RESEARCH PROFILE

Karen Throsby researches issues relating to gender, technology and the body. Her PhD research was on people's experiences of IVF failure, and she is the author of When IVF Fails: Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (Palgrave, 2004). She is currently writing a book on people's experiences of obesity surgery, and is working on an ESRC-funded research project on long distance open water swimmers. Karen convenes the third year module, Technologies of the Gendered Body, and co-convenes the second year module, Transformations. She also teaches on the MA module, Feminist Epistemologies in Action. She is also supervises PhD's in the areas of gender, technology and the body.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Throsby, Karen (2013) '"If I go in a cranky sea lion, I come out like a smiling dolphin": marathon swimming and the unexpected pleasures of being a body in water' Feminist Review 103 5 - 22 [article]
• Throsby, Karen (2012) 'Obesity surgery and the management of excess: exploring the body multiple' Sociology Of Health And Illness 34 (1), 1 - 15
• Throsby, Karen (2012) '"I'd kill anyone who tried to take my band away": obesity surgery, critical fat politics and the 'problem' of patient demand' Somatechnics 2 (1), 107 - 126 [article]
• Throsby, K. and Roberts, C. (2010) 'Getting bigger: children's bodies, genes and environments' in Nature after the genome, Editors: Parry, S. and Dupré, J., Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell
• Throsby, K. (2010) ''Doing what comes naturally...' Negotiating normality in accounts of IVF-failure' in Governing the female body: gender, health, and networks of power, 233 - 252, Editors: Reed, L. and Saukko, P., Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press

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