All Outputs (10)

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

‘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