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> Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Northumbria
> at Newcastle
>
> RE:GENERATIONS
> WOMEN, AGE AND DIFFERENCE
>
> Saturday 15th April 2000
>
> Responses to Germaine Greer's The Whole Woman have been marked by a
> sense of internal division/conflict within popular feminism. Many
> critiques of the book have been based on Greer's lack of
> connection/relevance to the concerns and status of contemporary/younger
> women - she is not 'sexy' enough, 'young' enough; nor has she gained the
> 'dignity' of motherhood. Germaine Greer, along with other feminists at
> the forefront of the 'second wave', such as Kate Millett and Shulamith
> Firestone, are frequently portrayed as 'crones' or 'angry women', as
> opposed to the allegedly media-friendly face of the 'new feminism'.
> With these generational differences dominating media
> representations of
> feminism at the millenium, this interdisciplinary conference will offer
> a forum for informed debate about women, aging and difference. Such
> debate would, of necessity, return to the history, theory and practice
> of second wave feminist theory and its relationship with contemporary
> feminisms. Women and aging is an area which has not been central to
> feminist theory: while discourses surrounding race, ethnicity, sexuality
> and class have been at the forefront of discussion within the academy in
> the last twenty years, the aging woman and the aging feminist have been
> remarkably absent.
> Debate would not only focus on representations of aging, older
> or 'old'
> women but will consider theoretical questions regarding the 'difference'
> age makes for the female subject.
> How is a woman's age measured?
> Is it more than a physical and temporal process?
> How do the different 'times' of femininity -
> pre-menstrual/post-menopausal - produce ways of understanding women as
> aging subjects?
> Suggested areas may include:
> second wave feminism v 'post-feminism'
> representations of women and aging in post-war visual and textual media
> generational conflict between women
> gender, generation and difference
> The conference will be cross-disciplinary and we are specifically
> interested in responses which engage with literary and visual media,
> including film and design history.
> Abstracts of 300-500 words, or further enquiries
> to: Rosie
> White
> Department of Historical and Critical Studies
> University of Northumbria at Newcastle
> Ellison Place
> Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
> e mail: [log in to unmask]
> Tel: 0191 227 3100
> *Deadline for abstracts is 7th October 1999*
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