Cucchiara, Maia, and Amy C. Steinbugler. '“The Books Make You Feel Bad”: Expert Advice and Maternal Anxiety in the Early 21st Century." Sociological Forum (Article published online August 23, 2021)....
Using twenty-three oral history interviews as a foundation, this article examines the student residential experience at the Scotland School for Veterans’ Children (SSVC) between 1930 and 2009. The interviews were conducted with...
The personal relationship between Primo Levi and Philip Roth, two of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century, has been studied in depth, but scholars have devoted less attention to the recurring presence of Levi...
In order to sustain dictatorship, achieve totalitarian governance, and actualize massive demographic and imperialist goals such as a population increase of twenty million people and the creation of a new Roman Empire,...
This essay brings the discourse of “weak theory” to bear on Lyn Hejinian’s feminist experimental poem of the 1980s, My Life. It argues that the eating matters of My Life—the poem’s steady references to eating, cooking,...
On February 17, 1909, Virginia Stephen (not yet Woolf) accepted a marriage proposal from a panicked Lytton Strachey; it was called off before the end of their conversation. Other prominent queer authors in the early twentieth...
Japanese American Incarceration during World War II, often referred to as “internment,” remains a dark part of United States history. This paper explores three memoirs by Nisei, or second-generation Japanese Americans: I Call...
Farrell, Amy E. '“When I Was Growing Up My Mother Cooked Dinner Every Single Day”: Fat Stigma and the Significance of Motherblame in Contemporary United States." Body Politics – Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte 3, no. 5 (2015):...
In the first years of the 1970s, Indian Country became paradoxically more interwoven and yet also more divided. Three case studies from Oklahoma’s Indigenous communities illustrate this transformation. Beginning in the...