[eccr] Fwd: New Sexism - WMSN event at UWE

>MECCSA Women's Network Event: School of Cultural Studies, UWE, Bristol.
>
>The 'New Sexism':  Friday 23rd January 2004
>Contact:  (jane.arthurs /at/ uwe.ac.uk)
>
>A day of presentations and discussion addressing the resurgence of 'sexist'
>forms of discourse and imagery in the popular media. If the 1990s can be
>characterised as a period of ironic sexism have we now moved to a period of
>post-ironic retrosexism in the new millennium? If this is the case what
>new cultural theories might we need to explain this phenomenon? What kinds
>of intervention can we make as teachers and researchers and what problems
>does this raise?
>
>12.00 LUNCH and Welcome
>
>1.00 - 2.45  Retrosexism
>
>Down with Love: The feminine mistake (Dr Kathrina Glitre Film Studies UWE)
>In the wake of the second wave, the fifties sex comedy film was critically
>reviled; now after post-feminism, the cycle has been resurrected in a
>reworking of Sex and the Single Girl (Richard Quine, 1964). The usual
>explanations - irony, parody, pastiche - will no doubt be applied to Down
>with Love, but what does it actually mean for a chick flick to be paying
>homage to a cycle of films that feminists used to consider sexist? This
>paper will explore some of the continuities between the sex comedy,
>postfeminism and the 'new' sexism, and particularly the nostalgic return to
>American iconography of the fifties and sixties.
>
>Retrosexism in Popular Culture (Judith Williamson Freelance writer)
>
>"In the world of sexual ads, the dominatrix, the bitch and the whore wield
>power over men; in the real world, a British woman is physically attacked
>by a man she knows every six seconds. This suggests that, rather than
>embodying sexual liberation, today's fetishistic imagery provides a
>language for expressing both sexism and, perhaps, the pain and rage of a
>sex war which at heart is about social, not sexual power. These ubiquitous
>images translate the social as sexual: showing gender power struggles
>nakedly in every sense. And yet we have deprived ourselves of the language
>to analyse them as such. Our unwillingness to name sexism in the present
>has on the one hand encouraged it to develop as a form of nostalgia, and on
>the other, allowed it to flourish in a sexualised form which we perceive as
>daringly cutting-edge." (Judith Williamson, The Guardian  31/5/03)
>
>
>TEA
>
>3.15 Loaded with Meaning: working with men researching men's lifestyle
>magazines (Kate Brooks Media and Cultural Studies, UWE)
>
>Kate will be talking about her work on Making Sense of Men's Magazines
>(Jackson, Stevenson and Brooks 2001) researching masculinity and the
>consumption of commercial cultural forms. She will focus on interviews -
>being a feminist researcher listening to, and having to respond to, often
>sexist and misogynist talk, and on the dynamics of discourse ­ working with
>men analysing male discourse, and the subsequent questions the project
>raised about more conventional Cultural and Media Studies notions of
>readers and audiences.
>
>4.15-5.00 Discussion focusing on strategies of intervention.

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