Dr Sara De Benedictis
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications
Marie Jahoda 218
- Email: sara.debenedictis@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265662
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
De Benedictis, S. and Mendes, K. (2023) '#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis'. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0 (ahead-of-print). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 1367-5494 Open Access Link
Lockyer, S. and De Benedictis, S. (2023) 'Performing pregnancy: Comic content, critique and ambivalence in pregnant stand-up comedy'. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 26 (3). pp. 343 - 361. ISSN: 1367-8779 Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S. (2022) 'Periods of Austerity: The emergence of “period poverty” in UK news media'. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26 (6). pp. 880 - 896. ISSN: 1367-5494 Open Access Link
Clancy, L. and De Benedictis, S. (2021) ''I wanted to offer my sympathy ... woman to woman': Reading The Crown during a conjuncture of crisis'. Soundings, 79 (79). pp. 122 - 133. ISSN: 1362-6620 Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S. (2020) 'Reflecting on 10 years of Maternal Studies'. Studies in the Maternal, 13 (1). pp. 1 - 9.Open Access Link
Roberts, J. and De Benedictis, S. (2019) 'Childbirth on television: a scoping review and recommendations for further research'. Feminist Media Studies, 21 (2). pp. 248 - 264. ISSN: 1468-0777 Open Access Link
Jensen, T., Allen, K., Garthwaite, K., Patrick, R. and De Benedictis, S. (2019) 'Welfare imaginaries at the interregnum'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 72 (72). pp. 79 - 89. ISSN: 1362-6620 Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S., Orgad, S. and Rottenberg, C. (2019) '#MeToo, popular feminism and the news: A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage'. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 22 (5-6). pp. 718 - 738. ISSN: 1367-5494 Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S., Johnson, C., Roberts, J. and Spiby, H. (2018) 'Quantitative insights into televised birth: A content analysis of One Born Every Minute'. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 36 (1). pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 1529-5036 Open Access Link
Roberts, J., De Benedictis, S. and Spiby, H. (2017) ''Love Birth, Hate One Born Every Minute?' Birth community discourse around televised childbirth', in Luce, A., Hundley, V. and van Teijlingen, E. (eds.) Midwifery, Childbirth and the Media. Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 7 - 22. ISBN 10: 3319635123. ISBN 13: 978-3-319-63513-2. Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S., Allen, K. and Jensen, T. (2017) 'Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television'. Cultural Sociology, 11 (3). pp. 337 - 358. ISSN: 1749-9755 Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S. (2016) 'Watching One Born Every Minute: Negotiating the terms of the 'good birth'', in Moseley, R., Wheatley, H. and Wood, H. (eds.) Television for Women: New Directions. Abingdon : Routledge. pp. 110 - 127. ISBN 10: 1-315-69089-6. ISBN 13: 978-1-138-91429-2. Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S. and Orgad, S. (2016) 'The Escalating Price of Motherhood: Aesthetic Labour in Popular Representations of ‘Stay-at-Home’ Mothers', in Elias, AS., Gill, R. and Scharff, C. (eds.) Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 101 - 116. ISBN 13: 9781137477644.
Orgad, S. and De Benedictis, S. (2015) 'The ‘stay-at-home’ mother, postfeminism and neoliberalism: Content analysis of UK news coverage'. European Journal of Communication, 30 (4). pp. 418 - 436. ISSN: 0267-3231 Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S. (2014) 'From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives: Motherhood and Popular Television'. Feminist Media Studies, 14 (5). pp. 883 - 885. ISSN: 1468-0777
Allen, K., Tyler, I. and De Benedictis, S. (2014) 'Thinking with ‘White Dee’: The Gender Politics of ‘Austerity Porn’'. Sociological Research Online, 19 (3). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 1360-7804 Open Access Link
De Benedictis, S. (2012) 'Feral Parents: austerity parenting under neoliberalism'. Studies in the Maternal, 4 (2). pp. 1 - 21.Open Access Link