“Let's Hear It For The Girls”:
Girlhood, Media and Popular Culture, 1990-present
Saturday 12th March 2016
Provisional Programme
09:15 –
09:50
Registration and Refreshments
Humanities Corridor, Ground Floor, Humanities
09:50 –
10:00
Opening Remarks
H0.52
10:00 –
11:00
Opening Keynote:
Prof. Carol Dyhouse (University of Sussex)
“The Troublesome History of Girls”
H0.52
Chair: Catherine Lester
11:00 –
11:15
Refreshment Break
Humanities Corridor
Parallel Panels
1A - Exploring Sexuality
H0.52
Chair: Zoë Shacklock
11:15 –
12:50
1B - Class and Politics: Discourses of Girlhood
H0.60
Chair: Helen Wheatley
Krystina Osborne (Liverpool John Moores
University)
The Legacy of the Masturbating Girl
Georgina Newton (Bournemouth University)
“Constructing working-class girls”: An
investigation into working class girls, media
consumption and how they negotiate their
identity
Emily Roach (University of York)
“Just because it's better now doesn't mean
that it's always good” - Queer identity in
contemporary YA literature
Helen Wood (University of Leicester)
The Magalluf Girl: Public sex, viral attitudes
and the class relations of social contagion
Ásta Jóhannsdóttir (University of Iceland)
Molly Geidel (University of Manchester)
Postfeminist moments: the sexuality of young Building the Counterinsurgent Girl: Gender
Icelandic women
and Education in the War on Terror
Charlotte Riley (University of Southampton)
Claire Hennessy (Independent)
Because I am a Girl: Girlhood and the
All Girls Find Out: Rape Culture In Young Adult
Discourse of Aid and Development in Britain
Fiction, 2013-16
since the 1990s
12:50 –
13:50
Lunch
Humanities Corridor
Parallel Panels
13:50 –
15:10
2A - Negotiating Postfeminist Media Culture
H0.52
Chair: Rachel Moseley
2B - Mediating the Body: The Fleshy and the
Digital
H0.60
Chair: Marta Wasik
Eva C. Y. Li (King’s College London)
Contesting Non-Western Girlhood:
Postfeminist Representation in Taiwanese
Popular Culture
Leanne Weston (University of Warwick)
“Written on the Body”: My Mad Fat Diary and
Self-Image or, How Rae Earl Learned to Love
Herself
Keira Smalley (Independent)
She’s The Man? Exploring Representations of
the Tween Tomboy Within a Postfeminist
Sensibility
Wallis Seaton (Keele University)
Playing the Fame Games: Mediating the Public
and the Private, the Physical and the Digital,
in the Star Performance of Jennifer Lawrence
Heather Browning (Trinity College Dublin /
ROADS Entertainment)
“Bad Girls Do It Well”: Teenage Girlhood and
the Aesthetics of “Raunch” in Contemporary
Popular Culture
Dawn Woolley (Royal College of Art / Anglia
Ruskin University)
Hysterical Selfies and Disruptive Bodies
15:10 –
15:30
Refreshment Break
Humanities Corridor
Parallel Panels
3A - Faultlines, Feminism and Fandom: Riot
Grrrls and Larry Shippers
H0.52
Chair: Charlotte Stevens
15:30 –
16:50
3B - Drawn and Divided: Images of Girlhood
in Popular Culture
H0.60
Chair: Gemma Goodman
Linda Beail and Caroline Beail (Point Loma
Nazarene University)
“Better in Stereo”: The Disney Channel's
Doubled and Divided Representations of
Girlhood in the 21st Century
Laura Cofield (University of Sussex)
Riot Grrrls: Fangrrrling Feminism
Daisy Asquith (University of Sussex /
Goldsmiths University)
Whose shame is it anyway?
Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex)
Shipping as methodology: Fans as feminist
historians
Katie Barnett (University of Worcester)
“Which are the lady parts? The vagina and the
heart”: Negotiating girlhood in Bob's Burgers
16:50 –
16:55
Comfort Break
Humanities Corridor
16:55 –
17:55
Closing Keynote:
Prof. Rosalind Gill (City University London)
“Girls and the Rise of Confidence Culture”
H0.52
Chair: Leah Phillips
17:55 –
18:00
Closing Remarks
H0.52
18:00 –
19:00
Wine Reception
Humanities Corridor