All Outputs (13)

The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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

Critical feminist hope: the encounter of neoliberalism and popular feminism in WWE 24: Women's Evolution (2018)
Journal Article

The pleasure imperative? Reflecting on sexual pleasure's inclusion in sex education and sexual health (2018)
Journal Article

Look good, feel good: sexiness and sexual pleasure in neoliberalism (2017)
Book Chapter

"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

Consumer Sexualities Women and Sex Shopping (2017)
Book

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

Sexual consumption within sexual labour: producing and consuming erotic texts and sexual commodities (2015)
Journal Article

Introduction: audiences and consumers of porn (2015)
Journal Article

“Walking and Watching” in Queer London: Sarah Waters’<i>Tipping the Velvet</i>and<i>The Night Watch</i> (2013)
Journal Article