Linda L. Layne

Linda L. Layne
Linda L. Layne
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Southern California; (B.A. cum laude); University of Jordan; Cambridge University (M.Phil.); Princeton University (MA, PhD);
Academic work
Institutions	University of Cambridge;
Main interests	New Reproductive Technologies; Pregnancy Loss; Consumer Culture; Feminist Technology and Design; Cultures of Parenting; Single Mothers by Choice; Two-mom and Two-dad Families; Anthropological Approaches to Morality and Ethics; Selfishness / Selflessness;
Website	www.lindallayne.org

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]

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

^ "Linda Layne - ReproSoc". www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk. 22 March 2017.
^ Layne, Linda (1994). Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781417545308.
^ "Rensselaer Magazine: Fall 2006: Motherhood Lost (page 1)". www.rpi.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
^ Takševa, Tatjana. "Review of Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture". Journal of the Motherhood Initiative.
^ 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)
^ 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)
^ 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)
^ Layne, Linda ed. by Janelle S. Taylor (2004). Consuming motherhood. New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.]: Rutgers Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0813534299.
^ "Newsletter |March | 2006 | CAR". car.medanthro.net. Council on Anthropology and Reproduction.
^ Layne, Linda L., ed. (1999). Transformative motherhood : on giving and getting in a consumer culture. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0814751547.
^ 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.

[1] "Linda Layne - ReproSoc". www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk. 22 March 2017.

[2] Layne, Linda (1994). Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781417545308.

[3] "Rensselaer Magazine: Fall 2006: Motherhood Lost (page 1)". www.rpi.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-16.

[TransMotherhoodReview-4] Takševa, Tatjana. "Review of Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture". Journal of the Motherhood Initiative.

[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] 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] 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] Layne, Linda ed. by Janelle S. Taylor (2004). Consuming motherhood. New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.]: Rutgers Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0813534299.

[9] "Newsletter |March | 2006 | CAR". car.medanthro.net. Council on Anthropology and Reproduction.

[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] 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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