Megan Sweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Sweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweeney |
| SIGNATURE | SWEENEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8665-9679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Contact Zone
"The Contact Zone" Arianne Zwartjes (bio) and Megan Sweeney (bio) introduction An award-winning poet and essayist, Arianne Zwartjes has published numerous essays and books that help to define the contours of autotheory, including her 2022 book, These Dark Skies: Reckoning with Identity, Violence, and Power from Abroad. During the summer of 2023, Feminist Studies Editorial Collective member Megan Sweeney interviewed Zwartjes over Zoom. The followi…
Brutality and its aftermath: Autotheoretical Engagements with Violence
"Brutality and its aftermath":Autotheoretical Engagements with Violence Megan Sweeney (bio) discussing Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2008), Saidiya Hartman explains that the autobiographical dimension of her book enables her to explore her "own formation as a window onto social and historical processes, as an example of them."1 Hartman's description of her book offers a helpful frame for approaching three recent book…
Female sterilization in the life course: Understanding trends and differentials in early sterilization
Socioeconomically disadvantaged women and women of color are more likely than other women both to undergo contraceptive sterilization and to desire sterilization reversal. Although younger age at sterilization is associated with greater likelihood of regre
Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism
Priti Ramamurthy, Attiya Ahmad, Judith Gardiner, Bibiana Obler, Lisa Rofel, Megan Sweeney, Ashwini Tambe, Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Feminism and Capitalism (2021), pp. 479-491
Global Intimacies: China and/in the Global South
Feminist Studies 47, no. 2. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 251 7 preface 8 In recent years, people all over the world have become ever more aware of being drawn into intimate—and unequal—relations with one another, whether through environmental crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic commodity chains, violent conflicts, forced displacements , or political protests and social movements. This special issue features China’s so-called rising…
Reconsidering (in)equality in the use of IUDs in the United States: A closer look across the reproductive life course
Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as the intrauterine device (IUD), have received increased attention for their contraceptive effectiveness and reversibility. Although demographers have long acknowledged the importance of parity and child
The perplexing links between contraceptive sterilization and (dis)advantage in ten low-fertility countries
This study investigated the association between contraceptive sterilization and socio-economic status (measured by educational attainment) in ten countries, using data from the 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth and the 2004-10 Generations and Gender Surveys. The findings confirm that a long-standing association between socio-economic status and sterilization persists in the contemporary United States: female sterilization is associated wit…
The reproductive context of cohabitation in comparative perspective: Contraceptive use in the United States, Spain, and France
BACKGROUND \nDiscussions of cohabitation’s place in family formation regimes frequently emphasize comparisons of reproductive behavior among married versus cohabiting couples. Many argue that the rise in cohabitation may have been fueled by availability of highly effective contraception, but that differences in contraceptive use between married and cohabiting couples should diminish as cohabitation becomes more established. \nOBJECTIVE \nWe ask w…
Who Is Using Long‐Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods? Findings from Nine Low‐Fertility Countries
Certain subgroups of U.S. women may benefit from the reversibility and effectiveness of LARC methods
Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons
Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, this book examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, the book analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books. It outlines the hist…
"Something Rogue": Commensurability, Commodification, Crime, and Justice in Toni Morrison's Later Fiction
Drawing on Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise, and offering a close reading of Love, this essay explores how Toni Morrison's later fiction interrogates conceptions of justice that rely on a logic of commensurability (i.e., punishment equal to the crime, redress adequate to the injury, and benefit corresponding to the desert). Commensurability-based notions of justice risk replicating slavery's logic of commodification, Morrison's fiction suggests, by re…
Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism
Book Review| December 01 2005 Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism Megan Sweeney Megan Sweeney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 864–867. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Ci…
Racial House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Prison Narratives, Narrative Prisons: "Incarcerated Women Reading Gayl Jones's "Eva's Man
ALTHOUGH THE PATHOLOGIZED AND CRIMINALIZED FIGURE of the African American woman haunts public debate about welfare reform, single parent families, and the war on drugs, explicit discussions of black women as agents of crime remain relatively scarce in academic and popu lar narratives. For instance, in a well-known criminology collection called Crime, welfare-dependent African American mothers implicitly represent the source-in James Q Wilson's wo…
Racial House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison'sParadise
Who Is Using Long‐Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods? Findings from Nine Low‐Fertility Countries
Certain subgroups of U.S. women may benefit from the reversibility and effectiveness of LARC methods
The perplexing links between contraceptive sterilization and (dis)advantage in ten low-fertility countries
This study investigated the association between contraceptive sterilization and socio-economic status (measured by educational attainment) in ten countries, using data from the 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth and the 2004-10 Generations and Gender Surveys. The findings confirm that a long-standing association between socio-economic status and sterilization persists in the contemporary United States: female sterilization is associated wit…
The reproductive context of cohabitation in comparative perspective: Contraceptive use in the United States, Spain, and France
BACKGROUND \nDiscussions of cohabitation’s place in family formation regimes frequently emphasize comparisons of reproductive behavior among married versus cohabiting couples. Many argue that the rise in cohabitation may have been fueled by availability of highly effective contraception, but that differences in contraceptive use between married and cohabiting couples should diminish as cohabitation becomes more established. \nOBJECTIVE \nWe ask w…
Reconsidering (in)equality in the use of IUDs in the United States: A closer look across the reproductive life course
Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as the intrauterine device (IUD), have received increased attention for their contraceptive effectiveness and reversibility. Although demographers have long acknowledged the importance of parity and child
Prison Narratives, Narrative Prisons: "Incarcerated Women Reading Gayl Jones's "Eva's Man
ALTHOUGH THE PATHOLOGIZED AND CRIMINALIZED FIGURE of the African American woman haunts public debate about welfare reform, single parent families, and the war on drugs, explicit discussions of black women as agents of crime remain relatively scarce in academic and popu lar narratives. For instance, in a well-known criminology collection called Crime, welfare-dependent African American mothers implicitly represent the source-in James Q Wilson's wo…
Racial House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison'sParadise
Racial House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Prison Narratives, Narrative Prisons: "Incarcerated Women Reading Gayl Jones's "Eva's Man
ALTHOUGH THE PATHOLOGIZED AND CRIMINALIZED FIGURE of the African American woman haunts public debate about welfare reform, single parent families, and the war on drugs, explicit discussions of black women as agents of crime remain relatively scarce in academic and popu lar narratives. For instance, in a well-known criminology collection called Crime, welfare-dependent African American mothers implicitly represent the source-in James Q Wilson's wo…
Racial House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison'sParadise
Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism
Book Review| December 01 2005 Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism Megan Sweeney Megan Sweeney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 864–867. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Ci…
"Something Rogue": Commensurability, Commodification, Crime, and Justice in Toni Morrison's Later Fiction
Drawing on Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise, and offering a close reading of Love, this essay explores how Toni Morrison's later fiction interrogates conceptions of justice that rely on a logic of commensurability (i.e., punishment equal to the crime, redress adequate to the injury, and benefit corresponding to the desert). Commensurability-based notions of justice risk replicating slavery's logic of commodification, Morrison's fiction suggests, by re…
Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons
Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, this book examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, the book analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books. It outlines the hist…
Who Is Using Long‐Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods? Findings from Nine Low‐Fertility Countries
Certain subgroups of U.S. women may benefit from the reversibility and effectiveness of LARC methods
The reproductive context of cohabitation in comparative perspective: Contraceptive use in the United States, Spain, and France
BACKGROUND \nDiscussions of cohabitation’s place in family formation regimes frequently emphasize comparisons of reproductive behavior among married versus cohabiting couples. Many argue that the rise in cohabitation may have been fueled by availability of highly effective contraception, but that differences in contraceptive use between married and cohabiting couples should diminish as cohabitation becomes more established. \nOBJECTIVE \nWe ask w…
The perplexing links between contraceptive sterilization and (dis)advantage in ten low-fertility countries
This study investigated the association between contraceptive sterilization and socio-economic status (measured by educational attainment) in ten countries, using data from the 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth and the 2004-10 Generations and Gender Surveys. The findings confirm that a long-standing association between socio-economic status and sterilization persists in the contemporary United States: female sterilization is associated wit…
Reconsidering (in)equality in the use of IUDs in the United States: A closer look across the reproductive life course
Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as the intrauterine device (IUD), have received increased attention for their contraceptive effectiveness and reversibility. Although demographers have long acknowledged the importance of parity and child
Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism
Priti Ramamurthy, Attiya Ahmad, Judith Gardiner, Bibiana Obler, Lisa Rofel, Megan Sweeney, Ashwini Tambe, Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Feminism and Capitalism (2021), pp. 479-491
Global Intimacies: China and/in the Global South
Feminist Studies 47, no. 2. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 251 7 preface 8 In recent years, people all over the world have become ever more aware of being drawn into intimate—and unequal—relations with one another, whether through environmental crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic commodity chains, violent conflicts, forced displacements , or political protests and social movements. This special issue features China’s so-called rising…
Female sterilization in the life course: Understanding trends and differentials in early sterilization
Socioeconomically disadvantaged women and women of color are more likely than other women both to undergo contraceptive sterilization and to desire sterilization reversal. Although younger age at sterilization is associated with greater likelihood of regre
The Contact Zone
"The Contact Zone" Arianne Zwartjes (bio) and Megan Sweeney (bio) introduction An award-winning poet and essayist, Arianne Zwartjes has published numerous essays and books that help to define the contours of autotheory, including her 2022 book, These Dark Skies: Reckoning with Identity, Violence, and Power from Abroad. During the summer of 2023, Feminist Studies Editorial Collective member Megan Sweeney interviewed Zwartjes over Zoom. The followi…
Brutality and its aftermath: Autotheoretical Engagements with Violence
"Brutality and its aftermath":Autotheoretical Engagements with Violence Megan Sweeney (bio) discussing Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2008), Saidiya Hartman explains that the autobiographical dimension of her book enables her to explore her "own formation as a window onto social and historical processes, as an example of them."1 Hartman's description of her book offers a helpful frame for approaching three recent book…
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