Linda_L._Layne

Linda L. Layne

Linda L. Layne

American anthropologist

Linda Louise Layne (born Burbank, California, 1955) is an American anthropologist. She is a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc).[1] Her first book was on tribal and national identities in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.[2]

Quick Facts Nationality, Academic background ...

Layne is completing an edited collection of essays by anthropologists and historians on selfishness and selflessness and working on an in-depth case study of one heterosexual American single mother by choice that explores neoliberal cultures of parenting; and on a comparative study of single mothers by choice, two-mom families, two-dad families, and families that have suffered a pregnancy loss.

Education

  • 1979–1986 Princeton University. M.A., Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies. Dissertation: The Production and Reproduction of Tribal Identity in Jordan.
  • 1978–1979 Cambridge University. M.Phil. in Social Anthropology. Newnham College. Thesis: Family and Economic Patterns in Urban Jordan.
  • 1980, 1981 University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Modern Standard Arabic.
  • 1973–1977 University of Southern California. B.A. cum laude. Individual Major: Anthropology and Political Science. Honors Thesis: Social Transactions Among the Women of Algiers

Selected publications

Books

  • 2003 Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America,[3][4] New York: Routledge
  • 1994 Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Edited volumes and special issues

  • 2013 Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics,[5] Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne eds. London: Routledge
  • 2012 Understanding Reproductive Loss,[6] Sarah Earle, Carol Komaromy, and Linda Layne, eds. Ashgate Press
  • 2010 Feminist Technology,[7] Layne, Vostral and Boyer eds. University of Illinois Press
  • 2004 Consuming Motherhood,[8][9] Taylor, Layne and Wozniak eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (featured in Oct 2004 Chronicle for Higher Education). Recipient of the 2005 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction's Best Current Edited Collection Prize)
  • 1999 Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture,[10] ed. Layne. New York: New York University Press. Winner of the 2006 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction “enduring influence” book prize
  • 1998 Anthropological Approaches in Science and Technology Studies Special Issue of Science, Technology and Human Values winter, vol. 23, number 1

Articles in refereed journals

  • 2000 "The Cultural Fix": An Anthropological Contribution to Science and Technology Studies,[11] Science, Technology, and Human Values

References

  1. [1]
    "Linda Layne - ReproSoc". www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk. 22 March 2017.
  2. [2]
    Layne, Linda (1994). Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781417545308.
  3. [3]
    "Rensselaer Magazine: Fall 2006: Motherhood Lost (page 1)". www.rpi.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
  4. [4]
    Takševa, Tatjana. "Review of Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture". Journal of the Motherhood Initiative.
  5. [5]
    Faircloth, edited by Charlotte; Hoffman, Diane; Layne, Linda (2013). Parenting in global perspective : negotiating ideologies of kinship, self and politics. London [i.e. Abington, Oxon]: Routledge. ISBN 9780415624879. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  6. [6]
    Layne, edited by Sarah Earle, Carol Komaromy, Linda (2012). Understanding reproductive loss : perspectives on life, death and fertility. Farham, Surrey, England: Ashgate. ISBN 9781409428107. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. [7]
    Layne, edited by Linda L.; Vostral, Sharra L.; Boyer, Kate (2010). Feminist technology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03532-6. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  8. [8]
    Layne, Linda ed. by Janelle S. Taylor (2004). Consuming motherhood. New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.]: Rutgers Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0813534299.
  9. [9]
    "Newsletter |March | 2006 | CAR". car.medanthro.net. Council on Anthropology and Reproduction.
  10. [10]
    Layne, Linda L., ed. (1999). Transformative motherhood : on giving and getting in a consumer culture. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0814751547.
  11. [11]
    Layne, Linda L. (19 August 2016). "The Cultural Fix: An Anthropological Contribution to Science and Technology Studies". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 25 (3): 352–379. doi:10.1177/016224390002500305. S2CID 146535538.
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