National PCA 2008 Update (Discourse Chronicle)
Comments(9) [Elizabeth is presenting with me in March at the National Popular Culture Association conference here:
Saturday, March 22, 8:00am – 9:30am
Golden Gate Hall Salon B1
341 Gender Studies VIII: Resistance and Subversion of Gender Identity in Contemporary Popular Novels
Chair: Catherine S. Cox, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Of Smug Marrieds (ugh) and Singletons (v.v.g.): Bridget Jones’s Subversive Grammar and the Constraints of Discourse
Elizabeth Fleitz, Bowling Green State University
“Not only what society has made them”: Re-inscribing Hegemonic White Masculinity in Contemporary Women’s Chick Lit
Katie O’Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University
A Tension in Contemporary Femininity: Psychoanalysis and Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Allison Lakomski, Simmons College
Signatures of Gendered Subjectivity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home”
Catherine S. Cox, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown BK]
category: Life, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics