L Backstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 40283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Backstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Backstrom |
| SIGNATURE | BACKSTROM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7935-1783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Minority Identity Maintenance and Parenting in a Rural Small Town☆
Although place-based partisanship is well-documented, few scholars explore political polarization within rural communities or how political minorities survive conformity pressures in small towns. Drawing on interviews with 21 parents who reside in a predominantly conservative, rural community in Northern Appalachia, this study uses an identity-based model of culture in action to analyze how political minority parents maintained their identity dur…
Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle-class parents
ObjectiveThis study investigated how middle-class rural parents engaged in status safeguarding in an economically struggling rural community and how the parenting views and practices of rural return migrants impacted the community.BackgroundRural communities seek college-educated returners to offset outmigration. We know little about how returners impact the community, especially if they return to raise children.MethodThis study analyzed intervie…
The Fight against Supergentrification in Aspen
Bonding Family Social Capital and Agency Among Native-Born and Immigrant College Women With Low Parental Financial Support
Using in-depth interviews with 23 immigrant and native-born college women who receive little to no financial support from their parents, this study finds that variation in bonding family social capital shapes how college students perceive financial constraints in their past, present, and future, and how they enact their future plans. Among native-born and immigrant women alike, those with high family social capital tied their motivation to family…
Separate and Unequal? Representations of Sportswomen on espnW’s and ESPN’s Instagram
Based on content analysis of 370 posts featuring sportswomen and 205 posts featuring nonathlete women on ESPN’s and espnW’s Instagram accounts, the authors address whether representations of sportswomen on social media uphold or challenge masculine domination in sports and whether this varies based on the gender of the target audience for each social media account. Catering to a predominantly male audience, ESPN’s Instagram rarely posted about sp…
Shifting the blame frame
Using thematic analysis of 97 Let's Move! speeches that Michelle Obama delivered as part of her anti-obesity campaign in the United States, I examine how parent's agency and children's agency were framed in relation to each other. Drawing on framing theory, I find that parents and children were attributed different temporal dimensions of agency-or no agency at all-in each of Let's Move!'s six parent-child frames
Embodied resocialization at a children's weight loss camp
This paper examines the content and processes of embodied resocialization that occur at a children's weight loss camp. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I provide the children's accounts of their decision to attend camp. In addition to teaching the children to implement body projects through strategic and embodied means, the structured environment at camp allowed for the recalibration of the campers' habits. Social control supported wei…
From the Freak Show to the Living Room
This article examines how cultural representations of deviant bodies vary based on historically informed narratives of bodily stigma. Using content analysis of 40 episodes of reality television programming, I contrast cultural representations of dwarfism and obesity. Over time, dwarfism became constructed as an identity project with the aim of bodily acceptance, whereas obesity became regarded as a body project with the goal of body transformatio…
Women's Negotiation of Cunnilingus in College Hookups and Relationships
Using in-depth interviews with 43 college women who were, on average, 21 years old (SD = 0.79), the authors explored women's attitudes toward and experiences of cunnilingus. The authors found that cunnilingus posed interactional challenges for women, but that these varied by relationship context. Drawing on scripting theory, the authors argue that the sexual scripts available to contemporary American college students assume cunnilingus in relatio…
Women's Negotiation of Cunnilingus in College Hookups and Relationships
Using in-depth interviews with 43 college women who were, on average, 21 years old (SD = 0.79), the authors explored women's attitudes toward and experiences of cunnilingus. The authors found that cunnilingus posed interactional challenges for women, but that these varied by relationship context. Drawing on scripting theory, the authors argue that the sexual scripts available to contemporary American college students assume cunnilingus in relatio…
From the Freak Show to the Living Room
This article examines how cultural representations of deviant bodies vary based on historically informed narratives of bodily stigma. Using content analysis of 40 episodes of reality television programming, I contrast cultural representations of dwarfism and obesity. Over time, dwarfism became constructed as an identity project with the aim of bodily acceptance, whereas obesity became regarded as a body project with the goal of body transformatio…
Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle-class parents
ObjectiveThis study investigated how middle-class rural parents engaged in status safeguarding in an economically struggling rural community and how the parenting views and practices of rural return migrants impacted the community.BackgroundRural communities seek college-educated returners to offset outmigration. We know little about how returners impact the community, especially if they return to raise children.MethodThis study analyzed intervie…
Women's Negotiation of Cunnilingus in College Hookups and Relationships
Using in-depth interviews with 43 college women who were, on average, 21 years old (SD = 0.79), the authors explored women's attitudes toward and experiences of cunnilingus. The authors found that cunnilingus posed interactional challenges for women, but that these varied by relationship context. Drawing on scripting theory, the authors argue that the sexual scripts available to contemporary American college students assume cunnilingus in relatio…
From the Freak Show to the Living Room
This article examines how cultural representations of deviant bodies vary based on historically informed narratives of bodily stigma. Using content analysis of 40 episodes of reality television programming, I contrast cultural representations of dwarfism and obesity. Over time, dwarfism became constructed as an identity project with the aim of bodily acceptance, whereas obesity became regarded as a body project with the goal of body transformatio…
Embodied resocialization at a children's weight loss camp
This paper examines the content and processes of embodied resocialization that occur at a children's weight loss camp. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I provide the children's accounts of their decision to attend camp. In addition to teaching the children to implement body projects through strategic and embodied means, the structured environment at camp allowed for the recalibration of the campers' habits. Social control supported wei…
Shifting the blame frame
Using thematic analysis of 97 Let's Move! speeches that Michelle Obama delivered as part of her anti-obesity campaign in the United States, I examine how parent's agency and children's agency were framed in relation to each other. Drawing on framing theory, I find that parents and children were attributed different temporal dimensions of agency-or no agency at all-in each of Let's Move!'s six parent-child frames
Separate and Unequal? Representations of Sportswomen on espnW’s and ESPN’s Instagram
Based on content analysis of 370 posts featuring sportswomen and 205 posts featuring nonathlete women on ESPN’s and espnW’s Instagram accounts, the authors address whether representations of sportswomen on social media uphold or challenge masculine domination in sports and whether this varies based on the gender of the target audience for each social media account. Catering to a predominantly male audience, ESPN’s Instagram rarely posted about sp…
The Fight against Supergentrification in Aspen
Bonding Family Social Capital and Agency Among Native-Born and Immigrant College Women With Low Parental Financial Support
Using in-depth interviews with 23 immigrant and native-born college women who receive little to no financial support from their parents, this study finds that variation in bonding family social capital shapes how college students perceive financial constraints in their past, present, and future, and how they enact their future plans. Among native-born and immigrant women alike, those with high family social capital tied their motivation to family…
Political Minority Identity Maintenance and Parenting in a Rural Small Town☆
Although place-based partisanship is well-documented, few scholars explore political polarization within rural communities or how political minorities survive conformity pressures in small towns. Drawing on interviews with 21 parents who reside in a predominantly conservative, rural community in Northern Appalachia, this study uses an identity-based model of culture in action to analyze how political minority parents maintained their identity dur…
Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle-class parents
ObjectiveThis study investigated how middle-class rural parents engaged in status safeguarding in an economically struggling rural community and how the parenting views and practices of rural return migrants impacted the community.BackgroundRural communities seek college-educated returners to offset outmigration. We know little about how returners impact the community, especially if they return to raise children.MethodThis study analyzed intervie…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (3 works)