Mair Underwood
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 236195 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mair Underwood |
| PRENOMES | Mair |
| SOBRENOME | Underwood |
| ASSINATURA | UNDERWOOD M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7971-4625 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Systematic Review Investigating the Psychosocial Factors Influencing Initiation, Use and Subjective Experience of Performance and Image‐Enhancing Drugs in Women Who Weight‐Train
Enhancing the body, negotiating identity
BACKGROUND: Performance and image-enhancing drug (PIED) use has historically been shaped by masculine norms, emerging from bodybuilding cultures that prioritise size, strength, and control. While the number of women engaging with PIEDs is increasing, their experiences remain under-researched. This study examines how women who use PIEDs make sense of and negotiate enhancement practices in relation to intersecting athletic, feminine, and moral iden…
Reframing ‘vulnerability’ to digital harms
As governments worldwide move to restrict young people's access to social media, public debate has centred on the potential harms of digital engagement and the need to shield adolescents from risky or harmful content. This article focuses on how Australian adolescent boys and young men (ABYM) understand online risks and position themselves as responsible digital citizens. Drawing from 20 interviews and 7 focus groups (N = 47) with Australian ABYM…
In the absence of marriage
Unlike in most Western countries where singleness has been relatively considered as an individual’s choice, singleness is often regarded as a social problem in Indonesia. This causes challenges for never married individuals to meet their belonging needs and to maintain their well-being. The current study aimed to explore the roles of social support, religiosity, and religious coping in assisting never-married Indonesian adults to maintain their w…
Project Monster
Categories such as 'monster' and 'freak' are used to define what is not normal in a community. However, the 'mass monsters' of the 1990s heralded an era in which monstrosity became normalised in bodybuilding. The mass monsters also brought with them aspects of monstrosity that were considered 'too monstrous' for mainstream bodybuilding. Efforts were made to contain these. But sometimes bodybuilding monstrosity cannot be contained. Sometimes the p…
The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small
Muscle dysmorphia (MD) is a pathological preoccupation with muscularity characterised by negative body image, compulsive behaviours, and obsessive thoughts. Since its first identification academics have suggested that it is caused by sociocultural factors. Despite this there has been very little research exploring the role of sociocultural factors in the development and maintenance of MD, and no research that examines MD from within its cultural …
Being single when marriage is the norm
Testing the boundaries
The pharmaceuticalisation of ‘healthy’ ageing
Human enhancement drugs
The unintended consequences of emphasising blood-borne virus in research on, and services for, people who inject image and performance enhancing drugs
Manly tears exploded from my eyes, lets feel together brahs
Discussions of crying and love are not what one might expect to find when examining interactions between recreational bodybuilders online. Gendered emotion ideologies, especially related to muscular masculinities, usually forbid men from exhibiting emotional vulnerability in front of other men, as emotional detachment is one of the ways gender hierarchies are maintained. Building on Connell's concept of 'hegemonic masculinity' and Hochschild's co…
Exploring the social lives of image and performance enhancing drugs
You are just an idiot for not doing any physical activity right now’
Research among former Physical Education (PE) school students has demonstrated how fat phobia in PE classes is oppressive and makes it extremely difficult for most students to develop positive subjectivities. This study explores how a group of pre-service Health and Physical Education (HPE) specialist teachers from an Australian university construct fatness discourses. Taking a Foucauldian perspective, focusing particularly on the concepts of sur…
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
This study examines how members of pro-anorexia (PA) and fat acceptance (FA) cybercommunities manage their ascribed 'offline' socially marginalised identity in an 'online' environment. While much of the sociological literature continues to focus on the corporeal or face-to-face practices of socially marginalised groups, we use online non-participant observation to explore how members of these sites use the internet to manage their marginalised id…
Body as choice or body as compulsion
There has been much talk in sociological circles of bodies as 'projects' or 'choices,' but surprisingly little examination of how these projects and choices are experienced. Consumer culture has been described as heralding a new era in body–self relations, but few have explored the experience of body–self relations. Body–self relations emerged as central to understanding in this study of the experience of the body at different ages (20–30, 45–55 …
Reflexivity and Minimization of the Impact of Age-Cohort Differences Between Researcher and Research Participants
Many authors implore qualitative researchers to be reflexive. Very few, however, specify how to do this in practice. Furthermore, in discussions of the presence and place of the researcher, the tendency has been to focus on such factors as gender and race or ethnicity with very little attention being given to age or cohort. In this article we seek to redress this deficiency by examining how reflexivity was practiced in a context in which there wa…
Community perceptions on the significant extension of life
Life extension technology
While commentaries about life extension from biogerontologists, demographers, geneticists and ethicists have increased in recent years, these have paid little attention to the public policy implications of life extension or the perspectives of community members and policymakers themselves. This paper draws on the findings from a three-year research project about strong life extension which involved interviews with community members, and state and…
Reflexivity and Minimization of the Impact of Age-Cohort Differences Between Researcher and Research Participants
Many authors implore qualitative researchers to be reflexive. Very few, however, specify how to do this in practice. Furthermore, in discussions of the presence and place of the researcher, the tendency has been to focus on such factors as gender and race or ethnicity with very little attention being given to age or cohort. In this article we seek to redress this deficiency by examining how reflexivity was practiced in a context in which there wa…
Manly tears exploded from my eyes, lets feel together brahs
Discussions of crying and love are not what one might expect to find when examining interactions between recreational bodybuilders online. Gendered emotion ideologies, especially related to muscular masculinities, usually forbid men from exhibiting emotional vulnerability in front of other men, as emotional detachment is one of the ways gender hierarchies are maintained. Building on Connell's concept of 'hegemonic masculinity' and Hochschild's co…
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
This study examines how members of pro-anorexia (PA) and fat acceptance (FA) cybercommunities manage their ascribed 'offline' socially marginalised identity in an 'online' environment. While much of the sociological literature continues to focus on the corporeal or face-to-face practices of socially marginalised groups, we use online non-participant observation to explore how members of these sites use the internet to manage their marginalised id…
Community perceptions on the significant extension of life
You are just an idiot for not doing any physical activity right now’
Research among former Physical Education (PE) school students has demonstrated how fat phobia in PE classes is oppressive and makes it extremely difficult for most students to develop positive subjectivities. This study explores how a group of pre-service Health and Physical Education (HPE) specialist teachers from an Australian university construct fatness discourses. Taking a Foucauldian perspective, focusing particularly on the concepts of sur…
The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small
Muscle dysmorphia (MD) is a pathological preoccupation with muscularity characterised by negative body image, compulsive behaviours, and obsessive thoughts. Since its first identification academics have suggested that it is caused by sociocultural factors. Despite this there has been very little research exploring the role of sociocultural factors in the development and maintenance of MD, and no research that examines MD from within its cultural …
Community perceptions on the significant extension of life
Life extension technology
While commentaries about life extension from biogerontologists, demographers, geneticists and ethicists have increased in recent years, these have paid little attention to the public policy implications of life extension or the perspectives of community members and policymakers themselves. This paper draws on the findings from a three-year research project about strong life extension which involved interviews with community members, and state and…
Reflexivity and Minimization of the Impact of Age-Cohort Differences Between Researcher and Research Participants
Many authors implore qualitative researchers to be reflexive. Very few, however, specify how to do this in practice. Furthermore, in discussions of the presence and place of the researcher, the tendency has been to focus on such factors as gender and race or ethnicity with very little attention being given to age or cohort. In this article we seek to redress this deficiency by examining how reflexivity was practiced in a context in which there wa…
Body as choice or body as compulsion
There has been much talk in sociological circles of bodies as 'projects' or 'choices,' but surprisingly little examination of how these projects and choices are experienced. Consumer culture has been described as heralding a new era in body–self relations, but few have explored the experience of body–self relations. Body–self relations emerged as central to understanding in this study of the experience of the body at different ages (20–30, 45–55 …
You are just an idiot for not doing any physical activity right now’
Research among former Physical Education (PE) school students has demonstrated how fat phobia in PE classes is oppressive and makes it extremely difficult for most students to develop positive subjectivities. This study explores how a group of pre-service Health and Physical Education (HPE) specialist teachers from an Australian university construct fatness discourses. Taking a Foucauldian perspective, focusing particularly on the concepts of sur…
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
This study examines how members of pro-anorexia (PA) and fat acceptance (FA) cybercommunities manage their ascribed 'offline' socially marginalised identity in an 'online' environment. While much of the sociological literature continues to focus on the corporeal or face-to-face practices of socially marginalised groups, we use online non-participant observation to explore how members of these sites use the internet to manage their marginalised id…
Exploring the social lives of image and performance enhancing drugs
The unintended consequences of emphasising blood-borne virus in research on, and services for, people who inject image and performance enhancing drugs
Manly tears exploded from my eyes, lets feel together brahs
Discussions of crying and love are not what one might expect to find when examining interactions between recreational bodybuilders online. Gendered emotion ideologies, especially related to muscular masculinities, usually forbid men from exhibiting emotional vulnerability in front of other men, as emotional detachment is one of the ways gender hierarchies are maintained. Building on Connell's concept of 'hegemonic masculinity' and Hochschild's co…
Testing the boundaries
The pharmaceuticalisation of ‘healthy’ ageing
Human enhancement drugs
Being single when marriage is the norm
The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small
Muscle dysmorphia (MD) is a pathological preoccupation with muscularity characterised by negative body image, compulsive behaviours, and obsessive thoughts. Since its first identification academics have suggested that it is caused by sociocultural factors. Despite this there has been very little research exploring the role of sociocultural factors in the development and maintenance of MD, and no research that examines MD from within its cultural …
In the absence of marriage
Unlike in most Western countries where singleness has been relatively considered as an individual’s choice, singleness is often regarded as a social problem in Indonesia. This causes challenges for never married individuals to meet their belonging needs and to maintain their well-being. The current study aimed to explore the roles of social support, religiosity, and religious coping in assisting never-married Indonesian adults to maintain their w…
Project Monster
Categories such as 'monster' and 'freak' are used to define what is not normal in a community. However, the 'mass monsters' of the 1990s heralded an era in which monstrosity became normalised in bodybuilding. The mass monsters also brought with them aspects of monstrosity that were considered 'too monstrous' for mainstream bodybuilding. Efforts were made to contain these. But sometimes bodybuilding monstrosity cannot be contained. Sometimes the p…
A Systematic Review Investigating the Psychosocial Factors Influencing Initiation, Use and Subjective Experience of Performance and Image‐Enhancing Drugs in Women Who Weight‐Train
Enhancing the body, negotiating identity
BACKGROUND: Performance and image-enhancing drug (PIED) use has historically been shaped by masculine norms, emerging from bodybuilding cultures that prioritise size, strength, and control. While the number of women engaging with PIEDs is increasing, their experiences remain under-researched. This study examines how women who use PIEDs make sense of and negotiate enhancement practices in relation to intersecting athletic, feminine, and moral iden…
Reframing ‘vulnerability’ to digital harms
As governments worldwide move to restrict young people's access to social media, public debate has centred on the potential harms of digital engagement and the need to shield adolescents from risky or harmful content. This article focuses on how Australian adolescent boys and young men (ABYM) understand online risks and position themselves as responsible digital citizens. Drawing from 20 interviews and 7 focus groups (N = 47) with Australian ABYM…
Psychology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Doping in Sports (4 obras) · Focus group (4 obras) · Hormonal and reproductive studies (4 obras)