**CALL FOR PAPERS**
Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland
What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times: researching the
relationship between women, feminism, the feminine and British television.
Thursday 16th September 2010,
David Puttnam Media Centre, University of Sunderland
Keynote Speakers:
Charlotte Brunsdon, University of Warwick
Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow
Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool
Since its inception in the 1970s, Feminist Television Studies has repeatedly engaged with the
multivious relationships between feminism, women, the feminine and television. Research
has included issues of representation of women and the feminine, both in front of, and
behind the television screen, women’s reading of particular texts and the pleasures offered
to female viewers specifically in relation to feminine genres, as well as addressing issue of
gender and cultural hierarchies of taste and value.
This one-day symposium aims to revisit these central themes and issues of Feminist
Television Studies in relation to Britain in the contemporary post-feminist context. Although
rich dialogues have already opened up between feminists across national borders,
discussions of post-feminist media culture have tended to be consolidated around popular
North American fictions, such as Ally McBeal and Sex and the City and British popular factual
texts such as Wife Swap and What Not to Wear. This one-day symposium therefore attempts
to extend Feminist Television Studies’ knowledge of British post-feminist media culture by
exploring British fictional television.
Papers are invited which explore any aspect of the relationship between feminism, women,
the feminine and British fictional television at the level of production, representation,
reception and pedagogy in this post-feminist period.
Please send enquiries and 300 word abstracts to Vicky Ball at
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Dr. Vicky Ball
Lecturer Film, Media and Cultural Studies
University of Sunderland
0191 5152100
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