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Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

Spring 2026 WGST Publications

Read the latest publications from our accomplished students and faculty! 

Dr. Deborah Billings: 

Dr. Flora Blanchette-Oswald:  

  • In Fat Studies: Fat people’s expectations of prejudice: predictors of anticipated prejudice from various groups 
  • In Fat Studies: Dying while fat: Post-mortem inequality 

Drs. Flora Blanchette-Oswald & Cara Delay in Women’s Reproductive Health:  Commentary: Abortion Geographies: The Need for Proximal Spatial Analyses  

Dr. Kathleen Broussard in Population Research and Policy Review: Women’s Reproductive Health Conditions and Fertility Goals 

Drs. Kathleen Broussard & Emily Mann: 

  • In Contraception: Adolescent and young adult women’s experiences of contraceptive coercion in healthcare interactions in the southern United States 
  • In Social Science & Medicine: Contraceptive autonomy of adolescents and young adults in the U.S. South: The influence of healthcare providers, partners, and parents 

Dr. Cara Delay:  

  • In Journal of Social History: “Carried to the Swamp”: Race, Place, and Geographies of Infant Death in the Post-Emancipation American South

Rachel Gulczinski in Health Equity: The Blurred Boundaries of Care: A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse-Doula Role Conflict 

Dr. Ed Madden in the CHAPS Poetry Series: I Asked Him What He Needed  

Dr. Emily Mann in Frontiers: “If I can accept my queerness, I can accept my body as it is”: Understanding weight-related perspectives and stigma from sexual minority women 

Dr. Leland Spencer in Communication Studies: Unsettling Silence 


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