ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (3 June 2024)

A Critical Conversation on Agency

Stephanie Olsen, Kristine Alexander, Susan Miller, Ville Vuolanto, Simon Sleight, Mischa Honeck, Sarah Emily Duff, and Karen Vallgårda

Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Volume 17, Number 2, Spring 2024

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”

Free to read thru 30 June
 

Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in Philadelphia Through the Shifting Frames of Racialization

Jacinda S. Tran

Journal of Asian American Studies
Volume 27, Number 1, February 2024

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 

Read free in Journal of Asian American Studiesthru 30 June
 

Cirights: Quantifying Respect for All Human Rights

Skip Mark, Mikhail Filippov, and David Cingranelli

Human Rights Quarterly
Volume 46, Number 2, May 2024

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

Read free thru 30 June
 

HOPKINS PRESS PODCAST: Helene Hedian on Building Patient-Centered Trans Health Care

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
 

What Patients Want in a Transgender Center: Building a Patient-Centered Program

Helene F. Hedian, MD, Paula M. Neira, MSN, JD, RN, CEN, Devin Coon, MD, MSE, Joshua Schwarz, PhD, Joseph Cofrancesco Jr, MD, MPH, and Brandyn D. Lau, MPH 

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Volume 35, Number 1, February 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.

Read free in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved thru 30 June
 

Transgender Men and Non-Binary Students Managing Their Identities to Pay for College

Alex C. Lange

Review of Higher Education
Ahead of print, 2024

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.

Read free in Review of Higher Education thru 30 June
 

Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care

Koritha Mitchell

African American Review
Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 2018

Koritha Mitchell explores what she calls “know-your-place aggression” in African American Review, now available to read free thru 14 June

Explore further with a new interview with Dr. Mitchell in Public Books.

Fluid Bodies: Wet Nurses and Breastmilk Anxieties in Eighteenth-Century Madrid

Celia Crifasi

Journal of Women's History
Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 2023

Celia Crifasi’s “Fluid Bodies: Wet Nurses and Breastmilk Anxieties in 18th-Century Madrid” recently won the 2024 Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award from the Western Association of Women Historians

Centering the voices of women seeing employment as wet nurses in late 18th-century Madrid via ads they placed in newspapers, Crifasi reconsiders what we know about breastmilk and early modern bodies

Read free in Journal of Women's History thru 14 June
 

Child-Mothers and Invisible Fathers: The Paradox of "Precocious Maternity" and the Pervasiveness of Child Sexual Abuse in Nineteenth-Century America

Courtney E. Thompson

Journal of Women's History
Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2022

Courtney Thompson’s “Child-Mothers and Invisible Fathers: The Paradox of ‘Precocious Maternity’ and the Pervasiveness of Child Sexual Abuse in Nineteenth-Century America” has won Nursing Clio’s Best Article Prize of 2023.

Thompson’s essay investigates the paradox of the "child-mother" to reveal the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and age in 19th century culture and medicine, the instability of the categories of childhood and adulthood, and the erasure of child sexual abuse in history,

Read free in Journal of Women's History thru 14 June
 

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