Susan L Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan L Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hollins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available
This research can assist policy makers and service planners to determine the population thresholds at which PHC services should be delivered by a resident health worker, to allocate resources and provide services more equitably, and inform consumers about PHC services they can reasonably expect to access in their community. This framework assists in developing a systematic approach to strategies seeking to address existing rural-urban health work…
The Rise and Fall of Civil Unions: Lessons From the Connecticut Legislature's Abandonment of Gay and Lesbian Citizens
On April 20, 2005, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed into law "An Act Concerning Civil Unions" (Public Act No. 05-10, 2005). That Act did two things: First, it afforded to qualifying same-sex couples many of the rights and benefits that the state makes available to married heterosexual couples. Second, it "defended" heterosexual marriage by defining marriage as involving one man and one woman. Although it might seem that the legislature wa…
In Search of a More Perfect Heteroarchy: Vermont, Civil Unions and the Harm of “Separate-but-Equal
This article focuses on the Vermont civil union solution to the state Supreme Court's mandate in Baker v. State (1999). Using non-subordination theory, the author argues that rather than being a legal victory for lesbians and gay men, the Vermont law integrally contributes to the maintenance of an imbalance of power between heterosexuals and lesbians and gays. The article analyzes the rhetorical strategy employed by lawmakers to respond to what t…
Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy . Martin Gilens
The Angry Male and the Passive Female: The Role of Gender and Self-Esteem in Anger Expression
To study the role of self-esteem and gender in anger expression, participants, who were screened for high or low self-esteem, were angered by a confederate. Participants were then given the opportunity to express their anger by administering blasts of white noise to a confederate. Men with low self-esteem exhibited anger-out anger reactions by administering the loudest blasts of white noise, while women with low self-esteem exhibited anger-in ang…
Race, Gender, and Welfare Reform: The Antinatalist Response
To be a woman, poor and fertile, in the United States in the 1990s is to be blamed by politicians and social reformers for an increase in poverty and alleged immorality in society. Poor women, it is said or implied, are bearing children for the purpose of obtaining or supplementing a welfare check. They are sexually out of control and are the cause of their own poverty (Murray, 1994; Wilson, 1995). The proof of their degeneracy and immorality is …
Women, welfare, reform and the preservation of a myth
Lawmakers in states across the nation have passed or are trying to pass welfare reform legislation designed to curb indigent women's fertility. Motivated in part by the widespread but inaccurate notion that chronic poverty is rooted in the dynamics of poor women's pregnancy and child bearing behavior, over a dozen states have selected “caps” on welfare benefits and mandatory birth control as the methods of choice to reform their welfare programs.…
Exchanging Welfare Checks for Wedding Rings: Welfare Reform in New Jersey and Wisconsin
This article discusses the growth in welfare reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, known as Bridefare, that have focused on forcing poor women into traditional marriages to remain eligible for public assistance benefits. It argues that Bridefare perpetuates discriminatory institu tions and subjects poor women to dominance by and economic depen dence on men
From the culture of poverty to the culture of single motherhood: The new poverty paradigm
Women in the United States have long suffered high rates of poverty,yet it was only in the late 1970s that the feminization of was recognized. Instead of using the emerging gender-based theoretical framework to explain women's impoverishment, however, a core of mainstream researchers relied on a familiar male-centered of analysis. Rather than simply grafting women onto the extant paradigm, these scholars instead replaced male with female patholog…
The Immediate Effects of Media Violence on Behavior
The purpose of this paper is to review experimental studies and short‐term field investigations designed to assess the influence of violence in the mass media on aggressive behavior in the viewer. Major trends in research over three decades are examined. We also indicate some possible connections between research on effects of media violence and recent developments in cognitive psychology. The evidence is organized according to the theoretical ex…
The Immediate Effects of Media Violence on Behavior
The purpose of this paper is to review experimental studies and short‐term field investigations designed to assess the influence of violence in the mass media on aggressive behavior in the viewer. Major trends in research over three decades are examined. We also indicate some possible connections between research on effects of media violence and recent developments in cognitive psychology. The evidence is organized according to the theoretical ex…
From the culture of poverty to the culture of single motherhood: The new poverty paradigm
Women in the United States have long suffered high rates of poverty,yet it was only in the late 1970s that the feminization of was recognized. Instead of using the emerging gender-based theoretical framework to explain women's impoverishment, however, a core of mainstream researchers relied on a familiar male-centered of analysis. Rather than simply grafting women onto the extant paradigm, these scholars instead replaced male with female patholog…
Race, Gender, and Welfare Reform: The Antinatalist Response
To be a woman, poor and fertile, in the United States in the 1990s is to be blamed by politicians and social reformers for an increase in poverty and alleged immorality in society. Poor women, it is said or implied, are bearing children for the purpose of obtaining or supplementing a welfare check. They are sexually out of control and are the cause of their own poverty (Murray, 1994; Wilson, 1995). The proof of their degeneracy and immorality is …
Exchanging Welfare Checks for Wedding Rings: Welfare Reform in New Jersey and Wisconsin
This article discusses the growth in welfare reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, known as Bridefare, that have focused on forcing poor women into traditional marriages to remain eligible for public assistance benefits. It argues that Bridefare perpetuates discriminatory institu tions and subjects poor women to dominance by and economic depen dence on men
Women, welfare, reform and the preservation of a myth
Lawmakers in states across the nation have passed or are trying to pass welfare reform legislation designed to curb indigent women's fertility. Motivated in part by the widespread but inaccurate notion that chronic poverty is rooted in the dynamics of poor women's pregnancy and child bearing behavior, over a dozen states have selected “caps” on welfare benefits and mandatory birth control as the methods of choice to reform their welfare programs.…
In Search of a More Perfect Heteroarchy: Vermont, Civil Unions and the Harm of “Separate-but-Equal
This article focuses on the Vermont civil union solution to the state Supreme Court's mandate in Baker v. State (1999). Using non-subordination theory, the author argues that rather than being a legal victory for lesbians and gay men, the Vermont law integrally contributes to the maintenance of an imbalance of power between heterosexuals and lesbians and gays. The article analyzes the rhetorical strategy employed by lawmakers to respond to what t…
The Rise and Fall of Civil Unions: Lessons From the Connecticut Legislature's Abandonment of Gay and Lesbian Citizens
On April 20, 2005, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed into law "An Act Concerning Civil Unions" (Public Act No. 05-10, 2005). That Act did two things: First, it afforded to qualifying same-sex couples many of the rights and benefits that the state makes available to married heterosexual couples. Second, it "defended" heterosexual marriage by defining marriage as involving one man and one woman. Although it might seem that the legislature wa…
The Immediate Effects of Media Violence on Behavior
The purpose of this paper is to review experimental studies and short‐term field investigations designed to assess the influence of violence in the mass media on aggressive behavior in the viewer. Major trends in research over three decades are examined. We also indicate some possible connections between research on effects of media violence and recent developments in cognitive psychology. The evidence is organized according to the theoretical ex…
From the culture of poverty to the culture of single motherhood: The new poverty paradigm
Women in the United States have long suffered high rates of poverty,yet it was only in the late 1970s that the feminization of was recognized. Instead of using the emerging gender-based theoretical framework to explain women's impoverishment, however, a core of mainstream researchers relied on a familiar male-centered of analysis. Rather than simply grafting women onto the extant paradigm, these scholars instead replaced male with female patholog…
Exchanging Welfare Checks for Wedding Rings: Welfare Reform in New Jersey and Wisconsin
This article discusses the growth in welfare reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, known as Bridefare, that have focused on forcing poor women into traditional marriages to remain eligible for public assistance benefits. It argues that Bridefare perpetuates discriminatory institu tions and subjects poor women to dominance by and economic depen dence on men
Women, welfare, reform and the preservation of a myth
Lawmakers in states across the nation have passed or are trying to pass welfare reform legislation designed to curb indigent women's fertility. Motivated in part by the widespread but inaccurate notion that chronic poverty is rooted in the dynamics of poor women's pregnancy and child bearing behavior, over a dozen states have selected “caps” on welfare benefits and mandatory birth control as the methods of choice to reform their welfare programs.…
Race, Gender, and Welfare Reform: The Antinatalist Response
To be a woman, poor and fertile, in the United States in the 1990s is to be blamed by politicians and social reformers for an increase in poverty and alleged immorality in society. Poor women, it is said or implied, are bearing children for the purpose of obtaining or supplementing a welfare check. They are sexually out of control and are the cause of their own poverty (Murray, 1994; Wilson, 1995). The proof of their degeneracy and immorality is …
The Angry Male and the Passive Female: The Role of Gender and Self-Esteem in Anger Expression
To study the role of self-esteem and gender in anger expression, participants, who were screened for high or low self-esteem, were angered by a confederate. Participants were then given the opportunity to express their anger by administering blasts of white noise to a confederate. Men with low self-esteem exhibited anger-out anger reactions by administering the loudest blasts of white noise, while women with low self-esteem exhibited anger-in ang…
Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy . Martin Gilens
In Search of a More Perfect Heteroarchy: Vermont, Civil Unions and the Harm of “Separate-but-Equal
This article focuses on the Vermont civil union solution to the state Supreme Court's mandate in Baker v. State (1999). Using non-subordination theory, the author argues that rather than being a legal victory for lesbians and gay men, the Vermont law integrally contributes to the maintenance of an imbalance of power between heterosexuals and lesbians and gays. The article analyzes the rhetorical strategy employed by lawmakers to respond to what t…
The Rise and Fall of Civil Unions: Lessons From the Connecticut Legislature's Abandonment of Gay and Lesbian Citizens
On April 20, 2005, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed into law "An Act Concerning Civil Unions" (Public Act No. 05-10, 2005). That Act did two things: First, it afforded to qualifying same-sex couples many of the rights and benefits that the state makes available to married heterosexual couples. Second, it "defended" heterosexual marriage by defining marriage as involving one man and one woman. Although it might seem that the legislature wa…
Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available
This research can assist policy makers and service planners to determine the population thresholds at which PHC services should be delivered by a resident health worker, to allocate resources and provide services more equitably, and inform consumers about PHC services they can reasonably expect to access in their community. This framework assists in developing a systematic approach to strategies seeking to address existing rural-urban health work…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Welfare (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works)