Rebecca Howes‐mischel
Biographic Data
| ID | 94402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Howes‐mischel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Howes‐mischel |
| SIGNATURE | MISCHEL R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0192-4961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interembodiment beyond kin
Maternal microbis
Reading across a burgeoning scientific literature that conflates microbial dynamics between mother:child bodies with normative mothering practices, we offer a model of maternal microbis that troubles the distinctions between productive and reproductive relations. We ground this argument in a systematic analysis of the content and circulation of descriptive maternal microbiome research between 2007 and 2021 along with the proliferation of lay narr…
Gender, Microbial Relations, and the Fermentation of Food1
Fermentation is the product of microbial relations that mediate, or foment, relationships between bodies and food products. Using cases of food fermentation made with microbes from ruminants' stomachs and women's vaginas, we denaturalize the idea of bodies' mammalian capacity as linked to particular food relations and explore the traction of gendered ideologies that order exchanges between microbial life to result in such food. This essay first o…
Humanizing Big Numbers
Maternal mortality is simultaneously a global epidemiological phenomenon and an individually contextualized tragedy. This article analyzes how films promoting the Millennium Development Goals’ campaign to reduce maternal mortality rely on particular visual and narrative tropes to align the affective tug of a single case and the global import of an aggregated statistic. Their reliance on particular stories to embody figures of global development c…
With This You Can Meet Your Baby
This article examines how amplified fetal heartbeats may be used to make claims about fetuses' social presence. These claims are supported by the Mexican Public Health system's selection of the maternal-child relationship as a key site of clinical intervention, intertwining medical and moral discourses. Drawing on the robust literature on cross-cultural propositions of "fetal personhood," this analysis uses ethnographic material from public healt…
Regimes of Responsible Pregnancy Management
With This You Can Meet Your Baby
This article examines how amplified fetal heartbeats may be used to make claims about fetuses' social presence. These claims are supported by the Mexican Public Health system's selection of the maternal-child relationship as a key site of clinical intervention, intertwining medical and moral discourses. Drawing on the robust literature on cross-cultural propositions of "fetal personhood," this analysis uses ethnographic material from public healt…
Humanizing Big Numbers
Maternal mortality is simultaneously a global epidemiological phenomenon and an individually contextualized tragedy. This article analyzes how films promoting the Millennium Development Goals’ campaign to reduce maternal mortality rely on particular visual and narrative tropes to align the affective tug of a single case and the global import of an aggregated statistic. Their reliance on particular stories to embody figures of global development c…
Regimes of Responsible Pregnancy Management
Regimes of Responsible Pregnancy Management
With This You Can Meet Your Baby
This article examines how amplified fetal heartbeats may be used to make claims about fetuses' social presence. These claims are supported by the Mexican Public Health system's selection of the maternal-child relationship as a key site of clinical intervention, intertwining medical and moral discourses. Drawing on the robust literature on cross-cultural propositions of "fetal personhood," this analysis uses ethnographic material from public healt…
Humanizing Big Numbers
Maternal mortality is simultaneously a global epidemiological phenomenon and an individually contextualized tragedy. This article analyzes how films promoting the Millennium Development Goals’ campaign to reduce maternal mortality rely on particular visual and narrative tropes to align the affective tug of a single case and the global import of an aggregated statistic. Their reliance on particular stories to embody figures of global development c…
Gender, Microbial Relations, and the Fermentation of Food1
Fermentation is the product of microbial relations that mediate, or foment, relationships between bodies and food products. Using cases of food fermentation made with microbes from ruminants' stomachs and women's vaginas, we denaturalize the idea of bodies' mammalian capacity as linked to particular food relations and explore the traction of gendered ideologies that order exchanges between microbial life to result in such food. This essay first o…
Maternal microbis
Reading across a burgeoning scientific literature that conflates microbial dynamics between mother:child bodies with normative mothering practices, we offer a model of maternal microbis that troubles the distinctions between productive and reproductive relations. We ground this argument in a systematic analysis of the content and circulation of descriptive maternal microbiome research between 2007 and 2021 along with the proliferation of lay narr…
Interembodiment beyond kin
Sociology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Genetics (2 works)