Rebecca Jo Plant
Biographic Data
| ID | 953684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Jo Plant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Plant |
| SIGNATURE | PLANT R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0579-4025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
California's War Mothers
Research Article| August 01 2020 California's War Mothers: Race, Region, and the Commemoration of World War I Rebecca Jo Plant Rebecca Jo Plant rebecca jo plant is an associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and coeditor, with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, of the electronic journal and database Women and Social Movement in the United States, 1600–2000. She is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern Amer…
No Minor Matter
In the aftermath of the Civil War, state judges lost their long-held right to inquire into the legality of federal detentions, and habeas corpus—once almost solely the business of state courts—was largely transformed into a federal remedy. We argue that the wartime furor surrounding underage enlistees was a key factor in driving this legal change. Scholarship on the use of habeas corpus during the war generally concentrates on cases involving fre…
Anti-maternalism
A tribute to Sonya Michel and her influential scholarship, this essay argues that, to understand the transformation of gender ideology in the twentieth-century United States, we need to appreciate the power of “anti-maternalism.” As I define it, “anti-maternalism” refers to the belief that motherhood had become too freighted with political meaning and too laden with sentiment, and that it ought to be construed in a more limited and rational manne…
The Nature and Nurture of Love
In the early twentieth century, when physicians and scientists in the U.S. and Britain debated what children needed to develop into healthy citizens, they spoke largely in terms of nutrition and environmental factors.But as infant and child mortality declined, concerns over children's emotional and psychological needs gradually assumed center stage.In response to the horrific violence of World War II, numerous researchers in the psychological and…
The Crowning Insult
James Weldon Johnson was hard at work on his book Black Manhattan in the summer of 1930, having taken leave from his position as executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp). One morning, after reading a newspaper article that filled him with disgust, he “threw aside” his manuscript to write a satirical poem. The offending news concerned the gold star mother and widow pilgrimages, a federal governm…
IAN Dowbiggin. The Quest for Mental Health
This book is a sweeping, synthetic history of the “struggle to achieve psychological wellness” from the late eighteenth century to the present (p. 2). Ian Dowbiggin, who has previously published on such subjects as the history of psychiatry, eugenics, and euthanasia, admirably fulfills the mission of the Cambridge Essential Histories series in which the book appears: to provide narrative, argument-driven histories for use in undergraduate survey …
Maternalism Reconsidered
Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed ‘maternalism’. This volume reassesses …
Of Little Comfort
Journal Article Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War Get access Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War. By Erika Kuhlman. (New York: New York University Press, 2012. x, 225 pp. $49.00.) Rebecca Jo Plant Rebecca Jo Plant University of California, San DiegoLa Jolla, California [email protected] Search for other works by this author o…
William Menninger and American psychoanalysis, 1946–48
In the aftermath of World War II, a struggle ensued over the direction of American psychoanalysis. Led by William Menninger, who reluctantly assumed the presidency of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1946, a cohort of American-born psychoanalysts sought to make their profession more responsive to other medical practitioners and the general public. Insisting that divisive theoretical debates should be relegated to the past, these psychoa…
Freud and His Aphasia Book
Reviewed by: Freud and His Aphasia Book: Language and the Sources of Psychoanalysis Rebecca Jo Plant Valerie D. Greenberg. Freud and His Aphasia Book: Language and the Sources of Psychoanalysis. Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. ix + 207 pp. Ill. $32.50. Scholars have traditionally tended to dismiss Sigmund Freud’s early texts as “preanalytic,” a characterization designed to dramatize the revolu…
No Minor Matter
In the aftermath of the Civil War, state judges lost their long-held right to inquire into the legality of federal detentions, and habeas corpus—once almost solely the business of state courts—was largely transformed into a federal remedy. We argue that the wartime furor surrounding underage enlistees was a key factor in driving this legal change. Scholarship on the use of habeas corpus during the war generally concentrates on cases involving fre…
Anti-maternalism
A tribute to Sonya Michel and her influential scholarship, this essay argues that, to understand the transformation of gender ideology in the twentieth-century United States, we need to appreciate the power of “anti-maternalism.” As I define it, “anti-maternalism” refers to the belief that motherhood had become too freighted with political meaning and too laden with sentiment, and that it ought to be construed in a more limited and rational manne…
Freud and His Aphasia Book
Reviewed by: Freud and His Aphasia Book: Language and the Sources of Psychoanalysis Rebecca Jo Plant Valerie D. Greenberg. Freud and His Aphasia Book: Language and the Sources of Psychoanalysis. Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. ix + 207 pp. Ill. $32.50. Scholars have traditionally tended to dismiss Sigmund Freud’s early texts as “preanalytic,” a characterization designed to dramatize the revolu…
William Menninger and American psychoanalysis, 1946–48
In the aftermath of World War II, a struggle ensued over the direction of American psychoanalysis. Led by William Menninger, who reluctantly assumed the presidency of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1946, a cohort of American-born psychoanalysts sought to make their profession more responsive to other medical practitioners and the general public. Insisting that divisive theoretical debates should be relegated to the past, these psychoa…
Maternalism Reconsidered
Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed ‘maternalism’. This volume reassesses …
Of Little Comfort
Journal Article Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War Get access Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War. By Erika Kuhlman. (New York: New York University Press, 2012. x, 225 pp. $49.00.) Rebecca Jo Plant Rebecca Jo Plant University of California, San DiegoLa Jolla, California [email protected] Search for other works by this author o…
IAN Dowbiggin. The Quest for Mental Health
This book is a sweeping, synthetic history of the “struggle to achieve psychological wellness” from the late eighteenth century to the present (p. 2). Ian Dowbiggin, who has previously published on such subjects as the history of psychiatry, eugenics, and euthanasia, admirably fulfills the mission of the Cambridge Essential Histories series in which the book appears: to provide narrative, argument-driven histories for use in undergraduate survey …
Anti-maternalism
A tribute to Sonya Michel and her influential scholarship, this essay argues that, to understand the transformation of gender ideology in the twentieth-century United States, we need to appreciate the power of “anti-maternalism.” As I define it, “anti-maternalism” refers to the belief that motherhood had become too freighted with political meaning and too laden with sentiment, and that it ought to be construed in a more limited and rational manne…
The Nature and Nurture of Love
In the early twentieth century, when physicians and scientists in the U.S. and Britain debated what children needed to develop into healthy citizens, they spoke largely in terms of nutrition and environmental factors.But as infant and child mortality declined, concerns over children's emotional and psychological needs gradually assumed center stage.In response to the horrific violence of World War II, numerous researchers in the psychological and…
The Crowning Insult
James Weldon Johnson was hard at work on his book Black Manhattan in the summer of 1930, having taken leave from his position as executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp). One morning, after reading a newspaper article that filled him with disgust, he “threw aside” his manuscript to write a satirical poem. The offending news concerned the gold star mother and widow pilgrimages, a federal governm…
No Minor Matter
In the aftermath of the Civil War, state judges lost their long-held right to inquire into the legality of federal detentions, and habeas corpus—once almost solely the business of state courts—was largely transformed into a federal remedy. We argue that the wartime furor surrounding underage enlistees was a key factor in driving this legal change. Scholarship on the use of habeas corpus during the war generally concentrates on cases involving fre…
California's War Mothers
Research Article| August 01 2020 California's War Mothers: Race, Region, and the Commemoration of World War I Rebecca Jo Plant Rebecca Jo Plant rebecca jo plant is an associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and coeditor, with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, of the electronic journal and database Women and Social Movement in the United States, 1600–2000. She is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern Amer…
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