When it comes to relationships, there's no shortage of advice from self-help 'experts', pick-up
artists, and glossy magazines. But modern-day myths of attraction often have no basis in fact …

Body dissatisfaction is so common in the western world that it has become the norm,
especially among women and girls. Writing New Body Worlds is a transdisciplinary research …

TikTok, a now iconoclastic social media platform, hosts millions of videos on health,
wellness and physical fitness, including content on postpartum wellness and 'bouncing …

Mass media has played an integral role in establishing societal norms around women and
their appearances. Feminists have argued that media exposure have has had a negative …

Abstract The UK National Health Service (NHS) is one of the largest employers in the world
and relies heavily on Black migrant women. Nonetheless, reports of (gendered) racism …

Alternative therapies which aim to enhance women's wellbeing have been accused of
contributing to healthist and postfeminist agendas which rest upon a neoliberal logic. I …

Visual images deserve our critical attention more than ever. In this commentary, I draw
together the papers in this Special Issue on Diversity in gender and visual representation …

Postfeminist media culture celebrates female bodies as a source of identity and power and
calls for women to engage in work on the physical and psychological self. This paper offers …

Recent upheaval in racism debates across western countries is exemplified in New Zealand
in the decision to compulsorily teach Māori histories in schools. Until recently this history has …

Included in the Gathering: ELO2019 Gathering (Cork, Ireland) Against the backdrop of
écriture feminine and e-lit texts, Ensslin et. al advance methods and findings of the" Writing …