Dr Hannah McCann is a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Hannah’s academic work sits within ...

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Monahan introduces the concept of “media looping” to explain this process. Drawing on 37 media examples, including ...

When we hike or bike in preserved space, such as a state or national park, we’re not just enjoying nature—we’re experiencing a contested political space. Take, for example, the Trump administration’s ...

Older adults who started exercising after a fall in 2019 were less likely to experience a recurrent fall in the following 2 years. Those who exercised in both 2019 and 2020 were the least likely to ...

Petts, Ball State University, for the Council on Contemporary Families symposium The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Gender Equality (PDF). [Acknowledgement: The authors greatly appreciate ...

Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Read more… ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...

Robin H., Tomi L., and Kate McL. asked us to talk about the new movie, Avatar. Tomi thought the gender politics were great, with men and women as equals fighting and ruling side-by-side. I think she’s ...

Two new submissions inspired me to revive this post from 2008. Part of the privilege of being white is having a society that considers you the norm and is, therefore, organized around you. A really ...