Rachel Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3741885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7246-1258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The case for demedicalizing stigma research
Anti-stigma efforts with the goal of increasing treatment are often prioritized over anti-stigma efforts with the goal of improving the sociocultural status of a stigmatized way of being. We argue that a similar phenomenon exists within basic stigma research: research that enables efforts to increase rates of diagnosis and treatment has been prioritized over research that enables efforts to destigmatize. We refer to this as the medicalization of …
Dialogue on difference: Fat liberation in communication
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak's fiction
This article focuses on the reception of Elif Shafak’s fiction as it circulates within the global literary marketplace, examining the responses of secular and religious readerships in English and Turkish. Taking Shafak’s 2010 novel, The Forty Rules of Love, and her 2016 work, Three Daughters of Eve, as case studies, and referring to media and reader reviews of these books, and public commentary by the author, it evaluates the readerly relationshi…
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction
Hassan Blasim’s short stories, featured in his 2009 collection The Madman of Freedom Square, present the horrors – both spectacular and mundane – of the refugee experience. Blasim’s writing, by turns surreal and grotesquely intimate, evokes familiar themes of the Gothic, and his stories are rife with haunted protagonists and monstrous entities. Focusing on three short stories – “The Reality and the Record”, “The Truck to Berlin”, and “Ali’s Bag” …
Representing Anything Limits You, Makes You Smaller’: A Conversation with Ahdaf Soueif and Kamila Shamsie
Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian writer and political commentator. Her fiction includes Aisha (1983), In the Eye of the Sun (1993), and The Map of Love (1999), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker P
An Exploration of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Initiation Among Women Who Inject Drugs
Obesity: The Post Mortem : Reviving History and Dehumanizing Fatness via Televised Dissection
“We recognise the importance of images in education, and while the making and displaying of images (including photographs, films and electronic images) fall outside of the scope of the HT Act, and
Capturing Iraq: Optical Focalization in Contemporary War Cinematography
This essay investigates different registers of embedded and fragmentary focalizations in war cinematography on the Iraq War (2003–11), focusing primarily on The Hurt Locker (2008) and the HBO mini-series Generation Kill (2008), but also addressing American Sniper (2014) and the Abu Ghraib scandal. I argue the “extreme close-up” that focuses almost unilaterally on the men on the ground during the Iraq War implicates a “bigger picture”: a larger fr…
Against progress: Understanding and resisting the temporality of transformational weight loss narratives
Narratives of personal transformation through weight loss, often presented in the form of before-and-after photos, have the power to bend time into a nonlinear structure that glorifies the future at the expense of the past and present. In this article, the author proposes that the temporality created by presenting weight loss as a way to perfect one’s life is actually a manifestation of a larger, progress-driven temporality embedded in Western hi…
Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim perspective: Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam, Shamsie
Following the attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 and, even more recently, the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, there has been an increased call for Muslims to denounce
Anxiety-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions
High- and low-trait socially anxious individuals classified the emotional expressions of photographic quality continua of interpolated ("morphed") facial images that were derived from combining 6 basic prototype emotional expressions to various degrees, with the 2 adjacent emotions arranged in an emotion hexagon. When fear was 1 of the 2 component emotions, the high-trait group displayed enhanced sensitivity for fear. In a 2nd experiment where a …
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction
Hassan Blasim’s short stories, featured in his 2009 collection The Madman of Freedom Square, present the horrors – both spectacular and mundane – of the refugee experience. Blasim’s writing, by turns surreal and grotesquely intimate, evokes familiar themes of the Gothic, and his stories are rife with haunted protagonists and monstrous entities. Focusing on three short stories – “The Reality and the Record”, “The Truck to Berlin”, and “Ali’s Bag” …
An Exploration of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Initiation Among Women Who Inject Drugs
Anxiety-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions
High- and low-trait socially anxious individuals classified the emotional expressions of photographic quality continua of interpolated ("morphed") facial images that were derived from combining 6 basic prototype emotional expressions to various degrees, with the 2 adjacent emotions arranged in an emotion hexagon. When fear was 1 of the 2 component emotions, the high-trait group displayed enhanced sensitivity for fear. In a 2nd experiment where a …
Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim perspective: Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam, Shamsie
Following the attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 and, even more recently, the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, there has been an increased call for Muslims to denounce
Capturing Iraq: Optical Focalization in Contemporary War Cinematography
This essay investigates different registers of embedded and fragmentary focalizations in war cinematography on the Iraq War (2003–11), focusing primarily on The Hurt Locker (2008) and the HBO mini-series Generation Kill (2008), but also addressing American Sniper (2014) and the Abu Ghraib scandal. I argue the “extreme close-up” that focuses almost unilaterally on the men on the ground during the Iraq War implicates a “bigger picture”: a larger fr…
Against progress: Understanding and resisting the temporality of transformational weight loss narratives
Narratives of personal transformation through weight loss, often presented in the form of before-and-after photos, have the power to bend time into a nonlinear structure that glorifies the future at the expense of the past and present. In this article, the author proposes that the temporality created by presenting weight loss as a way to perfect one’s life is actually a manifestation of a larger, progress-driven temporality embedded in Western hi…
Obesity: The Post Mortem : Reviving History and Dehumanizing Fatness via Televised Dissection
“We recognise the importance of images in education, and while the making and displaying of images (including photographs, films and electronic images) fall outside of the scope of the HT Act, and
An Exploration of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Initiation Among Women Who Inject Drugs
Representing Anything Limits You, Makes You Smaller’: A Conversation with Ahdaf Soueif and Kamila Shamsie
Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian writer and political commentator. Her fiction includes Aisha (1983), In the Eye of the Sun (1993), and The Map of Love (1999), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker P
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction
Hassan Blasim’s short stories, featured in his 2009 collection The Madman of Freedom Square, present the horrors – both spectacular and mundane – of the refugee experience. Blasim’s writing, by turns surreal and grotesquely intimate, evokes familiar themes of the Gothic, and his stories are rife with haunted protagonists and monstrous entities. Focusing on three short stories – “The Reality and the Record”, “The Truck to Berlin”, and “Ali’s Bag” …
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak's fiction
This article focuses on the reception of Elif Shafak’s fiction as it circulates within the global literary marketplace, examining the responses of secular and religious readerships in English and Turkish. Taking Shafak’s 2010 novel, The Forty Rules of Love, and her 2016 work, Three Daughters of Eve, as case studies, and referring to media and reader reviews of these books, and public commentary by the author, it evaluates the readerly relationshi…
Dialogue on difference: Fat liberation in communication
The case for demedicalizing stigma research
Anti-stigma efforts with the goal of increasing treatment are often prioritized over anti-stigma efforts with the goal of improving the sociocultural status of a stigmatized way of being. We argue that a similar phenomenon exists within basic stigma research: research that enables efforts to increase rates of diagnosis and treatment has been prioritized over research that enables efforts to destigmatize. We refer to this as the medicalization of …
Art (7 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (3 works)