Margaret M Quinlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 89543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret M Quinlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret M |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinlan |
| SIGNATURE | QUINLAN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7325-4058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Chorus of Pain in Four Parts
Introduction: In “A Chorus of Pain in Four Parts,” we highlight the profound lack of pain management offered for many gynecological and reproductive health procedures. Materials and Methods: This poem allows readers to reimagine perinatal care by exploring the equity issues in failing to address perinatal pain. Whose pain is ignored; whose is overlooked? The italicized text represents direct quotes drawn from our research interviews, Reddit threa…
Psychometric properties of the Power of Food Scale during pregnancy and postpartum
Hedonic hunger, pleasure-driven motivation to consume highly palatable foods independent of physical hunger, was conceptualized as a stable trait, yet may differ with biopsychosocial changes during pregnancy and postpartum. This study examined measurement equivalence and convergent validity of the Power of Food Scale (PFS), a measure of hedonic hunger, throughout pregnancy (each trimester) and postpartum (6 and 12 months) in N = 458 mothers in No…
A Review of Miscarriage and Healthcare Communication in the United States
Miscarriage is a pervasive and socioemotionally complex pregnancy complication. Evidence suggests that poor clinical management can worsen these experiences. Yet, assessments of healthcare communication during a miscarriage are limited and a systematic review of the literature is needed. This review identified and synthesized original research on miscarriage and healthcare communication in the United States from the past 20 years to identify exis…
Bearing Witness to Joy and Sorrow: Narrative Medicine and Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility (REI) Providers’ Journeys in Infertility Treatment
This study examines providers' perceptions of provider-patient communication in reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) practices. Grounded in narrative medicine, we interviewed six REI providers about their experiences providing fertility care. REI providers crafted a narrative of bearing witness by (1) situating personal and professional self in REI narratives, (2) sharing news as important medical moments, and (3) cultivating affiliat…
Smoothies, bone broth, and fitspo: The historicity of TikTok postpartum bounce-back culture
TikTok, a now iconoclastic social media platform, hosts millions of videos on health, wellness and physical fitness, including content on postpartum wellness and 'bouncing back'. At present, few studies analyse the content of postpartum videos urging viewers to bounce-back or the potential influence of these videos. Given the acknowledged relationship between social media use and adverse mental health outcomes (eg, lowered self-esteem, increased …
Memorable Messages About Fat Bodies Before, During, and After Pregnancy
Weight bias is prevalent for people in large bodies who are trying to conceive, pregnant, or postpartum. Using the theory of memorable messages as a framework, we explored the sources, valence, and content of messages that fat individuals (N = 237) recalled about their bodies before pregnancy through the postpartum stage. The most common source of memorable messages was healthcare providers, and most (77.2%) messages were negatively valenced. The…
“Trust yourself and your body”: Advice from fat individuals on how to navigate fat fertility, pregnancy, and birth
Weight stigma contributes to healthcare-related stress and can make pregnancy difficult for people in larger bodies who are frequently denied reproductive healthcare treatment or receive poor quality care. Support from similar others – those who have experienced the same stressor – is particularly useful for navigating these challenges. Our goal in this study was to solicit advice from fat individuals who have tried to conceive, been pregnant, or…
Magnitude 5.1
Three scholars share their pandemic experiences, weaving narrative and poetry in an anti-anti-narrative of illness, death, stress, and fear. This is a tale of relentless living at a distance—of the drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, minute by minute, year after year, endless cascade of unresolved anxiety and the shared cortisol spike so many of us have endured slogging through the interminable pandemic in a death-indifferent culture
Trauma of the Shared Environment: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of Survivors of College Campus Sexual Assault
Survivors of campus sexual assault are often tasked with healing while sharing an environment with their perpetrators. However, little is known about the effects of a shared environment on survivor well-being. A qualitative thematic analysis design was employed to address this gap. We conducted semi-structured interviews with nine female survivors who identified their perpetrators as fellow students at a large state university in the southeastern…
Always on parade”: Pregnancy experience of active-duty air force members
Findings are reported from a qualitative study that sought to understand the maternity experience of active-duty women in the context of improved and expanded pregnancy accommodations. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 30 active-duty women serving in the United States Air Force (15 enlisted and 15 commissioned members). Women described experiencing negative pregnancy-related stereotypes and stigma in the workplace. Connotations unique…
IVF So White, So Medical: Digital Normativity and Algorithm Bias in Infertility on Instagram
Increasingly, women experiencing infertility are turning online to social media platforms, like Instagram, to engage with a support network and foster empathy. However, Instagram is also noted for its augmentation of White, cis, and heteronormative femininity through a process of silencing and minoritizing alternative, non-White voices. Through an inductive analysis of the most frequently used infertility hashtags, we collected and analyzed 252 I…
Birth Doula Care in California During Covid-19: The Impacts of Social Distancing on a High-Touch Helping Profession
Birth doulas were deemed "non-essential" personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic and were generally excluded from attending hospital births in person. This study documents the impacts of pandemic-related contextual factors on birth doula care in the San Francisco Bay Area, examines how doulas adapted their services, and explores implications for policy and practice. We employed a contextually bound qualitative case study methodology driven by soci…
Accessing Womanhood: Jenna Talackova and the Marking of a Beauty Queen
Constructing the dead: Retrospective sensemaking in eulogies
Eulogies serve a sensemaking function of identity construction--both for the deceased and for the survivors. This work examines the communicative construction of identity in eulogies and shows how eulogia discourse affirms and reconstructs our relational identity through communication. The article extends scholarship on eulogies by using relational communication theories to investigate how eulogic discourse functions as identity construction, con…
(Re)viewing Health Communication and Related Interdisciplinary Curricula
A View From the Top”: Crafting the Male “Domdentity” in Domestic Discipline Relationships
Domestic discipline (DD) is a relationship approach that advocates wifely submission and male dominance through the use of disciplinary tactics such as spanking. Because DD is seen as a deviant behavioral approach to relationships, men often turn to blogs to chronicle their experiences with DD. These blogs provide insight regarding their identity as a Dominant (Dom), or what they refer to as their “Domdentity.” The purpose of our study is to inve…
Determinants of Adoption of Smartphone Health Apps among College Students
Study findings provide scholars and practitioners with an empirical model of explaining the cognitive and micro-mechanisms of determining the adoption of health apps, especially among younger populations
"Tired and Hungry" in North Carolina: A Critical Approach to Contesting Eugenic Discourse
Historical interpretations of America’s eugenics programs show that no unified account exists and that a multiplicity of oftentimes competing ideological configurations contribute to the term eugenics. This essay focuses on recent controversies surrounding the decades-long eugenics programs in North Carolina and their illustration of the discursive and material implications of eugenic practices for marginalized populations. We examine the case of…
Topping from the Bottom”: Relational Convergence of Meaning in Domestic Discipline Relationships
‘Where are all the men?’ A post-structural feminist analysis of a university's sexual health seminar
Set against the background of efforts to promote sexuality education and sexual health in a university setting, this paper focuses on a sexual health seminar offered at a midwestern US university. Using a post-structural feminist framework, we analysed discourses from qualitative surveys, newspaper coverage and participant observation. We argue that the framing of the seminar posed an obstacle to receiving health care, altercasted women in disemp…
Meaning in Motion: The Embodied Poetics and Politics of Dancing Wheels
This essay examines poetic sense-making and illustrates the significance of numerous story forms, including dance, for organizations that do the work of social movements. We demonstrate how meaning emerges through motion, even as it is expressed and negotiated in language in two vital ways. First, we engage the early work of Kenneth Burke to explore the poetic nature of storied forms and connect it with contemporary studies of dance that emphasiz…
Dances and Discourses of (Dis)Ability: Heather Mills's Embodiment of Disability on Dancing with the Stars
This essay explores the relationships among disability, performance, and dance studies. Individuals with disabilities are often marginalized in current dance scholarship. Heather Mills's performances on Dancing with the Stars insert a dancer with a disability into mainstream perceptions of dance. This essay discusses three themes that emerge from an analysis of journalistic and blogger reactions to her performances. These themes reveal both empow…
Dances and Discourses of (Dis)Ability: Heather Mills's Embodiment of Disability on Dancing with the Stars
This essay explores the relationships among disability, performance, and dance studies. Individuals with disabilities are often marginalized in current dance scholarship. Heather Mills's performances on Dancing with the Stars insert a dancer with a disability into mainstream perceptions of dance. This essay discusses three themes that emerge from an analysis of journalistic and blogger reactions to her performances. These themes reveal both empow…
Constructing the dead: Retrospective sensemaking in eulogies
Eulogies serve a sensemaking function of identity construction--both for the deceased and for the survivors. This work examines the communicative construction of identity in eulogies and shows how eulogia discourse affirms and reconstructs our relational identity through communication. The article extends scholarship on eulogies by using relational communication theories to investigate how eulogic discourse functions as identity construction, con…
Birth Doula Care in California During Covid-19: The Impacts of Social Distancing on a High-Touch Helping Profession
Birth doulas were deemed "non-essential" personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic and were generally excluded from attending hospital births in person. This study documents the impacts of pandemic-related contextual factors on birth doula care in the San Francisco Bay Area, examines how doulas adapted their services, and explores implications for policy and practice. We employed a contextually bound qualitative case study methodology driven by soci…
Topping from the Bottom”: Relational Convergence of Meaning in Domestic Discipline Relationships
Meaning in Motion: The Embodied Poetics and Politics of Dancing Wheels
This essay examines poetic sense-making and illustrates the significance of numerous story forms, including dance, for organizations that do the work of social movements. We demonstrate how meaning emerges through motion, even as it is expressed and negotiated in language in two vital ways. First, we engage the early work of Kenneth Burke to explore the poetic nature of storied forms and connect it with contemporary studies of dance that emphasiz…
A View From the Top”: Crafting the Male “Domdentity” in Domestic Discipline Relationships
Domestic discipline (DD) is a relationship approach that advocates wifely submission and male dominance through the use of disciplinary tactics such as spanking. Because DD is seen as a deviant behavioral approach to relationships, men often turn to blogs to chronicle their experiences with DD. These blogs provide insight regarding their identity as a Dominant (Dom), or what they refer to as their “Domdentity.” The purpose of our study is to inve…
Accessing Womanhood: Jenna Talackova and the Marking of a Beauty Queen
Dances and Discourses of (Dis)Ability: Heather Mills's Embodiment of Disability on Dancing with the Stars
This essay explores the relationships among disability, performance, and dance studies. Individuals with disabilities are often marginalized in current dance scholarship. Heather Mills's performances on Dancing with the Stars insert a dancer with a disability into mainstream perceptions of dance. This essay discusses three themes that emerge from an analysis of journalistic and blogger reactions to her performances. These themes reveal both empow…
Meaning in Motion: The Embodied Poetics and Politics of Dancing Wheels
This essay examines poetic sense-making and illustrates the significance of numerous story forms, including dance, for organizations that do the work of social movements. We demonstrate how meaning emerges through motion, even as it is expressed and negotiated in language in two vital ways. First, we engage the early work of Kenneth Burke to explore the poetic nature of storied forms and connect it with contemporary studies of dance that emphasiz…
‘Where are all the men?’ A post-structural feminist analysis of a university's sexual health seminar
Set against the background of efforts to promote sexuality education and sexual health in a university setting, this paper focuses on a sexual health seminar offered at a midwestern US university. Using a post-structural feminist framework, we analysed discourses from qualitative surveys, newspaper coverage and participant observation. We argue that the framing of the seminar posed an obstacle to receiving health care, altercasted women in disemp…
Determinants of Adoption of Smartphone Health Apps among College Students
Study findings provide scholars and practitioners with an empirical model of explaining the cognitive and micro-mechanisms of determining the adoption of health apps, especially among younger populations
"Tired and Hungry" in North Carolina: A Critical Approach to Contesting Eugenic Discourse
Historical interpretations of America’s eugenics programs show that no unified account exists and that a multiplicity of oftentimes competing ideological configurations contribute to the term eugenics. This essay focuses on recent controversies surrounding the decades-long eugenics programs in North Carolina and their illustration of the discursive and material implications of eugenic practices for marginalized populations. We examine the case of…
Topping from the Bottom”: Relational Convergence of Meaning in Domestic Discipline Relationships
(Re)viewing Health Communication and Related Interdisciplinary Curricula
A View From the Top”: Crafting the Male “Domdentity” in Domestic Discipline Relationships
Domestic discipline (DD) is a relationship approach that advocates wifely submission and male dominance through the use of disciplinary tactics such as spanking. Because DD is seen as a deviant behavioral approach to relationships, men often turn to blogs to chronicle their experiences with DD. These blogs provide insight regarding their identity as a Dominant (Dom), or what they refer to as their “Domdentity.” The purpose of our study is to inve…
Constructing the dead: Retrospective sensemaking in eulogies
Eulogies serve a sensemaking function of identity construction--both for the deceased and for the survivors. This work examines the communicative construction of identity in eulogies and shows how eulogia discourse affirms and reconstructs our relational identity through communication. The article extends scholarship on eulogies by using relational communication theories to investigate how eulogic discourse functions as identity construction, con…
Accessing Womanhood: Jenna Talackova and the Marking of a Beauty Queen
IVF So White, So Medical: Digital Normativity and Algorithm Bias in Infertility on Instagram
Increasingly, women experiencing infertility are turning online to social media platforms, like Instagram, to engage with a support network and foster empathy. However, Instagram is also noted for its augmentation of White, cis, and heteronormative femininity through a process of silencing and minoritizing alternative, non-White voices. Through an inductive analysis of the most frequently used infertility hashtags, we collected and analyzed 252 I…
Birth Doula Care in California During Covid-19: The Impacts of Social Distancing on a High-Touch Helping Profession
Birth doulas were deemed "non-essential" personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic and were generally excluded from attending hospital births in person. This study documents the impacts of pandemic-related contextual factors on birth doula care in the San Francisco Bay Area, examines how doulas adapted their services, and explores implications for policy and practice. We employed a contextually bound qualitative case study methodology driven by soci…
Memorable Messages About Fat Bodies Before, During, and After Pregnancy
Weight bias is prevalent for people in large bodies who are trying to conceive, pregnant, or postpartum. Using the theory of memorable messages as a framework, we explored the sources, valence, and content of messages that fat individuals (N = 237) recalled about their bodies before pregnancy through the postpartum stage. The most common source of memorable messages was healthcare providers, and most (77.2%) messages were negatively valenced. The…
“Trust yourself and your body”: Advice from fat individuals on how to navigate fat fertility, pregnancy, and birth
Weight stigma contributes to healthcare-related stress and can make pregnancy difficult for people in larger bodies who are frequently denied reproductive healthcare treatment or receive poor quality care. Support from similar others – those who have experienced the same stressor – is particularly useful for navigating these challenges. Our goal in this study was to solicit advice from fat individuals who have tried to conceive, been pregnant, or…
Magnitude 5.1
Three scholars share their pandemic experiences, weaving narrative and poetry in an anti-anti-narrative of illness, death, stress, and fear. This is a tale of relentless living at a distance—of the drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, minute by minute, year after year, endless cascade of unresolved anxiety and the shared cortisol spike so many of us have endured slogging through the interminable pandemic in a death-indifferent culture
Trauma of the Shared Environment: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of Survivors of College Campus Sexual Assault
Survivors of campus sexual assault are often tasked with healing while sharing an environment with their perpetrators. However, little is known about the effects of a shared environment on survivor well-being. A qualitative thematic analysis design was employed to address this gap. We conducted semi-structured interviews with nine female survivors who identified their perpetrators as fellow students at a large state university in the southeastern…
Always on parade”: Pregnancy experience of active-duty air force members
Findings are reported from a qualitative study that sought to understand the maternity experience of active-duty women in the context of improved and expanded pregnancy accommodations. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 30 active-duty women serving in the United States Air Force (15 enlisted and 15 commissioned members). Women described experiencing negative pregnancy-related stereotypes and stigma in the workplace. Connotations unique…
A Review of Miscarriage and Healthcare Communication in the United States
Miscarriage is a pervasive and socioemotionally complex pregnancy complication. Evidence suggests that poor clinical management can worsen these experiences. Yet, assessments of healthcare communication during a miscarriage are limited and a systematic review of the literature is needed. This review identified and synthesized original research on miscarriage and healthcare communication in the United States from the past 20 years to identify exis…
Bearing Witness to Joy and Sorrow: Narrative Medicine and Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility (REI) Providers’ Journeys in Infertility Treatment
This study examines providers' perceptions of provider-patient communication in reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) practices. Grounded in narrative medicine, we interviewed six REI providers about their experiences providing fertility care. REI providers crafted a narrative of bearing witness by (1) situating personal and professional self in REI narratives, (2) sharing news as important medical moments, and (3) cultivating affiliat…
Smoothies, bone broth, and fitspo: The historicity of TikTok postpartum bounce-back culture
TikTok, a now iconoclastic social media platform, hosts millions of videos on health, wellness and physical fitness, including content on postpartum wellness and 'bouncing back'. At present, few studies analyse the content of postpartum videos urging viewers to bounce-back or the potential influence of these videos. Given the acknowledged relationship between social media use and adverse mental health outcomes (eg, lowered self-esteem, increased …
Psychometric properties of the Power of Food Scale during pregnancy and postpartum
Hedonic hunger, pleasure-driven motivation to consume highly palatable foods independent of physical hunger, was conceptualized as a stable trait, yet may differ with biopsychosocial changes during pregnancy and postpartum. This study examined measurement equivalence and convergent validity of the Power of Food Scale (PFS), a measure of hedonic hunger, throughout pregnancy (each trimester) and postpartum (6 and 12 months) in N = 458 mothers in No…
A Chorus of Pain in Four Parts
Introduction: In “A Chorus of Pain in Four Parts,” we highlight the profound lack of pain management offered for many gynecological and reproductive health procedures. Materials and Methods: This poem allows readers to reimagine perinatal care by exploring the equity issues in failing to address perinatal pain. Whose pain is ignored; whose is overlooked? The italicized text represents direct quotes drawn from our research interviews, Reddit threa…
Psychology (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Pregnancy (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works)