Amy Erdman Farrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Erdman Farrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Erdman |
| FAMILY NAME | Farrell |
| SIGNATURE | FARRELL A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dickinson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4083-8938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Camp Fire Girls
Journal Article The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980. By Jennifer Helgren Get access The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980. By Jennifer Helgren (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 372 pp. $30.00). Amy Erdman Farrell Amy Erdman Farrell Dickinson College [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4083-8938 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies
Abigail C. Saguy. What’s Wrong With Fat
As I was reading Abigail Saguy’s book What’s Wrong With Fat?, the New York Times ran a front page article exclaiming that “Poor Children Show a Decline in Obesity Rate.” On the same day (August 7
MARTHA H. VERBRUGGE. Active Bodies
Journal Article Martha H. Verbrugge. Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America. Get access Martha H. Verbrugge. Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xi, 391. $55.00. Amy Erdman Farrell Amy Erdman Farrell Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Teaching Fat Studies
The field of fat studies has undergone tremendous growth in recent years, with colleges now offering courses in this area. The authors' investigation sought to identify and describe courses centered on this topic. Their solicitation of syllabi detected four fat studies courses currently being offered, along with two courses focused on Health at Every Size. Their inquiry also revealed six courses, four from the health sciences, which contain signi…
Searching for a Usable Past Reviews of Eating to Excess
The Narrowing of American Bodies
Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity. By R. Marie Griffith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 323 pages. $55.00 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). In Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity, R. Marie Griffith points out a major irony: in the United States, the practice of Christianity "correlates positively with obesity" (8) at the same time that a burgeoning portion of the Christian self-help best…
At Berkeley in the Sixties
Journal Article At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961–1965 Get access At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961–1965. By Freeman Jo. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xxiii + 358 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.) Amy E. Farrell Amy E. Farrell Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…
Yours in Sisterhood
Yours in Sisterhood
Journal Article Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. By Amy Erdman Farrell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 232 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2424-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4735-6.) Get access Carol Polsgrove Carol Polsgrove Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Iss…
The Dream of a New Social Order
Feminism and the Media
A Social Experiment in Publishing
This article explores the attempt by the editors of Ms. magazine, a feminist, mass-circulation, commercial periodical, to create a nonhierarchical, collective-type organization within the context of the mass-media publishing world. Drawing from interviews with the former editors and writers of Ms., published “Personal Reports,” and the editorial files collected at the Sophia Smith Archives, this article focuses on the tensions that emerged in con…
Desire and Consumption
Feminism and the Media
A Social Experiment in Publishing
This article explores the attempt by the editors of Ms. magazine, a feminist, mass-circulation, commercial periodical, to create a nonhierarchical, collective-type organization within the context of the mass-media publishing world. Drawing from interviews with the former editors and writers of Ms., published “Personal Reports,” and the editorial files collected at the Sophia Smith Archives, this article focuses on the tensions that emerged in con…
A Social Experiment in Publishing
This article explores the attempt by the editors of Ms. magazine, a feminist, mass-circulation, commercial periodical, to create a nonhierarchical, collective-type organization within the context of the mass-media publishing world. Drawing from interviews with the former editors and writers of Ms., published “Personal Reports,” and the editorial files collected at the Sophia Smith Archives, this article focuses on the tensions that emerged in con…
Desire and Consumption
Feminism and the Media
The Dream of a New Social Order
Yours in Sisterhood
Yours in Sisterhood
Journal Article Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. By Amy Erdman Farrell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 232 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2424-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4735-6.) Get access Carol Polsgrove Carol Polsgrove Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Iss…
At Berkeley in the Sixties
Journal Article At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961–1965 Get access At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961–1965. By Freeman Jo. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xxiii + 358 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.) Amy E. Farrell Amy E. Farrell Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…
The Narrowing of American Bodies
Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity. By R. Marie Griffith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 323 pages. $55.00 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). In Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity, R. Marie Griffith points out a major irony: in the United States, the practice of Christianity "correlates positively with obesity" (8) at the same time that a burgeoning portion of the Christian self-help best…
Teaching Fat Studies
The field of fat studies has undergone tremendous growth in recent years, with colleges now offering courses in this area. The authors' investigation sought to identify and describe courses centered on this topic. Their solicitation of syllabi detected four fat studies courses currently being offered, along with two courses focused on Health at Every Size. Their inquiry also revealed six courses, four from the health sciences, which contain signi…
Searching for a Usable Past Reviews of Eating to Excess
MARTHA H. VERBRUGGE. Active Bodies
Journal Article Martha H. Verbrugge. Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America. Get access Martha H. Verbrugge. Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xi, 391. $55.00. Amy Erdman Farrell Amy Erdman Farrell Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Abigail C. Saguy. What’s Wrong With Fat
As I was reading Abigail Saguy’s book What’s Wrong With Fat?, the New York Times ran a front page article exclaiming that “Poor Children Show a Decline in Obesity Rate.” On the same day (August 7
Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies
The Camp Fire Girls
Journal Article The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980. By Jennifer Helgren Get access The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980. By Jennifer Helgren (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 372 pp. $30.00). Amy Erdman Farrell Amy Erdman Farrell Dickinson College [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4083-8938 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Sociology (12 works) · History (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works)