Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

• Vares T. (2022) ‘When you delete Tinder it’s a sign of commitment’: leaving dating apps and the reproduction of romantic, monogamous relationship practices. Journal of Sociology Online first http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833221082700. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. (2022) Asexuals negotiate the 'onslaught of the heteronormative'. Sexualities 25(5-6): 767-784. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460721993389. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. (2021) ‘When you delete Tinder it’s a sign of commitment’: Dating apps users’ leaving practices and the reproduction of hetero- and homo-mononormativity.. Christchurch, New Zealand: Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference, 24-26 Nov 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares TM. (2019) Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality. In Simula B; Sumerau J; Miller A (Ed.), Expanding the Rainbow: Exploring the Relationships of Bi+, Polyamorous, Kinky, Ace, Intersex, and Trans People Boston: Brill | Sense. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004414105_014. (Chapters)

• Vares TM. (2018) 'My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’: Romantic identified asexuals negotiate the dating game. Sexualities 21(4): 520-536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717716400. (Journal Articles)

• Vares TM. (2017) ‘You want the physical touch of someone […] but [it’s] a separate kind of intimacy from having sex with someone’: Romantic asexuality and re-imagining relationality. The University of West Australia, Perth, Australia: ‘Belonging in a Mobile World’, The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference., 27 Nov-30 Oct 2017. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2016) Sexuopharmaceuticals. In Naples N (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies: 2227-2232. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss443. (Chapters)

• Vares TM. (2016) Sexualization of Childhood Debates and the Implications for Sexuality Education. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Youth Sexualities. (Oral Presentations)

• Vares TM. (2016) ‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’: Negotiating asexuality, romance, relationships and intimacy. Napier, New Zealand: Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand, 22-24 Nov 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2015) Perfect skin', 'pretty skinny': girls' embodied identities and post-feminist popular culture. Journal of Gender Studies 24(3): 347-360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2013.841573. (Journal Articles)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2015) Too many bad role models for us girls': Girls, female pop celebrities and 'sexualization'. Sexualities 18(4): 480-498. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460714550905. (Journal Articles)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2015) New Visibilities? Using Video Diaries to Explore Girls’ Experiences of Sexualized Culture. In Renold E; Ringrose J; Egan D (Ed.), Children, Sexuality and Sexualization: 307-320. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137353399_19. (Chapters)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2015) Preteen girls, magazines, and the negotiation of young sexual femininity. Gender and Education 27(6): 700-713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2015.1078453. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2015) Reading celebrities/narrating selves: 'tween' girls, Miley Cyrus and the good/bad girl binary. Celebrity Studies 6(4): 553-567. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2015.1021822. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2014) Preteen girls, magazines and the negotiation of transitional identities. Christchurch, New Zealand: Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Annual Conference (SAANZ), 3-5 Dec 2014. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S., Vares T. and Gill R. (2013) 'The whole playboy mansion image': Girls' fashioning and fashioned selves within a postfeminist culture. Feminism and Psychology 23(2): 143-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353511433790. (Journal Articles)

• Newick L., Vares T., Dixon L., Johnston J. and Guilliland K. (2013) A midwife who knows me: Women tertiary students' perceptions of midwifery. New Zealand College of Midwives Journal 47: 5-9. (Journal Articles)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2012) "The good, the bad and the beautiful": Girls negotiating 'sexualized' celebrities. Melbourne, Australia: Celebrity Studies Inaugural Conference, 12-14 Dec 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2012) I'm sure the media influences me just as much as anybody else': Pre-teen girls' negotiations of 'sexualised' media. Windsor, UK: Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference (POWS), 11-13 Jul 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2012) Reviving 'sexualised' Ophelia? Ways girls' perspectives complicate claims of 'sexualisation' harm. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia: Australian Women and Gender Studies Association Biennial Conference (AWGSA), 21-23 Nov 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2012) Fashioning Girls. In Sparrman A; Sandin B; Sjoberg J (Ed.), Situating Child Consumption: Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption: 195-212. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. (Chapters)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2012) Preteen Girls Read 'Tween' and 'Teen' Magazines: Negotiating Gendered, Sexual and Aged Subjectivities. Melbourne, Australia: Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand 3rd Annual International Conference (POPCAANZ), 27-29 Jun 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2011) Media "Sluts": "Tween" Girls' Negotiation of Postfeminist Sexual Subjectivities in Popular Culture. In Gill R; Scharff C (Ed.), New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity: 134-146. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapters)

• Vares T. (2011) Women and Sexuality. : 691-692. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. [Encyclopedia Entry]. (Other)

• Vares T., Jackson S. and Gill R. (2011) Preteen Girls Read 'Tween' Popular Culture: Diversity, Complexity and Contradiction. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 7(2): 139-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/macp.7.2.139_1. (Journal Articles)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2010) It's the Whole Playboy Mansion Image': Girls Negotiating Contemporary Media Portrayals of Femininity. Office of Film and Literature Censorship, Wellington. (Oral Presentations)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2010) Billboard' Bodies: Girls' Negotiations of Postfeminist Media Texts. Barcelona, Spain: 2nd International Conference: Texts of the Body, 30 Nov-3 Dec 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2010) I never dress like that': Girls Fashioning Selves in a Postfeminist Landscape. University of Évora, Évora, Portugal: International Conference Landscapes of the Self: Identity, Discourse, Representation, 24-26 Nov 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2010) Girls, 'Tween' Popular Culture and Everday Life. State University of New York College at Cortland, NY, USA: Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals, 22-24 Oct 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2010) Preteen Girls Read 'Tween' Popular Culture: A Contribution to the 'Sexualization of Girlhood' Debate. Norrköping, Sweden: 4th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Child and Teen Consumption, 21-23 Jun 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2010) Tween' Girls, Celebrities and 'Sluts': Negotiating Sexual Subjectivities in Popular Culture. Auckland, New Zealand: Sexualities Against the Grain: A One-Day Symposium, 19-19 Feb 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2010) Tween' Girls, Miley Cyrus and the 'Good'/'Bad' Girl Binary. Eugene, OR, USA: Console-ing Passions: Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, 22-24 Apr 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2009) Girls in Transit Landscapes: Postfeminist Popular Culture, New Technologies and 'Tweenhood'. Liverpool, UK: 22nd Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Conference 2009, 19-21 Jun 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2009) Reading the 'Sexy Oldie': Gender, Age(ing) and Embodiment. Sexualities 12(4): 503-524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460709105716. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. and Jackson S. (2009) Negotiating 'Tween' Identities: Tween Girls and Celebrity Culture. Sydney, Australia: 2nd International Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference 2009, 7-9 Jul 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2008) Innovations in Media Research with Girls. New Zealand Film Commission: Invited Presentation, 22 May 2008. (Oral Presentations)

• Jackson S. and Vares T. (2008) Girls, Tween Popular Culture and Everyday Life: Developing New Methods in Media Research with Girls. Athens, Greece: International City Break Conference on Social Science and Human Development Research, 17-20 Oct 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2008) Reading Filmic Representations of 'Sexy Oldies': Seniors Negotiate Gender, Age(ing) and Embodiment. MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia: Let's Talk About Sex': Histories of Sexualities in Australia and New Zealand, 2-3 Oct 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2008) The (Un)Watchability of Images of 'Sexy Oldies': Seniors Negotiate Gender, Ageing and Sexuality. Dunedin, New Zealand: Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference 2008, 26-28 Nov 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2007) I just thought, please don't pull that sheet down': Senior Women's Responses to 'Sexy Oldies'. Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK: 20th Feminist & Women's Studies Association (FWSA) UK and Ireland Conference: Feminism and Popular Culture, 29 Jun-1 Jul 2007. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. and Potts A. (2007) Women and sexuality. : 5268-5273. Malden: Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x. [Encyclopedia Entry]. (Other)

• Vares T., Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2007) Reconceptualizing cultural narratives of mature women's sexuality in the Viagra era. Journal of Aging Studies 21(2): 153-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2006.08.002. (Journal Articles)

• Grace VM., Potts A., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2006) The discursive condition of Viagra. Sexualities 9(3): 295-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460706065050. (Journal Articles)

• Potts A., Grace VM., Vares T. and Gavey N. (2006) Sex for life'? Men's counter-stories on 'erectile dysfunction', male sexuality and ageing. Sociology of Health and Illness 28(3): 306-329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00494.x. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. and Braun V. (2006) Spreading the Word, but what Word is That? Viagra and Male Sexuality in Popular Culture. Sexualities 9(3, Viagra Culture): 315-332. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460706065055. (Journal Articles)

• Potts A. and Vares T. (2005) [Invited Seminar] Kiwis on Viagra: Challenging Sex After 40. University of Western Sydney (Nepean): PsyHealth Staff Seminar Series, University of Western Sydney, 09 May 2018. (Oral Presentations)

• Vares T. (2005) Killer Women Films: Exploring the Pleasures and Possibilities of Imagined Violence. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Body Modification Mark II, 21 Apr 2005. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2005) Negotiating Masculinities: Reading Viagra/Talking Sex. Christchurch, New Zealand: Communication at Work: Showcasing Communication Scholarship - Annual Meeting of the Australia New Zealand Communication Association, 4 Jul 2005. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2005) Men's Talk about Viagra. In Kirkman A; Moloney P (Ed.), Sexuality Down Under: Social and Historical Perspectives: 201-213. Dunedin: University of Otago Press. (Chapters)

• Potts A., Grace V., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2004) "Viagra stories": challenging 'erectile dysfunction'. Social Science & Medicine 59(3): 489-499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.06.001. (Journal Articles)

• Potts A., Grace V., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2004) Challenging the 'Quick Fix' Account to Erectile Dysfunction. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine, 1 Feb 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Potts A., Vares T., Grace VM. and Gavey N. (2004) New Zealand men's experiences of changes in sexuality associated with ageing. Christchurch, New Zealand: Expanding Horizons: The Art and Science of Ageing (New Zealand Association of Gerontology Conference), 1 Apr 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2004) (Re)scripting gender/bodies: Thelma and Louise, self defence and women's stories. In Potts A; Gavey N; Weatherall A (Ed.), Sex and the Body: 71-87. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. (Chapters)

• Vares T., Gavey N., Potts A. and Grace V. (2004) "Improves with Age": Women's Accounts of Sexuality and Sexual Changes in Mid to Later Life. Christchurch, New Zealand: Expanding Horizons: New Zealand Gerontology Association Conference, 1 Apr 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Gavey N., Potts A., Grace V. and Vares T. (2003) The other 'Viagra Story': Relationship difficulties following Viagra use by men. Perth, Australia: 3rd Murdoch Symposium on Talk-in-Interaction, 15 Dec 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Grace VM., Potts A., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2003) Viagra stories: NZ men and women challenge ideas about sexual dysfunction. London, UK: British Psychology Society Annual Conference, 10 Sep 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Potts A., Gavey N., Grace VM. and Vares T. (2003) The downside of Viagra: women's experiences and concerns. Sociology of Health and Illness 25(7): 697-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-9566.2003.00366.x. (Journal Articles)

• Potts A., Gavey N., Grace VM. and Vares T. (2003) Viagra Stories. Auckland, New Zealand: International Critical Health Psychology Conference, 10 Apr 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Potts A., Vares T., Grace V. and Gavey N. (2003) Women and Viagra. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Sexual Health Physicians Conference, 1 Jun 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Potts A., Vares T., Grace VM. and Gavey N. (2003) On the other end of Viagra: Women's experiences and concerns. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Sexual Health Conference, 4 Jun 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Potts A., Vares T., Grace VM. and Gavey N. (2003) The downside of Viagra': NZ women's experiences and concerns about Viagra use by men. Honolulu, HI, USA: International Conference of Social Sciences, 1 Jun 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2003) (Re)scripting gender/bodies: Women talk self-defence. Sydney, Australia: Body Modification Conference, 1 Apr 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2003) Sex for life': Critical engagements with 'Viagra culture'. Christchurch, New Zealand: Cultural Studies Association of Australia Annual Conference, 1 Dec 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2003) Viagra and 'Getting it up': It's a joke if you can't and it's a joke if you can!? M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 6(5): 4pp. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T., Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2003) Hard sell, soft sell: Men read Viagra ads. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 2003(108): 101-114. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. (2002) Framing "Killer Women" Films: Audience Use of Genre. Feminist Media Studies 2(2): 213-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680770220150872. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. (2002) Raising Issues: Women talk about Viagra. Austin, Texas: Flash Points' Conference, 1 Oct 2002. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T., Potts A., Grace V. and Gavey N. (2002) On the other end of Viagra: Partners' experiences and concerns. Christchurch, New Zealand: Social Science in the 21st Century: Sociological Association of Aotearoa (NZ) Conference, 5 Dec 2002. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares Tiina. (2002) Gender in Focus. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Association of Teachers of English Conference, 1 Jul 2002. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2001) Confronting 'Critical Unease': Women Talk about Representations of 'Killer Women' / 'Action Heroines'. Women's Studies Journal 17(1): 85-99. (Journal Articles)

• Vares T. (2001) Killer Women' Films/TV Programmes and the Media Violence Debate: Female Viewers Talk 'Effects'. Christchurch, New Zealand: Women's Studies Conference, 1 Jul 2001. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2001) Uneasy Pleasures': Women Talk about the 'Hardbody' Heroines in Xena: Warrior Princess and Terminator 2. Melbourne, Australia: Conference of the International Association of the Study of Sex, Culture and Society, 1 Oct 2001. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Vares T. (2001) Action Heroines and Female Viewers: What Women have to Say. In McCaughey M; King N (Ed.), Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies: 219-243. Austin: University of Texas Press. (Chapters)

• Vares T. (2000) Reading film and doing talk: The pleasures, dangers and possibilities of women as 'violent subjects'. Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)

• Vares T. (2000) Scripting women: Thelma and Louise, self-defence and women's stories. In : 182-188. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Student Supervision

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Current
• PhD - Clelland T: Exploring parents' experiences of providing sexuality education to their adolescent children
• PhD - Hannah S: Out of the Dungeon: Cultural Networks and the Development of BDSM Communities in Christchurch, New Zealand
• PhD - Varghese J: Urbanisation, cultural change and gender roles in India: A case study of working women in the city of Chennai
• Masters - Boyle H: Using the arts to engage with young people’s lived experiences of sexuality and gender politics at high school
Completed
• PhD - Ferguson G: 'I don't want to be a freak': An interrogation of the negotiation of masculinities in two Aotearoa New Zealand primary schools (2014)
• PhD - Gray C: Stigma and the provision of welfare in New Zealand (2017)
• PhD - Theilade K: Talking sexualities: New Zealand and Danish students' stories about sexual negotiations (2010)
• PhD - Tonkin L: Fantasy and loss in circumstantial childlessness (2014)
• Masters - Bailey J: An oral history of the Jazz community of Christchurch (2016)
• Masters - Covich AM: Alter/ego: Superhero comic book readers, gender and identities (2012)
• Masters - Habte B: Negotiating home, belonging and identity: The transnational lives of second generation African migrants (2017)
• Masters - Kahi H: Reading media representations or race and New Zealand Rugby (2017)
• Masters - Low G: New Zealand Viewers of Geordie Shore talk Casual Sex and Binge-drinking (2018)
• Masters - Martin E: The use of social networking sites by preteen New Zealand Girls (2014)
• Masters - Matthews E: Making space: Disorientating bodies in trans and queer spaces of support (2013)
• Masters - Mayor L: Negotiating Sexualities: Magazine Representations of Sexualities and the Talk of Teen and Young Adult Readers (2006)
• Honours - Ballantine B: Debating same-sex marriage: An analysis of media representations of the Marriage Equality Bill in New Zealand (2013)
• Honours - Banbury J: Post-quake providers: The experiences of three human service providers following the 2011 earthquake (2012)
• Honours - de Silva D: Deconstructing social media campaigns for domestic violence (2015)
• Honours - Gonsalves B: The experiences of postgraduate Indian international students at the University of Canterbury (2018)
• Honours - Habte B: “It’s sort of like, how different do you want to stay while still fitting in”: Negotiating ‘Kiwi’ identities among second-generation migrant women (2013)
• Honours - Heng L: How do people become, and are made, ‘old’? The role social and institutional arrangements play in the enactment of normativities (2013)
• Honours - Hewitt B: Experiences of transgender youth (2015)
• Honours - Lloyd J: 2003-Honours-Lloyd, Jan (2003)
• Honours - Martin E: Reading Tween Magazines (2007)
• Honours - Mayor L: Reading women's magazines (2003)
• Honours - McClurg D: Reading magazines (2005)
• Honours - McCormack A: A feminist poststructuralist exploration of the talk of women who write erotica and romantica (2011)
• Honours - O'Flaherty Z: Honour Killing within Haryanvi society: An analysis of the social practice through gendered understandings of honour, and the taboo practice of inter-caste marriage (2013)
• Honours - Penny B: 2003-Honours- (2003)
• Honours - Smith K: Exploring Identity and Belonging: The Experiences of 1.5 Generation Migrants Living in New Zealand (2014)
• Honours - Stewart J: "They’re Just a Big Bunch of Sluts Getting Together to Sing”: Exploring Teenage Girls’ Perspectives on Representations of Femininity in Contemporary Music Videos. (2011)
• Honours - Watson B: Gender and Media (2008)
• Honours - Williamson N: Designer vaginas (2011)
• Honours - Wyrt M: Catholic magisterial engagement with Western gendered discourses of sexuality (2012)

Review and Refereeing

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• 6 Journals (10 articles) ( 2012 - 2023)
• Body Modification' for 'Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal ( 2000 - 2005)
• Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies ( 2000 - 2005)
• Feminism and Psychology ( 2011 - 2023)
• Gender, Place, and Culture ( 2009 - 2023)
• Participations ( 2011 - 2023)
• Sexualities ( 2008 - 2011)
• Social Behaviour and Personality ( 2006 - 2023)
• Social Semiotics ( 2006 - 2011)
• Sociology of Health and Illness ( 2008 - 2023)
• Womens' Studies Journal ( 2011 - 2023)