All Outputs (13)

The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section (2023)
Journal Article
Wood, R., & McCann, H. (in press). The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section. Gender, Place and Culture, 31(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2023.2276792

The collection of papers we have put together for this special themed section originally emerged from a desire to explore how the rapid and wholescale transformation of everyday spaces brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic might change, challenge an... Read More about The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section.

From aesthetic labour to affective labour: feminine beauty and body work as self-care in UK 'lockdown' (2023)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2024). From aesthetic labour to affective labour: feminine beauty and body work as self-care in UK 'lockdown'. Gender, Place and Culture, 31(1), 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2023.2192892

This paper draws on qualitative survey and interview data with 72 participants focusing on feminine body and beauty work practices in the UK’s first Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ in 2020. The data suggest that the affective dimensions of beauty were intensifie... Read More about From aesthetic labour to affective labour: feminine beauty and body work as self-care in UK 'lockdown'.

‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube (2020)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2021). ‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube. New Media and Society, 23(9), 2754--2772. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820939446

This article is based on an analysis of ‘anti-haul’ videos on YouTube, where a vlogger explains which beauty products they plan not to buy. Anti-haul vloggers have much in common with ‘culture jamming’ movements, which use the communicative practice... Read More about ‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube.

Girls being Rey: ethical cultural consumption, families and popular feminism (2020)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Litherland, B., & Reed, E. (2020). Girls being Rey: ethical cultural consumption, families and popular feminism. Cultural Studies, 34, 546--566. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1656759

Critical feminist hope: the encounter of neoliberalism and popular feminism in WWE 24: Women's Evolution (2018)
Journal Article
Wood, R., & Litherland, B. (2018). Critical feminist hope: the encounter of neoliberalism and popular feminism in WWE 24: Women's Evolution. Feminist Media Studies, 18, 905--922. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1393762

The pleasure imperative? Reflecting on sexual pleasure's inclusion in sex education and sexual health (2018)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Hirst, J., Wilson, L., & Burns-O'Connell, G. (2019). The pleasure imperative? Reflecting on sexual pleasure's inclusion in sex education and sexual health. Sex Education, 19(1), 1--14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1468318

Look good, feel good: sexiness and sexual pleasure in neoliberalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Wood, R. (2017). Look good, feel good: sexiness and sexual pleasure in neoliberalism. In Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking beauty politics in neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan

"Boys think it's just a hairless hole”: Young people's reflections on gendered and heteronormative pedagogies in school based sexuality education (2017)
Book Chapter
Wood, R., Hirst, J., & Marshall, D. (2017). "Boys think it's just a hairless hole”: Young people's reflections on gendered and heteronormative pedagogies in school based sexuality education. In Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education, and Young People

Consumer Sexualities Women and Sex Shopping (2017)
Book
Wood, R. (2017). Consumer Sexualities Women and Sex Shopping. Routledge

This enlightening volume shows how women take up sexual consumer ‘technologies of the self’ to work upon and understand themselves as confident and active sexual agents in postfeminist neoliberal culture.

‘You do act differently when you're in it’: lingerie and femininity (2016)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2016). ‘You do act differently when you're in it’: lingerie and femininity. Journal of Gender Studies, 25, 10--23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2013.874942

Sexual consumption within sexual labour: producing and consuming erotic texts and sexual commodities (2015)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2015). Sexual consumption within sexual labour: producing and consuming erotic texts and sexual commodities. Porn Studies, 2, 250--262. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2015.1051308

Introduction: audiences and consumers of porn (2015)
Journal Article
Mowlabocus, S., & Wood, R. (2015). Introduction: audiences and consumers of porn. Porn Studies, 2, 118--122. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2015.1056465

“Walking and Watching” in Queer London: Sarah Waters’<i>Tipping the Velvet</i>and<i>The Night Watch</i> (2013)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2013). “Walking and Watching” in Queer London: Sarah Waters’Tipping the VelvetandThe Night Watch. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 17, 305--316. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2013.731871