Barbara Hanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Hanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanson |
| SIGNATURE | HANSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University in Toronto, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social constructions of fatness: Legal proceedings in Canada as a case in point
This article uses reports of cases of Canadian legal processes to explore social constructions of fatness as disability, as well as illness, cultural aesthetic, and blame. The review of cases in Canadian human rights, civil, administrative, and employment law suggests that fatness has been constructed as a disability in Canadian law. This has led to favourable outcomes for fat persons seeking redress for discrimination. Illness, cultural aestheti…
An Implicit Religious Reflex to Mechanism and a Holistic Alternative: Social Theory as a Case in Point
This article looks at how medieval Christian politics and modes of thought have led to a an implicitly religious reflex toward mechanism in social theory. Social theoretical activity of the past 75 years has criticized conceptions of modernity, science, objectivity, and reason as artifacts of European or western thought from the 1500s onwards. Such critiques can be supplemented by looking at the way these ideas grew out of dominant monotheistic C…
Objectivities: Constructivist roots of positivism
Wither Qualitative/Quantitative: Grounds for Methodological Convergence
Questioning the Construction of Maternal Age as a Fertility Problem
The belief that fertility problems derive from maternal age, increasing markedly at 35, reflects social constructions of biology in developed nations. These constructions perpetuate a negative view of female aging. However, research since 1985 can be interpreted to suggest that there is no, or minimal, association between maternal age and problems associated with fertility. Differences in problems between pre- and postmaternal age 35 fertility ca…
Systems theory and the spirit of feminism: Grounds for a Connectiona
General systems theory is compatible with the spirit of feminist thought. The unnecessary association of systems theory with hierarchy and status quo‐oriented proponents has formed a limited impression of what it can offer to feminisms. Looking at a fuller range of systems‐oriented work shows up that, like feminisms, systems theory has been radical in its rejection of traditional ways of analytic thinking. This paper looks at two central feminist…
Social Constructions of Femaleness in Writing about Cancer
This article uses a qualitative content analysis of writing about cancer since 1900, with numeric summaries from Medline/PubMed searches, to propose that there is an implicit reliance in biomedicine on the idea that femaleness is pathological hence carcinogenic. Numeric summaries of rates of use of search terms for men and women and their sexual attributes are a backdrop for text sources that illustrate a greater tendency to see women in sexual t…
Do We Care? Renewing Canada's Commitment to Health
Who's seeing whom: General systems theory and constructivist implications for senile dementia intervention
Dimensions of Job-Family Tension
Wither Qualitative/Quantitative: Grounds for Methodological Convergence
Systems theory and the spirit of feminism: Grounds for a Connectiona
General systems theory is compatible with the spirit of feminist thought. The unnecessary association of systems theory with hierarchy and status quo‐oriented proponents has formed a limited impression of what it can offer to feminisms. Looking at a fuller range of systems‐oriented work shows up that, like feminisms, systems theory has been radical in its rejection of traditional ways of analytic thinking. This paper looks at two central feminist…
Social Constructions of Femaleness in Writing about Cancer
This article uses a qualitative content analysis of writing about cancer since 1900, with numeric summaries from Medline/PubMed searches, to propose that there is an implicit reliance in biomedicine on the idea that femaleness is pathological hence carcinogenic. Numeric summaries of rates of use of search terms for men and women and their sexual attributes are a backdrop for text sources that illustrate a greater tendency to see women in sexual t…
Do We Care? Renewing Canada's Commitment to Health
Who's seeing whom: General systems theory and constructivist implications for senile dementia intervention
Dimensions of Job-Family Tension
Who's seeing whom: General systems theory and constructivist implications for senile dementia intervention
Do We Care? Renewing Canada's Commitment to Health
Systems theory and the spirit of feminism: Grounds for a Connectiona
General systems theory is compatible with the spirit of feminist thought. The unnecessary association of systems theory with hierarchy and status quo‐oriented proponents has formed a limited impression of what it can offer to feminisms. Looking at a fuller range of systems‐oriented work shows up that, like feminisms, systems theory has been radical in its rejection of traditional ways of analytic thinking. This paper looks at two central feminist…
Social Constructions of Femaleness in Writing about Cancer
This article uses a qualitative content analysis of writing about cancer since 1900, with numeric summaries from Medline/PubMed searches, to propose that there is an implicit reliance in biomedicine on the idea that femaleness is pathological hence carcinogenic. Numeric summaries of rates of use of search terms for men and women and their sexual attributes are a backdrop for text sources that illustrate a greater tendency to see women in sexual t…
Questioning the Construction of Maternal Age as a Fertility Problem
The belief that fertility problems derive from maternal age, increasing markedly at 35, reflects social constructions of biology in developed nations. These constructions perpetuate a negative view of female aging. However, research since 1985 can be interpreted to suggest that there is no, or minimal, association between maternal age and problems associated with fertility. Differences in problems between pre- and postmaternal age 35 fertility ca…
Wither Qualitative/Quantitative: Grounds for Methodological Convergence
Objectivities: Constructivist roots of positivism
An Implicit Religious Reflex to Mechanism and a Holistic Alternative: Social Theory as a Case in Point
This article looks at how medieval Christian politics and modes of thought have led to a an implicitly religious reflex toward mechanism in social theory. Social theoretical activity of the past 75 years has criticized conceptions of modernity, science, objectivity, and reason as artifacts of European or western thought from the 1500s onwards. Such critiques can be supplemented by looking at the way these ideas grew out of dominant monotheistic C…
Social constructions of fatness: Legal proceedings in Canada as a case in point
This article uses reports of cases of Canadian legal processes to explore social constructions of fatness as disability, as well as illness, cultural aesthetic, and blame. The review of cases in Canadian human rights, civil, administrative, and employment law suggests that fatness has been constructed as a disability in Canadian law. This has led to favourable outcomes for fat persons seeking redress for discrimination. Illness, cultural aestheti…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)