Emily West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8222-1015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cooking for the Quarters: Enslaved Women and the Labor of Care in the Antebellum South
Women who prepared food for enslaved people, rather than enslavers, have been neglected in historical scholarship. Their labor within the quarters has been marginalized, belittled, and even ignored, because it fell within the remit of gendered care and nurture. In this book, Emily West illustrates how these mostly older women performed vital roles in slaveholding sites, as their enslavers increasingly tried to regulate food distribution, preparat…
Old Age and American Slavery, by David Stefan Doddington
Development of a decision‐support framework to support professionals and promote comfort among older hospital inpatients living with dementia
BACKGROUND: Acute hospital wards can be difficult places for many people living with dementia. Promoting comfort and wellbeing can be challenging in this environment. There is little evidence-based support for professionals working on acute care wards on how to respond to distress and maximise comfort and wellbeing among patients living with dementia. OBJECTIVES: Our overall aim was to codesign an evidence-based easy-to-use heuristic decision-sup…
Acceptability of Using a Decision Aid to Support Family Carers of People With Dementia Towards the End of Life: A Qualitative Study
OBJECTIVES: To explore the experiences, acceptability and utility of a decision aid for family carers of people with dementia towards the end of life. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with a sample of family carers enroled into a 6-month feasibility study in England, sampling to gain a range of experiences and views, based on relationship to person they cared for (e.g., spouse, adult child), age, gender, and self-reported use of t…
Rapid development of a Covid‐19 care planning decision‐aid for family carers of people living with dementia
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 has disproportionately affected people living with dementia and their carers. Its effects on health and social care systems necessitated a rapid-response approach to care planning and decision-making in this population, with reflexivity and responsiveness to changing individual and system needs at its core. Considering this, a decision-aid to help families of persons with dementia was developed. OBJECTIVES: To coproduce wit…
Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet. By Matthew Crain
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Sleeping Giants and indirect boycotts against the far right in United States of America
During the first semester of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic from the new coronavirus, NEAMP PUC-SP (Center for Studies in Art, Media and Politics) began to investigate civil actions around the networks that aims to combat disinformation and hate speech as like: Global Disinformation Index, ISD Global (Institute for Strategic Dialogue), Stop Hate for Profit and Sleeping Giants. Through the analysis of our research around the actions in countri…
A decision aid to support family carers of people living with dementia towards the end‐of‐life: Coproduction process, outcome and reflections
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, by Martha S. Jones
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, by Martha S. Jones Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, by Martha S. Jones (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2018; pp. xix + 248. Pb. £19.99). Emily West Emily West University of Reading [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 576, October 20…
Activism, Advertising, and Far-Right Media: The Case of Sleeping Giants
This study examines the international activist movement known as Sleeping Giants, a social-media “campaign to make bigotry and sexism less profitable” (Sleeping Giants, n.d.). The campaign originated in the US with an anonymous Twitter account that enlisted followers in encouraging brands to pull their online advertising from Breitbart News . The campaign achieved dramatic success and rapidly spread to regions outside the US, with other anonymous…
Amazon: Surveillance as a Service
This essay argues that Amazon, the leading e-commerce platform in many parts of the world, uses surveillance not just as a key tool in the platform logic of its growing constellation of businesses but also increasingly as a service to its consumers. In contrast to prevailing assumptions that platforms will obscure the surveillant aspects of their businesses and that users will resist the intrusive nature of corporate surveillance, Amazon’s busine…
Understanding authenticity in commercial sentiment
The commercial nature of greeting card sentiment lends it a publicness, and that publicness has value to many consumers even for private, emotional communication. As Sue and Victoria argued, commercial sentiments bring a sense of occasion and preparation, and therefore a sense of commitment, to emotional communication. Greeting cards, especially the paper variety rather than electronic greetings, function largely through this "propaganda of the d…
Mothers’ Milk: Slavery, Wet-Nursing, and Black and White Women in the Antebellum South
OF EXPLOITATION, AND under slavery it represented the point at which the exploitation of enslaved women as workers and as reproducers literally intersected.Feeding another woman's child with one's own milk constituted a form of labor, but it was work that could only be undertaken by lactating women who had borne their own children.As a form of exploitation specific to slave mothers, enforced wet-nursing constituted a distinct aspect of enslaved w…
Keep All Thee ‘Til the End”: Reclaiming the Lifeworld for Patients in the Hospice Setting
St Christopher's Hospice, London, was founded to provide specialist care to the incurably ill. We studied the dimensions of difference that set St Christopher's Hospice apart from hospital care of the dying, focusing on physical space and social organization. Material from 1953 to 1980 from the Cicely Saunders Archive was analyzed qualitatively. Through thematic analysis, quotes were found and analyzed using open coding. Five themes were develope…
Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South
Kathleen M. Hilliard has written a unique and engaging book that encourages readers to think about antebellum slavery and relations between slaveholders and slaves in new and different ways. By dra...
Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress
The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture
The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising.\nThe book contains eight sections: â ¢ Historical Perspectives considers the historical roots and their relationship to recent changes of contemporary advertising and promotional practice. â ¢ Political Economy examines how market forces,…
Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
This fascinating and concise book sheds new light on divorce patterns in the antebellum South and the impact of wealth, race, slavery, and legal changes upon people seeking to end their marriages
Gregory D. Smithers. Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Hegemonic Masculinity on the Sidelines of Sport
Nearly a quarter of a century old, the concept of hegemonic masculinity as developed by R. W. Connell remains both influential and contested among gender scholars. In this essay, we use our research on coed cheerleading in the United States as a springboard to explore the bounds and limits of hegemonic masculinity as both cultural script and analytic construct. Cheerleading constitutes a public stage for ‘doing gender’ in ways that highlight norm…
A taste for greeting cards: Distinction within a denigrated cultural form
Greeting cards are a denigrated product category in the USA, and yet consumers use them at high rates across taste formations. Consumers with relatively high cultural capital place a premium on originality in their self-expression, hence greeting cards present a consumption problem because they are a mode of expressing the self through mass-produced means. Based on interviews with 46 women, I show that consumers with higher cultural capital are m…
Expressing the self through greeting card sentiment: Working theories of authentic communication in a commercial form
As mass-produced vehicles of sentiment, greeting cards draw attention to the use of socially constructed codes for communicating, even feeling, emotion. This article describes the results of interviews with 51 greeting card consumers, focusing on what makes greeting cards ‘personal’ for them, despite their mass-produced nature. Consumers negotiate their relationships with pre-printed sentiments differently depending on whether their allegiance is…
Preventing Pregnancy and Improving Health Care Access among Teenagers: An Evaluation of the Children's Aid Society-Carrera Program
This program is one of only four whose evaluation has successfully documented declines in teenage pregnancy using a random-assignment design. Better outcomes among males may be achieved if programs reach them even earlier than their teenage years
Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport
Cheerleading occupies a contested space in American culture and a key point of controversy is whether it ought to be considered a sport. Drawing on interviews with college cheerleaders on coed squads as well as five years of fieldwork in various cheerleading sites, this paper examines the debate over cheerleading and sport in terms of its gender politics. The bid for sport status on the part of cheerleaders revolves around the desire for respect …
Amazon: Surveillance as a Service
This essay argues that Amazon, the leading e-commerce platform in many parts of the world, uses surveillance not just as a key tool in the platform logic of its growing constellation of businesses but also increasingly as a service to its consumers. In contrast to prevailing assumptions that platforms will obscure the surveillant aspects of their businesses and that users will resist the intrusive nature of corporate surveillance, Amazon’s busine…
Hegemonic Masculinity on the Sidelines of Sport
Nearly a quarter of a century old, the concept of hegemonic masculinity as developed by R. W. Connell remains both influential and contested among gender scholars. In this essay, we use our research on coed cheerleading in the United States as a springboard to explore the bounds and limits of hegemonic masculinity as both cultural script and analytic construct. Cheerleading constitutes a public stage for ‘doing gender’ in ways that highlight norm…
Hands on Hips, Smiles on Lips!” Gender, Race, and the Performance of Spirit in Cheerleading
Cheerleading has long been synonymous with “spirit” because of its traditional sideline role in supporting school sports programs. In recent decades, however, cheerleading has become more athletic and competitive—even a sport in its own right. This essay is an ethnographic exploration of the emotional dimensions of cheerleading in light of these changes. We argue that spirit is a regulating but also flexible concept that is deployed in order to m…
Expressing the self through greeting card sentiment: Working theories of authentic communication in a commercial form
As mass-produced vehicles of sentiment, greeting cards draw attention to the use of socially constructed codes for communicating, even feeling, emotion. This article describes the results of interviews with 51 greeting card consumers, focusing on what makes greeting cards ‘personal’ for them, despite their mass-produced nature. Consumers negotiate their relationships with pre-printed sentiments differently depending on whether their allegiance is…
Doing Gender Difference Through Greeting Cards: The construction of a communication gap in marketing and everyday practice
Greeting card communication reflects the highly gendered division of both emotional and domestic labor in US culture. It is generally thought that American men do not take as much responsibility for sending greeting cards as women, or display competence in this mode of communication. Both survey data and field work with greeting card consumers confirm this overall pattern. For many women, greeting card communication is part of a feminized habitus…
A taste for greeting cards: Distinction within a denigrated cultural form
Greeting cards are a denigrated product category in the USA, and yet consumers use them at high rates across taste formations. Consumers with relatively high cultural capital place a premium on originality in their self-expression, hence greeting cards present a consumption problem because they are a mode of expressing the self through mass-produced means. Based on interviews with 46 women, I show that consumers with higher cultural capital are m…
When you care enough to defend the very best: How the greeting card industry manages cultural criticism
The American greeting card industry, in particular industry leader Hallmark Cards, makes substantial efforts to deflect cultural critiques in its communications with the public, demonstrating how culture industries actively manage their negative associations with mass culture as well as the public’s fears of an advancing ‘commodity frontier’. Hallmark frames its cultural production as creative while de-emphasizing its industrial nature, and, when…
Surviving Separation: Cross-Plantation Marriages and the Slave Trade in Antebellum South Carolina
This article assesses the impact of the threat of forced separations on the relationships between slaves in antebellum South Carolina. The majority of slaves had to live under the constant threat, and sometimes the reality, of being separated from their loved ones. It is suggested, however, that through cross-plantation family ties, slaves managed to resist many of the potential threats to family and to marriage viability. Cross-plantation family…
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South
Kathleen M. Hilliard has written a unique and engaging book that encourages readers to think about antebellum slavery and relations between slaveholders and slaves in new and different ways. By dra...
Mediating Citizenship through the Lens of Consumerism: Frames in the American Medicare Reform Debates of 2003–2004
Access to health care is an issue that challenges the imagined boundary between being a ‘consumer’ and being a ‘citizen’. This is especially true in the United States where market-based solutions to providing health care have historically been favored over care organized through government. In the recent debate over how to organize prescription drug coverage for seniors in the United States, stakeholders quoted in the press were more likely to po…
Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina
Mistresses and slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880
A hard fight for we: Women's Transition From Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
The Debate on the Strength of Slave Families: South Carolina and the Importance of Cross-Plantation Marriages
My husband was a slave of de Sloans and didn't get to see me as often as he wanted to, and of course, as de housemaid then, dere was times I couldn't meet him, clandestine like he want me. Us had some grief over dat, but he got a pass twice a week from his marster, Marse Tommie Sloan, to come to see me...Sam was a field hand and drive de wagon way to Charleston once a year wid cotton, and always bring back something pretty for me.George P. Rawick…
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African DisaporaServants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, groundbreaki…
Surviving Separation: Cross-Plantation Marriages and the Slave Trade in Antebellum South Carolina
This article assesses the impact of the threat of forced separations on the relationships between slaves in antebellum South Carolina. The majority of slaves had to live under the constant threat, and sometimes the reality, of being separated from their loved ones. It is suggested, however, that through cross-plantation family ties, slaves managed to resist many of the potential threats to family and to marriage viability. Cross-plantation family…
Preventing Pregnancy and Improving Health Care Access among Teenagers: An Evaluation of the Children's Aid Society-Carrera Program
This program is one of only four whose evaluation has successfully documented declines in teenage pregnancy using a random-assignment design. Better outcomes among males may be achieved if programs reach them even earlier than their teenage years
The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861
Tensions, tempers, and temptations: Marital discord among slaves in antebellum South Carolina
Research into the intimate areas of slaves' lives has proven problematic for historians because the typicality of private sentiments is always hard to establish, and within slave testimony such as the WPA narratives, reference to issues of marital discord, abuse, or adultery is rare. However, the records of slave owners and the disciplinary committees of antebellum biracial churches can prove most fruitful in an investigation into slave marital a…
Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina
Mediating Citizenship through the Lens of Consumerism: Frames in the American Medicare Reform Debates of 2003–2004
Access to health care is an issue that challenges the imagined boundary between being a ‘consumer’ and being a ‘citizen’. This is especially true in the United States where market-based solutions to providing health care have historically been favored over care organized through government. In the recent debate over how to organize prescription drug coverage for seniors in the United States, stakeholders quoted in the press were more likely to po…
Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport
Cheerleading occupies a contested space in American culture and a key point of controversy is whether it ought to be considered a sport. Drawing on interviews with college cheerleaders on coed squads as well as five years of fieldwork in various cheerleading sites, this paper examines the debate over cheerleading and sport in terms of its gender politics. The bid for sport status on the part of cheerleaders revolves around the desire for respect …
When you care enough to defend the very best: How the greeting card industry manages cultural criticism
The American greeting card industry, in particular industry leader Hallmark Cards, makes substantial efforts to deflect cultural critiques in its communications with the public, demonstrating how culture industries actively manage their negative associations with mass culture as well as the public’s fears of an advancing ‘commodity frontier’. Hallmark frames its cultural production as creative while de-emphasizing its industrial nature, and, when…
Mass Producing the Personal: The Greeting Card Industry's Approach to Commercial Sentiment
The greeting card industry manages the challenge of mass-producing images and texts for use in interpersonal communication through both specific production techniques and narratives that “make sense” of this seemingly paradoxical task. The mass production of the personal is negotiated in the processes of writing sentiments and creating designs, as well as in identifying sending situations for cards. At Hallmark, the approach to creating emotional…
Doing Gender Difference Through Greeting Cards: The construction of a communication gap in marketing and everyday practice
Greeting card communication reflects the highly gendered division of both emotional and domestic labor in US culture. It is generally thought that American men do not take as much responsibility for sending greeting cards as women, or display competence in this mode of communication. Both survey data and field work with greeting card consumers confirm this overall pattern. For many women, greeting card communication is part of a feminized habitus…
The Two lives of Sally Miller
by Carol Wilson, New Brunswick, New Jersey and London, Rutgers University Press, 2007, xi, 158pp., $21.95, ISBN: 0-8135-4058-5 Carol Wilson has written a terrific, gripping book which, once started
Gender in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century America
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A taste for greeting cards: Distinction within a denigrated cultural form
Greeting cards are a denigrated product category in the USA, and yet consumers use them at high rates across taste formations. Consumers with relatively high cultural capital place a premium on originality in their self-expression, hence greeting cards present a consumption problem because they are a mode of expressing the self through mass-produced means. Based on interviews with 46 women, I show that consumers with higher cultural capital are m…
Expressing the self through greeting card sentiment: Working theories of authentic communication in a commercial form
As mass-produced vehicles of sentiment, greeting cards draw attention to the use of socially constructed codes for communicating, even feeling, emotion. This article describes the results of interviews with 51 greeting card consumers, focusing on what makes greeting cards ‘personal’ for them, despite their mass-produced nature. Consumers negotiate their relationships with pre-printed sentiments differently depending on whether their allegiance is…
Hands on Hips, Smiles on Lips!” Gender, Race, and the Performance of Spirit in Cheerleading
Cheerleading has long been synonymous with “spirit” because of its traditional sideline role in supporting school sports programs. In recent decades, however, cheerleading has become more athletic and competitive—even a sport in its own right. This essay is an ethnographic exploration of the emotional dimensions of cheerleading in light of these changes. We argue that spirit is a regulating but also flexible concept that is deployed in order to m…
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Hegemonic Masculinity on the Sidelines of Sport
Nearly a quarter of a century old, the concept of hegemonic masculinity as developed by R. W. Connell remains both influential and contested among gender scholars. In this essay, we use our research on coed cheerleading in the United States as a springboard to explore the bounds and limits of hegemonic masculinity as both cultural script and analytic construct. Cheerleading constitutes a public stage for ‘doing gender’ in ways that highlight norm…
The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture
The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising.\nThe book contains eight sections: â ¢ Historical Perspectives considers the historical roots and their relationship to recent changes of contemporary advertising and promotional practice. â ¢ Political Economy examines how market forces,…
Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
This fascinating and concise book sheds new light on divorce patterns in the antebellum South and the impact of wealth, race, slavery, and legal changes upon people seeking to end their marriages
Gregory D. Smithers. Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress
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