J Chow
Biographic Data
| ID | 45676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Chow |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Chow |
| SIGNATURE | CHOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7245-5264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Good‐natur'd Dick's Gang Rape
This article magnifies a fraught episode in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748) in which a man with cognitive disabilities, Good‐natur'd Dick, is gang raped by two women sex workers. Fanny, the titular woman of pleasure, explicitly identifies the assault as an ‘attack’, and the anecdote reveals the novel's conceptual tensions among consent, gender, and disability. That Fanny's epistle later details Good‐natur'd Dick assaulting Lo…
Games Have Always Been Trans
This essay explores the critical relationships among trans studies, game studies, and the environmental humanities to evaluate trans ecological media. I center two distinct gaming sites: a board game, Wingspan, and a social media phenomenon, Bowsette, based on Nintendo's video game, Super Mario Bros. These media tacitly incorporate tranimality into their ludic matrices. Within Wingspan, trans reproduction (male birds laying eggs) becomes the skel…
Wasted
This collaborative essay takes up three pungent streams of wastewater to address how environments, politics, communities, and power are mediated by liquid waste: urine, feces, and everything else recklessly flushed down toilets, washed down drains, stored in pits, and dumped in the ocean. “Wasted” looks to the multi-scalar worlds of wastewater by centering waste sites and COVID-19 concerns regarding wastewater virality. First, our tour of Santa B…
Succubus Matters
This essay argues that the Gothic succubus pioneers new frameworks for examining female sexuality, sexual violation, and consent in the eighteenth century. M. G. Lewis’s The Monk (1796) reveals the Bleeding Nun as a demonic female ghost that is both sadistic and hypersexualized, especially in her tryst with Don Raymond. The spectrality of the succubus reimagines the displacement of the female body as something both material and ethereal, and in s…
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body
This article investigates two ubiquitous slogans that circulate among gay social media apps: ‘No Fats, No Fems’ and ‘Masc for Masc’. In their recurrence, both offer gendered readings of corporeality and ability, which equate muscled bodies with forms of desirable masculinity. In collecting data from SCRUFF, I document how gay male social media apps generate narrow definitions of masculinity that, like the slogans, uphold physical fitness and comp…
Mare Mortis
Eighteenth‐century queer studies, revisited
This review essays opens with concerns over “crisis” that have spurred widespread panic about the state and future of the humanities. Crisis, I suggest, is the rallying call for new directions in and reinvention of 18th‐century queer studies. By advocating for recuperative histories wherein crisis is a motivational force that pushes 18th‐century queer studies to be further self‐reflexive and intersectional, I examine three potent trends and their…
Snaking into the Gothic
This essay charts the ways late-eighteenth-century Gothic authors repurpose natural histories of snakes to explore how reptile-human encounters are harbingers of queer formations of gender, sexuality, and empire. By looking to M.G. Lewis’s novel The Monk (1796) and his understudied short story “The Anaconda” (1808), as well as S.T. Coleridge’s Christabel (1797–1800), I centre the last five years of the eighteenth century to apprehend the interwov…
Prime Mates
This article investigates the layered nature of animality, maternity and abjection epitomised by Gulliver’s frightening adventures in Brobdingnag. I focus specifically on the maternal force‐feeding that Gulliver is subjected to by the Brobdingnagian monkey, which he describes as ‘the greatest Danger I ever faced in the Kingdom’. The monkey is killed following the episode, which temporarily restores Gulliver’s stalwart sense of self. I contend tha…
Trends in Maternal Morbidity Before and During Pregnancy in California
Objectives. We examined trends in maternal comorbidities in California. Methods. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 1 551 017 California births using state-linked vital statistics and hospital discharge cohort data for 1999, 2002, and 2005. We used International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes to identify the following conditions, some of which were preexisting: maternal hypertension, diabetes, as…
Methods and Challenges of Analyzing Spatial Data for Social Work Problems
Increasingly, social work researchers are interested in examining how "place" and "location" contribute to social problems. Yet, often these researchers do not use the specialized spatial statistical techniques developed to handle the analytic issues faced when conducting ecological analyses. This article explains the importance of these techniques when analyzing spatial data, describes appropriate spatial statistical techniques, provides an illu…
Mexico City and the biogeochemistry of global urbanization
Multiservice Centers in Chinese American Immigrant Communities
This article presents a multiservice center approach to service delivery in three Chinese immigrant communities in the United States. The operation of this approach is characterized by the DECENT (developmental, educational, comprehensive, empowerment, networking, and teamwork) principle. These multiservice centers were found to be successful and well received in meeting the needs of the community. However, the well-being of the immigrant communi…
Differentiating urban neighborhoods
The recent, renewed interest in community-based practice calls for comprehensive service delivery at the local neighborhood level. To attain this goal one must first conduct thorough assessments to gain an understanding of the multifaceted social problems communities confront. Using census and administrative agency records, this study describes a multivariable model for the development of a citywide neighborhood typology. The occurrence rates of …
Multiservice Centers in Chinese American Immigrant Communities
This article presents a multiservice center approach to service delivery in three Chinese immigrant communities in the United States. The operation of this approach is characterized by the DECENT (developmental, educational, comprehensive, empowerment, networking, and teamwork) principle. These multiservice centers were found to be successful and well received in meeting the needs of the community. However, the well-being of the immigrant communi…
Methods and Challenges of Analyzing Spatial Data for Social Work Problems
Increasingly, social work researchers are interested in examining how "place" and "location" contribute to social problems. Yet, often these researchers do not use the specialized spatial statistical techniques developed to handle the analytic issues faced when conducting ecological analyses. This article explains the importance of these techniques when analyzing spatial data, describes appropriate spatial statistical techniques, provides an illu…
Differentiating urban neighborhoods
The recent, renewed interest in community-based practice calls for comprehensive service delivery at the local neighborhood level. To attain this goal one must first conduct thorough assessments to gain an understanding of the multifaceted social problems communities confront. Using census and administrative agency records, this study describes a multivariable model for the development of a citywide neighborhood typology. The occurrence rates of …
Trends in Maternal Morbidity Before and During Pregnancy in California
Objectives. We examined trends in maternal comorbidities in California. Methods. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 1 551 017 California births using state-linked vital statistics and hospital discharge cohort data for 1999, 2002, and 2005. We used International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes to identify the following conditions, some of which were preexisting: maternal hypertension, diabetes, as…
Mare Mortis
Mexico City and the biogeochemistry of global urbanization
Differentiating urban neighborhoods
The recent, renewed interest in community-based practice calls for comprehensive service delivery at the local neighborhood level. To attain this goal one must first conduct thorough assessments to gain an understanding of the multifaceted social problems communities confront. Using census and administrative agency records, this study describes a multivariable model for the development of a citywide neighborhood typology. The occurrence rates of …
Multiservice Centers in Chinese American Immigrant Communities
This article presents a multiservice center approach to service delivery in three Chinese immigrant communities in the United States. The operation of this approach is characterized by the DECENT (developmental, educational, comprehensive, empowerment, networking, and teamwork) principle. These multiservice centers were found to be successful and well received in meeting the needs of the community. However, the well-being of the immigrant communi…
Mexico City and the biogeochemistry of global urbanization
Methods and Challenges of Analyzing Spatial Data for Social Work Problems
Increasingly, social work researchers are interested in examining how "place" and "location" contribute to social problems. Yet, often these researchers do not use the specialized spatial statistical techniques developed to handle the analytic issues faced when conducting ecological analyses. This article explains the importance of these techniques when analyzing spatial data, describes appropriate spatial statistical techniques, provides an illu…
Trends in Maternal Morbidity Before and During Pregnancy in California
Objectives. We examined trends in maternal comorbidities in California. Methods. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 1 551 017 California births using state-linked vital statistics and hospital discharge cohort data for 1999, 2002, and 2005. We used International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes to identify the following conditions, some of which were preexisting: maternal hypertension, diabetes, as…
Prime Mates
This article investigates the layered nature of animality, maternity and abjection epitomised by Gulliver’s frightening adventures in Brobdingnag. I focus specifically on the maternal force‐feeding that Gulliver is subjected to by the Brobdingnagian monkey, which he describes as ‘the greatest Danger I ever faced in the Kingdom’. The monkey is killed following the episode, which temporarily restores Gulliver’s stalwart sense of self. I contend tha…
Eighteenth‐century queer studies, revisited
This review essays opens with concerns over “crisis” that have spurred widespread panic about the state and future of the humanities. Crisis, I suggest, is the rallying call for new directions in and reinvention of 18th‐century queer studies. By advocating for recuperative histories wherein crisis is a motivational force that pushes 18th‐century queer studies to be further self‐reflexive and intersectional, I examine three potent trends and their…
Snaking into the Gothic
This essay charts the ways late-eighteenth-century Gothic authors repurpose natural histories of snakes to explore how reptile-human encounters are harbingers of queer formations of gender, sexuality, and empire. By looking to M.G. Lewis’s novel The Monk (1796) and his understudied short story “The Anaconda” (1808), as well as S.T. Coleridge’s Christabel (1797–1800), I centre the last five years of the eighteenth century to apprehend the interwov…
Wasted
This collaborative essay takes up three pungent streams of wastewater to address how environments, politics, communities, and power are mediated by liquid waste: urine, feces, and everything else recklessly flushed down toilets, washed down drains, stored in pits, and dumped in the ocean. “Wasted” looks to the multi-scalar worlds of wastewater by centering waste sites and COVID-19 concerns regarding wastewater virality. First, our tour of Santa B…
Succubus Matters
This essay argues that the Gothic succubus pioneers new frameworks for examining female sexuality, sexual violation, and consent in the eighteenth century. M. G. Lewis’s The Monk (1796) reveals the Bleeding Nun as a demonic female ghost that is both sadistic and hypersexualized, especially in her tryst with Don Raymond. The spectrality of the succubus reimagines the displacement of the female body as something both material and ethereal, and in s…
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body
This article investigates two ubiquitous slogans that circulate among gay social media apps: ‘No Fats, No Fems’ and ‘Masc for Masc’. In their recurrence, both offer gendered readings of corporeality and ability, which equate muscled bodies with forms of desirable masculinity. In collecting data from SCRUFF, I document how gay male social media apps generate narrow definitions of masculinity that, like the slogans, uphold physical fitness and comp…
Mare Mortis
Games Have Always Been Trans
This essay explores the critical relationships among trans studies, game studies, and the environmental humanities to evaluate trans ecological media. I center two distinct gaming sites: a board game, Wingspan, and a social media phenomenon, Bowsette, based on Nintendo's video game, Super Mario Bros. These media tacitly incorporate tranimality into their ludic matrices. Within Wingspan, trans reproduction (male birds laying eggs) becomes the skel…
Good‐natur'd Dick's Gang Rape
This article magnifies a fraught episode in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748) in which a man with cognitive disabilities, Good‐natur'd Dick, is gang raped by two women sex workers. Fanny, the titular woman of pleasure, explicitly identifies the assault as an ‘attack’, and the anecdote reveals the novel's conceptual tensions among consent, gender, and disability. That Fanny's epistle later details Good‐natur'd Dick assaulting Lo…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (3 works)