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Whose menopause revolution? Investigating the UK’s ‘Davina effect’ and the contemporary menopause market
Get PDF© 2024, Sage. This is an author produced version of a paper published in European Journal of Cultural Studies, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it. Having made two documentaries about menopause broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK 2021 and 2022, enduringly popular British TV presenter Davina McCall’s films are perceived to have had such social impact that she now has the rare distinction of having an ‘effect’ named after her. The first film, Sex, Myths and the Menopause, is credited with diminishing the stigma historically surrounding menopause, while extolling the benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for some to treat menopause symptoms. Hence when requests for HRT spiked after the first film, ‘the Davina effect’ was adopted by the media to explain the widespread ensuing HRT shortage. This article is not focused on interrogating the films themselves but unpacking the media narrative that followed in the uses of the term ‘the Davina effect’. Its corpus comprises UK press coverage of the ‘menopause revolution’ and of the Davina documentaries; textual analysis of the films; and testimonies and research drawn from the medical and health professions, while utilising existing media and cultural studies paradigms to provide conceptual context, situating the ‘Davina effect’ as the latest novel entry in a longstanding history of media effects debates. While the films have been praised for bolstering a new era of menopause awareness, it argues that ‘the Davina effect’ instantiates and services how the so-called ‘menopause revolution’ (Gordon, 2021) has evolved largely in neoliberal terms, regularly centring the need to respond to the perceived crises of middle-class white women, at the cost of a more intersectional and inclusive conception of menopause. Further, it apportions knowledge, fear and blame around HRT shortages in a manner which deflects attention from the larger economic, political and cultural contexts that have nurtured the ensuing alarm. Yet, importantly, the Davina effect may also facilitate a transgressive image of menopausal women as determinedly contesting their marginalisation. <br/
Dietary Inflammatory Index, Sleep Duration and Quality : A Systematic Review:A Systematic Review
No full textThe inflammatory potential of the diet, as measured by the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®) has been repeatedly shown to be associated with various inflammatory markers, physical and mental health outcomes. Of specific importance, several cross-sectional studies revealed mixed results regarding the correlations between the DII and sleep outcomes. Hence, in the current paper, we performed a systematic review to examine the associations between the DII, sleep duration and sleep quality. We systematically searched on PubMed database for studies published up to November 2023 following PRISMA guidelines. Only cross-sectional studies that assessed the DII, sleep duration, and sleep quality across healthy and unhealthy cohorts were included. Eleven and seven studies met the criteria and were included in the systematic review for sleep quality and duration, respectively. The results of the current systematic review indicate that pro-inflammatory diets may be associated with poor sleep outcomes (duration and quality); however, as the current literature is inconsistent and limited, further cross-sectional studies in larger cohorts are warranted to (i) explore this relationship to address this heterogeneity and (ii) explore populations that are more sensitive to diet-induced inflammation
Shifting youth environmental activism from the public imagination to community engagement:Implications for education for sustainability in the 21st century
No full textThere have been increasing concerns about the effects of human activities on environments, natural resources, social and economic development, ecology and biodiversity, and the longevity of both humanity and the planet. Funded by the Brian Simon fellowship grant, this research project on the topic ‘education and democracy’ aimed to explore and develop the opportunity to extend youth environmental activism from public imagination towards integration in community engagement and for stakeholders to work together to build a just, democratic, sustainable society in the changing and challenging 21st century
The possibility of teaching to the test and equally teaching for holistic education at secondary level, developing students’ full potential for human flourishing
No full textFootball Disasters and Pilgrimage: Commemoration through Religious and Non-Religious Ritual and Materiality
No full textAlthough the relationship between religion and football has gained considerable interest during the last twenty years, scant attention has been paid to the relationship between pilgrimage and football. This paper seeks to advance the study of this relationship through an exploration of collective memory about football disasters that throws fresh light on central themes within pilgrimage studies ‒ pilgrimage as both a journey to a sacred place and the performance of diverse rituals at such places. The paper explores in particular the ways in which three different tragedies involving English football clubs have been commemorated through journeys to and ritual performance at places seen as sacred to those involved in commemoration ‒ football stadiums and urban spaces, cathedrals and pilgrimage shrines in England, Germany and Italy. Through this analysis we seek to show how the commemoration of football disaster is linked to pilgrimage as a process where people seek healing and reconciliation through the public performance of rituals that link the local to the global
Adherence to unhealthy diets is associated with altered frontal gammaaminobutyric acid and glutamate concentrations and grey matter volume: preliminary findings
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Declining to be church? Rediscovering God’s time and action through paying careful attention to a numerically declining church
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