The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) 20^th Annual Conference

 

 

 Feminism and Popular Culture

University of Newcastle (June 29^th-July 1^st, 2007)

 

 

 Keynote Speakers

 

 

 š Pamela Church Gibson š Jackie Stacey š Yvonne Tasker š  Imelda Whelehan š

 

 

 The popular straddles disciplines, drawing together research that might otherwise remain discretely sited. This conference will interrogate how the popular and feminism has been understood, articulated and represented both in contemporary cultures and throughout history. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the conference will bring together scholars working in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

 

 

 From molls to grrls, from blue-stockings to blue movies, abstracts are invited on all aspects of gender, feminism, women and popular culture. We welcome proposals for papers which investigate the representation of feminism in popular culture as well as papers which theorise the relationship between feminism and the popular.

 

 

Possible Topics:

 

 

The Girlie

Postfeminism

 

 

 Lesbians on Television

 

 

 Feminist Role Models

 

 

 Domesticity

 

 

 Youth Cultures

 

 

 The Radical vs. the Popular

 

 

 Anti-feminism and the Backlash

 

 

 Transformation of the Public Sphere

 

 

 The Cult of Celebrity

 

 

 Rereading the Romance

 

 

 Body Modification

 

 

 Genre Fiction

 

 

 Audience Reception

 

 

 Cybergrrls

 

 

 Pornography

 

 

 Second and Third Waves

 

 

 Romantic Comedy

Conference Organisers: Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters

 

 

 Please send 300-word abstracts or 1000-word panel proposals by 1 December 2006 to < Ten adres email jest ukrywany przed spamerami, włącz obsługę JavaScript w przeglądarce, by go zobaczyć >.

 

 

 http://www.fwsa.org.uk