Linda M Blum
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 245231 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Linda M Blum |
| PRENOMES | Linda M |
| SOBRENOME | Blum |
| ASSINATURA | BLUM L M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northeastern University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 221 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Feminist Solidarity or Moralized Body Politics? Online Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Communities and Feminist Health Politics
In this article, we extend the study of the embodied health activism of breast cancer survivors to the relatively neglected peer-to-peer groups now proliferating online. We conducted in-depth interviews during COVID-19 with individuals with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) mutations because, with heightened risk of disease, they are unusually active online. We asked participants with diverse racial-ethnic, gender, and sexual identities…
Dating at a Distance
Researchers agree that the predominant scripts of campus sexual culture, normalizing casual encounters with ambiguous distinctions between hookups and dating, offer contradictory risks and rewards for young adults, particularly young women. The arrival of the novel coronavirus in 2020, however, upended the lives of young adults just as they were shaping sexual and romantic careers. We ask, extending critical intersectional approaches, whether the…
Introduction
This introduction situates our special issue’s focus on care, as concept and practice, within several lineages of feminist scholarship to grapple with the difficulties of the present moment. Over the past four decades of feminist scholarship and practice, notions of care and caring, as noun and verb, have had great traction across disciplinary divides, spurring debates about power and positionality while challenging binaries of equality and diffe…
Personalized Medicine
Calling the Shots
Raising Generation Rx
Winner, 2016 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability, American Sociological Association, Section Disability and SocietyExamines the experiences of mothers coping with their children's "invisible disabilities" in the face of daunting social, economic, and political realitiesRecent years have seen an explosion in the number of children diagnosed with "invisible disabilities" such as ADHD, mood and conduct disorders, and high-function…
Suits To Self-Sufficiency
In 1997 the women-run nonprofit organization Dress for Success opened its first location with the aim of empowering low-income women by providing gently used suits for job interviews. Drawing on eight months of fieldwork in an affiliate office, we analyze cross-race and cross-class interactions between privileged volunteers and low-income clients to demonstrate the emergence of what we term 'neoliberal maternalism.' Historical forms of maternalis…
“Not This Big, Huge, Racial-Type Thing, but … ”
This article, which represents part of a larger ethnographic study, asks how mothers raising children of color understand the medicalization of their children’s issues as they navigate medical and educational systems. While biomedicine and the lens of neuroscience now predominate in defining children’s troubles, the article primarily focuses on schools as sites that organize daily lives, provide services, and hold keys to future opportunities. It…
A Symposium on Susan Markens’s Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction 1
DES Daughters
The Sex of Class
Mother-Blame in the Prozac Nation
Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork, this article examines mothers raising kids with invisible, social/emotional/behavioral disabilities to refine feminist theories of mother-blame. The mother-valor/mother-blame binary holds mothers responsible for families and future citizens, maintaining this 'natural' care at the center of normative femininity. The author explores how mothers raising such burdensome children understand their experiences…
Which Woman? Which Bodies
Gender in the Prozac Nation
Since Prozac emerged on the market at the end of 1987, there has been a dramatic increase in antidepressant use and in its discussion by popular media. Yet there has been little analysis of the gendered character of this phenomenon despite feminist traditions scrutinizing the medical control of women's bodies. The authors begin to fill this gap through a detailed content analysis of the 83 major articles on Prozac and its 'chemical cousins' appea…
The Power of Feelings
In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries-Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others-turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human personal and cultural fulfillment. Now, as we enter a new millennium, Nancy J. Chodorow, well known as a feminist theorist and psychoanalyst, takes her place in this line of eminent thinkers and revitalizes their project. Psychoanalysis, she claims, offers i…
At the breast
Blum reveals that a discussion about the seemingly private and individual practice of breastfeeding is really a larger conversation about sexuality, class, race, and the control and construction of maternal bodies. Interviewing three distinct groups of women, she discovers that the desirability and possibility of breastfeeding varies greatly. The white middle-class married mothers of La Leche League that Blum talks to find breastfeeding to be a d…
The Making of the Unborn Patient
It is now possible for physicians to recognize that a pregnant woman's foetus is facing life-threatening problems, perform surgery on the foetus, and if it survives, return it to the woman's uterus to finish gestation. Although foetal surgery has existed in various forms for three decades, it is only just beginning to capture the public's imagination. These still largely experimental procedures raise all types of medical, political and ethical qu…
Tough Times for Feminism
Negotiating Independent Motherhood
The authors examine the experiences and ideals of African American working-class mothers through 20 intensive interviews. They focus on the women's negotiations with racialized norms of motherhood, represented in the assumptions that legal marriage and an exclusively bonded dyadic relationship with one's children are requisite to good mothering. The authors find, as did earlier phenomenological studies, that the mothers draw from distinct ideals …
Incomparable Worth
Mothers on the Job
Rights at Work
Social Support and Motherhood
Between Feminism and Labor
Virile Capitalism
Calling the Shots
Mother-Blame in the Prozac Nation
Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork, this article examines mothers raising kids with invisible, social/emotional/behavioral disabilities to refine feminist theories of mother-blame. The mother-valor/mother-blame binary holds mothers responsible for families and future citizens, maintaining this 'natural' care at the center of normative femininity. The author explores how mothers raising such burdensome children understand their experiences…
Gender in the Prozac Nation
Since Prozac emerged on the market at the end of 1987, there has been a dramatic increase in antidepressant use and in its discussion by popular media. Yet there has been little analysis of the gendered character of this phenomenon despite feminist traditions scrutinizing the medical control of women's bodies. The authors begin to fill this gap through a detailed content analysis of the 83 major articles on Prozac and its 'chemical cousins' appea…
Mothers, Babies, and Breastfeeding in Late Capitalist America
Linda M. Blum, Mothers, Babies, and Breastfeeding in Late Capitalist America: The Shifting Contexts of Feminist Theory, Feminist Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, Women's Bodies and the State (Summer, 1993), pp. 290-311
Negotiating Independent Motherhood
The authors examine the experiences and ideals of African American working-class mothers through 20 intensive interviews. They focus on the women's negotiations with racialized norms of motherhood, represented in the assumptions that legal marriage and an exclusively bonded dyadic relationship with one's children are requisite to good mothering. The authors find, as did earlier phenomenological studies, that the mothers draw from distinct ideals …
Mother to Mother
This paper asks how La Leche League, an organization begun in the 1950s to promote breast-feeding and the value of maternal nurturance, continues to attract women in the 1990s. The League represents an interesting case of how conservative groups change in response to changing family norms and practices, most notably the increased employment of mothers of very young children and the acceptance of some egalitarian feminist tenets. In contrast to ot…
Suits To Self-Sufficiency
In 1997 the women-run nonprofit organization Dress for Success opened its first location with the aim of empowering low-income women by providing gently used suits for job interviews. Drawing on eight months of fieldwork in an affiliate office, we analyze cross-race and cross-class interactions between privileged volunteers and low-income clients to demonstrate the emergence of what we term 'neoliberal maternalism.' Historical forms of maternalis…
DES Daughters
Women's Mobility in the Corporation
Mothers construct fathers
"On Gilligan's "In a Different Voice
A Symposium on Susan Markens’s Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction 1
Possibilities and Limits of the Comparable Worth Movement
The emergence and growth of the comparable worth or pay-equity movement in the United States in the last six years signals a major shift in strategies for women's economic advancement-away from affirmative action strategies aimed at job integration, toward upgrading conditions for gender-segregated work itself. Although much has been written on comparable worth from technical and structural perspectives, my research explores a different set of qu…
"On Gilligan's "In a Different Voice
Possibilities and Limits of the Comparable Worth Movement
The emergence and growth of the comparable worth or pay-equity movement in the United States in the last six years signals a major shift in strategies for women's economic advancement-away from affirmative action strategies aimed at job integration, toward upgrading conditions for gender-segregated work itself. Although much has been written on comparable worth from technical and structural perspectives, my research explores a different set of qu…
The Feminist Legacy of Karen Horney
Women's Mobility in the Corporation
Warm Hearts and Cold Cash
Marcia Millman questions the belief that the family is a haven in a heartless world, and argues that it is characterized by many of the hard traits of the market, expressed in the ways in which we use money. By focusing attention on money and the way it works within the intimate economy of the family, she cuts through the sentimentality that obscures this important aspect of familial relationships
Between Feminism and Labor
Virile Capitalism
Mothers, Babies, and Breastfeeding in Late Capitalist America
Linda M. Blum, Mothers, Babies, and Breastfeeding in Late Capitalist America: The Shifting Contexts of Feminist Theory, Feminist Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, Women's Bodies and the State (Summer, 1993), pp. 290-311
Mothers construct fathers
Mother to Mother
This paper asks how La Leche League, an organization begun in the 1950s to promote breast-feeding and the value of maternal nurturance, continues to attract women in the 1990s. The League represents an interesting case of how conservative groups change in response to changing family norms and practices, most notably the increased employment of mothers of very young children and the acceptance of some egalitarian feminist tenets. In contrast to ot…
Social Support and Motherhood
Incomparable Worth
Mothers on the Job
Rights at Work
Negotiating Independent Motherhood
The authors examine the experiences and ideals of African American working-class mothers through 20 intensive interviews. They focus on the women's negotiations with racialized norms of motherhood, represented in the assumptions that legal marriage and an exclusively bonded dyadic relationship with one's children are requisite to good mothering. The authors find, as did earlier phenomenological studies, that the mothers draw from distinct ideals …
Tough Times for Feminism
At the breast
Blum reveals that a discussion about the seemingly private and individual practice of breastfeeding is really a larger conversation about sexuality, class, race, and the control and construction of maternal bodies. Interviewing three distinct groups of women, she discovers that the desirability and possibility of breastfeeding varies greatly. The white middle-class married mothers of La Leche League that Blum talks to find breastfeeding to be a d…
The Making of the Unborn Patient
It is now possible for physicians to recognize that a pregnant woman's foetus is facing life-threatening problems, perform surgery on the foetus, and if it survives, return it to the woman's uterus to finish gestation. Although foetal surgery has existed in various forms for three decades, it is only just beginning to capture the public's imagination. These still largely experimental procedures raise all types of medical, political and ethical qu…
The Power of Feelings
In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries-Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others-turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human personal and cultural fulfillment. Now, as we enter a new millennium, Nancy J. Chodorow, well known as a feminist theorist and psychoanalyst, takes her place in this line of eminent thinkers and revitalizes their project. Psychoanalysis, she claims, offers i…
Gender in the Prozac Nation
Since Prozac emerged on the market at the end of 1987, there has been a dramatic increase in antidepressant use and in its discussion by popular media. Yet there has been little analysis of the gendered character of this phenomenon despite feminist traditions scrutinizing the medical control of women's bodies. The authors begin to fill this gap through a detailed content analysis of the 83 major articles on Prozac and its 'chemical cousins' appea…
Which Woman? Which Bodies
Mother-Blame in the Prozac Nation
Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork, this article examines mothers raising kids with invisible, social/emotional/behavioral disabilities to refine feminist theories of mother-blame. The mother-valor/mother-blame binary holds mothers responsible for families and future citizens, maintaining this 'natural' care at the center of normative femininity. The author explores how mothers raising such burdensome children understand their experiences…
The Sex of Class
DES Daughters
“Not This Big, Huge, Racial-Type Thing, but … ”
This article, which represents part of a larger ethnographic study, asks how mothers raising children of color understand the medicalization of their children’s issues as they navigate medical and educational systems. While biomedicine and the lens of neuroscience now predominate in defining children’s troubles, the article primarily focuses on schools as sites that organize daily lives, provide services, and hold keys to future opportunities. It…
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