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Refrigerator units, normal goods
No full textEmily Yates-Doerr tells two stories that reveal the challenge of grasping global inequality
Review of The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala, by Emily Yates-Doerr
No full textThe Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala, by Emily Yates-Doerr. University of California Press, 2015
Review of The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala, by Emily Yates-Doerr
No full textThe Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala, by Emily Yates-Doerr. University of California Press, 2015
Somatosphere.net
No full textInterview with Eugene Raikhel, Todd Meyers, and Emily Yates-Doerr, about Somatosphere
Mal-Nutrition
No full textMal-Nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policy makers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy—called the ""first 1,000 days of life""—determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that the control of mothering is a paradigmatic technique of American violence that serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. She illustrates the efforts of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers to counter the harms of such mal-nutrition. Their powerful stories offer a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish.
""This sensitive, wide-ranging, and beautifully written ethnography teaches us how the language of biological reproduction works to appropriate women’s rich generative and creative capacities for the reproduction of empire."" — CARLOTA McALLISTER, author of The Good Road
""Gripping and intricately layered in its analysis, this groundbreaking work illuminates how interventions purporting to improve women’s health and reproduction so often do more to uphold the very structures underlying gender violence and health inequality."" — MEGAN A. CARNEY, author of The Unending Hunger
""Mal-Nutrition brilliantly reveals a global struggle behind vulnerable women—against sexual violence and the displacement of their communities by agricapital. This is a timely and urgent book."" — RAYNA RAPP, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetu
Letter to Mrs. Jeanie (Jeannie, Jane) Daugherty from Emily Yates, December 9th or 10th
No full textJeanie (Jeannie, Jane) Caldwell (Daughtery) Daugherty was born in Wheeling in between 1842 and 1845. She is listed in the 1860 census, age 15. This would mean she was born in 1845. Her askart biography lists her birth year as 1842. Her father was Alfred Caldwell, born June 4th 1817, in St Clairsville, Ohio. He died on May 3rd 1868 in Wheeling, West Virginia. Her mother was Martha Baird Caldwell, born April 2nd 1822 in Washington, Pennsylvania. She died October 15th 1859 in Wheeling, Virginia. Her grandfather James Caldwell was born November 30, 1770 in Maryland. He died May 5th 1838 in Wheeling, Virginia. Her grandmother was Anne Booker Caldwell for which no birth or death information is available. Her grandfather lived for a period of time in Belmont County Ohio. He was a delegate to the Ohio Constitution and an Ohio State Senator. He was also elected to the 13th and 14th United States Congress and served until 1817. Her father was a graduate of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. He was mayor of Wheeling from 1850-1852 and again from 1856-1858. Her father was appointed counsel to the Hawaiian Islands by President Lincoln in the 1860s. He took his children and moved to Hawaii for several years. Jeanie met her husband Lieutenant Daugherty, a United States Navel Lieutenant, while she was in Hawaii. He died after four years of marriage. Jeannie studied painting in Paris during the 1870s. Jeanie Daugherty worked with the impressionists in France, including Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, and Van Gogh. She traveled with her sister Ellen (Eleanor) and painted scenes and portraits for the rest of her life. She died in Florence, Italy in 1930. Jeanie Caldwell Daugherty’s brother Alfred Caldwell married Laura Ellen Goshorn. This is why some of her letters are in the Goshorn Collection. This letter in the Goshorn collection was written to Jeanie by Emily Yates. Emily was married to Frederic Yates, a British painter who studied in France under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. This letter talks about Emily and Frederic's time in Hawaii. There are a couple other letters in this collection written by Emily and Frederic Yates to Jeanie and Eleanor
The weight of obesity: hunger and global health in postwar Guatemala
No full textA woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss—but much goes awry as ideas move from policy boardrooms and clinics into everyday life. Based on years of intensive fieldwork, The Weight of Obesity offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets—and their bodies—radically transformed. Anthropologist Emily Yates-Doerr challenges the widespread view that health can be measured in calories and pounds, offering an innovative understanding of what it means to be healthy in postcolonial Latin America. Through vivid descriptions of how people reject global standards and embrace fatness as desirable, this book interferes with contemporary biomedicine, adding depth to how we theorize structural violence
Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
No full textBibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas
Proposals for a Caring Economy
No full textOffering models of care beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justifications. This has led to the deprivation of care to individuals and communities based on capitalist assumptions about what and who can be cared for. Proposals for a Caring Economy takes these assumptions to task. Moving between examples focused on immigration and agriculture, patients and art audiences, green energy transitions and unhoused people, prison abolitionists and clients of domestic violence services, the contributors here argue that we need new ways to conceptualize care and its applications. Proposals for a Caring Economy articulates an economy that situates care at the forefront; sees the preservation of individual, community, and environmental wellbeing as the primary good; and focuses attention on building a sustainable economy of caring that will radically transform social connections and possibilities. Contributors: Chelsey R. Carter, Yale U; David McDermott Hughes, Rutgers U; Stephanie Delise Jones, U of California, Riverside; Sameena Mulla, Emory U; Katy Overstreet, Saxo Institute, U of Copenhagen; Michelle Parsons, Northern Arizona U; Adair Rounthwaite, U of Washington; Damien M. Sojoyner, U of California, Irvine; Emily Yates-Doerr, Oregon State U
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