Adrienne Evans
Coventry University
42 Papers
103 Citations
Adrienne Evans is an academic researcher from Coventry University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Sensibility. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 36 publications.
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Papers
The gendered nature of self-help:
TL;DR: Self-help promises the chance of being "better" by offering hope that we can be our own agents of change for a happier life as discussed by the authors. But self-help does not guarantee the chance to be "better".
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Postfeminism and Health: Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives
Sarah Riley,Adrienne Evans,Martine Robson +2 more
- 19 Jul 2018
TL;DR: This paper explored the ways in which the desire to be normal and live a good life is tied to expectations of "normal-perfection" circulated across interpersonal interactions, media representations and expert discourses.
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Desperately seeking methods: new directions in fan studies research
Adrienne Evans,Mafalda Stasi +1 more
- 01 Nov 2014
TL;DR: The authors argue that there is room for mutual dialogue between fan studies and methodology, namely in work around the "aca-fan" subject position of the researcher, and in digital research opened up by online modes of fandom and fan activism.
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Immaculate consumption: negotiating the sex symbol in postfeminist celebrity culture
Adrienne Evans,Sarah Riley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, focus group and interview data from 28 white heterosexual women aged between 23 and 58 living in the UK was used to investigate the relationship between celebrity women and self-transformation, and found that female celebrities were successful neoliberal entrepreneurial selves with the capacity to make money from their bodies.
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"He’s a total TubeCrush" : Postfeminist Sensibility as Intimate Publics
Adrienne Evans,Sarah Riley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzed TubeCrush, a website where people post and share unsolicited photographs of "guy candy" seen on the London Underground, and found that value is directed onto the bodies of particular men, creating a visual economy of post-feminist masculinity of whiteness, physical strength, and economic wealth.
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