R Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 34644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0053-2969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Meme-ing while the world burns
This article makes a case for the value and urgency of a cultural study’s contextual approach to researching how climate change news events are interpreted by audiences. Research that applies a classically cultural studies ‘bottom-up’ approach to studying climate media audiences in the spaces and contexts where they encounter and negotiate meaning is surprisingly sparse in the scholarship on climate news reception. The article draws on a case stu…
Roundtable discussion
For over three decades now Rosalind Gill has played a critical role in steering the direction of feminist media studies. Her scholarship provides a powerful overview of what it has been like for wo
A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor
How do Instagram sustainability influencers communicate criticisms of consumer culture, and try to promote more sustainable alternatives, in the context of a platform and industry that seeks to promote consumption by design? Drawing on an ethnography of Instagram influencers who advocate 'zero waste' lifestyle politics, this paper argues that a 'sustainability paradox' emerges from the impossibility of aligning environmental values with the comme…
Do small effects matter more in vulnerable populations? an investigation using Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (Echo) cohorts
Vulnerable sub-populations with greater baseline percentages at high risk fare worse when exposed to a small insult compared to the general population. This illustrates another facet of health disparity in vulnerable individuals
The gendered body during Covid-19
The collection of papers we have put together for this special themed section originally emerged from a desire to explore how the rapid and wholescale transformation of everyday spaces brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic might change, challenge and shift experiences and understandings of the gendered body. Since 2020, we have witnessed and experienced the dramatic alteration of everyday mobilities and a concurrent reconfiguration of spatial an…
From aesthetic labour to affective labour
This paper draws on qualitative survey and interview data with 72 participants focusing on feminine body and beauty work practices in the UK’s first Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ in 2020. The data suggest that the affective dimensions of beauty were intensified, accelerated, and expanded during this period. Feminine beauty and body work was deployed to produce desired affects: namely positivity, productivity, and the elimination of stress and anxiety. I ar…
Burial practices in the early mid-Holocene of the Wallacean Islands
Girls being Rey
This paper argues that consumers of popular culture engage in practices of ‘ethical cultural consumption’, whereby the consumption of cultural texts is imagined as having the potential to ‘do good’ both individually and socio-politically. The paper explores data from an online questionnaire and drawing activity with girls aged 5–10 and their parents on the experience of costume playing as Rey from the contemporary Star Wars trilogy. Imagined as a…
What I’m not gonna buy’
This article is based on an analysis of ‘anti-haul’ videos on YouTube, where a vlogger explains which beauty products they plan not to buy. Anti-haul vloggers have much in common with ‘culture jamming’ movements, which use the communicative practices and materials of promotional culture against itself to spread an anti-consumerist agenda. The article argues that anti-hauls should be understood as the reinvention of ‘culture jamming’ techniques fo…
The pleasure imperative? Reflecting on sexual pleasure’s inclusion in sex education and sexual health
This article offers an empirically grounded contribution to scholarship exploring the ways in which pleasure is ‘put to work’ in sex and sexuality education. Such research has cautioned against framing pleasure as a normative requirement of sexual activity and hence reproducing a ‘pleasure imperative’. This paper draws on interviews with sexual health and education practitioners who engaged with Pleasure Project resources and training between 200…
Fish otolith microchemistry
Wood charcoal analysis at Riwi cave, Gooniyandi country, Western Australia
Critical feminist hope
Scholarship has pointed to contemporary feminism’s popularity and cultural “luminosity.” While this research has highlighted the limitations of feminist politics in a context of neoliberal individualism, this paper seeks to ask what possibilities for critiques and transformation of gender inequalities might be enabled by feminism’s visibility in neoliberalism. Using a framework of critical feminist hope, we highlight that capitalism’s embrace of …
You do act differently when you're in it
This paper examines British women's accounts of buying and wearing lingerie taken from in-depth interviews exploring experiences of shopping in sex shops. Lingerie forms one part of a sexual consumer culture that is positioned within a neoliberal discourse of postfeminism. Women's engagement with the representation of lingerie, the way they enact lingerie buying and wearing in their everyday lives and the ways they speak about these practices sho…
The first farmers in Cantabrian Spain
Sexual consumption within sexual labour
This paper explores the various connections between two particularly feminized fields of sexual culture – erotic fiction and sex toys – through an examination of the accounts of five UK women who are both readers and writers (or producers) of erotic fiction. The qualitative data evidence, first, a network of production and consumption across the fields of erotica and sex toys, and, second, the formulation of erotica writing/producing as a form of…
Introduction
Who are pornography consumers? If we are to believe the widespread media coverage, typically authored by journalists who are purportedly not themselves porn users, audiences are made up largely of
Occurrence of whale barnacles in Nerja Cave (Málaga, southern Spain)
Walking and Watching” in Queer London
This article argues that Sarah Waters' representation of London in her historical fictions Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch is used to delineate the gendered bodies and sexual identities of her characters. A historical summary demonstrates that female masculinity was slowly mapped onto sexual identity between the 1880s and 1940s in Britain. The article argues that Waters' "inventive" use of this history allows her to question the constructi…
Temporal and Spatial Variability in the Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay
Homing In
Should the Language and Legislation of Women's Rights be Implemented in the Arguments for Consecrating Women as Bishops in the Church of England
This article explores some of the benefits and pitfalls of applying rights language and legislation to the debate over whether to consecrate women as bishops in the Church of England. Secular feminists have pointed out tensions between the concept of women's rights and religious freedom which highlight conflicts in law between religious and gender identities. Women priests have not, as yet, used equal opportunities legislation as a tool to allow …
Whither the Precautionary Principle? An American Assessment from an Administrative Law Perspective
Stephen G. Wood, Stephen Q. Wood, Rachel A. Wood; Whither the Precautionary Principle? An American Assessment from an Administrative Law Perspective, The A
A retrospective evaluation of 316(b) mitigation options using a decision analysis framework
Debat
DEBAT: WORKING-CLASS FERTILITY DECLINE IN BRITAIN Get access Robert Woods Robert Woods University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 134, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 200–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/134.1.200 Published: 01 February 1992
Family building
What I’m not gonna buy’
This article is based on an analysis of ‘anti-haul’ videos on YouTube, where a vlogger explains which beauty products they plan not to buy. Anti-haul vloggers have much in common with ‘culture jamming’ movements, which use the communicative practices and materials of promotional culture against itself to spread an anti-consumerist agenda. The article argues that anti-hauls should be understood as the reinvention of ‘culture jamming’ techniques fo…
Critical feminist hope
Scholarship has pointed to contemporary feminism’s popularity and cultural “luminosity.” While this research has highlighted the limitations of feminist politics in a context of neoliberal individualism, this paper seeks to ask what possibilities for critiques and transformation of gender inequalities might be enabled by feminism’s visibility in neoliberalism. Using a framework of critical feminist hope, we highlight that capitalism’s embrace of …
Introduction
Who are pornography consumers? If we are to believe the widespread media coverage, typically authored by journalists who are purportedly not themselves porn users, audiences are made up largely of
From aesthetic labour to affective labour
This paper draws on qualitative survey and interview data with 72 participants focusing on feminine body and beauty work practices in the UK’s first Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ in 2020. The data suggest that the affective dimensions of beauty were intensified, accelerated, and expanded during this period. Feminine beauty and body work was deployed to produce desired affects: namely positivity, productivity, and the elimination of stress and anxiety. I ar…
The decline of marital fertility in the late nineteenth century
This paper deals with two kinds of theoretical approach to the explanation of fertility control during the nineteenth century and considers two forms of empirical analysis. Explanations which emphasize the role of the changing structural context (industrialization and urbanization for example) are contrasted with those which make use of behavioural interpretations in which the decision-making of individual couples is paramount. In the empirical a…
Sexual consumption within sexual labour
This paper explores the various connections between two particularly feminized fields of sexual culture – erotic fiction and sex toys – through an examination of the accounts of five UK women who are both readers and writers (or producers) of erotic fiction. The qualitative data evidence, first, a network of production and consumption across the fields of erotica and sex toys, and, second, the formulation of erotica writing/producing as a form of…
A retrospective evaluation of 316(b) mitigation options using a decision analysis framework
Debat
DEBAT: WORKING-CLASS FERTILITY DECLINE IN BRITAIN Get access Robert Woods Robert Woods University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 134, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 200–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/134.1.200 Published: 01 February 1992
Some Results and Applications of Karst Hydrology
Family building
The decline of marital fertility in the late nineteenth century
This paper deals with two kinds of theoretical approach to the explanation of fertility control during the nineteenth century and considers two forms of empirical analysis. Explanations which emphasize the role of the changing structural context (industrialization and urbanization for example) are contrasted with those which make use of behavioural interpretations in which the decision-making of individual couples is paramount. In the empirical a…
Urban Disease and Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England
Debat
DEBAT: WORKING-CLASS FERTILITY DECLINE IN BRITAIN Get access Robert Woods Robert Woods University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 134, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 200–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/134.1.200 Published: 01 February 1992
A retrospective evaluation of 316(b) mitigation options using a decision analysis framework
Whither the Precautionary Principle? An American Assessment from an Administrative Law Perspective
Stephen G. Wood, Stephen Q. Wood, Rachel A. Wood; Whither the Precautionary Principle? An American Assessment from an Administrative Law Perspective, The A
Should the Language and Legislation of Women's Rights be Implemented in the Arguments for Consecrating Women as Bishops in the Church of England
This article explores some of the benefits and pitfalls of applying rights language and legislation to the debate over whether to consecrate women as bishops in the Church of England. Secular feminists have pointed out tensions between the concept of women's rights and religious freedom which highlight conflicts in law between religious and gender identities. Women priests have not, as yet, used equal opportunities legislation as a tool to allow …
Temporal and Spatial Variability in the Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay
Homing In
Walking and Watching” in Queer London
This article argues that Sarah Waters' representation of London in her historical fictions Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch is used to delineate the gendered bodies and sexual identities of her characters. A historical summary demonstrates that female masculinity was slowly mapped onto sexual identity between the 1880s and 1940s in Britain. The article argues that Waters' "inventive" use of this history allows her to question the constructi…
Occurrence of whale barnacles in Nerja Cave (Málaga, southern Spain)
The first farmers in Cantabrian Spain
Sexual consumption within sexual labour
This paper explores the various connections between two particularly feminized fields of sexual culture – erotic fiction and sex toys – through an examination of the accounts of five UK women who are both readers and writers (or producers) of erotic fiction. The qualitative data evidence, first, a network of production and consumption across the fields of erotica and sex toys, and, second, the formulation of erotica writing/producing as a form of…
Introduction
Who are pornography consumers? If we are to believe the widespread media coverage, typically authored by journalists who are purportedly not themselves porn users, audiences are made up largely of
You do act differently when you're in it
This paper examines British women's accounts of buying and wearing lingerie taken from in-depth interviews exploring experiences of shopping in sex shops. Lingerie forms one part of a sexual consumer culture that is positioned within a neoliberal discourse of postfeminism. Women's engagement with the representation of lingerie, the way they enact lingerie buying and wearing in their everyday lives and the ways they speak about these practices sho…
Wood charcoal analysis at Riwi cave, Gooniyandi country, Western Australia
Critical feminist hope
Scholarship has pointed to contemporary feminism’s popularity and cultural “luminosity.” While this research has highlighted the limitations of feminist politics in a context of neoliberal individualism, this paper seeks to ask what possibilities for critiques and transformation of gender inequalities might be enabled by feminism’s visibility in neoliberalism. Using a framework of critical feminist hope, we highlight that capitalism’s embrace of …
Fish otolith microchemistry
The pleasure imperative? Reflecting on sexual pleasure’s inclusion in sex education and sexual health
This article offers an empirically grounded contribution to scholarship exploring the ways in which pleasure is ‘put to work’ in sex and sexuality education. Such research has cautioned against framing pleasure as a normative requirement of sexual activity and hence reproducing a ‘pleasure imperative’. This paper draws on interviews with sexual health and education practitioners who engaged with Pleasure Project resources and training between 200…
Girls being Rey
This paper argues that consumers of popular culture engage in practices of ‘ethical cultural consumption’, whereby the consumption of cultural texts is imagined as having the potential to ‘do good’ both individually and socio-politically. The paper explores data from an online questionnaire and drawing activity with girls aged 5–10 and their parents on the experience of costume playing as Rey from the contemporary Star Wars trilogy. Imagined as a…
What I’m not gonna buy’
This article is based on an analysis of ‘anti-haul’ videos on YouTube, where a vlogger explains which beauty products they plan not to buy. Anti-haul vloggers have much in common with ‘culture jamming’ movements, which use the communicative practices and materials of promotional culture against itself to spread an anti-consumerist agenda. The article argues that anti-hauls should be understood as the reinvention of ‘culture jamming’ techniques fo…
Burial practices in the early mid-Holocene of the Wallacean Islands
The gendered body during Covid-19
The collection of papers we have put together for this special themed section originally emerged from a desire to explore how the rapid and wholescale transformation of everyday spaces brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic might change, challenge and shift experiences and understandings of the gendered body. Since 2020, we have witnessed and experienced the dramatic alteration of everyday mobilities and a concurrent reconfiguration of spatial an…
From aesthetic labour to affective labour
This paper draws on qualitative survey and interview data with 72 participants focusing on feminine body and beauty work practices in the UK’s first Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ in 2020. The data suggest that the affective dimensions of beauty were intensified, accelerated, and expanded during this period. Feminine beauty and body work was deployed to produce desired affects: namely positivity, productivity, and the elimination of stress and anxiety. I ar…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Politics (6 works)