All Outputs (32)

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?.

Beyond psychopathology: Interrogating (Dis)orders of body weight and body management (2009)
Journal Article

Beyond western dis/orders: Thinness and self-starvation of other-ed women (2009)
Book Chapter

Re-theorising the slash of dis/order: An introduction to critical feminist approaches to eating dis/orders (2009)
Book Chapter

Appearing to disappear: Postmodern feminities and self-starved subjectivities (2009)
Book Chapter

Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/orders (2009)
Book

Deconstructing body weight and weight management (2008)
Book Chapter

Speaking of home truth: (Re)productions of dyadic-containment in non-monogamous relationships (2008)
Journal Article

This paper is a critical exploration of the discursive and socio-historical practice of 'dyadic-containment' as a principle index for how we know, experience, and authenticate romantic relationships. Making intelligible an 'authentic' relationship as... Read More about Speaking of home truth: (Re)productions of dyadic-containment in non-monogamous relationships.

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.

The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa (1997)
Book

Final report RSHE recommendations to schools 2023
Report

The Women and Equalities Committee inquiry (2016), found sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools to be widespread, facilitated by access to online pornography. UK research found most children have seen pornography by 16, with 75% reporting t... Read More about Final report RSHE recommendations to schools 2023.

Short summary of research with young people for the development of impactful RSHE 2023
Report

The Women and Equalities Committee inquiry (2016), found sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools to be widespread, facilitated by access to online pornography. UK research found most children have seen pornography by 16, with 75% reporting t... Read More about Short summary of research with young people for the development of impactful RSHE 2023.