desiree hellegers, ph.d.
with Laurie Mercier "Red Squads Redux: Portland Versus the FBI." CounterPunch. Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.Clair. 31 October 2005. http://www.counterpunch.org/mercier1031.html
with Laurie Mercier "Tent City Movements"
http://www.outofthedoorways.org/ accessed January 2007.
At the turn of the millenium, the phrase "tent city movements" has increasingly come to refer to intentional communities organized by the unhoused. These communities serve as an alternative to sleeping on the streets or in regimented shelters, and as a form of political protest against the material conditions and social policies that create and perpetuate homelessness.
Handmaid to Divinity University of Oklahoma Press, 2000
Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England
Volume 4 in the Series for Science and Culture Series.
In Handmaid to Divinity, Desiree Hellegers establishes seventeenth-century poetry as a critical resource for understanding the debates about natural philosophy, astronomy, and medicine during the Scientific Revolution. Hellegers provides important insights into seventeenth-century responses to the emergent discourses of western science and into the cultural roots of the current environmental crisis.
Drawing on recent cultural and feminist critiques of science, Hellegers offers finely nuanced readings of John Donne’s Anniversaries, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Anne Finch’s The Spleen.