Sara Romme Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 140964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Romme Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara Romme |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3406-7142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Father of four, husband, triathlete' - assembling the male cosmetic surgeon in micro cultures of aesthetic health on Instagram
In this article, I present a study of emerging and fast-growing practices of marketing cosmetic surgery on the social media platform Instagram by analyzing a corpus of fifteen Instagram profiles managed by Argentine cosmetic surgeons. I engage with the notion that cosmetic surgery, a field inscribed in a strong gendered binary, has historically relied upon the cultural and mediatized visibility of the female body, often casting the male cosmetic …
Medicine MAN. Reconfigurations of masculinity in times of increased medicalization
Selling manhood online. Cultural imaginaries of testosterone in the marketing of the nutritional supplement T8
In this article, we analyze the marketing of T8, a nutritional supplement sold to the Danish market on the promise of raising (cisgendered) men’s natural production of the sex hormone testosterone. T8 is one out of many testosterone enhancing supplements that have resurfaced and are marketed online, and we understand T8 as an example of the current bio-medicalization paradigm, which increasingly frames men’s health in terms of hormone levels. In …
Men don't do Botox, they do Brotox’ – Emerging Configurations of Masculinity in the Marketing of Cosmetic Treatments Online
Non-invasive cosmetic treatments are increasingly popular, and the cosmetic skincare industry is currently experiencing growth at a global scale. Men are reported to constitute a growing consumer segment of this emerging market and accordingly, men are being targeted in the marketing of cosmetic skincare clinics (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2018). On clinic websites, content is emerging as “especially for men”. This feeds i…
Beasts, victims or competent agents
Drawing on positioning theory, Warming, Galløe, Carlsen and Rasmussen explore how discourses of manipulation in everyday life debates and research literature contribute to what Cook has termed 'the moral project of childhood'. The analysis shows that children are positioned in these discourses either as incompetent, powerless victims or as powerful, egoistic or psychopathological agents, and moreover that these discourses unreflexively build upon…
Men don't do Botox, they do Brotox’ – Emerging Configurations of Masculinity in the Marketing of Cosmetic Treatments Online
Non-invasive cosmetic treatments are increasingly popular, and the cosmetic skincare industry is currently experiencing growth at a global scale. Men are reported to constitute a growing consumer segment of this emerging market and accordingly, men are being targeted in the marketing of cosmetic skincare clinics (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2018). On clinic websites, content is emerging as “especially for men”. This feeds i…
Beasts, victims or competent agents
Drawing on positioning theory, Warming, Galløe, Carlsen and Rasmussen explore how discourses of manipulation in everyday life debates and research literature contribute to what Cook has termed 'the moral project of childhood'. The analysis shows that children are positioned in these discourses either as incompetent, powerless victims or as powerful, egoistic or psychopathological agents, and moreover that these discourses unreflexively build upon…
Beasts, victims or competent agents
Drawing on positioning theory, Warming, Galløe, Carlsen and Rasmussen explore how discourses of manipulation in everyday life debates and research literature contribute to what Cook has termed 'the moral project of childhood'. The analysis shows that children are positioned in these discourses either as incompetent, powerless victims or as powerful, egoistic or psychopathological agents, and moreover that these discourses unreflexively build upon…
Men don't do Botox, they do Brotox’ – Emerging Configurations of Masculinity in the Marketing of Cosmetic Treatments Online
Non-invasive cosmetic treatments are increasingly popular, and the cosmetic skincare industry is currently experiencing growth at a global scale. Men are reported to constitute a growing consumer segment of this emerging market and accordingly, men are being targeted in the marketing of cosmetic skincare clinics (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2018). On clinic websites, content is emerging as “especially for men”. This feeds i…
Father of four, husband, triathlete' - assembling the male cosmetic surgeon in micro cultures of aesthetic health on Instagram
In this article, I present a study of emerging and fast-growing practices of marketing cosmetic surgery on the social media platform Instagram by analyzing a corpus of fifteen Instagram profiles managed by Argentine cosmetic surgeons. I engage with the notion that cosmetic surgery, a field inscribed in a strong gendered binary, has historically relied upon the cultural and mediatized visibility of the female body, often casting the male cosmetic …
Medicine MAN. Reconfigurations of masculinity in times of increased medicalization
Selling manhood online. Cultural imaginaries of testosterone in the marketing of the nutritional supplement T8
In this article, we analyze the marketing of T8, a nutritional supplement sold to the Danish market on the promise of raising (cisgendered) men’s natural production of the sex hormone testosterone. T8 is one out of many testosterone enhancing supplements that have resurfaced and are marketed online, and we understand T8 as an example of the current bio-medicalization paradigm, which increasingly frames men’s health in terms of hormone levels. In …
Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Masculinity (3 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)