Rebecca Upton

Biographic Data

ID	732159
NAME	Rebecca Upton
GIVEN NAMES	Rebecca
FAMILY NAME	Upton
SIGNATURE	UPTON R
AFFILIATIONS	DePauw University
ORCID	0000-0001-9482-4374
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	43
TOTAL CITATIONS	44
AUTHOR COUNT	43
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2020
H-INDEX	3

Global Health at the Local Level: Innovative Approaches for Preventing HIV/Aids Among Adolescent Girls in Botswana with Evidence from an Evaluation Study on Perceptions of Cross Generational Sex and E…
Rebecca UptonARTICLESouthern Anthropological Society…2020
Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique by Ramah McKay
Rebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2019
Reviewed by: Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique by Ramah McKay Rebecca L. Upton Ramah McKay, Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 256 pp. Ramah McKay’s Medicine in the Meantime is a provocative and timely addition to the literature on global health and the multiple meanings of medical pluralism in the complex historical terrain of Mozambican health care. In this book,…
The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Open AccessRebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2017
Fat eggs’: Gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/Aids prevention in Botswana
Rebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEGender & Development2010Cited by: 3References: 2
This article examines the response in Botswana to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and some overlooked but key cultural factors that inhibit effective policy implementation. Specifically, this article highlights the importance of gender and fertility as they intersect with ideas of food, fat and social aspects of health in Tswana culture. Using ethnographic methods to understand the role that gender and fertility play in conjunction with Tswana concepts of …
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2008
In Class with bell hooks
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2008
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2008
Thank You! •The Sylvia Forman Prize, 14th Annual Competition
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2008
A Greeting from the New President Cheryl Rodriguez •The AFA Forman Prize and Zora Neale Hurston Travel Grant Support Feminists! •AFA is Celebrating 20 Years as Section
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2007
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2007
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2007
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2007
Heard About Feminism: Some Quotes and Notes that AFA Readers Have Sent In...•On Circumcision•On Being a Feminist in the Field•On Saying the F Word•The Forman Prize
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2007
Horniness as a Social Construction Risako Ota
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2007
From the Outgoing AFA PresidentFlorence E Babb •2007 Forman AwardsCheryl Rodriguez
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2007
Popular Purity? ?Hurston Travel Award
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca Upton, Nathanael LausterARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca Upton, Florence Babb et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca UptonARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessRebecca Upton, Sarah StillmanARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2005
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Open AccessMegan Sinnott, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2005

Infertility Makes You Invisible: Gender, Health and the Negotiation of Fertility in Northern Botswana
Rebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2001Cited by: 16References: 10
Contemporary demographic discourse and population policies in southern Africa tend to focus upon the positive value of low, and ever lowering, total fertility rates. In Botswana, statistics suggest a high rate of extramarital fertility and a rapidly increasing HIV infection rate. While these represent visible problems for demographers and policy makers, infertility ‐ a significant problem for many Batswana ‐ remains 'invisible' in much of demogra…
Maternity and Its Discontents: Getting The Body Back” After Pregnancy
Open AccessRebecca L Upton, Rebecca Upton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography2003Cited by: 11References: 6
This article is an ethnographic look at the importance of control of the female body in contemporary U.S. society. Specifically, this article examines how the idea of “getting the body back” is significant in the lives of postpartum women. The authors highlight how pregnancy signifies a state of being out of control, particularly for women involved in the paid labor force, and the struggle to reassert and literally regain particular identities af…
Women Have No Tribe: Connecting Carework, Gender, and Migration in an Era of HIV/Aids in Botswana
Open AccessRebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEGender & Society2003Cited by: 11References: 3
The country of Botswana currently has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. Government and international aid agencies have undertaken initiatives to address the rapidly growing epidemic, but few measures address the current crisis of care as a key element in that process. In this article, the author uses case study data to highlight how women in Northern Botswana are affected by the increasing burden of caregiving to children who a…
Fat eggs’: Gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/Aids prevention in Botswana
Rebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEGender & Development2010Cited by: 3References: 2
This article examines the response in Botswana to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and some overlooked but key cultural factors that inhibit effective policy implementation. Specifically, this article highlights the importance of gender and fertility as they intersect with ideas of food, fat and social aspects of health in Tswana culture. Using ethnographic methods to understand the role that gender and fertility play in conjunction with Tswana concepts of …
Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem
Open AccessRebecca L Upton, Rebecca UptonARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2003Cited by: 3
Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem. Leith Mullings and Alaka Wali. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. 210 pp., tables, appendix, references, index