John Agnew

David Sopher

John Mercer

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The City in Cultural Context

This celebration of the art and craft of fragrance ranges from its ancient roots in Egypt, Greece and Rome to the opulent and ever-expanding 21st-century industry. It proves an account of the characteristics of scents and designer fragrances, and biographies of great perfumiers.

The Perfume Book

Mark McGlashan

Toxic Masculinity brings together scholars across disciplines to explore the ways in which toxic masculinity is constructed, configured and represented online. What is "toxic masculinity"? Examining what it means in the media and public discourse, the contributors have explored a constellation of behaviours, cultures and practices that have been labelled as (or associated with) toxic masculinity including those of politicians, extremists, incels, as well as individual "ordinary" men and their everyday behaviours. Topics covered in the collection include incels and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), bro culture, sexual violence, internalised homophobia, transphobia, white masculinity and political discourse. Toxic Masculinity is intended for a broad spectrum of gender, media, cultural and masculinity studies professionals, academics, researchers and students. The book also includes suggestions for further reading, a discussion of methods used in each chapter and contextual prefaces to make connections between critical questions and cases.

Men, Meaning, and Digital Media

Toxic Masculinity

Jane O'Connor

The twenty-first century has seen an explosion in the ways and means in which children can become part of celebrity culture. With the rise in popularity of reality TV, child beauty pageants, talent shows, and social media platforms, as well as more established routes to fame through TV, cinema, theatre and music, the number of children establishing a presence in public life continues to proliferate. Childhood and Celebrity brings together international scholarly writing and research about famous children, and representations of childhood, from a range of disciplines including Childhood Studies, Celebrity Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies in order to open up a theoretical space in which to explore and understand the complex relationship between contemporary childhood and celebrity culture. This unique collection includes detailed case studies of specific child performers such as McCaulay Culkin and Miley Cyrus, histories of child stars in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood, analyses of representations of children in film and discussions of children as media creators and producers. Key themes of transgression, gender, ‘coming of age’, childhood innocence and children’s rights recur in the chapters and present a compelling argument for the emergence of the field of Childhood and Celebrity as an area of study in its own right.

Childhood and Celebrity

Colonsay, Gigha, Jura

Hebridean Islands

I was mandated to write All By Myself...yet Never (Ever) Alone. For years, I'd been in the habit of early-morning intercession with praise and worship as well. One morning, the Lord quieted me down and plainly and powerfully instructed me to write precisely this book. It was to be "His work" for others, and I was to be only the transcriptionist. In one sitting, He dictated the general scope and purpose to me. All the chapter titles are from him, and every sentence within them is inspired by the Holy Spirit. It was to be a pure joy as I daily chronicled for the Lord as He dictated to me his heart and instruction. My short testimony and portion addressed to salvation are very important. However, the latter section devoted to the believer will probably speak loud and clear as a guide and encouragement to the discouraged Christian and the wounded spiritual warriors in the Church. We must maintain the joy of the Lord and be renewed in our spirits to serve God as mature children of the living God! God's sanctification process is a divine lifetime journey, and we don't want to miss any tender moment or required work for the Kingdom. Day by day, we experience inner change accompanied by effective Christian service. I pray this book to be a wonderful tool the Spirit of God will use to speak to his loved ones and draw many more children into the Father's eternal Kingdom.

All By Myself...yet Never (Ever) Alone

Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity explores the iconography, themes and ideals that the genre presents. Indeed, John Mercer argues that gay pornography cannot be regarded as one-dimensional, but that it offers its audience a vision of plural masculinities that are more nuanced and ambiguous than they might seem. Mercer examines how the internet has generated an exponential growth in the sheer volume and variety of this material, and facilitated far greater access to it. He uses both professional and amateur examples to explore how gay pornography has become part of a wider cultural context in which modern masculinities have become 'saturated' by their constantly evolving status and function in popular culture.

Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity

Gay Pornography

Feona Attwood

Clarissa Smith

Susanna Paasonen

Alan McKee

This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and sexism. Objectification is an issue of media representation and everyday experiences alike. Central to theories of film spectatorship, beauty fashion and sex, objectification is connected to the harassment and discrimination of women, to the sexualization of culture and the pressing presence of body norms within media. This concise guidebook traces the history of the term’s emergence and its use in a variety of contexts such as debates about sexualization and the male gaze, and its mobilization in connection with the body, selfies and pornography, as well as in feminist activism. It will be an essential introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies or Visual Arts.

On the Difference between Sex and Sexism

Objectification

Zombie... That's what every kid in school calls Mikey since he died. But his problems are much worse than that. After he helped the ghost of Travis Cleveland Riley, an angry spirit who followed him back from the dead, Mikey thought he was all done with being haunted. He was wrong. A new and more terrifying presence has arrived. Now, with the help of his friends and Mrs. Grey, Mikey must figure out how to survive once again. As if that weren't bad enough, he also has to navigate his way through the baffling world of Jr. High. A bully who wants to beat him like a pinata, two girls who are vying for his attention and a mom who embarrasses him every chance she gets. Life shouldn't be that hard when you're back from the dead!"

Hope

They Call Me Zombie

Kangaroo... a cute, cuddly animal, from the land down under, right? Except when it's not. Except when it's really a six-foot tall demon-monster from the land of the dead. Then it's not so cute and cuddly. And that's just one of Mikey's problems. Trying to figure out girls and dealing with bullies, deciding who you can and cannot trust and of course, helping out angry ghosts who need favors; and that's all before lunch. No one said Junior High would be easy, but it's even worse when you're back from the dead.

Kangaroo

Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk.

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