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Roundtable discussion (2024)
Journal Article
Hakim, J., Kanai, A., Redmond, S., Winch, A., & Wood, R. (2024). Roundtable discussion. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2356923

For over three decades now Rosalind Gill has played a critical role in steering the direction of feminist media studies. Her scholarship provides a powerful overview of what it has been like for women (and others) to engage with, work in and be repre... Read More about Roundtable discussion.

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

<jats:p> 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... Read More about ‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube.

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.