Autor: Rachel Thwaites

Rachel Thwaites is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has interests in gender, identities, higher education, health and illness, emotion work, naming, and qualitative methods.  She has published on British women”s naming decisions on marriage and sense of identity, choice feminism, and older people”s experiences of emergency admission to hospital. Amy Pressland is International HR Projects Manager for DB Cargo UK working on an international research project called Women in Management. Previously she was Lecturer in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK and has published articles and book chapters on mixed-sex sport in HE, European media representations of gender at major sporting events, the surveillance of sportswomen”s bodies in British newspapers, and the media coverage of women”s boxing..