Linda L Layne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda L Layne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Layne |
| SIGNATURE | LAYNE L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Elections in the Middle East: Implications of Recent Trends
Alternative Domesticities: Spatial Dynamism in the Home-Making of one Middle-Class, Heterosexual, American Single Mother by Choice
Part of a long-term ethnographic case study of Carmen West, a middle-class, heterosexual, American single mother by choice (SMC) and her three children, this essay focuses on the dynamic way the Wests occupy their domestic space. The fact that SMCs start and raise their families without a male partner opens creative opportunities for imagining and doing domestic life differently. Drawing on the philosopher John Schumacher’s work on human posture,…
Biology and Medicine in the Memoirs of Five North American Gay Dads Who Adopted in the 1990s
Single fathers by choice: Memoirs of getting twins and triplets via transnational gestational surrogacy
How Things Have Changed: Adoption Memoirs of Second-Generation American and British Gay Dads
Gay fatherhood via surrogacy: A feminist-health-informed reading of five memoirs
Documenting gay dads: Seven documentaries about gay fatherhood in North America
A Changing Landscape of Intimacy: The Case of a Single Mother by Choice
American women who purposely undertake motherhood without the involvement of a male partner tend to be beneficiaries of second-wave feminist achievements in the areas of expanded educational and employment opportunities. I draw on an in-depth, longitudinal case study of one such Single Mother by Choice (SMC) to explore how the opportunities she has enjoyed and professional achievements she has attained have shaped her 'intimate landscape.' Intima…
I Have a Fear of Really Screwing It Up: The Fears, Doubts, Anxieties, and Judgments of One American Single Mother by Choice
Since the 1980s, a growing number of American women are choosing to start a family without a male partner. Not only are these women going against the norm, they do so in an era of 'intensive mothering,' which places enormous responsibility on mothers to assure that their children have every possible advantage and judges mothers for the way their children turn out. An intensive case study of one American single mother by choice illuminates a range…
Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics
Foreword Frank Furedi Introduction Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne Part 1: The Moral Context for Parenting 1. 'Where Are the Parents?': Changing Parenting Responsibilities Between the 1960s and the 2010s Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies 2. Building a Stable Environment in Scotland: Planning Parenthood in a Time of Ecological Crisis Katharine Dow 3. Creating Distinction: Middle-Class Viewers of Supernanny in the UK Tracey Jensen…
Creepy,' 'freaky,' and 'strange: How the 'uncanny' can illuminate the experience of single mothers by choice and lesbian couples who buy 'dad
Ethnographic accounts of the kinship practices that emerged in the last few decades with the help of assisted reproductive technologies frequently used the concepts of 'normalization' and 'naturalization' to explain how 'pioneers' of these family forms dealt with their novel experiences. The normalization/naturalization framework, I argue, obscures dimensions of the experiences of single women and lesbian couples who buy 'donor' sperm; I use the …
The Home Pregnancy Test: A Feminist Technology
LindA L
Pregnancy Loss, Stigma, Irony, And Masculinities: Reflections On And Future Directions For Research On Religion In The Global Practice Of Ivf
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women. Susan J. Douglas & Meredith W. Michaels
Pregnancy and infant loss support: A new, feminist, American, patient movement
A Women's Health Model for Pregnancy Loss: A Call for a New Standard of Care
ONE IN FIVE RECOGNIZED PREGNANCIES ends in pregnancy loss. Despite the women's health movement's emphasis on empowering women by making sure they know what they may expect during labor and what their options will be if difficulties arise, no such advances have occurred regarding pregnancy loss. Healthcare providers are doing a bet ter job of assisting women whose pregnancies end in loss once a loss has occurred, especially for later losses, but t…
Unhappy endings: A Feminist Reappraisal of the Women's Health Movement From the Vantage of Pregnancy Loss
The Cultural Fix: An Anthropological Contribution to Science and Technology Studies
Since at least the 1960s, science and technology studies (STS) scholars have distinguished between technological and social fixes. The author introduces a new concept for the STS theoretical tool kit-the cultural fix-and illustrates this concept using examples from her own research on pregnancy loss and neonatal intensive care, as well as that of anthropologists Katherine Newman and Sherry Ortner on downward mobility and unemployment in the Unite…
He was a Real Baby with Baby Things: A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood and Pregnancy Loss
This article explores the ways members of pregnancy loss support groups in the US use material culture to deal with the 'realness problem' of miscarriage, stillbirth, and early infant death. I examine goods purchased or made for the child-to-be during pregnancy; goods given from the child-to-be during the pregnancy; goods given to, or in the memory of, the 'baby' after its death; and things acquired to memorialize the child within the family. Thr…
Fertility, gender, and health: Contributions toward a comparative anthropology of reproduction
Devisch, Rene. Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita GynEcoLogical Healing Cult among the Yaka. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x + 334 pp. including references and index. $19.95 paper. Morsy, Soheir. Gender, Sickness, and Healing in Rural Egypt: Ethnography in Historical Context. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. xiv + 235 pp. including references. no index. $49.50 cloth. Inhorn, Marcia. Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and E…
The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present
Breaking the Silence: An Agenda for a Feminist Discourse of Pregnancy Loss
When we married in February 1985, my husband extracted a promise that I would finish my dissertation before getting pregnant. So full of joyful anticipation and confidence were we that when the date of my oral was set we both began announcing to friends our intention of starting a baby. I defended my dissertation on October 15th and conceived on the 31st. Fifteen days later a home pregnancy test gave us the wished-for confirmation, and we immedia…
The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present by Margaret Marsh, Wanda Ronner
976 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Institute (as a division of the National Institutes ofHealth) and estab lished the National Heart Advisory Council to review grants for re search and training programs (p. 106). Private insurance and Medi care put the specialists’ care within financial reach of the growing population of elderly Americans; at the same time, physicians could take advantage of continuing medical education opportunities, in…
"How's the Baby Doing?" Struggling with Narratives of Progress in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In this at once biographical and autobiographical piece (cf. Shapiro 1988), I describe the processes of "knowledge-making" of one neonatal intensive care parent. In particular, I investigate the ways that narratives of linear progress informed my efforts to understand my son's condition and future prospects, that is, to engage in lay prognostication. In examining and comparing the three metaphors most commonly used to describe my son's changing c…
Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart. Helena RagonÉ
He was a Real Baby with Baby Things: A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood and Pregnancy Loss
This article explores the ways members of pregnancy loss support groups in the US use material culture to deal with the 'realness problem' of miscarriage, stillbirth, and early infant death. I examine goods purchased or made for the child-to-be during pregnancy; goods given from the child-to-be during the pregnancy; goods given to, or in the memory of, the 'baby' after its death; and things acquired to memorialize the child within the family. Thr…
"How's the Baby Doing?" Struggling with Narratives of Progress in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In this at once biographical and autobiographical piece (cf. Shapiro 1988), I describe the processes of "knowledge-making" of one neonatal intensive care parent. In particular, I investigate the ways that narratives of linear progress informed my efforts to understand my son's condition and future prospects, that is, to engage in lay prognostication. In examining and comparing the three metaphors most commonly used to describe my son's changing c…
Unhappy endings: A Feminist Reappraisal of the Women's Health Movement From the Vantage of Pregnancy Loss
Breaking the Silence: An Agenda for a Feminist Discourse of Pregnancy Loss
When we married in February 1985, my husband extracted a promise that I would finish my dissertation before getting pregnant. So full of joyful anticipation and confidence were we that when the date of my oral was set we both began announcing to friends our intention of starting a baby. I defended my dissertation on October 15th and conceived on the 31st. Fifteen days later a home pregnancy test gave us the wished-for confirmation, and we immedia…
The dialogics of tribal self-representation in Jordan
Bedouin tribes have come to symbolize Jordan's national identity. The symbolization of tribes and the tribalism discourse of which it is a part have dialogically influenced tribal self-representations. In response to the denigration of tribal culture by its critics and the appropriation of tribal culture by the State as the keystone of Jordan's national heritage, the tribes of Jordan are reconceiving and reevaluating their culture. Two examples f…
The Home Pregnancy Test: A Feminist Technology
LindA L
Pregnancy and infant loss support: A new, feminist, American, patient movement
The Cultural Fix: An Anthropological Contribution to Science and Technology Studies
Since at least the 1960s, science and technology studies (STS) scholars have distinguished between technological and social fixes. The author introduces a new concept for the STS theoretical tool kit-the cultural fix-and illustrates this concept using examples from her own research on pregnancy loss and neonatal intensive care, as well as that of anthropologists Katherine Newman and Sherry Ortner on downward mobility and unemployment in the Unite…
Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics
Foreword Frank Furedi Introduction Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne Part 1: The Moral Context for Parenting 1. 'Where Are the Parents?': Changing Parenting Responsibilities Between the 1960s and the 2010s Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies 2. Building a Stable Environment in Scotland: Planning Parenthood in a Time of Ecological Crisis Katharine Dow 3. Creating Distinction: Middle-Class Viewers of Supernanny in the UK Tracey Jensen…
Creepy,' 'freaky,' and 'strange: How the 'uncanny' can illuminate the experience of single mothers by choice and lesbian couples who buy 'dad
Ethnographic accounts of the kinship practices that emerged in the last few decades with the help of assisted reproductive technologies frequently used the concepts of 'normalization' and 'naturalization' to explain how 'pioneers' of these family forms dealt with their novel experiences. The normalization/naturalization framework, I argue, obscures dimensions of the experiences of single women and lesbian couples who buy 'donor' sperm; I use the …
Single fathers by choice: Memoirs of getting twins and triplets via transnational gestational surrogacy
A Changing Landscape of Intimacy: The Case of a Single Mother by Choice
American women who purposely undertake motherhood without the involvement of a male partner tend to be beneficiaries of second-wave feminist achievements in the areas of expanded educational and employment opportunities. I draw on an in-depth, longitudinal case study of one such Single Mother by Choice (SMC) to explore how the opportunities she has enjoyed and professional achievements she has attained have shaped her 'intimate landscape.' Intima…
I Have a Fear of Really Screwing It Up: The Fears, Doubts, Anxieties, and Judgments of One American Single Mother by Choice
Since the 1980s, a growing number of American women are choosing to start a family without a male partner. Not only are these women going against the norm, they do so in an era of 'intensive mothering,' which places enormous responsibility on mothers to assure that their children have every possible advantage and judges mothers for the way their children turn out. An intensive case study of one American single mother by choice illuminates a range…
Gay fatherhood via surrogacy: A feminist-health-informed reading of five memoirs
A Women's Health Model for Pregnancy Loss: A Call for a New Standard of Care
ONE IN FIVE RECOGNIZED PREGNANCIES ends in pregnancy loss. Despite the women's health movement's emphasis on empowering women by making sure they know what they may expect during labor and what their options will be if difficulties arise, no such advances have occurred regarding pregnancy loss. Healthcare providers are doing a bet ter job of assisting women whose pregnancies end in loss once a loss has occurred, especially for later losses, but t…
How Things Have Changed: Adoption Memoirs of Second-Generation American and British Gay Dads
Documenting gay dads: Seven documentaries about gay fatherhood in North America
Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart. Helena RagonÉ
Women in Jordan's Workforce
The dialogics of tribal self-representation in Jordan
Bedouin tribes have come to symbolize Jordan's national identity. The symbolization of tribes and the tribalism discourse of which it is a part have dialogically influenced tribal self-representations. In response to the denigration of tribal culture by its critics and the appropriation of tribal culture by the State as the keystone of Jordan's national heritage, the tribes of Jordan are reconceiving and reevaluating their culture. Two examples f…
Muslim Preacher in the Modern World: A Jordanian Case Study in Comparative Perspective . Richard T. Antoun
Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan
In this provocative examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups. Who is a "true" Jordanian? Who is a "true" Bedouin? These questions, according to Layne, are examples of a kind of pigeonholing that has distorted the reality of Jordanian national politics. In developing an alternate approach, she shows that the fluid social ident…
Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart. Helena RagonÉ
"How's the Baby Doing?" Struggling with Narratives of Progress in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In this at once biographical and autobiographical piece (cf. Shapiro 1988), I describe the processes of "knowledge-making" of one neonatal intensive care parent. In particular, I investigate the ways that narratives of linear progress informed my efforts to understand my son's condition and future prospects, that is, to engage in lay prognostication. In examining and comparing the three metaphors most commonly used to describe my son's changing c…
The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present
Breaking the Silence: An Agenda for a Feminist Discourse of Pregnancy Loss
When we married in February 1985, my husband extracted a promise that I would finish my dissertation before getting pregnant. So full of joyful anticipation and confidence were we that when the date of my oral was set we both began announcing to friends our intention of starting a baby. I defended my dissertation on October 15th and conceived on the 31st. Fifteen days later a home pregnancy test gave us the wished-for confirmation, and we immedia…
The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present by Margaret Marsh, Wanda Ronner
976 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Institute (as a division of the National Institutes ofHealth) and estab lished the National Heart Advisory Council to review grants for re search and training programs (p. 106). Private insurance and Medi care put the specialists’ care within financial reach of the growing population of elderly Americans; at the same time, physicians could take advantage of continuing medical education opportunities, in…
Fertility, gender, and health: Contributions toward a comparative anthropology of reproduction
Devisch, Rene. Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita GynEcoLogical Healing Cult among the Yaka. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x + 334 pp. including references and index. $19.95 paper. Morsy, Soheir. Gender, Sickness, and Healing in Rural Egypt: Ethnography in Historical Context. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. xiv + 235 pp. including references. no index. $49.50 cloth. Inhorn, Marcia. Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and E…
The Cultural Fix: An Anthropological Contribution to Science and Technology Studies
Since at least the 1960s, science and technology studies (STS) scholars have distinguished between technological and social fixes. The author introduces a new concept for the STS theoretical tool kit-the cultural fix-and illustrates this concept using examples from her own research on pregnancy loss and neonatal intensive care, as well as that of anthropologists Katherine Newman and Sherry Ortner on downward mobility and unemployment in the Unite…
He was a Real Baby with Baby Things: A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood and Pregnancy Loss
This article explores the ways members of pregnancy loss support groups in the US use material culture to deal with the 'realness problem' of miscarriage, stillbirth, and early infant death. I examine goods purchased or made for the child-to-be during pregnancy; goods given from the child-to-be during the pregnancy; goods given to, or in the memory of, the 'baby' after its death; and things acquired to memorialize the child within the family. Thr…
Unhappy endings: A Feminist Reappraisal of the Women's Health Movement From the Vantage of Pregnancy Loss
Pregnancy Loss, Stigma, Irony, And Masculinities: Reflections On And Future Directions For Research On Religion In The Global Practice Of Ivf
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women. Susan J. Douglas & Meredith W. Michaels
Pregnancy and infant loss support: A new, feminist, American, patient movement
A Women's Health Model for Pregnancy Loss: A Call for a New Standard of Care
ONE IN FIVE RECOGNIZED PREGNANCIES ends in pregnancy loss. Despite the women's health movement's emphasis on empowering women by making sure they know what they may expect during labor and what their options will be if difficulties arise, no such advances have occurred regarding pregnancy loss. Healthcare providers are doing a bet ter job of assisting women whose pregnancies end in loss once a loss has occurred, especially for later losses, but t…
The Home Pregnancy Test: A Feminist Technology
LindA L
Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics
Foreword Frank Furedi Introduction Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne Part 1: The Moral Context for Parenting 1. 'Where Are the Parents?': Changing Parenting Responsibilities Between the 1960s and the 2010s Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies 2. Building a Stable Environment in Scotland: Planning Parenthood in a Time of Ecological Crisis Katharine Dow 3. Creating Distinction: Middle-Class Viewers of Supernanny in the UK Tracey Jensen…
Creepy,' 'freaky,' and 'strange: How the 'uncanny' can illuminate the experience of single mothers by choice and lesbian couples who buy 'dad
Ethnographic accounts of the kinship practices that emerged in the last few decades with the help of assisted reproductive technologies frequently used the concepts of 'normalization' and 'naturalization' to explain how 'pioneers' of these family forms dealt with their novel experiences. The normalization/naturalization framework, I argue, obscures dimensions of the experiences of single women and lesbian couples who buy 'donor' sperm; I use the …
A Changing Landscape of Intimacy: The Case of a Single Mother by Choice
American women who purposely undertake motherhood without the involvement of a male partner tend to be beneficiaries of second-wave feminist achievements in the areas of expanded educational and employment opportunities. I draw on an in-depth, longitudinal case study of one such Single Mother by Choice (SMC) to explore how the opportunities she has enjoyed and professional achievements she has attained have shaped her 'intimate landscape.' Intima…
I Have a Fear of Really Screwing It Up: The Fears, Doubts, Anxieties, and Judgments of One American Single Mother by Choice
Since the 1980s, a growing number of American women are choosing to start a family without a male partner. Not only are these women going against the norm, they do so in an era of 'intensive mothering,' which places enormous responsibility on mothers to assure that their children have every possible advantage and judges mothers for the way their children turn out. An intensive case study of one American single mother by choice illuminates a range…
Documenting gay dads: Seven documentaries about gay fatherhood in North America
Gay fatherhood via surrogacy: A feminist-health-informed reading of five memoirs
Biology and Medicine in the Memoirs of Five North American Gay Dads Who Adopted in the 1990s
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)