Linda L. Layne Explained

Linda L. Layne
Nationality:	American

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

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