Jessica Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Kokomo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3480-2370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I have suffered something”: Traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain
In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association revised its definition of trauma in relation to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), enabling the recognition of childbirth as a potentially traumatic event leading to the development of symptoms of PTSD. This article considers clinical definitions of postpartum PTSD in relation to 19th-century case histories of difficult childbirth, and posits that the circumstances of some of these births-particul…
Wilkie Collins in Context
Public health and medical preparedness for mass casualties from the deliberate release of synthetic opioids
The large amounts of opioids and the emergence of increasingly potent illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids circulating in the unregulated drug supply in North America and Europe are fueling not only the ongoing public health crisis of overdose deaths but also raise the risk of another type of disaster: deliberate opioid release with the intention to cause mass harm. Synthetic opioids are highly potent, rapidly acting, can cause fatal ventilat…
“I’ll try violence”: Patterns of Domestic Abuse in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)
Recent years have seen a significant revision and expansion of legal definitions of domestic abuse – in particular the inclusion of forms of abuse beyond physical and sexual violence. Coercive control was criminalised in 2015, and the Domestic Abuse bill, currently passing through parliament, further seeks to expand definitions of controlling behaviour. In a recent study published in the journal Violence Against Women, criminologist Jane Monckton…
Graduate Studies
Many college graduates continue their studies in graduate programs that provide specialized training for the workforce, research, or academic careers. About one quarter of US sociology programs offer graduate degrees. More college graduates than ever are applying to, enrolling in, and matriculating from graduate programs. However, international student enrollments have fallen in recent years due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Sociology graduate progra…
The Unavoidable Technology: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen Nuclear Stability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace—both the technology itself and its applications. It is becoming unavoidable in both the civilian and military domains and will soon impact
The ‘most Sacred of Duties’1: Maternal Ideals and Discourses of Authority in Victorian Breastfeeding Advice
The maternal role and its associated practices were subject to much scrutiny throughout the Victorian period. Whilst motherhood was seen as the natural destiny of the (respectable) woman, mothers were nonetheless deemed in need of strict guidance on how best to raise their offspring. This was offered in an extensive range of advice and conduct books, via newspapers, journals, and fiction, and from medical practitioners, and covered pregnancy, chi…
A Strange Post[Feminist] Moment'? Conflicting Constructions of Femininity in ITV's Lost in Austen (2008)
From Page to Screen: Transforming M. E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
This paper compares Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 1862 novel, Lady Audley's Secret, with Donald Hounam's 2000 TV adaptation of the text. Braddon's novel is a key example of the sensation literature of the 1860s, characterised by the subversion of notions of Victorian domesticity and femininity. Although not overtly feminist, the novel nevertheless raises important questions about the social situation of the nineteenth-century woman, especially through…
The Unavoidable Technology: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen Nuclear Stability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace—both the technology itself and its applications. It is becoming unavoidable in both the civilian and military domains and will soon impact
The ‘most Sacred of Duties’1: Maternal Ideals and Discourses of Authority in Victorian Breastfeeding Advice
The maternal role and its associated practices were subject to much scrutiny throughout the Victorian period. Whilst motherhood was seen as the natural destiny of the (respectable) woman, mothers were nonetheless deemed in need of strict guidance on how best to raise their offspring. This was offered in an extensive range of advice and conduct books, via newspapers, journals, and fiction, and from medical practitioners, and covered pregnancy, chi…
From Page to Screen: Transforming M. E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
This paper compares Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 1862 novel, Lady Audley's Secret, with Donald Hounam's 2000 TV adaptation of the text. Braddon's novel is a key example of the sensation literature of the 1860s, characterised by the subversion of notions of Victorian domesticity and femininity. Although not overtly feminist, the novel nevertheless raises important questions about the social situation of the nineteenth-century woman, especially through…
A Strange Post[Feminist] Moment'? Conflicting Constructions of Femininity in ITV's Lost in Austen (2008)
The ‘most Sacred of Duties’1: Maternal Ideals and Discourses of Authority in Victorian Breastfeeding Advice
The maternal role and its associated practices were subject to much scrutiny throughout the Victorian period. Whilst motherhood was seen as the natural destiny of the (respectable) woman, mothers were nonetheless deemed in need of strict guidance on how best to raise their offspring. This was offered in an extensive range of advice and conduct books, via newspapers, journals, and fiction, and from medical practitioners, and covered pregnancy, chi…
The Unavoidable Technology: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen Nuclear Stability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace—both the technology itself and its applications. It is becoming unavoidable in both the civilian and military domains and will soon impact
“I’ll try violence”: Patterns of Domestic Abuse in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)
Recent years have seen a significant revision and expansion of legal definitions of domestic abuse – in particular the inclusion of forms of abuse beyond physical and sexual violence. Coercive control was criminalised in 2015, and the Domestic Abuse bill, currently passing through parliament, further seeks to expand definitions of controlling behaviour. In a recent study published in the journal Violence Against Women, criminologist Jane Monckton…
Graduate Studies
Many college graduates continue their studies in graduate programs that provide specialized training for the workforce, research, or academic careers. About one quarter of US sociology programs offer graduate degrees. More college graduates than ever are applying to, enrolling in, and matriculating from graduate programs. However, international student enrollments have fallen in recent years due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Sociology graduate progra…
Wilkie Collins in Context
Public health and medical preparedness for mass casualties from the deliberate release of synthetic opioids
The large amounts of opioids and the emergence of increasingly potent illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids circulating in the unregulated drug supply in North America and Europe are fueling not only the ongoing public health crisis of overdose deaths but also raise the risk of another type of disaster: deliberate opioid release with the intention to cause mass harm. Synthetic opioids are highly potent, rapidly acting, can cause fatal ventilat…
I have suffered something”: Traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain
In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association revised its definition of trauma in relation to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), enabling the recognition of childbirth as a potentially traumatic event leading to the development of symptoms of PTSD. This article considers clinical definitions of postpartum PTSD in relation to 19th-century case histories of difficult childbirth, and posits that the circumstances of some of these births-particul…
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Femininity (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)