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Helen Davies

Bio: Helen Davies is an academic researcher from Teesside University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Austerity & Recession. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 12 publications receiving 248 citations.

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Helen Davies1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors debate the gendering of this recession and suggest that a man-cession is the cause of the economic slowdown. But, the response from North America suggested that a'man-cession' was not the cause.
Abstract: Shortly after the financial crisis hit the USA and Europe in 2008, commentators started to debate the gendering of this recession. Initial response from North America suggested that a ‘man-cession’...

144 citations

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07 Sep 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the politics of representation in neo-Victorian re-imaginings of freak show performers and explore the ethical quandaries of the genre.
Abstract: In Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show, Helen Davies explores the politics of representation in neoVictorian re-imaginings of freak show performers. The book draws upon work from both freak studies and disability studies to address the issue of bodily difference in a series of nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian texts, an area that has drawn little critical attention in the field of neo-Victorian criticism to date. Her book returns again and again to the ethical quandaries of the neo-Victorian genre – what is at stake in representing the lives of others? Particularly those others who – like the freak performer – were marginalised during their lifetimes? Neo-Victorian texts are in danger of re-enacting the historical oppression of these performers but, crucially, they also have the potential to offer a more empathetic engagement with the figure of the freak. For Davies, it is this “learning about different ways of being and living which can lead us to question our presumptions about ‘freakish’ Victorians as well as about bodily diversity in our cultural moment” (15). The key to moving beyond such exploitative relations, Davies suggests, is through metatextual strategies that encourage both author and reader to interrogate their desire for knowledge of the freak body.

13 citations

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TL;DR: Since the onset of widespread economic crisis in 2008, varied policy-makers, critics, lobbyists and charities have vocalised concern about the impact of austerity measures on women's lives across the UK as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Since the onset of widespread economic crisis in 2008, varied policy-makers, critics, lobbyists and charities have vocalised concern about the impact of austerity measures on women's lives across t...

11 citations


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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

1,125 citations

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02 Mar 2001

984 citations

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Helen Davies1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors debate the gendering of this recession and suggest that a man-cession is the cause of the economic slowdown. But, the response from North America suggested that a'man-cession' was not the cause.
Abstract: Shortly after the financial crisis hit the USA and Europe in 2008, commentators started to debate the gendering of this recession. Initial response from North America suggested that a ‘man-cession’...

144 citations

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TL;DR: Black Venus as mentioned in this paper is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France, employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison.
Abstract: Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting argues that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. By inspiring repulsion, attraction, and anxiety, they gave rise in the nineteenth-century French male imagination to the primitive narrative of Black Venus. The book opens with an exploration of scientific discourse on black females, using Sarah Bartmann, the so-called Hottentot Venus, and natural scientist Georges Cuvier as points of departure. To further show how the image of a savage was projected onto the bodies of black women, Sharpley-Whiting moves into popular culture with an analysis of an 1814 vaudeville caricature of Bartmann, then shifts onto the terrain of canonical French literature and colonial cinema, exploring the representation of black women by Baudelaire, Balzac, Zola, Maupassant, and Loti. After venturing into twentieth-century film with an analysis of Josephine Baker’s popular Princesse Tam Tam , the study concludes with a discussion of how black Francophone women writers and activists countered stereotypical representations of black female bodies during this period. A first-time translation of the vaudeville show The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen supplements this critique of the French male gaze of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both intellectually rigorous and culturally intriguing, this study will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, feminist and gender studies, black studies, and cultural studies.

134 citations

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TL;DR: The authors explores the contradictions and tensions that arise from differ opinions about the norm of precarious work in employment and social protection systems and explores the contradiction and tension that arises from them.
Abstract: Precarious work is increasingly considered the new ‘norm’ to which employment and social protection systems must adjust. This article explores the contradictions and tensions that arise from differ...

131 citations