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ItemCrawl, crawl, crawl to daddy: Unpacking sexualisation of men in leadership(University of Melbourne, 2022)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAbuse as Artefact: Understanding Digital Abuse of Women as Cultural Informant(Springer International Publishing, 2021)From slut-shaming to “revenge porn”, from harassment to the emerging concern of deepfake pornography, the internet can be a distinctly hostile place for women. While much problematic online activity mimics abuses perpetrated offline, others—like deepfakes, for example—have been made possible because of the technology. In this chapter I examine online abuse as an artefact that is richly revealing about our culture. I begin with a discussion of abuse as artefact. I then explore women’s sexual objectification as a central undercurrent of their abuse, and I use the objectification lens to examine some specific forms of abuse disproportionately directed at women—from slut-shaming to image-based sexual abuse—to investigate what online behaviour reveals about sexual politics.
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ItemThe Cyberbully: Cyberbully (Binamé, 2011): Monsters of Cyberspace(Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers, 2020)This collection of original and accessible essays looks at a variety of contemporary monsters from literature, film, television, music and the internet in their respective cultural contexts.
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ItemRadical and Cultural Feminisms(Wiley-Blackwell, 2021-01-01)This chapter explores the social movement of radical feminism. Emerging out of the women's liberation movement of the late 1960s, radical feminism began with a group of American second‐wave feminists referring to themselves as “radical women” and then eventually adopting the radical feminist label. While the movement was born in the United States, it soon spread to other English‐speaking countries. While the heyday of radical feminism is aligned with feminism's second‐wave – from the mid‐1960s until the early 1980s – some scholars have suggested that the movement isn't totally historic. Radical feminism has, in recent years, substantially impacted on public policy in Scandinavian countries and while the number of radical feminist groups and the volume of their activity may have reduced in the last half‐century, radical feminist scholarship is still being produced. In this chapter, I examine the principles of radical feminism and explore its criticisms and shortcomings. I end with a discussion of legacy and radical feminism's continued relevance into the twenty‐first century.
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ItemThe Internet and Research Methods in the Study of Sex Research: Investigating the Good, the Bad, and the (Un)ethical(Springer Nature, 2017)The Internet has thoroughly revolutionized sex. On an individual level, the technology has become a key source in exploring sexuality, researching sexual interests, and participating in erotic activity, both vicariously and potentially even physically. For scholars, the Internet has given effortless access to academic databases and archives, to social media sites and public diaries, and notably to a world of possible research participants, in turn dramatically altering the ways sex gets studied. This chapter outlines, analyzes, and problematizes the use of the Internet in sex research, drawing on a wide range of literature on research ethics as well as my own background as a sex researcher, an author of a range of recent material specifically about the Internet, a supervisor of several dissertations on new media, and a long-time member of my university’s human ethics committee.
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ItemFrom Memoir to Make Believe: Beyoncé's Lemonade and the Fabrication Possibility(Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, 2017)
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ItemCinema and Cyberphobia: Internet Clichés in Film and Television(Telecommunications Association, 2016)Despite the widespread embrace of the Internet and the second-nature way we each turn to Google for information, to social media to interact with our friends, to netporn and Netflix for recreation, film and television tells a very different story. On screen, a character dating online, gaming online or shopping online invariably serves as a clue that they're somewhat troubled: they may be a socially excluded nerd at one end of the spectrum, through to being a paedophile or homicidal maniac seeking prey at the other. On screen, the Internet is frequently presented as a clue, a risk factor and a rationale for a character's deviance or danger. While the Internet has come to play a significant role in screen narratives, an undercurrent in many depictions - in varying degrees of fervour - is that the Web is complicated, elusive and potentially even hazardous. This paper focuses on some of the persistent negative frames used in portrayals of the Internet and examines how, and why, they recur. This paper focuses on four technophobic frames including dehumanisation, the Internet as a badlands, the Web as possessing inherent vulnerabilities and the cyberbogeyman. Explanations for the popularity of these frames - notably as grounded in the mandates of filmmaking - are also proposed.
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ItemPin-ups in public space Sexist outdoor advertising as sexual harassment(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2007-01-01)
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ItemSex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)
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ItemMaking Their Territory: A Feminist Exploration of Graffiti(Mens Rea: The Criminology Postgraduate Society, 2005)