Alison Bechdel's classic graphic novel memoir Fun Home uses modernist allusions to supplant patriarchal genealogies with queer kinship structures, posits Meghan C. Fox in a 2019 article for MFS Modern Fiction Studies
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In the new issue of American Jewish History, Eric Eisner examines the history of the legislative struggle that led to the 1876 law that finally allowed Jewish men to hold political office in Maryland
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Historians of childhood suggest the conventional formulation of “agency” has limited usefulness for understanding change, and may need redefinition
In the new “Children in Crisis” special issue of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, eight scholars hold “A Critical Conversation on Agency”
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Jacinda S. Tran investigates the optics and racialization of Southeast Asian refugees settling in Philadelphia in the 1980s and 1990s, teetering between victimization and criminalization in the aftermath of the Vietnam War
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Using data from the CIRIGHTS Data Project to discover global patterns in government respect for human ri ghts, a new study in Human Rights Quarterly discusses implications of patterns in worker rights, protection from torture, physical integrity rights and more
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On this month's Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Helene Hedian, MD, Director of Clinical Education, Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, discussing data in a new study published in the February 2024 edition of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved,"What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program."
Dr. Helene Hedian is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Director of Clinical Education at the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, and the Assistant Vice Chair for LGBTQ+ Equity and Education in the Department of Medicine. Her academic interests include internal medicine, medical education, and the specific health needs of LGBTQ patients.
For further reading, see “What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program” for free in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved through 30 June 2024
As featured in the Hopkins Press Podcast, Helene Hedian and her colleagues discuss the findings of a 2016 study that shares how Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health assessed patients' perceptions of health care organizations that provide gender-affirming care.
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Compared to previous generations, U.S. college students must increasingly rely on non-government sources of money to pay for college. Yet, paying for college looks markedly different for students from marginalized communities, given historical exclusion and inequitable access to financial capital.
Using data from a longitudinal study of transgender men and non-binary students, this study argues that identity management is a key tactic these students use to pay for college and navigate competing financial priorities. Ultimately, this study can help researchers and policymakers better address issues of affordability, while more clearly understanding the unique nature of identity management for transgender students.
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How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem?
Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025
The journals of Hopkins Press offer a real bounty of art, research, and thinking about LGBTQIA people and culture around the world. This month, we've collected a cross section of 35 articles spanning 28 of our journals, including:
African American Review, American Quarterly, ariel: A Review of International English Literature, ASAP/Journal, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Callaloo, College Literature, CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures, Diacritics, ELH, The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Hopkins Review, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Leviathan, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Poe Studies, Postmodern Culture, Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, The Review of Higher Education, Reviews in American History, Studies in the Novel, Theatre Topics, Victorian Review, and The Yale Review.
We've made all of these articles freely accessible through 30 June 2024
Kristin Antelman’s “Content Warnings and Censorship” won the 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for the Best Article in portal: Libraries and the Academy
The article is free to read through 30 June
Explore Kristin Antelman’s award-winning “Content Warnings and Censorship” more in depth in this new video interview with Antelman (UC Santa Barbara Library) and portal’s Carmen Cole (Penn State University Libraries)
In Studies in the Novel, Ivan Kreilkamp compares Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, drawing out an overlap between the direct violence of terrorism and the violence of meat production
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“Emily in Paris” highlights the intersection of “sepia cinema” and “Francofascination,” phenomena from the early 2000s that contribute to implications for America’s self-fashioning, says Nathan Brown in The French Review
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Hawthorne’s depictions of decay in The House of the Seven Gables underscore human anxiety about the environment, posits Joshua Myers — part of a series of articles exploring the “ecogothic” in a new special 50th anniversary issue of Studies in American Fiction
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