“Reeling In” Grimm Masculinities: Hucksters, Cross-Dressers, and Ninnies

In American films Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm appear as malleable as the folktales they collected and published. Not just framed by their cultural production, the Grimms are read through it. As a result, North American assumptions about folktales and fairy tales imbue the brothers with peculiar characteristics. The pliability of the brothers across mediated representations encourages viewers to interrogate the authority of storytellers and historical truth. I describe the filmed Grimms’ failure to meet American cinema’s normative standards for heterosexual masculine performance and explore the tension between feminized oral traditions and masculinized literary heritage that resurfaces in each film

Race, Weight, Gender And The Embodied (Odied, Odied) Consciousness Of Big-Bodied Black Women Educators: A Phenomenological Study

Big-Bodied Black women in the United States have perpetually navigated the veritable dichotomy of being hyper-visible and invisible (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2003; Fleetwood, 2001; Strings, 2019). Fat Black female bodies have borne the burden of exaggerated tropes and exploitation throughout history, stripping them of their femininity and humanity and resulting in a unique form of objectification (Strings, 2019). Inconsistent messages about BBWs, their bodies, and their value in society have endured for generations. They have been essential in constructing the controlling images of Black womanhood in the U.S. (Collins, 2000). The controlling images all evoked thoughts about the suitability of Black women as laborers and leaders (Collins, 2020). Under the dominant gaze, Black women have been best suited for low-skilled domestic and service-related jobs like childcare and teaching. These assumptions become even more problematic when considered along with nineteenth- and twentieth-century concerns about the professionalization of teaching (Ingersoll, 2018; Labaree, 1992). During that time, teaching became “prototypical women’s work” and synonymous with notions of motherhood and caregiving (Labaree, 1992). The professionalization of teaching and the iconography surrounding the BBW prompted questions about the intersectional effects of racialized sexism and anti-fat bias on the lived experiences of BBW educators. The purpose of the present phenomenological study was to explore the particularities of embodiment for BBWs in academic contexts. The tenets of Black feminism, womanism, intersectionality, and the theory of excess flesh contributed to a dialectical framework that helped me analyze participants’ accounts of individual experiences and elucidate the structures of the phenomenon of being a BBW educator. The findings from this study will be helpful in efforts to resolve the crisis of recruiting, retaining, and supporting Black women educators (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2017) and remove the barriers that prevent discursive bodies from having equitable access to educational institutions in general

A P-element Mobilization Screen in Drosophila melanogaster Using a Transgene Containing GAA Repetitious Sequence

From the Washington University Office of Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Vol. 13, 05-01-2018. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Joy Zalis Kiefer, Director of Undergraduate Research and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Lindsey Paunovich, Editor; Helen Human, Programs Manager and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences Mentor(s): Sarah C. R. Elgi

The Effects of Lean Beef Supplementation on the Iron Status of College Athletes

The purpose of this study was to determine whether weekly supplementation with nine ounces of prepackaged lean beef sticks could maintain the iron status of college endurance athletes. Thirty-four college endurance athletes (20 female, 14 male) were stratified by sex, baseline serum ferritin concentration, and use of iron supplements, and randomized into an intervention (n = 18) or control (n = 16) group. The participants in the intervention group supplemented their usual diet with nine ounces of prepackaged lean beef sticks per week and a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement containing 18 mg iron. The participants in the control group consumed their normal diet and the daily multivitamin/mineral supplement only. Body composition, dietary intake, and blood markers of iron status (hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, serum ferritin, and total iron binding capacity) were measured at baseline and postintervention. A two-way analysis of variance with group and time as treatment factors was used to determine the main effect of beef supplementation on variables measured. None of the participants in this study was categorized as iron deficient at baseline or postintervention. Heme iron intake was significantly greater (P , 0.003) in the intervention group (3.1 ± 0.3 mg per day) than in the control group (1.5 ± 0.3 mg per day) as a result of the intervention. The intervention participants had significant improvements in hematocrit concentrations; there were, however, no differences in blood iron parameters of serum iron, hemoglobin, serum ferritin, or total iron binding capacity as a result of the intervention. The results of this study suggest that daily intake of bioavailable iron may attenuate the effects of exercise on the iron status of endurance athletes

Performance Deficits in Aging Human Service Settings and a Behavior Analytic Approach to Remediation

The staff members working in all human service settings have major effects on the populations in which they are working. Staff enjoyment and their preferences also play a role in their work performance. Work performance, specifically in aging settings, is an understudied area of applied behavioral research. Thus, giving focus to identifying performance deficits may assist with increasing job task enjoyment and improving job performance in human service related positions, especially when incentives for job performance is not available due to limited budgets of non-profit organizations. Studies, to date, have focused much attention on preference instead of actual job performance. The mission of this paper is to further research and professional development by identifying areas of performance deficits in human service positions, and provide a behavior analytic approach to remediate these issues and increase job task performance