Harmony Newman

University of Northern Colorado, Sociology, Faculty Member

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I am currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Northern Colorado.

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Embodied Activism without Bodies? Analysis of Embodiment in the Pro-Breastfeeding and Anti-Male Circumcision Movements

Married Person's Methods of Status-Evalution: The Role of Individual Gender Ideologies

Mother needs a bigger “helper”: A critique of “wine mom” discourse as conformity to hegemonic intensive motherhood

Sociology Compass

Normalization of Sexism in Geology Field Programs

Married Person's Methods of Status-Evalution: The Role of Individual Gender Ideologies

The Price Mothers Pay, Even When They Are Not Buying It: Mental Health Consequences of Idealized Motherhood

Sex Roles, 2015

The modern mystique: Institutional mediation of hegemonic motherhood

Sociological Inquiry , 2014

This study examines the means by which privileged mothers comply to the dominant expectations of ... more This study examines the means by which privileged mothers comply to the dominant expectations of intensive mothering. As women struggle with the complicated, and often contradictory, experience of meeting the demands of the dominant ideology, we examine the mediating role of an institution, in this case the most popular maternal support organization in the U.S.-Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS). Organizations such as MOPS create an ideal cultural site for reinforcing ideologies that promulgate unattainable standards of perfection.

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Embodiment without bodies? Analysis of embodiment in US-based pro-breastfeeding and anti-male circumcision movements

Sociology of Health & Illness, 2014

This article uses the cases of pro-breastfeeding and anti-circumcision activism to complicate the... more This article uses the cases of pro-breastfeeding and anti-circumcision activism to complicate the prevailing conceptualisation of embodiment in research on embodied health movements (EHMs). Whereas most EHM activists draw on their own bodily experiences, in the breastfeeding and circumcision movements, embodiment by proxy is common. Activists use embodiment as a strategy but draw on physical sensations that they imagine for other people's bodies, rather than on those they experience themselves. Pro-breastfeeding activists, who seldom disclose whether they were themselves breastfed, target mothers, encouraging them to breastfeed rather than to formula feed their children in order to reduce their child's risk of disease. Anti-circumcision activists, only some of whom are circumcised men, urge parents to leave their sons' penises intact in order to avoid illness and disfigurement and to preserve the sons' rights to make their own informed decisions as adults. In both movements activists use embodiment as a persuasive strategy even though they themselves do not necessarily embody the risks of the negative health outcomes with which they are concerned. Future research on EHMs should reconceptualise EHMs to include embodiment by proxy and examine whether this important phenomenon systematically affects movement strategies and outcomes.

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Book Review: Militant Lactivism? Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France

Gender & Society, 2014

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Book Review: Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

Work and Occupations, Jan 1, 2011

Becoming Full Citizens: The US Women's Jury Rights Campaigns, the Pace of Reform, and Strategic Adaptation1

American Journal of …, Jan 1, 2008

Few studies of social movement political success investigate the strategic and tactical approache... more

Movement framing and discursive opportunity structures: The political successes of the US women's jury movements

American Sociological …, Jan 1, 2007

... Opportunity Structures: The Political Successes of the US Women&#x27;s Jury Movements Hol... more

Married Persons' Subjective Class Identification: The Role of Individual Gender Ideologies from 1972 to 2002

Gender Issues, Jan 1, 2008

This study examined married men and women's subjective class identification between 1972 and 2002... more This study examined married men and women's subjective class identification between 1972 and 2002, and the role of individual gender ideologies in married persons' shifting status-evaluation models. We used nationally representative trend data gathered as part of the General Social Survey. Consistent with previous theoretical predictions, results indicated that overall, husbands and wives used statussharing models of status-evaluation. Interestingly, however, in the late 1990s and early 2000s women shifted toward a status-borrowing model of status-evaluation. Results suggested that gender ideologies did not explain recent trends in the importance of wives' and husbands' class attributes for models of status-evaluation. We concluded that shifts in hegemonic gender beliefs, rather than individual gender ideologies, are a more likely explanation of changes in couples' models of status-evaluation.

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CROSS-CULTURAL FRAMING STRATEGIES OF THE BREASTFEEDING MOVEMENT AND MOTHERS'RESPONSES

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Completing this dissertation has been quite a journey, one that I could not h... more

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Embodied Activism without Bodies? Analysis of Embodiment in the Pro-Breastfeeding and Anti-Male Circumcision Movements

Married Person's Methods of Status-Evalution: The Role of Individual Gender Ideologies

Mother needs a bigger “helper”: A critique of “wine mom” discourse as conformity to hegemonic intensive motherhood

Sociology Compass

Normalization of Sexism in Geology Field Programs

Married Person's Methods of Status-Evalution: The Role of Individual Gender Ideologies

The Price Mothers Pay, Even When They Are Not Buying It: Mental Health Consequences of Idealized Motherhood

Sex Roles, 2015

The modern mystique: Institutional mediation of hegemonic motherhood

Sociological Inquiry , 2014

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Embodiment without bodies? Analysis of embodiment in US-based pro-breastfeeding and anti-male circumcision movements

Sociology of Health & Illness, 2014

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Book Review: Militant Lactivism? Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France

Gender & Society, 2014

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Book Review: Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

Work and Occupations, Jan 1, 2011

Becoming Full Citizens: The US Women's Jury Rights Campaigns, the Pace of Reform, and Strategic Adaptation1

American Journal of …, Jan 1, 2008

Few studies of social movement political success investigate the strategic and tactical approache... more

Movement framing and discursive opportunity structures: The political successes of the US women's jury movements

American Sociological …, Jan 1, 2007

... Opportunity Structures: The Political Successes of the US Women&#x27;s Jury Movements Hol... more

Married Persons' Subjective Class Identification: The Role of Individual Gender Ideologies from 1972 to 2002

Gender Issues, Jan 1, 2008

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CROSS-CULTURAL FRAMING STRATEGIES OF THE BREASTFEEDING MOVEMENT AND MOTHERS'RESPONSES

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Completing this dissertation has been quite a journey, one that I could not h... more

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