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CALL FOR PAPERS

One day Symposium:  Advice and the Teenage Girl
3 April 2003


Following the success of our first one day symposium Cleanliness, Dirt and Women's Roles we are organising a second symposium to
accompany our exhibition Grow Up!  Advice and the Teenage Girl.  The exhibition looks at advice given to girls 1880 - 2001, how they took it, and
traces changes in expectations and aspirations for teenage girls.

This one day, inter-disciplinary symposium on 3 April 2003 will explore issues around gender, young women and advice.  Papers are sought
across a wide range of fields including the history of consumerism, girls' education, literary and cultural studies, media and communications, art
and design, fashion, sociology and social policy.  The symposium will focus on the relationships between girls, their peers and adults and the role
of advice in concepts around the representation of girls, their perceptions of themselves, aspirations and roles.  Themes may include;  fashion and
consumption, teenage literature and publishing, photography and film, sexuality and health, education, careers and work, leisure activities, sub
cultures, drugs, homelessness, parenthood and prostitution.

Please send abstracts of 250 words to Hilary Clay, <[log in to unmask]>, at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan
University, Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT by 24 January 2003.  Successful proposals will be confirmed by 30 January 2003.