Publications
Authored Books
(expected 2012) Cosmetic Surgery Narratives: A Cross-National Comparison of Women’s
Accounts. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
(2002) Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture. Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press.
With Rule, J. and Sievers, S. (2002) Computing in Organizations: Myth and Experience.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Edited Books
With Inglis, D. (2010). Globalization and Food. London: Berg.
With Inglis, D. and Thorpe, C. (2007) Food and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social
Sciences, five volumes. London and New York: Routledge.
Refereed Journals
(2010) ‘The “Other” of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery’. Body and Society 16(4): 57-76.
(2010) ‘Uncivil Attention and the Public Runner’. Sociology of Sports Journal 27(3): 26884.
(under revision) ‘Plastic Surgery in two Healthcare Contexts: A Comparative History of
the US and Great Britain’. Social History of Medicine.
With Somani, BK., Fayers, P. and N'Dow, JMO. (2009) ‘Quality of life and body image
for bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy and urinary diversion--a
prospective cohort study with a systematic review of literature’. Urology 74(5): 1138-43.
With Somani, BK., Fayers, P. and N’Dow, JMO. (2008) ‘Body Image and Health are Not
the Most Important Determinants of Quality of Life (QoL) for Bladder Cancer Patients
Facing Major Surgery’. European Urology Supplements 7 (3): 221.
(2007) ‘What is Body Work?’ Sociology Compass 1(1): 353-370.
(2007) ‘Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery in the USA and Great Britain: A Cross-cultural
Analysis of Women’s Narratives’. Body & Society 13(1): 43-62.
(2007) ‘Discourses of Ageing and Narrative Resistance in a Commercial Slimming
Group’. Ageing & Society 27(1): 1-19.
(2006) ‘The Absent Body Project: Cosmetic Surgery as a Response to Bodily Dysappearance’. Sociology 40(4): 691-716.
(2000) ‘Cosmetic Surgery: Beauty as Commodity’. Qualitative Sociology 23(1): 77–98.
With Rule, J. and Sievers, S. (2000) ‘The Uneconomic Growth of Computing’.
Sociological Forum 15(3): 485–510.
(1996) ‘Pamela’s Place: Power and Negotiation in the Hair Salon’. Gender and Society
10(5): 505–526.
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Book Chapters
With Robertson, R. (expected 2011) ‘Exploring the Beautyscape’, in Robertson, R. (ed.)
Glocalization: Applications and Advances in the Theory of Glocalization. Provisionally
accepted by Palgrave Macmillan.
With Inglis, D. (2009) ‘Food Globalizations: Ironies and Ambivalences of Food, Cuisine
and Globality’, in Inglis, D. and Gimlin, D. (eds) Food and Globalization. Oxford: Berg.
With Throsby, K. (2009) ‘Researching Slimness and Wanting to be Slim’, in Flood, R. et
al. (eds) Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process. London: Palgrave.
(2008) ‘The Meanings of Group Slimming across the Female Life Course’, in Riley, S. et
al. (eds) Weighty Issues: Practices, Perceptions and Identities. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
(2006) ‘NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body’, in
Goode, E. and Angus, V. (eds) Extreme Deviance. New York: Pine Forge Press.
(2004) ‘Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty’, in Richardson, L., Taylor, V. and
Whittier, N. (eds) Feminist Frontiers, 6th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill: 94–109.
(2002) ‘Cosmetic Surgery: Beauty as Commodity’, in Lauer, D. and Lauer, C. (eds.)
Sociology: Windows on Society. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press: Chapter 8.
(1994) ‘The Anorexic as Overconformist: Toward a Reinterpretation of Eating Disorders’,
in Callaghan, K. (ed.) Ideals of Feminine Beauty: Philosophical, Social, and Cultural
Dimensions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press: 97–112.
Working Papers
With Rule, J. (1995) ‘Computing and Social Change: Employment and Efficiency’,
Russell Sage Foundation Working Papers: October.
Encyclopaedia Entries
(2009) ‘Otoplasty’ in Pitts-Taylor, V (ed.) Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. New York:
Routledge.
(2009) ‘Neck Lift’ in Pitts-Taylor, V (ed.) Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. New York:
Routledge.
(2007) ‘Food and Drink’, in Sears, J.T. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sex, Love and Culture: Vol.
6, Twentieth & Twenty-First Centuries. Westview, CT: Greenwood Publishing. (2006)
(2005) ‘Physical Characteristics as Deviant’, in Ritzer, G. (ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology. New York: Blackwell Publishing.
Book Reviews
(2009) The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach, by Petersen, A., The Sociology
of the Body, by Cregan, K. and Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the
Sociology of the Body, by Waskul, D. & Vannini, P. (eds). British Journal of Sociology.
(2006) The Body: A Reader, by Fraser, M. and Greco, M. (eds) Body & Society 12: 127129.
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(1996) A Hunger So Wide and So Deep, by Thompson, B. and Am I Thin Enough Yet? The
Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity, by Hesse-Biber, S. Contemporary
Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 25(5): 693-694.
(1995) Volatile Bodies, by Grosz, E. (1995) Choice: February.
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