatespeech or Tatespeech? Andrew Tate and the rise of the radical misogynist
This study examines influencer Andrew Tate’s social media content as embodying virtual manhood acts (VMA)—technologically facilitated misogyny in online spaces. Through content analysis of 13 Tate videos from 2022, we demonstrate how his performances of masculinity extend beyond reinforcing gender binaries to potentially facilitating gender radicalization leading to misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic attitudes and behaviors. Applying McCau…
The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. By Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully and Neil G. Bennett and Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral D…
Journal Article The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. By Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully and Neil G. Bennett and Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder. By Elizabeth M. Armstrong Get access Mairead Moloney Mairead Moloney University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 83, Issue 4, June…
Celebrity Status
Max Weber's fragmentary writings on social status suggest that differentiation on this basis should disappear as capitalism develops. However, many of Weber's examples of status refer to the United States, which Weber held to be the epitome of capitalist development. Weber hints at a second form of status, one generated by capitalism, which might reconcile this contradiction, and later theorists emphasize the continuing importance of status hiera…
The Medicalization of Sleeplessness: A Public Health Concern
Sleeplessness, a universal condition with diverse causes, may be increasingly diagnosed and treated (or medicalized) as insomnia. We examined the trend in sleeplessness complaints, diagnoses, and prescriptions of sedative hypnotics in physician office visits from 1993 to 2007. Consistent with the medicalization hypothesis, sleeplessness complaints and insomnia diagnoses increased over time and were far outpaced by prescriptions for sedative hypno…
You’re Not Good Enough”: Teaching Undergraduate Students about the Sexualization of Girls and Women
Sociologists have developed compelling pedagogical strategies to focus the undergraduate gaze on problems of gender and sexuality. Nested within the social construction of gender norms, the sexualization of girls and women negatively impacts individual, interpersonal, and societal levels of social interaction. Nevertheless, this important issue remains under-explored in the sociology of teaching and learning. This article reports on a pedagogical…
Sometimes, it's easier to write the prescription: Physician and Patient Accounts of the Reluctant Medicalisation of Sleeplessness
The medicalisation of sleep is a rich and growing area of sociological interest. Previous research suggests that medicalisation is occurring within the context of physician office visits, but the inner workings remain unclear. This study is the first to provide perspectives on the office visit interaction from both sleepless patients (n = 27) and the physicians (n = 8) who treat them. Analyses of semi-structured qualitative interviews reveal that…
Assessing online misogyny: Perspectives from sociology and feminist media studies
Scholarly and lay publications have highlighted increasing online misogyny. We review the dominant, cross‐disciplinary analyses and conceptualizations of cisnormative, heterosexist, misogynistic discourses. From feminist media scholarship, we highlight four terms intended to describe acts of online misogyny: online sexual harassment, gendertrolling, e‐bile, and disciplinary rhetoric. We then review the nascent sociological concept of virtual manh…
Selling slumber: American neoliberalism and the medicalization of sleeplessness
Sleeplessness is an ancient and cross‐cultural phenomenon that is socially structured and restructured against a backdrop of ideology and inequality. In an effort to make sense of sleeplessness, some scholars have invoked the medicalization framework, which highlights consumerism, managed care, biotechnology, and physicians as key “engines” that foster the transformation of this formerly “normal” condition to one that people view as a medical pro…
Gender differences in the processes linking public stigma and self‐disclosure among college students with mental illness
This study investigated predictors of self‐disclosure among college students with mental illness. Participants were 1,393 current college students with a mental illness at 5 universities. Moderated mediation tests were used to analyze the data. Findings of the analysis reveal that public stigma is associated with mental illness disclosure among college students in part because it is associated with an increased perceived stress burden, particular…
TheFappening: Virtual Manhood Acts in (Homo)Social Media
Using an interactionist framework, we analyze publicly available data from Twitter to track real-time reactions to the widely publicized celebrity nude photo hacking of 2014 ('The Fappening'). We ask: 'Related to The Fappening, what manhood acts are employed in virtual social space?' Using search terms for 'fappening' or '#thefappening,' we collected 100 tweets per hour from August 31 to October 1, 2014 (Average: 1,700/day). Coding and qualitativ…
The medicalization of sleeplessness: Results of U.S. office visit outcomes, 2008–2015
Previous analysis of U.S. physician office visits (1993-2007) indicated that the medicalization of sleeplessness was on the rise and had potentially negative implications for population health. Our study asks if the medicalization of sleeplessness at the level of patient-physician interaction has persisted over time. Using the most recent years available (2008-2015) of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey we calculated nationally represent…
Intersectionality, Work, and Well-Being: The Effects of Gender and Disability
Intersectionality emphasizes numerous points of difference through which those who occupy multiple disadvantaged statuses are penalized. Applying this consideration to the workplace, we explore ways in which status-based and structural aspects of work undermine women and people with physical disabilities and diminish psychological well-being. We conceptually integrate research on the workplace disadvantages experienced by women and people with di…
Going the Extra Mile: Disclosure, Accommodation, and Stigma Management among Working Women with Disabilities
Although research has quantitatively evaluated the impacts of stigma on working women with disabilities (WWD), nuanced, qualitative accounts voiced by these women are rare. To address this literature gap, we conducted seven focus groups with forty-two WWD. We asked: "What are women's experiences of disability disclosure and accommodation in the workplace?" Findings reveal that WWD face intentional and unintentional structural discrimination and m…
Pregnancy‐Related Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity in Rural Appalachia: Established Risks and the Need to Know More
PURPOSE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology have called for researchers to further elucidate medical and social determinants of pregnancy-related death and severe maternal morbidity. This report begins to answer this call in the context of rural Appalachia. METHODS: This report identifies risk factors exposing women in rural Appalachia to pregnancy-related death and severe ma…
Preterm Birth Prevention in Appalachia: Restructuring Prenatal Care to Address Rural Health Disparities and Establish Perinatal Health Equity
Purpose: This perspective piece reflects off previously published qualitative work to explore (1) themes surrounding equitable prenatal care in Appalachia and (2) strategies to restructure care delivery in a population with disparate rates of preterm birth (PTB). Methods: This study reflects in-depth interviews with 22 Appalachian women who experienced PTB and 14 obstetric providers. Results: Our findings underscore the need for greater cultural …
Evaluating the effect of a virtual reality digital therapeutic on maternal stress among expectant and postpartum Black and Latina mothers: A protocol paper
The Nurturing Moms study seeks to create a more inclusive and equitable healthcare landscape, demonstrating that digital interventions like NurtureVR are essential for providing high-quality maternal care. By democratizing access to clinical research and healthcare, this decentralized trial promotes equity, improves the generalizability of findings, and accelerates the development of new treatments. The study's innovative approach has the potenti…
Rural health research in the 21st century: A commentary on challenges and the role of digital technology
Rural health research, fundamental to US public health, has faced significant challenges including inconsistencies in defining rural areas, methodological constraints in studying dispersed populations, and complex social and cultural factors.1, 2 This commentary reexamines these enduring issues and proposes innovative solutions leveraging digital technologies. While acknowledging the potential of these technological approaches, we also address ba…
Hatespeech or Tatespeech? Andrew Tate and the rise of the radical misogynist
This study examines influencer Andrew Tate’s social media content as embodying virtual manhood acts (VMA)—technologically facilitated misogyny in online spaces. Through content analysis of 13 Tate videos from 2022, we demonstrate how his performances of masculinity extend beyond reinforcing gender binaries to potentially facilitating gender radicalization leading to misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic attitudes and behaviors. Applying McCau…
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)