April Herndon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4510501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | April Herndon |
| GIVEN NAMES | April |
| FAMILY NAME | Herndon |
| SIGNATURE | HERNDON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Winona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disability, obesity, and ageing
Mommy Made Me Do It
This article examines current trends in court cases, advice manuals and political campaigns that blame parents, and mothers more specifically, for their child's weight. The article suggests that the current political climate for overweight children and their mothers is harmful in ways often overlooked during discussions of childhood obesity and that in order to truly understand what is best for large children we must earnestly examine what might …
Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement
Since 1990, when Suzanne Kessler published her foundational feminist critique of the modern-day medical treatment of children with intersex, much has changed in intersex politics, practice, and theory. This essay traces some key points of progress and considers in particular the relationship of academic feminism and intersex advocacy; proof of and reasons for success in intersex medical advocacy; and intersex identity politics, especially with re…
Collateral Damage from Friendly Fire
As the war against obesity intensifies in the United States, obesity is frequently portrayed as a problem of class, race, and nationality that has serious economic costs for a nation whose healthcare resources are already limited. The competition for resources has caused not only an economic panic but also a moral panic about who deserves available resources, and obesity has become a flashpoint for discussing concerns about the fiscal and physica…
Disparate But Disabled
This paper explores questions of fat embodiment and how tensions between and among biologically based descriptions of fatness and disability feature in the lives of women. In tracing the medicalization of fatness and disability and exploring important shared experiences of fat women and disabled people, this paper dislodges both fatness and disability from biological moorings and examines them within cultural and political contexts. In particular…
Collateral Damage from Friendly Fire
As the war against obesity intensifies in the United States, obesity is frequently portrayed as a problem of class, race, and nationality that has serious economic costs for a nation whose healthcare resources are already limited. The competition for resources has caused not only an economic panic but also a moral panic about who deserves available resources, and obesity has become a flashpoint for discussing concerns about the fiscal and physica…
Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement
Since 1990, when Suzanne Kessler published her foundational feminist critique of the modern-day medical treatment of children with intersex, much has changed in intersex politics, practice, and theory. This essay traces some key points of progress and considers in particular the relationship of academic feminism and intersex advocacy; proof of and reasons for success in intersex medical advocacy; and intersex identity politics, especially with re…
Mommy Made Me Do It
This article examines current trends in court cases, advice manuals and political campaigns that blame parents, and mothers more specifically, for their child's weight. The article suggests that the current political climate for overweight children and their mothers is harmful in ways often overlooked during discussions of childhood obesity and that in order to truly understand what is best for large children we must earnestly examine what might …
Disparate But Disabled
This paper explores questions of fat embodiment and how tensions between and among biologically based descriptions of fatness and disability feature in the lives of women. In tracing the medicalization of fatness and disability and exploring important shared experiences of fat women and disabled people, this paper dislodges both fatness and disability from biological moorings and examines them within cultural and political contexts. In particular…
Collateral Damage from Friendly Fire
As the war against obesity intensifies in the United States, obesity is frequently portrayed as a problem of class, race, and nationality that has serious economic costs for a nation whose healthcare resources are already limited. The competition for resources has caused not only an economic panic but also a moral panic about who deserves available resources, and obesity has become a flashpoint for discussing concerns about the fiscal and physica…
Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement
Since 1990, when Suzanne Kessler published her foundational feminist critique of the modern-day medical treatment of children with intersex, much has changed in intersex politics, practice, and theory. This essay traces some key points of progress and considers in particular the relationship of academic feminism and intersex advocacy; proof of and reasons for success in intersex medical advocacy; and intersex identity politics, especially with re…
Mommy Made Me Do It
This article examines current trends in court cases, advice manuals and political campaigns that blame parents, and mothers more specifically, for their child's weight. The article suggests that the current political climate for overweight children and their mothers is harmful in ways often overlooked during discussions of childhood obesity and that in order to truly understand what is best for large children we must earnestly examine what might …
Disability, obesity, and ageing
Medicine (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Obesity (3 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)