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Uses a critical psychology approach that looks at body-image as a
complex phenomenon with no easy, clean-cut or self-evident accounts
Offers an innovative and important development in body image
research that uses poststructualist and psycho-social frameworks;
and it develops postfeminist sensibility research by bringing to
the fore its previously implicit engagement with body image
Situated in the new 'post digital cultures' field developing out of
the normalisation of the digital and the blurring of on/offline
subjectivity and practice
Uses a critical psychology approach that looks at body-image as a
complex phenomenon with no easy, clean-cut or self-evident accounts
Offers an innovative and important development in body image
research that uses poststructualist and psycho-social frameworks;
and it develops postfeminist sensibility research by bringing to
the fore its previously implicit engagement with body image
Situated in the new 'post digital cultures' field developing out of
the normalisation of the digital and the blurring of on/offline
subjectivity and practice
Perfect complement to empiricist perspective on women's health
psychology Cross disciplinary author team (psychology and media)
will give the book broad appeal Suitable for both upper level
undergraduates and postgraduate students and researchers Provides
critical perspective on key issues within gender and health
psychology, including body image and sexual health
Perfect complement to empiricist perspective on women's health
psychology Cross disciplinary author team (psychology and media)
will give the book broad appeal Suitable for both upper level
undergraduates and postgraduate students and researchers Provides
critical perspective on key issues within gender and health
psychology, including body image and sexual health
This book offers a trailblazing account of postfeminist sensibility
as a digital feeling that shapes how we understand the world around
us. It explores how we feel in a world where the digital has become
intertwined with our intimate relationships to ourselves and to
others. The book develops a novel approach that draws on feminist
theories of affect, emotion, and structures of feeling, to analyse
the entanglements of the digital and the non-digital, and the
public and the private, and to show how good feeling shapes a
contemporary moment that often leads us back to normativity and
reproduces systemic inequality. This is achieved through several
different digital media spheres, including: the Instagram account
Barbie Savior, #fitspo content, TikTok influencers and their Get
Ready With Me videos, the archive of hot men on TubeCrush, and the
intimacies of the internet cat, suggesting that each offers a
snapshot of our current emotional landscapes.
Marriage is in crisis. The divorce rate is high and both men and
women have gravitated to roles that are unstable, unhealthy and
unnatural. The thing that we desire the most seems to give the most
turmoil. How can it be that God created marriage as the
foundational relationship for society and yet it is the most
difficult of relationships? How is it that God said, "It is not
good for man to be alone," yet every time man and woman get
together their union brings more smoke than fire? Is it the two
becoming one that creates the problem or the choices we make in
marriage? God has a wonderful plan for marriage that carefully
blooms into a delightful union when you choose Him as your guide.
Every woman who desires a marriage "made in heaven" will appreciate
Adrienne's honest, open and real approach to the difficult areas of
marriage. She shares real life experiences that inspire, encourage
and re-affirm the value of womanhood and the beauty of holy
matrimony.
Marriage is in crisis. The divorce rate is high and both men and
women have gravitated to roles that are unstable, unhealthy and
unnatural. The thing that we desire the most seems to give the most
turmoil. How can it be that God created marriage as the
foundational relationship for society and yet it is the most
difficult of relationships? How is it that God said, "It is not
good for man to be alone," yet every time man and woman get
together their union brings more smoke than fire? Is it the two
becoming one that creates the problem or the choices we make in
marriage? God has a wonderful plan for marriage that carefully
blooms into a delightful union when you choose Him as your guide.
Every woman who desires a marriage "made in heaven" will appreciate
Adrienne's honest, open and real approach to the difficult areas of
marriage. She shares real life experiences that inspire, encourage
and re-affirm the value of womanhood and the beauty of holy
matrimony.
Key cultural shifts have enabled a "new sexualization" of women.
Neoliberal, consumerist, and postfeminist media culture have shaped
ways of understanding female sexuality, embodied by the figure of
the choosing, empowered, entrepreneurial consumer citizen-woman,
whose economic capital determines feminine success (and failure).
Informed by older constructs of privilege such as class, sexuality,
race and (dis)ability, this version of sexiness also constrains by
folding contemporary femininity back into previous panics about
youth, excess, "bad" consumption, and appropriate feminine
behavior. In Technologies of Sexiness, Adrienne Evans and Sarah
Riley identify how current understandings of sexiness in public
life and academic discourse have produced a "doubled stagnation,"
cycling around old debates without forward momentum. Developing a
theoretical and methodological framework, they expand on the notion
of a "technology of sexiness." They ask what happens and what is
lost when people make sense of themselves within the complexities
and contradictions of consumer-oriented constructs of sexiness. How
do these discourses come to "transform the self"? This book
provides a framework for understanding how women make sense of
their sexual identities in the context of a feminization of sexual
consumerism. The authors analyze material collected with two groups
of women: the "pleasure pursuers" and "functioning feminists," who
broadly occupy positions across the pre- and post-Thatcher eras,
and the changes brought about by the feminist movement. As one of
the first book-length empirical studies to explore age-related
femininities in the context of what "sexiness" means today, the
authors develop a series of insights into various "technologies of
the self" through analyses of space, nostalgia, and claims to
authentic sexiness.
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