Anja Hirdman
Biographic Data
| ID | 319017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anja Hirdman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anja |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirdman |
| SIGNATURE | HIRDMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Flesh-images, body shame and affective ambiguities in celebrity gossip magazines
In the last decade celebrity gossip magazines targeted at a female audience have emerged in Sweden. With inquisitive attention paid to the detailed, fleshy exposure of female celebrities’ bodies and body parts, they portray what Weber refers to as body-based shame. This article argues that these flesh-images partake in an aesthetic feminine body discourse where the perfect and the imperfect are intrinsically linked with the ordinary and extraordi…
Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances
In the wake of the affective turn, emotion and embodiment have emerged as key terms in cultural studies in order to acknowledge the affective dimension of media texts (Gibbs, 2002; Gregg & Seigworth, 2010). Drawing from the cross-disciplinary field of affect theory, the article examines the writing of desire in Harlequin romances through the delineation of gendered encounters. Against the backdrop of earlier feminist critiques of romance fiction,…
The passion of mediated shame: Affective reactivity and classed otherness in reality TV
The article examines how mediated shame in the reality show The Luxury Trap where individuals with huge debts are being scolded for ‘their lack of economic self-control’ presents a specific kind of information about class played out as intensities, encounters and experience. Drawing on studies on affective reactivity, it extends the argument of reality TV as a site for classed otherness by examining how discordant affects, such as, non-empathic r…
Den maskulina kroppens dilemma
(In)Visibility and the Display of Gendered Desire: Masculinity in Mainstream Soft‐ and Hardcore Pornography
This article discusses different features of heterosexual soft‐ and hardcore pornography from the perspective of heterosexual masculinity and (in)visibility. It examines the embodiment of sexuality through the female body in lads' softcore magazines and the position of the phallus and the male body in some hardcore magazines and films. The article takes its startingpoint from notions of the problematic relationship between the depiction of the ma…
Lustar och olustar
This article discusses some of the problems with pornography, or more properly why pornography is such a problematic field for feminists. It also focuses on some of the problems to be found in anti-pornography arguments - especially their implicit understanding of female and male sexuality as two distinct areas. By seeing pornography from a media perspective - and therefore including questions of genre and modes of address - one can get a clearer…
The passion of mediated shame: Affective reactivity and classed otherness in reality TV
The article examines how mediated shame in the reality show The Luxury Trap where individuals with huge debts are being scolded for ‘their lack of economic self-control’ presents a specific kind of information about class played out as intensities, encounters and experience. Drawing on studies on affective reactivity, it extends the argument of reality TV as a site for classed otherness by examining how discordant affects, such as, non-empathic r…
(In)Visibility and the Display of Gendered Desire: Masculinity in Mainstream Soft‐ and Hardcore Pornography
This article discusses different features of heterosexual soft‐ and hardcore pornography from the perspective of heterosexual masculinity and (in)visibility. It examines the embodiment of sexuality through the female body in lads' softcore magazines and the position of the phallus and the male body in some hardcore magazines and films. The article takes its startingpoint from notions of the problematic relationship between the depiction of the ma…
Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances
In the wake of the affective turn, emotion and embodiment have emerged as key terms in cultural studies in order to acknowledge the affective dimension of media texts (Gibbs, 2002; Gregg & Seigworth, 2010). Drawing from the cross-disciplinary field of affect theory, the article examines the writing of desire in Harlequin romances through the delineation of gendered encounters. Against the backdrop of earlier feminist critiques of romance fiction,…
Lustar och olustar
This article discusses some of the problems with pornography, or more properly why pornography is such a problematic field for feminists. It also focuses on some of the problems to be found in anti-pornography arguments - especially their implicit understanding of female and male sexuality as two distinct areas. By seeing pornography from a media perspective - and therefore including questions of genre and modes of address - one can get a clearer…
(In)Visibility and the Display of Gendered Desire: Masculinity in Mainstream Soft‐ and Hardcore Pornography
This article discusses different features of heterosexual soft‐ and hardcore pornography from the perspective of heterosexual masculinity and (in)visibility. It examines the embodiment of sexuality through the female body in lads' softcore magazines and the position of the phallus and the male body in some hardcore magazines and films. The article takes its startingpoint from notions of the problematic relationship between the depiction of the ma…
Den maskulina kroppens dilemma
The passion of mediated shame: Affective reactivity and classed otherness in reality TV
The article examines how mediated shame in the reality show The Luxury Trap where individuals with huge debts are being scolded for ‘their lack of economic self-control’ presents a specific kind of information about class played out as intensities, encounters and experience. Drawing on studies on affective reactivity, it extends the argument of reality TV as a site for classed otherness by examining how discordant affects, such as, non-empathic r…
Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances
In the wake of the affective turn, emotion and embodiment have emerged as key terms in cultural studies in order to acknowledge the affective dimension of media texts (Gibbs, 2002; Gregg & Seigworth, 2010). Drawing from the cross-disciplinary field of affect theory, the article examines the writing of desire in Harlequin romances through the delineation of gendered encounters. Against the backdrop of earlier feminist critiques of romance fiction,…
Flesh-images, body shame and affective ambiguities in celebrity gossip magazines
In the last decade celebrity gossip magazines targeted at a female audience have emerged in Sweden. With inquisitive attention paid to the detailed, fleshy exposure of female celebrities’ bodies and body parts, they portray what Weber refers to as body-based shame. This article argues that these flesh-images partake in an aesthetic feminine body discourse where the perfect and the imperfect are intrinsically linked with the ordinary and extraordi…
Art (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)