July 25, 2006
The Word Girl in a Global Frame
The Word Girl will comprise a web page and research activities hosted at Goldsmiths (University London) as a forum for staff, post-graduate students and non-Goldsmiths academics and researchers working on relevant topics. We will be seeking contributions from ongoing research on the boundary-setting practices of girlhood in a global frame.
We are keen to encourage work which pushes forward with new psychoanalytical perspectives on body morphology, anger, anxiety, self harming behaviour, suicide and ‘illegible rage’. We are also interested in affect and emotion, and transcultural work on youthful female embodiment. We look forward to receiving articles which examine a wide range of cultural phenomena that engage with these issues in a global frame. These might include films, music, art work, fiction, and autobiographical writing...
>Contributors and papers from
The Word Girl in a Global Frame event (21-22 June 2006):
Kim Allen: ‘'Jostling the demands of neo-liberalism: The young female subject and creative education - a case study’
Lisa Blackman: 'A Vague Sense of Unease: Post feminism and the Dialogic Unconscious'
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Generations?’
Shelley Budgeon: 'Third Wave Femininities: Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Gendered Subjectivity'
Beckie Coleman: ‘Becoming a Girl: Bodies, Affect and ‘Fighting Back’
Linda Duits: ‘Girls make sense: Girls, celebrity and identities’
Ros Gill: 'The midriff generation: post-feminism, power femininity and neo-liberalism'
Emily Grabham: 'Sex/Chorus'
Judith Halberstam: ‘Trans-Generations: Girls, Bois and the New Gender Flexibility’
Lisa Lowe: ‘Girls as workers in the international division of labor - Young girls in the Maquiladora factories in export processing zones’
Angela McRobbie: ‘Young Women’s Illegible Rage’
Denise Noble: ‘Black Girls in The Limelight: Popular Culture, Racial Competence and Sexual Competition’
Susie Orbach: Chinks in the merged attachment: generational bequests to contemporary teenage girls’
Angela Phillips: ‘Teenage sex: norms, debates and public policy’
Meeta Rani Jha: ‘Mothers and Daughters in British Asian experiences of Bombay Cinema Viewing’
Emma Renold: ‘Tomboy/ism, pre-teen girlhood and the negotiation of young heteronormative femininities’
Jessica Ringrose: ‘Between the pathological and the deviant: Negotiating the constitutive limits of contemporary girlhood and the 'problem' of feminine aggression’
Gayle Salamon: ‘Boys of the lex: transgenderism and rhetorics of materiality’.
Valerie Walkerdine: ‘Just kill 'em!' Girls, violence and video games’
Niza Yanay: Embodied Fears and Ambivalent Forms of Hatred?
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