Jennifer Terry
Biographic Data
| ID | 879453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Terry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Terry |
| SIGNATURE | TERRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6843-7116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflective thinking predicts disbelief in God across 19 countries
In the present study, we tested three hypotheses about relationships between reflective thinking, intuitive thinking (both measured using the Cognitive Reflection Test; CRT), and belief in God or gods (BiG) in university students across 19 culturally and geographically diverse countries ( n = 7,771). In support of our first hypothesis, we found a negative relationship between reflective thinking and BiG; and in support of our second hypothesis, w…
Scopes, Specula, the Speculative: Histories of Medical Experimentation and Looking in African American Art and Fiction
This article traces a speculative and critical engagement with histories of health care disparity and medical exploitation shared across fictions by Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, and the artwork of Ellen Gallagher. It argues that insistent returns to racialized experimentation and scientific modes of looking form a significant interrogation of a wider set of US promises and attritions. Specifically, it asks how postwar African American culture…
Introduction: Domestication of War
This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which the relationship between home and militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant and growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address the militarization of everyday life by attending to domesticity and practices of domestication. We grapple with how the home naturalizes and becomes a catalyst for militarism: How do ordinary and domestic objects, techno…
‘It was a departure of sorts’: Glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah
This article takes off from two of the angles of contention found in critical responses to Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and subsequent Atlanticist studies: asymmetries and exclusions along gender lines, and insufficient attention to the dynamics of contemporary global capital. It examines what gets articulated when recent African short fiction is approached via a frame centered on the location of home, gendered labour, sexual and reproductive…
Niños por la causa
This article argues that children were central to the United Farm Workers’ (UFW) social justice appeal in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As marginalized laborers and a vulnerable group in need of protection, child farmworkers were emblematic of the movement’s aspirations. As agents of protest and activism, both farmworker and non-farmworker children were key to its advancement. Additionally, the article highlights the many ways that the UFW shap…
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms
Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The ‘Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Teaching’ (FORRT) community presents a crowdsourced glossary of open scholarship terms to facilitate education and effective communication between experts and newcomers
Betsy Wood, Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism
Review of: Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism, by Betsy Wood
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
This piece was written collaboratively as a response to the bombing of sites in Afghanistan in September 2001 as the United States began to retaliate for Al-Queda attacks on U.S. targets. Anticipating the invasion and occupation of Iraq and a broader, globalized “War on Terror,” the authors wanted to offer an antiracist, antinationalist feminist analysis that insisted recognizing the importance of histories of colonialism and empire in the struct…
Peer support groups for parent-carers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: The importance of solidarity as care
Parent-carers of children with complex needs often lead lives impacted by challenging constellations of disadvantage and can become enmeshed in complex and contradictory tapestries of care structures and relations. Against a backdrop of financial austerity and under-resourced or exclusionary service practices, peer support groups may become increasingly important and confer valuable benefits not available elsewhere. This article focuses on one su…
Time Lapse and Time Capsules: The Chronopolitics of Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction
What is learned when questions of temporality, of relations with the past, and of forms of anticipating the future are pressed in analysis of narrative fiction? In the novels of Octavia E. Butler
Building spaces for controversial public engagement – Exploring and challenging democratic deficits in NHS marketization
The Brighton Citizen's Health Services Survey (BCHSS) was developed to explore and potentially challenge how knowledge is used and by whom in the production of local health commissioning institutions and relations. Through the creation of an ‘animating set of questions’, it sought to open up spaces through which to make visible some of the ways of knowing and valuing the NHS and health services that had been minimised through the commensuration p…
Black intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century
Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought. Markers of identity are too often isolated and presented as definitive, then examined and theorised, a process that further naturalises their absoluteness; thus socially generated constructs become socialising categories that assume coercive power. The resulting s…
When the sea of living memory has receded”: Cultural memory and literary narratives of the Middle Passage
This article considers the emergence of the slave Middle Passage between Africa and the Americas as a pervasive topic and figure in modern black diasporic literature. It explores representation of the Atlantic crossing alongside broader questions about the formation and mutation of group identity based on understandings and constructions of a shared past. Three textual examples, taken from the work of David Dabydeen, John Edgar Wideman, and Toni …
Breathing the Air of a World So New: Rewriting the Landscape of America in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
This article explores Toni Morrison's preoccupation with, and reimagining of, the landscape of the so-called New World. Drawing on scholarship that has investigated dominant discourses about freedom, bounty, and possibility located within the Americas, it identifies various counternarratives in Morrison's fiction, tracing these through the earlier Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), and Beloved (1987), but primarily arguing for their central…
Significant Injury: War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case
what it is to give birth, and basically I don't know what it is to have a child.All that I know is that I have a baby.She is my daughter.She is two years old.I talk to her every day.She says, 'Mommy,' because she sees pictures of me, but I don't know.I don't know" ("Doctors Scramble" 2006)."I only know I am married because of my wedding band" ("Claudia Carreon" 2006)."The notes and the pictures, those are my memory.When I look back, that's how I …
The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American liter…
Buried perspectives: Narratives of landscape in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
In examining representations of engagements with the North American landscape in the fiction of Toni Morrison, this article seeks to explore the author’s revision of dominant discourses about the topography and symbolic spaces of the continent and her exposure thereby of historical structures of power. Focusing on her fourth novel, Song of Solomon (1977), it traces how Morrison attempts to give voice to African American experience and identity an…
Race and Form: Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography (review)
New Technologies of Race
On 18 July 1950 the New York Times announced "No Scientific Basis for Race Bias Found by World Panel\nof Experts." The article reported on the findings of a distinguished group of scientists, working under the\nauspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), who had\nreached a consensus that there "was no scientific justification for race discrimination."
Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life
Reading Toni Morrison Critically
This article offers an overview of the contemporary novelist Toni Morrison's literary career and of the critical response to her fiction. It also considers recent shifts in American and African American studies that allow for intersections with postcolonial studies and transatlanticist approaches. Finally, questions are raised regarding future directions in our reading of black U.S. literature
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and the Place of Homosexuality in Modern Society
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Journal Article An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. By Jennifer Terry. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv, 537 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-226-79366-4. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-226-79367-2.) Get access Diana E. Long Diana E. Long University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, …
Por uma prática feminista transnacional contra a guerra
"Unnatural Acts" in Nature
Research Article| April 01 2000 "UNNATURAL ACTS" IN NATURE: The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals Jennifer Terry Jennifer Terry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2000) 6 (2): 151–193. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6-2-151 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Terry; "UNNATURAL ACTS" IN NATURE: The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals…
Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture
Unraveling the complex relationships between so-called deviant behavior and the bodies of the socially marginalized
"Unnatural Acts" in Nature
Research Article| April 01 2000 "UNNATURAL ACTS" IN NATURE: The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals Jennifer Terry Jennifer Terry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2000) 6 (2): 151–193. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6-2-151 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Terry; "UNNATURAL ACTS" IN NATURE: The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals…
Significant Injury: War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case
what it is to give birth, and basically I don't know what it is to have a child.All that I know is that I have a baby.She is my daughter.She is two years old.I talk to her every day.She says, 'Mommy,' because she sees pictures of me, but I don't know.I don't know" ("Doctors Scramble" 2006)."I only know I am married because of my wedding band" ("Claudia Carreon" 2006)."The notes and the pictures, those are my memory.When I look back, that's how I …
Theorizing Deviant Historiography
Research Article| July 01 1991 Theorizing Deviant Historiography Jennifer Terry Jennifer Terry Jennifer Terry is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness program at University of California, Santa Cruz, completing a dissertation entitled "Siting Homosexuality: A History of Surveillance and the Production of Deviant Subjects (1935-present)." Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1991) 3 (2): 55–74. https://…
Lesbians under the medical gaze: Scientists search for remarkable differences
This paper examines research, conducted under the auspices of the Committee for the Study of Sex Variants during the 1930s in New York City, which sought to determine what characteristics distinguished lesbians from heterosexual women. Assuming that marks of difference would appear either on the body or in the mind, researchers x‐rayed skeletons, inspected genitals, and conducted psychiatric interviews looking for indicators of masculinity. This …
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
This piece was written collaboratively as a response to the bombing of sites in Afghanistan in September 2001 as the United States began to retaliate for Al-Queda attacks on U.S. targets. Anticipating the invasion and occupation of Iraq and a broader, globalized “War on Terror,” the authors wanted to offer an antiracist, antinationalist feminist analysis that insisted recognizing the importance of histories of colonialism and empire in the struct…
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms
Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The ‘Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Teaching’ (FORRT) community presents a crowdsourced glossary of open scholarship terms to facilitate education and effective communication between experts and newcomers
Peer support groups for parent-carers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: The importance of solidarity as care
Parent-carers of children with complex needs often lead lives impacted by challenging constellations of disadvantage and can become enmeshed in complex and contradictory tapestries of care structures and relations. Against a backdrop of financial austerity and under-resourced or exclusionary service practices, peer support groups may become increasingly important and confer valuable benefits not available elsewhere. This article focuses on one su…
Building spaces for controversial public engagement – Exploring and challenging democratic deficits in NHS marketization
The Brighton Citizen's Health Services Survey (BCHSS) was developed to explore and potentially challenge how knowledge is used and by whom in the production of local health commissioning institutions and relations. Through the creation of an ‘animating set of questions’, it sought to open up spaces through which to make visible some of the ways of knowing and valuing the NHS and health services that had been minimised through the commensuration p…
Breathing the Air of a World So New: Rewriting the Landscape of America in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
This article explores Toni Morrison's preoccupation with, and reimagining of, the landscape of the so-called New World. Drawing on scholarship that has investigated dominant discourses about freedom, bounty, and possibility located within the Americas, it identifies various counternarratives in Morrison's fiction, tracing these through the earlier Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), and Beloved (1987), but primarily arguing for their central…
Reading Toni Morrison Critically
This article offers an overview of the contemporary novelist Toni Morrison's literary career and of the critical response to her fiction. It also considers recent shifts in American and African American studies that allow for intersections with postcolonial studies and transatlanticist approaches. Finally, questions are raised regarding future directions in our reading of black U.S. literature
Lesbians under the medical gaze: Scientists search for remarkable differences
This paper examines research, conducted under the auspices of the Committee for the Study of Sex Variants during the 1930s in New York City, which sought to determine what characteristics distinguished lesbians from heterosexual women. Assuming that marks of difference would appear either on the body or in the mind, researchers x‐rayed skeletons, inspected genitals, and conducted psychiatric interviews looking for indicators of masculinity. This …
Theorizing Deviant Historiography
Research Article| July 01 1991 Theorizing Deviant Historiography Jennifer Terry Jennifer Terry Jennifer Terry is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness program at University of California, Santa Cruz, completing a dissertation entitled "Siting Homosexuality: A History of Surveillance and the Production of Deviant Subjects (1935-present)." Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1991) 3 (2): 55–74. https://…
Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture
Unraveling the complex relationships between so-called deviant behavior and the bodies of the socially marginalized
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
"Unnatural Acts" in Nature
Research Article| April 01 2000 "UNNATURAL ACTS" IN NATURE: The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals Jennifer Terry Jennifer Terry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2000) 6 (2): 151–193. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6-2-151 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Terry; "UNNATURAL ACTS" IN NATURE: The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals…
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and the Place of Homosexuality in Modern Society
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Journal Article An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. By Jennifer Terry. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv, 537 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-226-79366-4. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-226-79367-2.) Get access Diana E. Long Diana E. Long University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, …
Por uma prática feminista transnacional contra a guerra
New Technologies of Race
On 18 July 1950 the New York Times announced "No Scientific Basis for Race Bias Found by World Panel\nof Experts." The article reported on the findings of a distinguished group of scientists, working under the\nauspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), who had\nreached a consensus that there "was no scientific justification for race discrimination."
Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life
Reading Toni Morrison Critically
This article offers an overview of the contemporary novelist Toni Morrison's literary career and of the critical response to her fiction. It also considers recent shifts in American and African American studies that allow for intersections with postcolonial studies and transatlanticist approaches. Finally, questions are raised regarding future directions in our reading of black U.S. literature
Buried perspectives: Narratives of landscape in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
In examining representations of engagements with the North American landscape in the fiction of Toni Morrison, this article seeks to explore the author’s revision of dominant discourses about the topography and symbolic spaces of the continent and her exposure thereby of historical structures of power. Focusing on her fourth novel, Song of Solomon (1977), it traces how Morrison attempts to give voice to African American experience and identity an…
Race and Form: Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography (review)
The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American liter…
Significant Injury: War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case
what it is to give birth, and basically I don't know what it is to have a child.All that I know is that I have a baby.She is my daughter.She is two years old.I talk to her every day.She says, 'Mommy,' because she sees pictures of me, but I don't know.I don't know" ("Doctors Scramble" 2006)."I only know I am married because of my wedding band" ("Claudia Carreon" 2006)."The notes and the pictures, those are my memory.When I look back, that's how I …
When the sea of living memory has receded”: Cultural memory and literary narratives of the Middle Passage
This article considers the emergence of the slave Middle Passage between Africa and the Americas as a pervasive topic and figure in modern black diasporic literature. It explores representation of the Atlantic crossing alongside broader questions about the formation and mutation of group identity based on understandings and constructions of a shared past. Three textual examples, taken from the work of David Dabydeen, John Edgar Wideman, and Toni …
Breathing the Air of a World So New: Rewriting the Landscape of America in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
This article explores Toni Morrison's preoccupation with, and reimagining of, the landscape of the so-called New World. Drawing on scholarship that has investigated dominant discourses about freedom, bounty, and possibility located within the Americas, it identifies various counternarratives in Morrison's fiction, tracing these through the earlier Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), and Beloved (1987), but primarily arguing for their central…
Black intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century
Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought. Markers of identity are too often isolated and presented as definitive, then examined and theorised, a process that further naturalises their absoluteness; thus socially generated constructs become socialising categories that assume coercive power. The resulting s…
Building spaces for controversial public engagement – Exploring and challenging democratic deficits in NHS marketization
The Brighton Citizen's Health Services Survey (BCHSS) was developed to explore and potentially challenge how knowledge is used and by whom in the production of local health commissioning institutions and relations. Through the creation of an ‘animating set of questions’, it sought to open up spaces through which to make visible some of the ways of knowing and valuing the NHS and health services that had been minimised through the commensuration p…
Peer support groups for parent-carers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: The importance of solidarity as care
Parent-carers of children with complex needs often lead lives impacted by challenging constellations of disadvantage and can become enmeshed in complex and contradictory tapestries of care structures and relations. Against a backdrop of financial austerity and under-resourced or exclusionary service practices, peer support groups may become increasingly important and confer valuable benefits not available elsewhere. This article focuses on one su…
Time Lapse and Time Capsules: The Chronopolitics of Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction
What is learned when questions of temporality, of relations with the past, and of forms of anticipating the future are pressed in analysis of narrative fiction? In the novels of Octavia E. Butler
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
This piece was written collaboratively as a response to the bombing of sites in Afghanistan in September 2001 as the United States began to retaliate for Al-Queda attacks on U.S. targets. Anticipating the invasion and occupation of Iraq and a broader, globalized “War on Terror,” the authors wanted to offer an antiracist, antinationalist feminist analysis that insisted recognizing the importance of histories of colonialism and empire in the struct…
Betsy Wood, Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism
Review of: Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism, by Betsy Wood
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms
Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The ‘Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Teaching’ (FORRT) community presents a crowdsourced glossary of open scholarship terms to facilitate education and effective communication between experts and newcomers
Introduction: Domestication of War
This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which the relationship between home and militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant and growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address the militarization of everyday life by attending to domesticity and practices of domestication. We grapple with how the home naturalizes and becomes a catalyst for militarism: How do ordinary and domestic objects, techno…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (14 works) · Art (11 works) · History (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Literature (6 works)