Emily Chivers Yochim

Associate ProfessorAllegheny College

eyochim@allegheny.edu

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The Precarity of Us: Solidarity in the Digital Age

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Julie A Wilson Allegheny College

Emily Chivers Yochim Allegheny College

March 10, 2020
The Precarity of Us: Solidarity in the Digital Age precarity solidarity democracy The Precarity of Us: Solidarity in the Digital Age Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim In her piece “How the Transformative Power of Solidarity Will Defeat Trump,” Na ...
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"Just the random musings of a former Playboy bunny": Negotiating "Mommy Instinct" and Scientific Expertise in the Vaccine/Autism Debate

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Emily Chivers Yochim Allegheny College

April 07, 2011
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"Just the random musings of a former Playboy bunny": Negotiating "Mommy Instinct" and Scientific Expertise in the Vaccine/Autism Debate scientific expertise Jenny McCarthy autism Curator's Note by Emily Chivers Yochim and Vesta Si ...

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Re: "Just the random musings of a former Playboy bunny": Negotiating "Mommy Instinct" and Scientific Expertise in the Vaccine/Autism Debate

Privileged Mothering

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Emily Chivers Yochim Allegheny College

Saturday, April 9, 2011 — 3:30 am
Thanks, Wendy & Nedda for your thoughtful responses. Wendy, you make a good point about physician education and its consequences for doctor/patient relations. McCarthy is absolutely operating in a culture in which many parents feel as though their phy ...
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Re: Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live

XBox As A Civil Right?

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Emily Chivers Yochim Allegheny College

Monday, April 4, 2011 — 8:52 pm
Thanks for kicking off the week, Steven! I was particularly interested in the ways in which this news story seems to construct Xbox Live as a civil right. Julias's mother attempts to suggest that the folks at XBox Live were taking away something fund ...