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This paper examines cosmetic surgery tourism, arguing that it can be meaningfully analysed as part of makeover culture. It shows that while cosmetic surgery tourism sits at a junction of cosmetic surgery and medical tourism, it also has much in common with contemporary tourism practices. The paper posits cosmetic surgery tourism not only as an economic and globalised phenomenon but also as a set of practices that are experienced, and that take place on the body (see also Cook, 2010; Bell et al. 2011). Chris Rojek's work on contemporary tourist practices is deployed in order to argue that the cosmetic surgery tourist's body is itself the 'site' to be visited and discovered; it is also the souvenir that is brought home. When body and site are brought together in cosmetic surgery tourism, they form a potent nexus that is unique to a contemporary moment tied up with globalisation and consumption, where both identity and self-transformation are managed through the body.

This article offers a contribution to ongoing philosophical, sociological, and feminist debates about osmetic surgery 1 and is part of a larger project that examines the spatial and temporal aims and effects of cosmetic surgery, using media analysis and interviews with recipients and surgeons. The mother project argues that cosmetic surgery is part of a suite of anti-aging tools—medical, lifestyle, and beauty technologies— that, contrary to popular belief, do not aim to recreate youth but rather are deployed to create a new phase of life identified as the "stretched middle age." However, this article diverts to theorize—experimentally and heuristically—about cosmetic surgery in relation to postmodern architecture. Re-reading Fredric Jameson's 1984 piece about Los Angeles' Westin Bonaventura Hotel while immersed in the larger project led to speculation about how his description might be adopted as an analytical template for an alternative way of approaching cosmetic surgery. Furthermore, criticisms he makes of the Bonaventura as user-unfriendly and superficial are adapted to describe cosmetic surgery as it is currently enacted. This analogy is then extended in regard to another (later) postmodern structure, Melbourne's Federation Square.2 Analysis and description of the site are projected onto cosmetic surgery with the aim of showing that the technology has the possibility of a developmental trajectory similar to the one between the Bonaventura and Federation Square. Rather than snag on the wholly literal—which might attempt to practically describe the experiences of cosmetic surgically–altered has the potential to altered women in various postmodern spaces—this exercise is mainly speculative and metaphoric. The standpoint is intertwined with that of Kathryn Pauly Morgan, arguing that cosmetic surgery could contribute to a celebration of the fully participatory grotesque body as defined by Mary Russo. Some "extreme practitioners" of cosmetic surgery are used as examples of how it has the opportunity to progress in interesting and diverse directions, and these ideas are married with Federation Square's aesthetics in order to imagine a future, possibly utopic, cosmetic surgery.

The phallus: power and vulnerability / David Kreps and Caroline Ruddell -- The foetus phallus studio / Anna Gonzalez Suero -- Knowing, visibility and a comedic penis / Adam Eldridge -- 'The easy way out': vasectomies in sociopornographic magazines -- / Jonathan A. Allan -- Hung jury: queer verdicts of sex reassignment surgery versus trans men's surgical journeys / Trystan Cotton -- The penis in the medical imagination / Evelyn Callahan and David Griffiths -- Playing with penises: gigantic and miniature phallic performances / Meredith Jones and Kieran Sellars -- 'I do what i know how to do': performing the penis in key west* / Tim Dean.

Associations between romantic views and sexual behavior were examined in a community sample of 200 high school adolescents. This study incorporated interview and self‐report measures of romantic views, assessed multiple facets of sexual behavior (frequency, rapidity, onset, and risky behavior), and examined light nongenital, heavy nongenital, and genital sexual behaviors. Avoidant romantic views were related to later onset of genital sexual behavior and less frequent sexual behavior, particularly light and heavy nongenital behaviors. Anxious views were related to more frequent sexual behavior and more risky behavior. Direct effects were found between avoidant views and light and heavy nongenital sexual frequency, and indirect effects were found between avoidant views and genital frequency, onset of heavy nongenital and genital sexual behavior.

Beautyscapes is the first book to focus specifically on cosmetic surgery tourism. It draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility, such as gender and class, neoliberalism, social media, conviviality and care, to explain the nature and growing popularity of international medical travel.

This paper undertakes an examination of the espoused commitment to CSR principles and its relationship with the labour management systems in two Australian mining companies. The paper explores the extent to which the adoption of a CSR strategy has affected the management of labour in three respects: "collective" relations with unions; "partnership‐style" relations with unions and workers; and the adoption of HPWS measures. The paper concludes that while each company has made substantial "in principle" commitments as a result of CSR, there is nothing to suggest that CSR considerations are sufficiently powerful in themselves to bring about systemic change in the management of labour.

AbstractSexual ambivalence can be defined as an experience of sexual behavior as both wanted and unwanted, to some degree, in a particular sexual situation. Despite ambivalence, individuals often decide to participate in these sexual experiences. There are several related and overlapping reasons as to why people ultimately decide to engage in sexual activity, including a history of engaging in a particular sexual behavior or being intimate with a prior partner. There is also evidence to suggest that experiences of sexual violence are related to sexual ambivalence. The present study explored whether prior experience with both a sexual activity and a partner, as well as sexual violence, predicted sexually ambivalent behaviors. Participants were 932 college students who completed a one-time survey about their sexual experiences. Results demonstrated that women were more likely than men to report experiencing sexual ambivalence, and women experienced more ambivalence before, during, and after a sexual encounter. Men were more likely than women to experience ambivalence during and after a sexual activity. A history of sexual violence victimization was associated with experiencing sexual ambivalence prior to engaging in a sexual behavior. Prior experience with a sexual partner or sexual activity was predictive of ambivalence during a sexual encounter, as well as engaging in a sexual activity despite ambivalence. These findings suggest that there are gender differences in sexual ambivalence, and that sexual violence impacts sexual-decision making. We hope these findings can inform sexual violence prevention and sexual education programs.