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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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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
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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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Los Estudios CrĂticos de Internet: conceptos, debates y retos
Este artĂculo ofrece una revisiĂłn de la literatura en los Estudios de Internet desde su comienzo hasta la actualidad, prestando particular atenciĂłn a conceptos y debates centrales, ademĂĄs de cuestiones sobre la interactividad del usuario. Un objetivo principal es elaborar una exposiciĂłn de los Estudios CrĂticos de Internet, dado su reconocido interĂ©s y su sorprendente ausencia general en la literatura cientĂfica en español. Asimismo, el artĂculo pretende resaltar la importancia de incorporar una mirada feminista en el trabajo teĂłrico asĂ como empĂrico sobre Internet. En primer lugar se examina una etapa inicial caracterizada por un contraste entre los pronĂłsticos distĂłpicos y las celebraciones optimistas acerca del potencial transformador de Internet. El artĂculo continĂșa esbozando los principales interrogantes y conclusiones surgidos en la segunda etapa de los Estudios de Internet, con su mĂĄs serio compromiso hacia la evidencia empĂrica y su interĂ©s especial en documentar el uso efectivo. La siguiente secciĂłn se centra en los tĂ©rminos âconvergencia mediĂĄticaâ y âcultura participativaâ. Por Ășltimo, se introducen una serie de conceptos clave â donde destaca especialmente el de âtrabajo digitalâ â para un ĂĄrea de estudio con un abordaje alternativo sobre la interactividad en los contextos online e Internet en general. TambiĂ©n se presenta brevemente un caso de estudio como muestra de tal enfoque, asĂ como de la necesidad de una mayor integraciĂłn del anĂĄlisis de gĂ©nero en los Estudios CrĂticos de Internet
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
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Melhoramento genĂ©tico de microrganismos para produção de biocombustĂveis e quĂmicos renovĂĄveis: integração de abordagens de biologia molecular, biologia sistĂȘmica, biologia sintĂ©tica e engenharia metabĂłlica.
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ÂżPornografĂa feminista, pornografĂa antirracista y pornografĂa antiglobalizaciĂłn? Para una crĂtica del proceso de pornificaciĂłn cultural
Working together to (re)produce what has been called âpornificationâ are the market, popular culture and sectors within the academic sphere, even some forms of feminism. This article sets out a critical (re)vision of this phenomenon, together with the alliance between sexualisation-transgression-market-university. First it traces the genealogy of this situation, starting from the âsexual revolutionâ of the sixties and its capitalist and patriarchal re-channeling, continuing with the âsex warsâ of the eighties, and finally arriving at the pornified culture of the new millennium and the rise of porn studies. In a second part, the article proposes approaching the process (and success) of cultural pornification in relation to neoliberalism, understood as a mode of governmentality that is profoundly gendered. It introduces a series of critical concepts we consider useful for future feminist analyses of this complex landscape, notable among which are: âfeminism disarticulatedâ, âsexual entrepreneurâ and âpostfeminist biologismâ. In the conclusion we pose some critical questions about the possibility and desirability of feminist pornography
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
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