The terrible girls: feminism and popular culture

Women’s Media Studies Network Panel at the MeCCSA Conference, Bradford University
Friday 16 January, 11.15 am

This panel had been convened on the occasion of the publication of Diane Negra’s book What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism and as a continuation of the debates raised in the successful conference ‘The Point of Feminism’ which took place at Reading in September. We are pleased that Professor Negra has agreed to be one of our respondents.

Introduced by Heather Nunn (WMSN Chair) and Anita Biressi (WMSN Communications)

Speakers:

Kaitlynn Mendes (Nottingham)
'The lady is a closet feminist!': The shift towards post-feminism in British and American newspapers 

Helen Thornham (City)
Gendered cover stories or 'Why Girls Can't Game’

Nancy Thumim (LSE)
Can self-representation challenge representations in ‘postfeminist’ times?

Elke Weissmann (Edge Hill)
Subversing transformations: postfeminism and progression  narratives in
make-over television

Respondents:

Vicky Ball (Sunderland) and Diane Negra (University College, Dublin)


Click here to download the papers presented at this panel

Coordinating committee

  • Heather Nunn
    Roehampton University
    (WMSN Chair,
    MeCCSA Executive)
  • Anita Biressi
    Roehampton University
    (WMSN Communications,
    MeCCSA Executive)
  • Rosalind Brunt
    Sheffield Hallam University
  • Kaitlynn Mendes
    University of Nottingham
  • Margaret Montgomerie
    De Montfort University
  • Karen Ross
    Liverpool University
  • Milly Williamson
    Brunel University