Journal Articles
Holliday, R and Huang, Q (2026)
Reproductive cultures in crisis: Online memes and the challenge to pronatalism in China,
European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN: 1367-5494. DOI:
10.1177/13675494261462821.
Huang, Q and
Holliday, R (2026)
The anti-marriage turn: economic precarity and racialized grievance in the Chinese manosphere,
Journal of Gender Studies, pp.1-19, ISSN: 0958-9236. DOI:
10.1080/09589236.2026.2693073.
Holliday, R (2025)
Book Review: Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards by Alka Vaid Menon,
Gender & Society, 39(2), pp.321-323, ISSN: 0891-2432. DOI:
10.1177/08912432241305617.
Dowrick, A and
Holliday, R (2022)
Tweakments: Non‐surgical beauty technologies and future directions for the sociology of the body,
Sociology Compass, 16(11), e13044, ISSN: 1751-9020. DOI:
10.1111/soc4.13044.
Holliday, R, Cheung, O, Cho, JH, Bell, D (2017)
Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism,
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 58(2), pp.190-202, ISSN: 1360-7456. DOI:
10.1111/apv.12154.
Holliday, R, Bell, D, Jones, M, Hardy, K, Hunter, E, Probyn, E, Taylor, JS (2015)
Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites,
Gender, Place & Culture, 22(1), pp.90-106, ISSN: 0966-369X. DOI:
10.1080/0966369x.2013.832655.
Bell, D,
Holliday, R, Ormond, M, Mainil, T (2015)
Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives,
Social Science & Medicine, 124, pp.284-289, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.014.
Holliday, R, Bell, D, Cheung, O, Jones, M, Probyn, E (2015)
Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism,
Social Science & Medicine, 124, pp.298-304, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.047.
Holliday, R (2014)
Neoliberal governance and international medical travel in Malaysia,
Australian Geographer, 45(1), pp.93-94, ISSN: 0004-9182. DOI:
10.1080/00049182.2014.869299.
Flowers, P, Langdridge, D, Gough, B,
Holliday, R (2013)
On the Biomedicalisation of the Penis: The Commodification of Function and Aesthetics,
International Journal of Men's Health, 12(2), pp.121-137, ISSN: 1532-6306. DOI:
10.3149/jmh.1202.121.
Holliday, R and Elfving-Hwang, J (2012)
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea,
Body & Society, 18(2), pp.58-81, ISSN: 1357-034X. DOI:
10.1177/1357034x12440828.
Holliday, R (2012)
Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 34(1), pp.154-155, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01451.x.
Bell, D,
Holliday, R, Jones, M, Probyn, E, Taylor, JS (2011)
Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism,
Tourist Studies, 11(2), pp.139-155, ISSN: 1468-7976. DOI:
10.1177/1468797611416607.
Holliday, R and Cairnie, A (2007)
Man Made Plastic,
Journal of Consumer Culture, 7(1), pp.57-78, ISSN: 1469-5405. DOI:
10.1177/1469540507073508.
Holliday, R and Taylor, JS (2006)
Aesthetic surgery as false beauty,
Feminist Theory, 7(2), pp.179-195, ISSN: 1464-7001. DOI:
10.1177/1464700106064418.
Holliday, R (2004)
Filming “The Closet”,
American Behavioral Scientist, 47(12), pp.1597-1616, ISSN: 0002-7642. DOI:
10.1177/0002764204266239.
BELL, D and
HOLLIDAY, R (2000)
Naked as Nature Intended,
Body & Society, 6(3-4), pp.127-140, ISSN: 1357-034X. DOI:
10.1177/1357034x00006003007.
CHANEY, D (2000)
Organisation and Representation: Work and Organisations in Popular Culture, J. Hassard and Ruth Holliday (eds.), London: Sage 1998, x+271 pp,
Work, Employment and Society, 14(3), pp.589-618, ISSN: 0950-0170. DOI:
10.1017/s0950017000270360.
Hassard, J,
Holliday, R, Willmott, H (2000)
Body and Organization, DOI:
10.4135/9781446218303.
Holliday, R (2000)
We've been framed: Visualising methodology,
Sociological Review, 48(4), pp.503-521, ISSN: 0038-0261. DOI:
10.1111/1467-954X.00230.
Holliday, R (1999)
The Comfort of Identity,
Sexualities, 2(4), pp.475-491, ISSN: 1363-4607. DOI:
10.1177/136346099002004007.
Hassard, J and
Holliday, R (1998)
Organization–Representation: Work and Organization in Popular Culture, DOI:
10.4135/9781446280287.
Holliday, R (1997)
Reviews,
Management Learning, 28(2), pp.244-246, ISSN: 1350-5076. DOI:
10.1177/1350507697282012.
Ram, M and
Holliday, R (1993)
Relative Merits: Family Culture and Kinship in Small Firms,
Sociology, 27(4), pp.629-648, ISSN: 0038-0385. DOI:
10.1177/0038038593027004005.
Holliday, R and Letherby, G (1993)
Happy Families or Poor Relations? — An Exploration of Familial Analogies in the Small Firm,
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 11(2), pp.54-63, ISSN: 0266-2426. DOI:
10.1177/026624269301100205.
Chapters
Holliday, R (2018)
Vagina dialogues: Theorizing the 'designer vagina'. In
Body Migration Re Constructive Surgeries Making the Gendered Body in A Globalized World, pp.192-208, DOI:
10.4324/9781351133678.
Holliday, R (2017)
The comfort of identity. In
Fashion Theory A Reader, pp.318-332, DOI:
10.4324/9781315094151-35.
Holliday, R and Bell, D (2015)
Cosmetic surgery tourism. In
Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility, pp.421-430, DOI:
10.4337/9781783471195.00055.
Holliday, R (2015)
Media and Popular Culture. In
Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies, Macmillan Education UK, pp.233-253, ISBN: 9781137321879. DOI:
10.1007/978-1-137-31069-9_13.
Holliday, R, Hardy, K, Bell, D, Hunter, E, Jones, M, Probyn, E, Taylor, JS (2013)
Beauty and the beach: Mapping cosmetic surgery tourism. In
Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care, pp.83-97, DOI:
10.1057/9781137338495.
(2004)
Ruth Holliday. In
Picturing the Social Landscape, Routledge, pp.61-76, DOI:
10.4324/9780203694527-7.
Holliday, R (2004)
Reflecting the self. In
Picturing the Social Landscape Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination, pp.49-64, DOI:
10.4324/9780203694527.
Holliday, R and Hassard, J (2003)
Contested bodies: An introduction. In
Contested Bodies, pp.1-17, DOI:
10.4324/9780203455975-5.
Holliday, R and Thompson, G (2003)
A body of work. In
Contested Bodies, pp.117-133, DOI:
10.4324/9780203455975-15.
