Elizabeth Reis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Reis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Reis |
| SIGNATURE | REIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9364-2261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: The Effects of Pro-Environmental Behavior, Perceived Behavior Control, Environmental Activism, and Educational Level
Environmental quality is one of the major concerns in contemporary societies. The main goal of this research is to investigate citizens' willingness to pay for environmental quality and whether this propensity differs in line with education level. Structural equation modeling is used to explore the associations between several constructs; specifically, a multigroup analysis is conducted to assess the invariance of two educational level segments. …
Perceptions of the Public Transport Service as a Barrier to the Adoption of Public Transport: A Qualitative Study
This article presents the outcomes of a qualitative study involving users of public transportation in the metropolitan area of Lisbon in order to obtain a deeper understanding of attitudes towards public transport and to explore perceptions of the public transport service. It is important to know what people think and feel about public transport so that strategies can be designed to attract people to public transport. Ethnographic interviews and …
Freezing Eggs and Creating Patients: Moral Risks of Commercialized Fertility
There's no doubt that reproductive technologies can transform lives for the better. Infertile couples and single, lesbian, gay, intersex, and transgender people have the potential to form families in ways that would have been inconceivable years ago. Yet we are concerned about the widespread commercialization of certain egg‐freezing programs, the messages they propagate about motherhood, the way they blur the line between care and experimentation…
Are Physicians Blameworthy for Iatrogenic Harm Resulting from Unnecessary Genital Surgeries
We argue that physicians should, in certain cases, be held accountable by patients and their families for harm caused by "successful" genital surgeries performed for social and aesthetic reasons. We explore the question of physicians' blameworthiness for three types of genital surgeries common in the United States. First, we consider surgeries performed on newborns and toddlers with atypical sex development, or intersex. Second, we discuss routin…
Modelling preferences for nature-based recreation activities
This research contributes to a better understanding of visitors’ preferences and behavioural patterns in national parks and protected areas. A conceptual model is proposed to explain why visitors prefer particular nature- or culture-based activities. It integrates three components – outdoor recreation participation, expectancy-value and environmental attitudes. The New Environmental Paradigm is used to capture environmental attitudes, and the mot…
Methodology to design a Map of Alert for population and housing censuses: The Portuguese case
The Portuguese Population and Housing Census is carried out every 10 years by Statistics Portugal. In the Census 2011, a new tool was developed to assist the Quality Assurance system in order to make the monitoring of fieldwork operations more efficient and thus diminish the uncertainties that could cause coverage error in the results. This tool, named as Map of Alert, presents a three-level typology of alert that ensures advance knowledge of the…
How to deal with heterogeneity among tourism constructs
Culture and Cutting
The two provocative essays in this issue of the Hastings Center Report should stimulate debate not only about female genital cutting, fetal dexamethasone, and clitoral reduction surgery, but also about our fierce commitment to particular cultural norms about the body. Under what conditions may adults irreversibly modify a child's body because they think the change is in her best interest? Certainly, parents who opt for female genital cutting or f…
Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vazquez Garcia, Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960
In Spain, as in other places, the broader social context structured the medico-legal assessment of ‘hermaphrodites’, (a term used historically to describe what we would call today ‘intersex’ or ‘disorders of sex development’). Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García reconstruct this context and analyse how Spanish scientists integrated prevailing medical theories and the cultural and political milieu that was uniquely Spain. Existing resea…
Using Questionnaire Design to Fight Nonresponse Bias in Web Surveys
The technical potential of the Internet offers survey researchers a wide range of possibilities for web surveys in terms of questionnaire design; however, the abuse of technical facilities can detract respondents from cooperating rather than motivating them. Within the web survey methodology literature, many contributions can be found on how to write a ‘‘good’’ questionnaire. The outcomes are however scattered and researchers and practitioners ma…
Bodies in Doubt: An American history of intersex
Protective Factors in the Lives of Bisexual Adolescents in North America
Objectives. We compared protective factors among bisexual adolescents with those of heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, and gay or lesbian adolescents. Methods. We analyzed 6 school-based surveys in Minnesota and British Columbia. Sexual orientation was measured by gender of sexual partners, attraction, or self-labeling. Protective factors included family connectedness, school connectedness, and religious involvement. General linear models, conduc…
Sexual Orientation, Sexual Abuse, and HIV-Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents in the Pacific Northwest
Objectives. We explored HIV risk behaviors, sexual orientation, and sexual abuse among 5 school-based cohorts in Seattle, Wash (SEA95 and SEA99:N=7477 and N=6590), and British Columbia (BC92, BC98, and BC03 [weighted]: N=239975, N=281576, and N=265132). Methods. An HIV risk scale of 7 items assessed risky sexual behaviors and injection drug use. Self-identified sexual orientation included heterosexual, bisexual, gay/lesbian, and, in British Colum…
Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960
Journal Article Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620–1960 Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis assistant professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 2, September 2005, Pages 411–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659273 Published: 01 September 2005
Measuring sexual orientation in adolescent health surveys: Evaluation of eight school-based surveys
Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics
Research Article| January 01 2004 Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 166–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-166 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Confess or Deny? What's a "Witch" to Do
When I teach about the Salem trials, students typically ask two related questions: “why were women accused of witchcraft more often than men?” and “why would a woman confess to witchcraft if she really didn't do it?” This essay attempts to answer both of these questions. But, first, what was a “witch”? For Puritans, a witch was a person who made a pact with the devil, thus giving the devil permission to use her body to harm others and lure them i…
Enchanting Students in the Twenty-First Century
Is there any subject more compelling and intriguing to American students at all age levels than witchcraft, witch-hunting, and especially the Salem witch trials? I have delivered lectures on the subject to varied audiences, including fourth graders, middle and high school students, college undergraduates, religious groups, book clubs, and senior citizens. Each audience has some familiarity, of course, with “witches.” For most, the word “witch” co…
A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America
Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England
Journal Article Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England. By Erik R. Seeman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 263 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-8018-6208-6.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 622–623, https://doi.org/10.23…
Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775
Journal Article Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700–1775. By Rebecca Larson. (New York: Knopf, 1999. x, 399 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-43762-2.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about…
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Protective Factors in the Lives of Bisexual Adolescents in North America
Objectives. We compared protective factors among bisexual adolescents with those of heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, and gay or lesbian adolescents. Methods. We analyzed 6 school-based surveys in Minnesota and British Columbia. Sexual orientation was measured by gender of sexual partners, attraction, or self-labeling. Protective factors included family connectedness, school connectedness, and religious involvement. General linear models, conduc…
Sexual Orientation, Sexual Abuse, and HIV-Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents in the Pacific Northwest
Objectives. We explored HIV risk behaviors, sexual orientation, and sexual abuse among 5 school-based cohorts in Seattle, Wash (SEA95 and SEA99:N=7477 and N=6590), and British Columbia (BC92, BC98, and BC03 [weighted]: N=239975, N=281576, and N=265132). Methods. An HIV risk scale of 7 items assessed risky sexual behaviors and injection drug use. Self-identified sexual orientation included heterosexual, bisexual, gay/lesbian, and, in British Colum…
Using Questionnaire Design to Fight Nonresponse Bias in Web Surveys
The technical potential of the Internet offers survey researchers a wide range of possibilities for web surveys in terms of questionnaire design; however, the abuse of technical facilities can detract respondents from cooperating rather than motivating them. Within the web survey methodology literature, many contributions can be found on how to write a ‘‘good’’ questionnaire. The outcomes are however scattered and researchers and practitioners ma…
Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960
Journal Article Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620–1960 Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis assistant professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 2, September 2005, Pages 411–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659273 Published: 01 September 2005
A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America
Modelling preferences for nature-based recreation activities
This research contributes to a better understanding of visitors’ preferences and behavioural patterns in national parks and protected areas. A conceptual model is proposed to explain why visitors prefer particular nature- or culture-based activities. It integrates three components – outdoor recreation participation, expectancy-value and environmental attitudes. The New Environmental Paradigm is used to capture environmental attitudes, and the mot…
Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775
Journal Article Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700–1775. By Rebecca Larson. (New York: Knopf, 1999. x, 399 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-43762-2.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…
The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England
Puritans regarded the soul as feminine and characterized it as insatiable, as consonant with the supposedly unappeasable nature of women. If historians have noticed the New England Puritans' feminized representation of the soul, they have failed to comment or to accord the matter much significance. Yet such representation is crucial to understanding how the soul could unite with Christ upon regeneration or, alternatively, with the devil through s…
Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics
Research Article| January 01 2004 Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 166–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-166 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: The Effects of Pro-Environmental Behavior, Perceived Behavior Control, Environmental Activism, and Educational Level
Environmental quality is one of the major concerns in contemporary societies. The main goal of this research is to investigate citizens' willingness to pay for environmental quality and whether this propensity differs in line with education level. Structural equation modeling is used to explore the associations between several constructs; specifically, a multigroup analysis is conducted to assess the invariance of two educational level segments. …
Perceptions of the Public Transport Service as a Barrier to the Adoption of Public Transport: A Qualitative Study
This article presents the outcomes of a qualitative study involving users of public transportation in the metropolitan area of Lisbon in order to obtain a deeper understanding of attitudes towards public transport and to explore perceptions of the public transport service. It is important to know what people think and feel about public transport so that strategies can be designed to attract people to public transport. Ethnographic interviews and …
Confess or Deny? What's a "Witch" to Do
When I teach about the Salem trials, students typically ask two related questions: “why were women accused of witchcraft more often than men?” and “why would a woman confess to witchcraft if she really didn't do it?” This essay attempts to answer both of these questions. But, first, what was a “witch”? For Puritans, a witch was a person who made a pact with the devil, thus giving the devil permission to use her body to harm others and lure them i…
Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession
Journal Article Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession. By Robert C. Fuller. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. viii, 232 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-508244-3.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 195–196, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952752 Published…
The AFL, the IWW and Bay Area Cannery Workers
Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England
Puritans regarded the soul as feminine and characterized it as insatiable, as consonant with the supposedly unappeasable nature of women. If historians have noticed the New England Puritans' feminized representation of the soul, they have failed to comment or to accord the matter much significance. Yet such representation is crucial to understanding how the soul could unite with Christ upon regeneration or, alternatively, with the devil through s…
The Saving Remnant: Religion and the Settling of New England
Journal Article The Saving Remnant: Religion and the Settling of New England. By Cedric B. Cowing. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. vin, 351 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02138-X. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 0-252-06440-2.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1…
Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession
Journal Article Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession. By Robert C. Fuller. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. viii, 232 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-508244-3.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 195–196, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952752 Published…
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Introduction: Puritan Women and the Discourse of Depravity 1. Women's Sinful Natures and Men's Natural Sins2. Popular and Ministerial Visions of Satan3. The Devil, the Body, and the Female Soul4. Gender and the meanings of confession5. Satan DispossessedEpilogue: Gender, Faith, and Young Goodman BrownIndex
The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History
Journal Article The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History. By Peter Charles Hoffer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xii, 165 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0858-3. Paper, $10.95, ISBN 0-7006-0859-1.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 652–653, htt…
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about…
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Journal Article Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. By Elizabeth Reis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xxii, 212 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-2834-3.) Get access Ruth Bloch Ruth Bloch University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1325–1326, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568632 Publ…
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775
Journal Article Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700–1775. By Rebecca Larson. (New York: Knopf, 1999. x, 399 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-43762-2.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…
Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England
Journal Article Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England. By Erik R. Seeman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 263 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-8018-6208-6.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 622–623, https://doi.org/10.23…
A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America
Confess or Deny? What's a "Witch" to Do
When I teach about the Salem trials, students typically ask two related questions: “why were women accused of witchcraft more often than men?” and “why would a woman confess to witchcraft if she really didn't do it?” This essay attempts to answer both of these questions. But, first, what was a “witch”? For Puritans, a witch was a person who made a pact with the devil, thus giving the devil permission to use her body to harm others and lure them i…
Enchanting Students in the Twenty-First Century
Is there any subject more compelling and intriguing to American students at all age levels than witchcraft, witch-hunting, and especially the Salem witch trials? I have delivered lectures on the subject to varied audiences, including fourth graders, middle and high school students, college undergraduates, religious groups, book clubs, and senior citizens. Each audience has some familiarity, of course, with “witches.” For most, the word “witch” co…
Measuring sexual orientation in adolescent health surveys: Evaluation of eight school-based surveys
Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics
Research Article| January 01 2004 Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 166–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-166 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960
Journal Article Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620–1960 Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis assistant professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 2, September 2005, Pages 411–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659273 Published: 01 September 2005
Sexual Orientation, Sexual Abuse, and HIV-Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents in the Pacific Northwest
Objectives. We explored HIV risk behaviors, sexual orientation, and sexual abuse among 5 school-based cohorts in Seattle, Wash (SEA95 and SEA99:N=7477 and N=6590), and British Columbia (BC92, BC98, and BC03 [weighted]: N=239975, N=281576, and N=265132). Methods. An HIV risk scale of 7 items assessed risky sexual behaviors and injection drug use. Self-identified sexual orientation included heterosexual, bisexual, gay/lesbian, and, in British Colum…
Bodies in Doubt: An American history of intersex
Protective Factors in the Lives of Bisexual Adolescents in North America
Objectives. We compared protective factors among bisexual adolescents with those of heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, and gay or lesbian adolescents. Methods. We analyzed 6 school-based surveys in Minnesota and British Columbia. Sexual orientation was measured by gender of sexual partners, attraction, or self-labeling. Protective factors included family connectedness, school connectedness, and religious involvement. General linear models, conduc…
Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vazquez Garcia, Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960
In Spain, as in other places, the broader social context structured the medico-legal assessment of ‘hermaphrodites’, (a term used historically to describe what we would call today ‘intersex’ or ‘disorders of sex development’). Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García reconstruct this context and analyse how Spanish scientists integrated prevailing medical theories and the cultural and political milieu that was uniquely Spain. Existing resea…
Using Questionnaire Design to Fight Nonresponse Bias in Web Surveys
The technical potential of the Internet offers survey researchers a wide range of possibilities for web surveys in terms of questionnaire design; however, the abuse of technical facilities can detract respondents from cooperating rather than motivating them. Within the web survey methodology literature, many contributions can be found on how to write a ‘‘good’’ questionnaire. The outcomes are however scattered and researchers and practitioners ma…
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