Miss Isabel Sykes
PhD Student
- Social and Political Sciences
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