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    Makeover Culture's Dark Side: Breasts, Death and Lolo Ferrari
    Body and Society 14 (1): 89-104. 2008.
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    Expressive Surfaces: The Case of the Designer Vagina
    Theory, Culture and Society 34 (7-8): 29-50. 2017.
    In this article I set out an argument that skins and screens, once distinctly different types of surface, are merging. I show how in contemporary highly mediatized worlds skins are required to be visually expressive while also noting a parallel movement whereby screens are becoming more affective. Using the ‘designer vagina’ – specifically labiaplasty – as a case study I show how ideal bodies exist simultaneously as screen and as skin, as image and as affect. In turn, I argue that two-dimensiona…Read more
  • Birth of the New Clinic
    Cultural Studies Review 14 (1). 2008.
    A review of Alan Petersen, _The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach_.