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Jackie Hudson

Location:

CSU, Chico

Specialization:

Biomechanics, Women in sport

Interest:

Alleviating unnecessary clumsiness

Representative Work:

Hudson, J. L. A recovering schizophrenic's perspectives on biomechanics, as part of the program, Current issues in undergraduate biomechanics instruction. Biomechanics Academy, AAHPERD, San Diego, CA, 2002. (Presentation in pdf)

Hudson, J. L. (2000). The biomechanics body of knowledge. In: J. D. Wilkerson (Ed.), Teaching Kinesiology and Biomechanics in Sports IV (pp. 21-42). Denton, TX: Texas Woman's University. (Article in pdf)

Hudson, J. L. (1995). Core concepts of kinesiology. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, 66(5), 54-55, 59-60. (Article in pdf)

Hudson, J. L. (1994). It's mostly a matter of metric. In: D. M. Costa & S. R. Guthrie (Eds.), Women and sport: Interdisciplinary perspectives (pp. 143-162). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. (Excerpt in pdf)

Hudson, J. L. (1986). Coordination of segments in the vertical jump. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 18, 242-251. (Abstract and introduction)

WS Presentations:

Conversations about body, panel presentation, 1998. (pdf)

Possible precursors of one-on-one violence: Reaction to Mariah Burton Nelson, 1995. (pdf)

Activity of Early Passion:

Basketball (experiment in action)

Activity Wish List:

Tai Chi

Did You Know?

Jackie . . .

  • is a rocket science drop-out
  • was the first four-year women's basketball player at UT Austin
  • played professional football (with the Keystone Queen Bees in 1977)
  • co-instigated the AMH Cotillion (1982)

Interesting Books:

Feminist Analysis

  • Virginia Woolf. Three Guineas. NewYork: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1938. (excerpt)
  • Marilyn Frye. The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1983.
  • Marilyn Frye. Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1992.

Education

  • Mary Belenky, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger, & Jill Tarule. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
  • Peter Kline. The Everyday Genius: Restoring Children's Natural Joy of Learning -- And Yours Too. Arlington, VA: Great Ocean Publishers, 1988.
  • bell hooks. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Embodied Knowledge

  • George Lakoff & Mark Johnson. Philosophy of the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
  • Mark Johnson. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Extensions of Jungian Psychology

  • Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter Myers. Gifts Differing. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1980.
  • Jean Shinoda Bolen. Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women. New York: Harper Perennial, 1984.

Perspectives on Science

  • Jerome Ravetz. Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
  • James Gleick. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Viking, 1987.

More Information:

www.csuchico.edu/~jackieh

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