168 research outputs found
âIâm Not Waving, Iâm Drowningâ: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Biographical Disruption and Reconstruction During Recovery From Prescribed Benzodiazepine Use
Benzodiazepines are group of drugs used mainly as sedatives, hypnotics, muscle relaxants, and anti-epileptics. Tapering off benzodiazepines is, for some users, a painful, traumatic, and protracted process. In this article, I use an autoethnographic approach, adopting the metaphor of water, to examine heuristically my experience of iatrogenic illness and recovery. I draw on personal journals and blog entries and former usersâ narratives to consider the particular form of biographical disruption associated with benzodiazepines and the processes involved in identity reconstruction. I emphasize the role of the online community in providing benzodiazepine users such as myself with a co-cultural community through which to share a voice and make sense of our experiences. I explain how the success stories of former users provided me with the hope that I, the âmedical victim,â could become the âvictorâ and in the process construct a new life and fresh identity
'Sexercise': Working out heterosexuality in Jane Fondaâs fitness books
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Leisure Studies, 30(2), 237 - 255, 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02614367.2010.523837.This paper explores the connection between the promotion of heterosexual norms in womenâs fitness books written by or in the name of Jane Fonda during the 1980s and the commodification of womenâs fitness space in both the public and private spheres. The paper is set in the absence of overt discussions of normative heterosexuality in leisure studies and draws on critical heterosexual scholarship as well as the growing body of work theorising geographies of corporeality and heterosexuality. Using the principles of media discourse analysis, the paper identifies three overlapping characteristics of heterosexuality represented in Jane Fondaâs fitness books, and embodied through the exercise regimes: respectable heterosexual desire, monogamous procreation and domesticity. The paper concludes that the promotion and prescription of exercise for women in the Jane Fonda workout books centred on the reproduction and embodiment of heterosexual corporeality. Set within an emerging commercial landscape of womenâs fitness in the 1980s, such exercise practices were significant in the legitimation and institutionalisation of heteronormativity
Digital Gender: A Manifesto - Report on the Research Workshop Digital Gender, Theory, Methodology, and Practice
Understanding Gender Inequality in Poverty and Social Exclusion through a Psychological Lens:Scarcities, Stereotypes and Suggestions
Women and men speaking : frameworks for analysis
This significant study of the interaction\ua0between language and sex\ua0raises some fundamental questions about the relationship between society and culture and\ua0language use and structure. Interdisciplinary in scope,\ua0the author's theoretical frameworks draw on work done in anthropology. sociology, and psycholinguistics, incorporating reviews of past work on language and sex, original new research, and guidelines for future study.\ua0Women and\ua0Men Speaking is ideal for courses in sociolinguistics, anthropology, speech communication, and sociology dealing with language and sex. It is recommended reading for sociolinguistics, who until recently paid little attention to the ways sex affects our speech and our assumptions about the speech behavior of others
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