This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in
assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts …

Therapeutic touch has played an important part in human civilization and continues to
contribute to our social relations and individual identities. Therapeutic touch has been a vital …

We outline a framework for conceptualising interventions in health as 'evidence-making
interventions'. An evidence-making intervention (EMI) approach is distinct from a …

The aim of this article is to demystify what we think we are doing when we engage in
qualitative analysis. We illustrate the centrality of affect in meaning making, showing how …

Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been
subject to intense scrutiny on the part of the behavioural and sociomedical sciences. What …

This paper explores how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical concepts extend and
elaborate discursive and psychoanalytic interpretations of qualitative research findings …

Two theoretical moves are required to resist the 'humanist enticements' associated with
sexuality. Post-structuralism supplies the first, showing how the social produces culturally …

In recent years a proliferation of reality based media focusing on the body, diet and exercise
have sought not only to entertain audiences, but also to operate as pedagogical sites …

While many aspects of social life possess an emotional component, sociology needs to
explore explicitly the part emotions play in producing the social world and human history …

While critical drug researchers have long pushed for an acknowledgement of pleasure in
discourses of drug use, few have explored the alternative possibilities offered by Deleuze …