Jennifer A Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2768-4188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pornography Use and Sexual Well-Being: Exploring Gender Differences Among Mexican Young Adults
Although pornography use has risen globally, research on its psychological and relational correlates remains centered in Western contexts. This exploratory study examines how pornography use relates to sexual beliefs and behaviors among Mexican young adults, expanding prior research into a Latin American context. Utilizing sexual script theory, which highlights the pathways of sexual learning, often highly gendered in nature, we examined whether …
Personal Beliefs and Professional Realities: A Mixed-Methods Study of Child Sexual Abuse Workers’ Perspectives on Pornography
Digital pornography is pervasive in children’s lives and a significant factor in the cycle of child sexual abuse (CSA). Using a partially mixed-methods design, this study draws primarily on semi-structured interviews with 50 experienced frontline professionals who work with cases of child sexual abuse. This qualitative data are supplemented by survey data, including the Attitudes Toward Pornography Scale, to contextualize patterns in participants…
Child Advocacy Workers’ Accounts of the Connections Between Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse
This study analyzes the perspectives of support providers to survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) on the potential links between pornography and the sexual abuse of children. Drawing from fifty interviews, eight focus group discussions, and post-interview surveys with frontline child advocacy support professionals from various backgrounds and settings, each with at least five years of experience in the field, this paper presents a conceptual mod…
The ties that corporatize: A social network analysis of the career paths of university presidents
Herein, we demonstrate how social network analysis can model potential pathways for corporatization in US higher education by tracing the career histories of presidents (n = 215) from a heterogeneous sample of US colleges and universities. We examine the connections among sectors of higher education in this sample and external organizations like corporations and government agencies in order to describe larger network patterns created by president…
Megan Brown. The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France and the European Community
Pornography Use and Sexual Objectification of Others
Researchers have demonstrated associations between use of pornography and sexual objectification of women. We examine whether self-reported preference for degrading pornography moderated the relation between use frequency and sexual objectification of others. Participants were 1,342 heterosexual women and men residing in the United States. In women and men, pornography use frequency was associated with the sexual objectification of others, even a…
Translating Culture in Global Times: Dialogues
As a way of concluding this thematic issue, we have created a space for our contributors to read each other’s articles and to reflect on the main theme, i.e. translating culture in global times. We invited their response to four questions that we believe are not only central to the aims of the special issue, but also encourage further dialogues on the role of translation in applied linguistics and translation as mission and practice. ... The cont…
A Vision Among Challenges: Lessons About Online Teaching From The First Online Master’s Degree in Digital Sociology
According to data from an American Sociological Association survey, just half of all degree-granting sociology departments in the academic year 2012-2013 offered at least one “distance learning course in sociology” (Spalter-Roth, Van Vooren & Kisielewski, 2013). Two years after this report was released, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Sociology (VCU SOCY) launched the first online master’s of science degree in digital sociology i…
Sung-Eun Choi. Decolonization and the French of Algeria: Bringing the Settler Colony Home
Sung-Eun Choi’s Decolonization and the French of Algeria: Bringing the Settler Colony Home is part of a burgeoning field of Anglophone scholarship on the history of Algeria that seeks to understand the local, regional, and transnational impact of one of the most significant struggles to end colonial rule (Jeffrey James Byrne, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order [2016]; Matthew James Connelly, A Diplomatic Revol…
The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism
The Battle for Algeria offers a new interpretation of the Algerian War (1954-1962) that highlights the social dimensions of the National Liberation Front's winning strategy, specifically its health care and humanitarianism programs, which targeted the local and international arenas and directly contributed to Algerian sovereignty.
New Directions in the History of Medicine in European, Colonial and Transimperial Contexts
In the late 1970s scholars of Europe and its colonies began probing the relationship between medicine and empire. In the decades since, following the cue of Steven Feierman, John Janzen, Megan Vaughan and Randall Packard, the literature has demonstrated that colonial medicine constructed an African ‘other’ and greatly contributed to harmful practices that did not improve the overall health and welfare of the local populations European administrat…
Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations
Mapping the feminist political economy of the online commercial pornography industry: A network approach
The online commercial pornography consists of approximately 4.2 million websites with over 28,000 primarily male users worldwide spending an average of $3000 each second purchasing pornographic material (Ropelato 2007). The development of a robust political economic understanding of the industry is underdeveloped primarily because of methodological limitations faced when studying such a large and amorphous system. The rise of network-based modali…
Impact of Social Capital on Employment and Marriage among Low Income Single Mothers
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA, P. L. 104-93) called primarily on women to achieve two goals: work and/or marriage. For low income single mothers with limited access to capital, the PRWORA presents a quagmire in that the public safety nets previously guaranteed by the policies of the New Deal were abruptly supplanted by policies with obligations that require various forms of capital. Using…
Using Social Network Analysis to Enhance Nonprofit Organizational Research Capacity: A Case Study
As donor agencies become more specific in funding requirements, research that can demonstrate the collaborative efforts of a nonprofit agency with its organizational neighbors and how those efforts pay off in terms of capacity and provision of services is highly useful. Recognizing these benefits, a local funding agency in Virginia commissioned a study to look at the ways in which social network analysis (SNA) can enhance the data resources avail…
Using Gender: The Personal, Interpersonal, and Emotional Strategies of Domestic Labor
Traditional research on domestic labor has conceptualized work done in support of the home as one of the quintessential ways of "doing" gender. New directions in gender and ritual theory raise the possibility that domestic labor may also be about strategy, usefulness and intentions. Through interviews with 24 married couples, I explore the subjective experiences of men and women as they "do" their domestic labor. I find that while husbands and wi…
The Window of Ritual: Seeing the Intentions and Emotions of ‘Doing’ Gender
Pack a more powerful punch' and 'lay the pipe: Erectile Enhancement Discourse as a Body Project for Masculinity
In this article, we analyze erectile enhancement as a postmodern body project that (re)codes hegemonic masculinity through new means. Erectile enhancement Internet ads create a text of masculinity through constructing a crisis of masculinity and selling the solution. The crisis is loss of power, control and the ability to dominate; the solution is a larger and more powerful penis that will give men back their sense of manhood. Although the erecti…
New City Domesticity and the Tenacious Second Shift
Research clearly shows that, in spite of large-scale social and political changes, women still bear the primary responsibility for housework. Research explaining the unequal division of domestic labor produces mixed results. The authors argue that the 'new city' structure of the modern suburbs may be partially responsible for the tenacity of the second shift. The goal of the early suburban movement was to firmly embed women's labor in the private…
Getting by on the Minimum: The Lives of Working Class Women
The Oppression of Women in India
In India, as in all countries around the globe, violence against women occurs daily. Patriarchy plays a role in this violence. For some Indian women, the possibility of violence occurs throughout their lives, especially with changes in marital status. This article discusses several fatal forms of violence that some of the women in India experience. Included in this discussion of violence are the role of women's status, dowry, and the influence of…
The Individual's Place in Culture: Metaphors For Cultural Behaviour
Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist, was extremely interested in the development of thought, language and action. This paper reviews some of his key concepts such as mediation and internalization which he developed to explain the formation of higher psychological functions. These ideas are then complemented by a discussion of recent studies on the processes of metaphoric structuring. Metaphors, as organizing principles, enable both individuals a…
Afforestation, employment and depopulation in the Snowdonia National Park
Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations
The Oppression of Women in India
In India, as in all countries around the globe, violence against women occurs daily. Patriarchy plays a role in this violence. For some Indian women, the possibility of violence occurs throughout their lives, especially with changes in marital status. This article discusses several fatal forms of violence that some of the women in India experience. Included in this discussion of violence are the role of women's status, dowry, and the influence of…
Pack a more powerful punch' and 'lay the pipe: Erectile Enhancement Discourse as a Body Project for Masculinity
In this article, we analyze erectile enhancement as a postmodern body project that (re)codes hegemonic masculinity through new means. Erectile enhancement Internet ads create a text of masculinity through constructing a crisis of masculinity and selling the solution. The crisis is loss of power, control and the ability to dominate; the solution is a larger and more powerful penis that will give men back their sense of manhood. Although the erecti…
Impact of Social Capital on Employment and Marriage among Low Income Single Mothers
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA, P. L. 104-93) called primarily on women to achieve two goals: work and/or marriage. For low income single mothers with limited access to capital, the PRWORA presents a quagmire in that the public safety nets previously guaranteed by the policies of the New Deal were abruptly supplanted by policies with obligations that require various forms of capital. Using…
Mapping the feminist political economy of the online commercial pornography industry: A network approach
The online commercial pornography consists of approximately 4.2 million websites with over 28,000 primarily male users worldwide spending an average of $3000 each second purchasing pornographic material (Ropelato 2007). The development of a robust political economic understanding of the industry is underdeveloped primarily because of methodological limitations faced when studying such a large and amorphous system. The rise of network-based modali…
Using Social Network Analysis to Enhance Nonprofit Organizational Research Capacity: A Case Study
As donor agencies become more specific in funding requirements, research that can demonstrate the collaborative efforts of a nonprofit agency with its organizational neighbors and how those efforts pay off in terms of capacity and provision of services is highly useful. Recognizing these benefits, a local funding agency in Virginia commissioned a study to look at the ways in which social network analysis (SNA) can enhance the data resources avail…
The Window of Ritual: Seeing the Intentions and Emotions of ‘Doing’ Gender
Pornography Use and Sexual Objectification of Others
Researchers have demonstrated associations between use of pornography and sexual objectification of women. We examine whether self-reported preference for degrading pornography moderated the relation between use frequency and sexual objectification of others. Participants were 1,342 heterosexual women and men residing in the United States. In women and men, pornography use frequency was associated with the sexual objectification of others, even a…
New Directions in the History of Medicine in European, Colonial and Transimperial Contexts
In the late 1970s scholars of Europe and its colonies began probing the relationship between medicine and empire. In the decades since, following the cue of Steven Feierman, John Janzen, Megan Vaughan and Randall Packard, the literature has demonstrated that colonial medicine constructed an African ‘other’ and greatly contributed to harmful practices that did not improve the overall health and welfare of the local populations European administrat…
Using Gender: The Personal, Interpersonal, and Emotional Strategies of Domestic Labor
Traditional research on domestic labor has conceptualized work done in support of the home as one of the quintessential ways of "doing" gender. New directions in gender and ritual theory raise the possibility that domestic labor may also be about strategy, usefulness and intentions. Through interviews with 24 married couples, I explore the subjective experiences of men and women as they "do" their domestic labor. I find that while husbands and wi…
New City Domesticity and the Tenacious Second Shift
Research clearly shows that, in spite of large-scale social and political changes, women still bear the primary responsibility for housework. Research explaining the unequal division of domestic labor produces mixed results. The authors argue that the 'new city' structure of the modern suburbs may be partially responsible for the tenacity of the second shift. The goal of the early suburban movement was to firmly embed women's labor in the private…
Afforestation, employment and depopulation in the Snowdonia National Park
Afforestation, employment and depopulation in the Snowdonia National Park
The Individual's Place in Culture: Metaphors For Cultural Behaviour
Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist, was extremely interested in the development of thought, language and action. This paper reviews some of his key concepts such as mediation and internalization which he developed to explain the formation of higher psychological functions. These ideas are then complemented by a discussion of recent studies on the processes of metaphoric structuring. Metaphors, as organizing principles, enable both individuals a…
The Oppression of Women in India
In India, as in all countries around the globe, violence against women occurs daily. Patriarchy plays a role in this violence. For some Indian women, the possibility of violence occurs throughout their lives, especially with changes in marital status. This article discusses several fatal forms of violence that some of the women in India experience. Included in this discussion of violence are the role of women's status, dowry, and the influence of…
Getting by on the Minimum: The Lives of Working Class Women
Pack a more powerful punch' and 'lay the pipe: Erectile Enhancement Discourse as a Body Project for Masculinity
In this article, we analyze erectile enhancement as a postmodern body project that (re)codes hegemonic masculinity through new means. Erectile enhancement Internet ads create a text of masculinity through constructing a crisis of masculinity and selling the solution. The crisis is loss of power, control and the ability to dominate; the solution is a larger and more powerful penis that will give men back their sense of manhood. Although the erecti…
New City Domesticity and the Tenacious Second Shift
Research clearly shows that, in spite of large-scale social and political changes, women still bear the primary responsibility for housework. Research explaining the unequal division of domestic labor produces mixed results. The authors argue that the 'new city' structure of the modern suburbs may be partially responsible for the tenacity of the second shift. The goal of the early suburban movement was to firmly embed women's labor in the private…
The Window of Ritual: Seeing the Intentions and Emotions of ‘Doing’ Gender
Using Social Network Analysis to Enhance Nonprofit Organizational Research Capacity: A Case Study
As donor agencies become more specific in funding requirements, research that can demonstrate the collaborative efforts of a nonprofit agency with its organizational neighbors and how those efforts pay off in terms of capacity and provision of services is highly useful. Recognizing these benefits, a local funding agency in Virginia commissioned a study to look at the ways in which social network analysis (SNA) can enhance the data resources avail…
Using Gender: The Personal, Interpersonal, and Emotional Strategies of Domestic Labor
Traditional research on domestic labor has conceptualized work done in support of the home as one of the quintessential ways of "doing" gender. New directions in gender and ritual theory raise the possibility that domestic labor may also be about strategy, usefulness and intentions. Through interviews with 24 married couples, I explore the subjective experiences of men and women as they "do" their domestic labor. I find that while husbands and wi…
Mapping the feminist political economy of the online commercial pornography industry: A network approach
The online commercial pornography consists of approximately 4.2 million websites with over 28,000 primarily male users worldwide spending an average of $3000 each second purchasing pornographic material (Ropelato 2007). The development of a robust political economic understanding of the industry is underdeveloped primarily because of methodological limitations faced when studying such a large and amorphous system. The rise of network-based modali…
Impact of Social Capital on Employment and Marriage among Low Income Single Mothers
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA, P. L. 104-93) called primarily on women to achieve two goals: work and/or marriage. For low income single mothers with limited access to capital, the PRWORA presents a quagmire in that the public safety nets previously guaranteed by the policies of the New Deal were abruptly supplanted by policies with obligations that require various forms of capital. Using…
The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism
The Battle for Algeria offers a new interpretation of the Algerian War (1954-1962) that highlights the social dimensions of the National Liberation Front's winning strategy, specifically its health care and humanitarianism programs, which targeted the local and international arenas and directly contributed to Algerian sovereignty.
New Directions in the History of Medicine in European, Colonial and Transimperial Contexts
In the late 1970s scholars of Europe and its colonies began probing the relationship between medicine and empire. In the decades since, following the cue of Steven Feierman, John Janzen, Megan Vaughan and Randall Packard, the literature has demonstrated that colonial medicine constructed an African ‘other’ and greatly contributed to harmful practices that did not improve the overall health and welfare of the local populations European administrat…
Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations
Sung-Eun Choi. Decolonization and the French of Algeria: Bringing the Settler Colony Home
Sung-Eun Choi’s Decolonization and the French of Algeria: Bringing the Settler Colony Home is part of a burgeoning field of Anglophone scholarship on the history of Algeria that seeks to understand the local, regional, and transnational impact of one of the most significant struggles to end colonial rule (Jeffrey James Byrne, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order [2016]; Matthew James Connelly, A Diplomatic Revol…
A Vision Among Challenges: Lessons About Online Teaching From The First Online Master’s Degree in Digital Sociology
According to data from an American Sociological Association survey, just half of all degree-granting sociology departments in the academic year 2012-2013 offered at least one “distance learning course in sociology” (Spalter-Roth, Van Vooren & Kisielewski, 2013). Two years after this report was released, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Sociology (VCU SOCY) launched the first online master’s of science degree in digital sociology i…
Translating Culture in Global Times: Dialogues
As a way of concluding this thematic issue, we have created a space for our contributors to read each other’s articles and to reflect on the main theme, i.e. translating culture in global times. We invited their response to four questions that we believe are not only central to the aims of the special issue, but also encourage further dialogues on the role of translation in applied linguistics and translation as mission and practice. ... The cont…
Pornography Use and Sexual Objectification of Others
Researchers have demonstrated associations between use of pornography and sexual objectification of women. We examine whether self-reported preference for degrading pornography moderated the relation between use frequency and sexual objectification of others. Participants were 1,342 heterosexual women and men residing in the United States. In women and men, pornography use frequency was associated with the sexual objectification of others, even a…
Megan Brown. The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France and the European Community
The ties that corporatize: A social network analysis of the career paths of university presidents
Herein, we demonstrate how social network analysis can model potential pathways for corporatization in US higher education by tracing the career histories of presidents (n = 215) from a heterogeneous sample of US colleges and universities. We examine the connections among sectors of higher education in this sample and external organizations like corporations and government agencies in order to describe larger network patterns created by president…
Pornography Use and Sexual Well-Being: Exploring Gender Differences Among Mexican Young Adults
Although pornography use has risen globally, research on its psychological and relational correlates remains centered in Western contexts. This exploratory study examines how pornography use relates to sexual beliefs and behaviors among Mexican young adults, expanding prior research into a Latin American context. Utilizing sexual script theory, which highlights the pathways of sexual learning, often highly gendered in nature, we examined whether …
Personal Beliefs and Professional Realities: A Mixed-Methods Study of Child Sexual Abuse Workers’ Perspectives on Pornography
Digital pornography is pervasive in children’s lives and a significant factor in the cycle of child sexual abuse (CSA). Using a partially mixed-methods design, this study draws primarily on semi-structured interviews with 50 experienced frontline professionals who work with cases of child sexual abuse. This qualitative data are supplemented by survey data, including the Attitudes Toward Pornography Scale, to contextualize patterns in participants…
Child Advocacy Workers’ Accounts of the Connections Between Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse
This study analyzes the perspectives of support providers to survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) on the potential links between pornography and the sexual abuse of children. Drawing from fifty interviews, eight focus group discussions, and post-interview surveys with frontline child advocacy support professionals from various backgrounds and settings, each with at least five years of experience in the field, this paper presents a conceptual mod…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Pornography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)