Exhaustion, Exhausting Temporalities, and Young Trans People’s Everyday Lives in the UK

Conceptualizing Fashion in Everyday Lives

Individual and Situational Factors Related to Young Women’s Likelihood of Confronting Sexism in Their Everyday Lives

Factors related to young women's reported likelihood of confronting sexism were investigated. Participants were 338 U.S. female undergraduates (M = 19 years) attending a California university. They were asked to complete questionnaire measures and to write a personal narrative about an experience with sexism. Approximately half (46%) the women reported confronting the perpetrator. Individual fa...

A study of young peoples' attitudes to opportunistic Chlamydia testing in UK general practice

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess young people's perceptions of being offered a chlamydia screening test in United Kingdom (UK) general practice. METHODS This is qualitative study that uses focus groups and individual interviews with young adults (age 16 - 18) to assess their views. RESULTS These young adults were a difficult group to gain access to. Two focus groups, one ...

How Outside Stressors Shape Families’ Everyday Lives

Families are dynamic systems that are permeable to influences from the outside world, such as daily stressors at work and at school. Our research uses naturalistic methods to investigate how family interactions change in response to such experiences and how other family members contribute to that process. We argue that the short-term effects of daily stressors on family dynamics can have cumula...

Art and Design Education in the UK

This paper seeks to identify the philosophical origins of the teaching of art and design and subsequently trace its incorporation into a teaching program in the UK. It briefly discusses the nature of its classical ‘drawing’ background and the conflicts in the debate as to what ‘design’ means. It then goes on to identify the cultural and political context which shaped the institutions, such as A...