Social theories of the body have exerted an enormous influence on the social sciences and
humanities in the past two decades. From being a subject of marginal academic interest, the …

The changed meaning of the 'body shop', from a section of a car factory–or a garage
knocking wrecks back into shape–to The Body Shop, a chain of stores selling products to …

" Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between
sexualities, space and place. Drawing established and'founding'figures of the field together …

I was recently asked what drew me to research sexuality. My answer was that this area
carries a social stigma that renders talk about sexuality and its pleasures often …

This chapter demonstrates how, in the fight for better behaviour, those who can't or won't
conform to the norm come to be figured as unreasonable. By investigating reasonableness …

This edited book sets out a research agenda for the study of dirty work–generally defined as
tasks, occupations and roles that are likely to be perceived as disgusting or degrading …

This article analyses the outcome of the Egyptian uprising on women's issues by focusing on
women's bodies and the discursive ways by which they are constituted and constitute …

In this paper we argue that what is missing from many ethnographic accounts is a
recognition that dilemmas inevitably emerge for the researcher before they make contact …

For organizational ethnography we argue that traditional philosophies of onto-
epistemological realism be supplanted by interpretive and reflexive thinking to provide fresh …

If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? This compelling collection of short stories,
essays, and poems features dress as the structural grounding for autobiographical accounts …