Hypothetically speaking: Using vignettes as a stand-alone qualitative method
(2017)
Book Chapter
Outputs (18)
‘It’s worse for women and girls’: Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk (2014)
Book Chapter
Numerous critical analyses have already established the profoundly gendered nature of normative body ‘ideals’ and weight-management practices in Western cultures. Such studies have, amongst other things, elucidated how body dissatisfaction, ‘dieting’... Read More about ‘It’s worse for women and girls’: Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk.
'It's worse for women and girls': Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk (2013)
Journal Article
Numerous critical analyses have already established the profoundly gendered nature of normative body 'ideals' and weight-management practices in Western cultures. Such studies have, amongst other things, elucidated how body dissatisfaction, 'dieting'... Read More about 'It's worse for women and girls': Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk.
The experience of mothers caring for a child with a brain tumour (2013)
Journal Article
Background: Brain tumours are the second most common form of childhood cancer, accounting for over 20% of all cases in European children. Understanding the impact of diagnosis and treatment of a brain tumour on the family is an essential pre-requisit... Read More about The experience of mothers caring for a child with a brain tumour.
Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women (2013)
Journal Article
A number of feminist scholars have argued that dress and appearance can be used to critique the dominant culture and explore alternative subjectivities. Research on non-heterosexual visual identities has explored the role that appearance and clothing... Read More about Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women.
A critical exploration of lesbian perspectives on eating disorders (2013)
Journal Article
There is now a considerable body of research exploring how culturally dominant gendered norms are implicated in mobilising girls' and women's 'anorexic' and 'bulimic' experiences and practices. However, much less is known about lesbian experiences of... Read More about A critical exploration of lesbian perspectives on eating disorders.
Feeding a fear of fatness? A preliminary investigation of how women with a history of eating disorders view ‘anti-obesity’ health promotion campaigns (2012)
Journal Article
In recent years concerns about an ‘epidemic of obesity’ and its associated implications for health have led to national and global health promotion campaigns seeking to encourage weight-loss through healthier eating and exercise. Whilst intended as h... Read More about Feeding a fear of fatness? A preliminary investigation of how women with a history of eating disorders view ‘anti-obesity’ health promotion campaigns.
Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task (2010)
Journal Article
Using a post-structualist, discourse analytic framework this study investigates constructions of 'anorexia' and 'bulimia' made by young people. A story completion methodology was employed to allow young people to express their understandings of eatin... Read More about Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task.
Qualitative methods from psychology (2010)
Book Chapter
Beyond psychopathology: Interrogating (Dis)orders of body weight and body management (2009)
Journal Article
Appearing to disappear: Postmodern feminities and self-starved subjectivities (2009)
Book Chapter
Beyond western dis/orders: Thinness and self-starvation of other-ed women (2009)
Book Chapter
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.