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Kitsch! : cultural politics and taste
This book explores the changing significance of kitsch. With its unique approach to its subject, Kitsch!: Cultural Politics and Taste promises to advance debates in cultural studies and sociology around taste, while providing an invaluable introduction for students.
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Beautyscapes
Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to access treatment abroad, including surgeons and facilitators. It documents the journeys of those who travel for treatment abroad, as well as the nature and power relations of the IMT industry. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Beautyscapes draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility to explain the nature and growing popularity of cosmetic surgery tourism. Richly illustrated with ethnographic material and with the voices of those directly involved in cosmetic surgery tourism, Beautyscapes explores cosmetic surgery journeys from Australia and China to East-Asia and from the UK to Europe and North Africa.
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Beautyscapes : mapping cosmetic surgery tourism
Beautyscapes is the first book to focus specifically on cosmetic surgery tourism. It draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility, such as gender and class, neoliberalism, social media, conviviality and care, to explain the nature and growing popularity of international medical travel.
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Filming “The Closet”
This article explores the potential of video diaries in capturing identity performances. Through selected excerpts of video diaries by “queer” subjects, the methodological issues that the video diaries raise and the kinds of data made available through them are explored. This article argues that identities are constructed as a “text” on the surface of bodies and that the participant’s experience of “comfort” or “discomfort” relates to the extent to which they are read with or against authorial intention. Identity reading is complicated in a heterosexist culture structured by “the closet” in which “misreading” has been developed into a powerful normalizing mechanism.
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Philadelphia: AIDS, Organization, Representation
An integrated organization studies-film studies approach is used to critique Jonathan Demme's film Philadelphia (1993), which documents the connection between AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), homosexuality, & the dominance of heterosexual discourse in contemporary organizations. The legal organization in which the protagonist Andrew Beckett is employed is described as dominated by heterosexual masculinity. David Goss's (1994) notion of the \"disorganization of AIDS\" & analysis of several scenes from the film help demonstrate how the discovery of an individual with AIDS in an organization essentially disrupts that organization's logic. Although it disintegrates organization logic by undermining traditional homosocial behavior, it is contended that AIDS also threatens humankind's faith in scientific discourse. Noting that Philadelphia was written for a heterosexual audience, it is maintained that the film concretizes the immutable nature of heterosexuality, & Hollywood is delineated as a heteronormative organization. 1 Figure, 34 References. J. W. Parker
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On the Biomedicalisation of the Penis: The Commodification of Function and Aesthetics
This paper explores contemporary understandings and representations of the penis. It presents an overview of recent trends which re-frame long-standing penile anxieties within a new hybrid world of health and aesthetics. It explores these apparent changes through the lens of biomedicalisation. By focusing on constructions of masculinities in crisis, changes in the representability of the penis and the effects of Viagra, it suggests that contemporary penile pathologies and anxieties are being constructed and commodified. In the past medical discourse has focused primarily upon the 'traditional' functionality of the penis, more recently it has focussed upon pharmaceutical innovations such as Viagra. However, we suggest that now there appears to be the emergence of a new penile discourse, a penile aesthetic that focuses upon penile appearance as much as function. This shift has been facilitated by the Internet, the deregulation of pornography and changes in sexual mores. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Body and organization
Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a new generation of students and researchers.
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Cosmetic convivialities and cosmopolitan beginnings
In March 2012 we accompanied three women travelling as part of a package arranged for them by a cosmetic surgery tourism facilitator/agent to Tunisia for a variety of procedures. Lorna, who was 27 and from Scotland, worked on a North Sea oil rig and travelled for a breast augmentation and liposuction; 45-year-old Anita, the owner of an up-market hair salon in the south of England, was having a facelift; and Sally, aged 52, was having breast implants replaced, eyelids lifted, eye bags removed, the muscles in her chin and neck tightened, and a neck lift. We also interviewed 47-year-old Jenny,
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Clinical trails
When we began the research project on which this book is based, we were all too aware of the criticisms of international medical travel (IMT) and of cosmetic surgery. In the mainstream media IMT is largely represented as personally and socially selfish and reckless, especially when it involves cosmetic procedures. The stereotype is one of patients travelling abroad for procedures on the cheap, carried out by unqualified ‘cowboy’ medics who make big profits based on the promise of magical results that can never be achieved. Added to this are recurrent narratives of returning patients being patched up back home by
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