- Reproductive politics
- Anthropology of health, medicine, and science
- Feminist and community based participatory research
1998 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
(Anthropology & Population Dynamics)
1994 M.A. Johns Hopkins University
(Anthropology)
1988 B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Anthropology and Women’s Studies)
1988 Certificate in Women’s Studies (Women’s Studies Program in Europe,
administered through Antioch University, Ohio)
The Sally Gardens: Sex and Motherhood in Ireland, co-authored with Jo Murphy-Lawless, in progress
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, eds. Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2001
"What Are Pro-Life Feminists Doing on Campus?" NWSA Journal, forthcoming.
"Manhood and Meaning in the Marketing of the 'Male Pill.'" In The Second Sex in Reproduction: Men, Sexuality and Masculinity, eds. Marcia C. Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helena Goldberg, and Maruska La Cour Mosegaard. New York: Berghahn Books. In press.
"Genetic Cancer Risk Perceptions & Access to Cancer Information and Services in Santa Barbara." A report to the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, July 2008.
Available at: www.survey.ucsb.edu/ccsb-report.
"Catholic Church." In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor, ABC-CLIO, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor, ABC-CLIO, 2004.
with Jo Murphy-Lawless, and Clare Brady. 2004. "Understanding how Sexually Active Women Think about Fertility, Sex, and Motherhood." Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency, Report No. 6. Available at: www.crisispregnancy.ie/pub/Rep6.pdf.
"The Social Politics of Health Risk Warning: Competing Claims about the Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer." In Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, eds. Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
"Antiabortion Positions and Young Women's Life Plans in Contemporary Ireland." Social Science and Medicine 2003 56: 1973-86.
"'Abortion is part of the Irish experience, it is part of what we are:' The Transformation of Public. Discourses on Irish Abortion Policy." Women's Studies International Forum 2002 25(3): 315-333. |
