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Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women? (2010)
Journal Article

There has been a shift in the depiction of women in advertising from objectifying representations of women as passive sex objects to agentic sexual representations where the women appear powerful and in control (Gill, 2007a, 2008), and there is subst... Read More about Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women?.

Tracing a matrix of gender: An analysis of the feminine in hospital-based treatment for eating disorders (2008)
Journal Article

Numerous studies have elucidated how a multiplicity of contemporary western cultural ideas and values that constitute 'normal' femininity are enmeshed in and central to the discursive production and regulation of girls' and women's 'eating disordered... Read More about Tracing a matrix of gender: An analysis of the feminine in hospital-based treatment for eating disorders.