Jennie Klein

Bio: Jennie Klein is an academic researcher from Ohio University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dance & Social practice. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 20 publications receiving 40 citations.

What a Drag

Abstract: B efore beginning this book review, I have to confess that Laurence Senelicks The Changing Room was not quite what I expected. Published by Routledge, which has the reputation for publishing trendy, postcolonial/post-feminist/queer theory texts that have been criticized for being long on theory and short on research, I expected more of the same from Senelick's tome, which Routledge has categorized as Theatre Studies, Gender Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies. Instead, I encountered a text which, while clearly informed by current performance and gender theory, relies on careful and exhaustive research, along with fascinating first person accounts of actual performances, in order to make a case for the atavistic and transformative

Keeping up with the Jones's

Abstract: of art, politics, and the relations between them, an evaluation which must take into account how 'femininity' itself is a social construct with a particular form of representation under patriarchy." With the publication of this article, Barry and Flitterman-Lewis helped to cement the increasing polarization between feminist artists working in the early seventies, who employed their own bodies in a celebratory and supposedly uncritical manner, and feminist artists working in the eighties who used tools such as psychoanalysis and post-structuralist theory in order to critique and deconstruct the social construction of femininity.

Paul McCarthy: Rites of Masculinity

Abstract: Midway through Paul McCarthy’s retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November 12, 2000–January 21, 2001), the viewer encounters a seemingly bucolic installation that initially seems to be jarringly at odds with the rest of the exhibition. [The retrospective was presented in New York under the auspices of the New Museum of Contemporary Art from February 22 to May 13, 2001.] A chunk of artificial wilderness sits incongruously in the center of the partitioned gallery space. This bit of fake foliage, which appears as though it was airlifted from Disneyland some thirty miles south of Los Angeles, pulsates with an odd mechanical sound similar to that found at many of Disneyland’s mechanized attractions. One almost expects the pirates of the Caribbean or the children from It’s a Small World to emerge from between the trees, overjoyed at the prospect of greeting yet another paying visitor. It is only as the viewer approaches this installation that the origin of the mechanical sound becomes apparent. A father and son, pants down around their ankles, copulate with the forest in rote fashion. Too late, the viewer realizes that she or he has stumbled upon a rite of masculine passage, one in which the father shares his sexual perversion with his son.

Redefining the Body

Abstract: the same size. And gyms, forget it, people work hard in New York, and in factories or in offices, not on cell phones. When they get off work, they relax with a cigarette and a cup of coffee, not on some treadmill.... Well, I was wrong ... I began noticing that all of my old friends from growing up here looked like they stopped eating. One after the other, we'd get together and I'd look at them, and the only way I'd remember them is if I imagined a little more fat on their face. -Danielle Abrams, unpublished script for her performance Butch in the Kitchen, 2000. s Butch in the Kitchen discovered, even the unhealthy denizens of New York City have succumbed to the ubiquitous gym culture that has swept America in the past twenty years. Everyone, from the rural farmer in Kentucky to the ivory tower academic in New York City, goes to the gym in order to work out. Even overweight, masculine, working-class lesbians such as Butch feels compelled to join a gym, work out, get in shape, lose weight, and build muscle. Today, it is not enough to simply be thin. One must be thin and healthy, with low cholesterol, clean lungs, caffeine-free brains, and the correct ratio of body fat to muscle. Functional activities, such as

Comprehensive tobacco marketing restrictions: promotion, packaging, price and place.

Abstract: Evidence of the causal role of marketing in the tobacco epidemic and the advent of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control have inspired more than half the countries in the world to ban some forms of tobacco marketing. This paper briefly describes the ways in which cigarette marketing is restricted and the tobacco industry's efforts to subvert restrictions. It reviews what is known about the impact of marketing regulations on smoking by adults and adolescents. It also addresses what little is known about the impact of marketing bans in relation to concurrent population-level interventions, such as price controls, anti-tobacco media campaigns and smoke-free laws. Point of sale is the least regulated channel and research is needed to address the immediate and long-term consequences of policies to ban retail advertising and pack displays. Comprehensive marketing restrictions require a global ban on all forms of promotion, elimination of packaging and price as marketing tools, and limitations on the quantity, type and location of tobacco retailers.

Behavioral Economics as Applied to Firms: A Primer

Abstract: We discuss the literatures on behavioral economics, bounded rationality and experimental economics as they apply to firm behaviour in markets. Topics discussed include the impact of imitative and satisficing behavior by firms, outcomes when managers care about their position relative to peers, the benefits of employing managers whose objective diverges from profit-maximization (including managers who are overconfident or base pricing decisions on sunk costs), the impact of social preferences on the ability to collude, and the incentive for profit-maximizing firms to mimic irrational behavior.

The Ethics of Gamification in a Marketing Context

Abstract: Gamification is an increasingly common marketing tool. Yet, to date, there has been little examination of its ethical implications. In light of the potential implications of this type of stealth marketing for consumer welfare, this paper discusses the ethical dilemmas raised by the use of gamified approaches to marketing. The paper draws on different schools of ethics to examine gamification as an overall system, as well as its constituent parts. This discussion leads to a rationale and suggestions for how gamification could be regulated and/or controlled by more informal codes of conduct. The paper ends by outlining a practical framework which businesses can use to evaluate the potential ethical implications raised by their own gamified marketing techniques.