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âJust be confident girls!â: Confidence Chic as Neoliberal Governmentality
In our injurious patriarchal cultures, unconfidence is almost inescapable when inhabiting womanhood. However, recently the promotion of self-confidence has surfaced as the site for expanded, heightened and more insidious modes of regulation, often spearheaded by those very institutions invested in womenâs insecurities. This notably includes consumer womenâs magazines. Contemporary publications are marked by an intensified preoccupation with taking readers âfrom crisis to confidenceâ, offering even dedicated sections (e.g. âconfidence revolutionâ and âBye-bye body hang-upsâ in Cosmopolitan UK) and issuesâsee, for example, Elle UKâs January 2015 âConfidence Issue: A Smart Womanâs Guide to Self-Beliefâ. Clearly, this sector is a fundamental player in the confidence movement-market, bringing together a range of interested parties, not least âlove your bodyâ (LYB) advertisers like Dove (see Gill and Elias 2014), and enjoying an extensive audience reach, both in terms of numbers and geographyâa reach increased to unprecedented degrees by online versions
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Mediating intimacy online: authenticity, magazines and chasing the clicks
This paper offers a production-based study of online consumer magazines for â and largely by â millennial women, with a particular focus on sex and relationship content. Adopting a feminist discourse analytic approach and a solidary-critical position, I examine 62 interviews conducted with producers, mainly writers and editors, from 12 publications based in the UK and Spain. The analysis maps how notions of intimacy penetrate different dimensions of the magazine, along with networks of influence for the development of content about sex and relationships, marked by a perceived shift from âexpertsâ to âreal lifeâ. The ways in which producers describe the particularities of womanâs magazine online journalism and dis/articulate a range of critiques are also explored. The paper highlights the increasing importance of ideas about authenticity for these media, making connections to online cultures, a reinvigorated interest in feminism, and contemporary branding strategies. Ultimately, I argue that journalists at womenâs magazines simultaneously (re)produce, suffer and contest sexist media, deserving further feminist scholarly attention, and our solidarity as well as critique
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Postfeminist sexpertise on the âporn and men issueâ: A transnational perspective
Focusing on womenâs online magazines produced between 2012 and 2014 in the UK and in Spain, this chapter examines peer responses to women feeling distressed about their male partnersâ consumption of pornographies, in addition to editorial content around the subject. Moving beyond âfor and againstâ positions, and driven by a social justice agenda, the chapter utilises this commentary about hetero-male- oriented pornographies as a point of analytical entry into the kinds of gendered and sexual pleasures, bodies, subjectivities and intimate relational possibilities contemporary (new) media and public sex and relationship advice bring into being and render (un)intelligible. In doing so, it seeks to contribute to feminist interrogations of the politics of mediated intimacy and pornification under neoliberalism and postfeminism, incorporating a much-needed transnational perspective
Comment on: Reply to comment on `Perfect imaging without negative refraction'
Whether or not perfect imaging is obtained in the mirrored version of
Maxwell's fisheye lens is debated in the comment/reply sequence
[Blaikie-2010njp, Leonhardt-2010njp] discussing Leonhardt's original paper
[Leonhardt-2009njp]. Here we show that causal solutions can be obtained without
the need for an "active localized drain", contrary to the claims in
[Leonhardt-2010njp].Comment: v2 (added MEEP ctl file), v3 (publisher statement
Genome sequence of Rhizobium sullae HCNT1 isolated from Hedysarum coronarium nodules and featuring peculiar denitrification phenotypes
The genome sequence of Rhizobium sullae strain HCNT1, isolated from root nodules of the legume Hedysarum coronarium growing in wild stands in Tuscany, Italy, is described here. Unlike other R. sullae strains, this isolate features a truncated denitrification pathway lacking NO/N2O reductase activity and displaying high sensitivity to nitrite under anaerobic conditions
Fast method for the determination of short-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (scl-PHAs) in bacterial samples by In Vial-Thermolysis (IVT)
none8siA new method based on the GCâMS analysis of thermolysis products obtained by treating bacterial
samples at a high temperature (above 270 C) has been developed. This method, here named âIn-Vial-
Thermolysisâ (IVT), allowed for the simultaneous determination of short-chain-length polyhydrox-
yalkanoates (scl-PHA) content and composition. The method was applied to both single strains and
microbial mixed cultures (MMC) fed with different carbon sources.
The IVT procedure provided similar analytical performances compared to previous Py-GCâMS and Py-
GC-FID methods, suggesting a similar application for PHA quantitation in bacterial cells. Results from the
IVT procedure and the traditional methanolysis method were compared; the correlation between the
two datasets was
fit for the purpose, giving a R2 of 0.975. In search of further simplification, the rationale
of IVT was exploited for the development of a âfield methodâ based on the titration of thermolyzed
samples with sodium hydrogen carbonate to quantify PHA inside bacterial cells. The accuracy of the IVT
method was
fit for the purpose.
These results lead to the possibility for the on-line measurement of PHA productivity. Moreover, they
allow for the fast and inexpensive quantification/characterization of PHA for biotechnological process
control, as well as investigation over various bacterial communities and/or feeding strategies.mixedF. Abbondanzi; G. Biscaro; G. Carvalho; L. Favaro; P. Lemos; M. Paglione; C. SamorĂŹ; C. TorriF. Abbondanzi; G. Biscaro; G. Carvalho; L. Favaro; P. Lemos; M. Paglione; C. SamorĂŹ; C. Torr
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