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Focusing on mixed narrow band stimuli: Implications for mechanisms of accommodation and displays (2024)
Journal Article
Finch, A. P., Fernandez-Alonso, M., Kirby, A. K., Read, J. C. A., & Love, G. D. (2024). Focusing on mixed narrow band stimuli: Implications for mechanisms of accommodation and displays. Journal of Vision, 24(9), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.9.14

The eye has considerable chromatic aberration, meaning that the accommodative demand varies with wavelength. Given this, how does the eye accommodate to light of differing spectral content? Previous work is not conclusive but, in general, the eye foc... Read More about Focusing on mixed narrow band stimuli: Implications for mechanisms of accommodation and displays.

The thorn in feminism’s side: black feminist reconceptualization and defence of #tradwives and the #tradwife movement (2024)
Journal Article
Bower, L. J. (online). The thorn in feminism’s side: black feminist reconceptualization and defence of #tradwives and the #tradwife movement. Journal of Gender Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2423198

Tradwives have been the thorn in feminism’s side ever since they exploded onto the social media landscape in 2013, attracting considerable media attention post-COVID. With their growing popularity in the online influencer space, the movement has been... Read More about The thorn in feminism’s side: black feminist reconceptualization and defence of #tradwives and the #tradwife movement.

Love and Work: Affect and Ideology Beyond ‘The Great Resignation’ (2024)
Journal Article
Secor, A. J., Ruez, D., & Cockayne, D. (2024). Love and Work: Affect and Ideology Beyond ‘The Great Resignation’. New Formations, 112, 94-112. https://doi.org/10.3898/newf%3A112.05.2024

Taking the scene of ‘The Great Resignation’ in the USA and UK (2021‐2023) as its starting point, this paper explores how love ‐ with its promises and disappointments, its nurture and its destruction ‐ is activated in relation to the ideologies of wor... Read More about Love and Work: Affect and Ideology Beyond ‘The Great Resignation’.