Susan Merrill Squier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Merrill Squier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Merrill |
| FAMILY NAME | Squier |
| SIGNATURE | SQUIER S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Life Writing and Graphic Narratives
This text is fashioned from an email exchange between the authors during the spring, summer, and fall of 2015. Our aim with this informal, collaborative process was to develop a few of the key principles for discussing graphic narratives as a mode of life writing, especially graphic memoirs relating to illness, disability, and care work, as well as issues of difference more broadly (including gender and sexuality). Thinking through the genres and…
Meditation, Disability, and Identity
Meditation, Disability, and Identity Susan Squier (bio) Since we are all Crips in one way or another, it is well worth learning the truth of what must befall us some day, even if it hasn't already started (it has). Lorenzo Milam, CripZen: A Manual for Survival After all, when all identities are finally included, there will be no identity. Lennard Davis, Bending Over Backwards [C]lassifications should be recognized as the significant site of polit…
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions (review)
The week I read Lennard Davis's Bending Over Backwards, the New Yorker published Gahan Wilson's cartoon, "Gifts for the Cloned Baby." 1 Prompted by the Raëlians's claim, in December 2002, to have cloned a child, the cartoon pictures a plush sheep "Dolly doll," a copy of the beloved children's book Goodnight Moon, a disposable diaper with "double-helix twist ties," and a "crib mobile playing Rick James's 'Superfreak.'" Because I had Davis's book o…
Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies
Biomedicine and biotechnology increasingly draw on marginal forms of living tissue as sources of therapeutic substances. More and more biomedical treatments rely on the collection, storage, transformation, and redistribution of tissues, the development of new kinds of "separable, exchangeable, and reincorporable body parts." 1 Some of these tissues—cancerous cells, placentas, DNA extracted from saliva—are considered marginal, or indeed dangerous,…
Teaching Literature and Medicine (review)
My son used to love the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books. You know the genre: you are reading along when the [End Page 292] book gives you a choice. Do you want the hero to open the door, or should she answer the telephone? If she opens the door, turn next to page 24; if she answers the telephone, turn to page 35. Each choice you make as a reader shapes the adventure story you read. This genre came to mind as I read the landma…
Speaking Women's Bodies: A Conversation
Speaking Women's Bodies: A Conversation" is a reprint of two of visual artist Ann Starr's books of art, along with a conversation between Starr and feminist scholar Susan Squier. The conversation arising from the first book, Where Babies Come From: A Miracle Explained, examines the cultural control and even suppression of female bodily processes and generative power. The discussion of the second book, The Forty-Seventh Thanksgiving, explores a po…
Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of arms and the m…
Lycanthropy: Woolf Studies Now
Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City
To Virginia Woolf, was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote. In a 1928 diary entry, she observed, London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets. The city fascinated Woolf, yet her relationship with it was problematic. In her attempts to resolve her develop…
Virginia Woolf's "The Years": The Evolution of a Novel
Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about Their Work on Women . Carol Ascher , Louise DeSalvo , Sara Ruddick A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental …
Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies
Biomedicine and biotechnology increasingly draw on marginal forms of living tissue as sources of therapeutic substances. More and more biomedical treatments rely on the collection, storage, transformation, and redistribution of tissues, the development of new kinds of "separable, exchangeable, and reincorporable body parts." 1 Some of these tissues—cancerous cells, placentas, DNA extracted from saliva—are considered marginal, or indeed dangerous,…
Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
Life Writing and Graphic Narratives
This text is fashioned from an email exchange between the authors during the spring, summer, and fall of 2015. Our aim with this informal, collaborative process was to develop a few of the key principles for discussing graphic narratives as a mode of life writing, especially graphic memoirs relating to illness, disability, and care work, as well as issues of difference more broadly (including gender and sexuality). Thinking through the genres and…
Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
Virginia Woolf's "The Years": The Evolution of a Novel
Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about Their Work on Women . Carol Ascher , Louise DeSalvo , Sara Ruddick A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental …
Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City
To Virginia Woolf, was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote. In a 1928 diary entry, she observed, London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets. The city fascinated Woolf, yet her relationship with it was problematic. In her attempts to resolve her develop…
Lycanthropy: Woolf Studies Now
Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of arms and the m…
Speaking Women's Bodies: A Conversation
Speaking Women's Bodies: A Conversation" is a reprint of two of visual artist Ann Starr's books of art, along with a conversation between Starr and feminist scholar Susan Squier. The conversation arising from the first book, Where Babies Come From: A Miracle Explained, examines the cultural control and even suppression of female bodily processes and generative power. The discussion of the second book, The Forty-Seventh Thanksgiving, explores a po…
Teaching Literature and Medicine (review)
My son used to love the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books. You know the genre: you are reading along when the [End Page 292] book gives you a choice. Do you want the hero to open the door, or should she answer the telephone? If she opens the door, turn next to page 24; if she answers the telephone, turn to page 35. Each choice you make as a reader shapes the adventure story you read. This genre came to mind as I read the landma…
Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions (review)
The week I read Lennard Davis's Bending Over Backwards, the New Yorker published Gahan Wilson's cartoon, "Gifts for the Cloned Baby." 1 Prompted by the Raëlians's claim, in December 2002, to have cloned a child, the cartoon pictures a plush sheep "Dolly doll," a copy of the beloved children's book Goodnight Moon, a disposable diaper with "double-helix twist ties," and a "crib mobile playing Rick James's 'Superfreak.'" Because I had Davis's book o…
Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies
Biomedicine and biotechnology increasingly draw on marginal forms of living tissue as sources of therapeutic substances. More and more biomedical treatments rely on the collection, storage, transformation, and redistribution of tissues, the development of new kinds of "separable, exchangeable, and reincorporable body parts." 1 Some of these tissues—cancerous cells, placentas, DNA extracted from saliva—are considered marginal, or indeed dangerous,…
Meditation, Disability, and Identity
Meditation, Disability, and Identity Susan Squier (bio) Since we are all Crips in one way or another, it is well worth learning the truth of what must befall us some day, even if it hasn't already started (it has). Lorenzo Milam, CripZen: A Manual for Survival After all, when all identities are finally included, there will be no identity. Lennard Davis, Bending Over Backwards [C]lassifications should be recognized as the significant site of polit…
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Life Writing and Graphic Narratives
This text is fashioned from an email exchange between the authors during the spring, summer, and fall of 2015. Our aim with this informal, collaborative process was to develop a few of the key principles for discussing graphic narratives as a mode of life writing, especially graphic memoirs relating to illness, disability, and care work, as well as issues of difference more broadly (including gender and sexuality). Thinking through the genres and…
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