Dear Colleagues

A report summarising this year's work of the Women's Media Studies Network 
will be submitted to the MeCCSA AGM held during the conference at Bradford 
University. Following the AGM a summary will be made available to you via the 
list and posted onto the WMSN website. In the mean time we hope to meet 
some of you at our WMSN panel 'The Terrible Girls' -  please come along and 
introduce yourselves.

with best wishes for 2009

Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi


Women’s Media Studies Network Panel at the MeCCSA Conference, Bradford 
University 
 
Date: Friday 16th January from 11.15 am, open to all MeCCSA delegates

‘The terrible girls: feminism and popular culture’

This panel has 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)