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Miss Isabel Sykes
PhD Student

Research area(s)

 My doctoral thesis combines analysis of media texts with innovative text-in-action methods and semi-structured interviews to compare media representations of British working-class women’s unpaid domestic labour to lived experiences of this work. As such, it foregrounds the voices of working-class women in wider debates surrounding the organisation and value of social reproduction labour in the UK.

Research Interests

  • Feminism
  • Contemporary work cultures and practices (including anti-work and post-work)
  • Social reproduction
  • Working-class subjectivities
  • Neoliberalism
  • Media
  • Austerity
  • Contemporary literature
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