12 Citations
Superman vs. Nick O’Teen: anti-smoking campaigns and children in 1980s Britain
- MedicinePalgrave Communications
- 2019
The design, production, delivery and reception of the Superman vs. Nick O’Teen campaign is examined in order to probe the multi-faceted nature of the making of healthy publics in 1980s Britain.
Current developments
- Political Science
- 2000
A new Local Government Bill was introduced by the government in the House of Lords on 26 November 1999. The Bill aims to reform and restructure local government in order that, inter alia, ‘local…
El héroe dual en el capitalismo tardío. Nuevos lenguajes del mito en v de vendetta y Mr. Robot
- Vivat Academia
- 2022
Esta investigación analiza la presencia y características del denominado héroe dúplice o ambivalente en dos distopías críticas que abren y cierran el capitalismo tardío: el cómic V de Vendetta…
'There Must Be an Alternative': Disjointed Time & Defiant Deviance in the Films of Derek Jarman
- Psychology
- 2021
Sex and the Devil: Homosexuality, Satanism, and Moral Panic in Late Apartheid South Africa
- Psychology
- 2019
This article discusses the discursive and narrative intersections between two moral panics that appeared in the white South African press in the last years of apartheid: the first around the claimed…
An investigation into the relationship between gay activism and the establishment of a gay community in Birmingham, 1967-97
- History
- 2010
This study charts the establishment of a gay community in Birmingham from the introduction of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised male homosexual acts in England and Wales,…
‘We are Family’: The Regulation of ‘Female-Only’ Reproduction
- Sociology, Political Science
- 2004
In this article I seek to examine the ways in which gay and lesbian struggles are shaped by their political and national context. I have analyzed the public debate concerning assisted insemination in…
Modernising law : legislating for technologies of reproduction in Britain and Germany : a comparative case study.
- Political Science
- 2002
The thesis concludes with the (tentative) suggestion that even in today's world of 'scientism' and permanent modernisation, law does not simply get eroded and resurfaces as the force that allows conflicting dynamics to coexist.
Regulating Dangerous Futures: The German Embryo Protection Act of 1990 - Legislation in Risk Society
- LawSocial & legal studies
- 2000
This article summarises the outcome of a research project which analyses the legislative debates about the German Embryonenschutzgesetz (Embryo Protection Act) in 1990 and reads back into the risk discourse the values hidden in risk terminology.