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In the wake of modernity, women's sexuality was positioned in a way that created a beauty/narcissism double bind that is still with us today. My concern in this article is that the subject position of "fashion model" serves as a constant reminder of this split, which is directed at all women and weakens the generalized woman's political agency. Fashion models themselves experience harassment and humiliation as well as pleasure and desire in their work as fashion models. However, the small portion of feminist work that has engaged explicitly with the fashion‐model business sees it mainly as an enterprise that is alienating and hostile to women. Although I do not entirely disagree with this analysis, it neglects the meaning of beauty and what beauty does to us with regard to creativity and pleasure. I wish to explore how some of the work experience of fashion models intersects with and challenges the beauty/narcissism double bind. I suggest that rather than grounding our understanding of the subject position "fashion model" and the fashion business solely in their reinforcement of the beauty/narcissism double bind, we should pay attention to the importance of what beauty and aspects of narcissism may mean.

Central actors in the child protection field in Norway argue that children in public care should not only receive care and support, but also love. It is hard to disagree that children need love. However, there is reason to question the situation that may arise if children's need for love is translated into requirements that must be safeguarded and handled by child protection workers in the child protection services. In this article, I analyse this 'requirement of love' both with regard to the increased focus on children's rights in discussions on children's life conditions and to the history of the professionalisation of social work; having the gendered features of social work and its partial professionalisation in mind. Due to the challenges this requirement represents, there may be good reasons to revisit the debates on care and care work among feminists who have theorised care as work within professional contexts. I try to show how the field of social work and child protection may utilise the critical potential in care feminist thinking by connecting it to their own emphasis on emotional awareness and knowledge of self as a prerequisite for professional child protection work.

This article theorises containment as a diplomatic response mode for states when faced with potentially harmful attacks on their international identity and reputation. Despite widespread agreement in International Relations (IR) scholarship that identities matter in the context of state security, studies of crisis management have paid little attention to ontological security crises. Scholarly literature on public diplomacy has concerned itself mainly with proactive nation branding and reputation building; work on stigma management has privileged the study of how 'transgressive' states respond to identity attacks by recognising, rejecting or countering criticism. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we make the case that states do not perform as uniform entities when faced with ontological security crises – government representatives, bureaucratic officials and diplomats have varying roles and action repertoires available to them. Second, we argue that containment is a key but undertheorised part of the diplomatic toolkit in crisis management. Unpacking containment as a crisis management response mode, we combine insights from IR scholarship on emotions and diplomacy with insights on therapeutic practices from social psychology. We substantiate our argument with a case study of how Norwegian government representatives, bureaucratic officials and diplomats responded to escalating international criticism against Norway's Child Welfare Services following a wave of transnational protests in 2016. A key finding is that whereas the dominant response mode of government ministers and bureaucratic officials was to reject the criticism, diplomats mainly worked to contain the situation, trying to prevent it from escalating further and resulting in long-term damage to bilateral relations.

Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 2 Pre-field Autobiographic Situatedness, In-field Situatedness, Post-field Text Situatedness -- Abstract -- Field Situatedness: The Pillow -- Autobiographical Situatedness: Women at the Public Health Clinic -- Textual Situatedness: The Example of Motherhood -- References -- Chapter 3 A Century of Thinking About Situatedness: The Gestalt Tradition -- Abstract -- Preconditions for Action -- Gestalt, Phenomenology, Social Sciences -- Sides, Aspects, Profiles -- References -- Chapter 4 Conceptual Inspiration from the Gestalt Tradition -- Abstract -- Field and Gestalt -- FigureGround -- Blind Researchers: Examples of FigureGround -- References -- Chapter 5 Interview Techniques -- Abstract -- Acknowledging the Researcher Self -- Awareness -- Body Language -- Awareness and Body Language During the Interview -- Contact Mechanisms -- The Prohibition Against Interpretation -- References -- Chapter 6 Pre-field Autobiographic Situatedness and Post-field Textual Situatedness -- Abstract -- Pre-field Autobiographic Situatedness -- Post-field Text Situatedness -- References -- Chapter 7 Philosophy of Science: Two Ways of Going About Situatedness -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Culture, Power, Ethics -- Abstract -- Culture -- Power -- References -- Bibliography -- Index