Girlhood, Glamour, and Revulsion: Filmic Depictions of the Feminine Ideal

Tuesday, March 5, 12-1 p.m.

SN-4087

This is a hybrid event.

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In this timely panel, Fitzpatrick and Hurley discuss cinematic depictions of the feminine ideal as both glamorized and reviled. Hurley considers the evolution of the feminine ideal, using Cinderella and Barbie as the principal subjects for examination, elucidating both its progressive and liberating aspects and its highly restrictive and exclusive dimensions. Fitzpatrick explores representations of female adolescence that present puberty as a period of monstrous transformation. Using the lens of abjection, she explores how these films often equate the developing girl/woman body with fear and otherness, and the girl-to-woman transition as in need of regulation. Fitzpatrick also considers the damaging implications when girls/women internalize these stigmatizations.

BIOS

Melanie Hurley is a PhD candidate in English at MUNL and instructor in the Gender Studies Department. She has published in Artifact & Apparatus and in the edited collections The Velveteen Rabbit at 100 and The 80s Resurrected. Her research interests include film, animation, girl culture, and dolls. Krysta Fitzpatrick is a PhD student at MUNL and instructor in the English and Gender Studies Departments. She is an award-winning poet with an upcoming collection of poems and short stories titled The Vicious Kind. Her research interests include girlhood and womanhood, pornography, and sex education.

Presented by Department of Gender Studies

Event Listing 2024-03-05 12:00:00 2024-03-05 13:00:00 America/St_Johns Girlhood, Glamour, and Revulsion: Filmic Depictions of the Feminine Ideal This is a hybrid event. Register link: https://mun.webex.com/…/rbb5273c5431f09d003c94c60e10bec2a https://www.facebook.com/MUNGenderStudies/posts/pfbid0hv87RXHnrkFhBJDPYfLhSMjKXNbmAx3p3RRwr7oax8dcXQXPfGGstHzYDVLWAns3l In this timely panel, Fitzpatrick and Hurley discuss cinematic depictions of the feminine ideal as both glamorized and reviled. Hurley considers the evolution of the feminine ideal, using Cinderella and Barbie as the principal subjects for examination, elucidating both its progressive and liberating aspects and its highly restrictive and exclusive dimensions. Fitzpatrick explores representations of female adolescence that present puberty as a period of monstrous transformation. Using the lens of abjection, she explores how these films often equate the developing girl/woman body with fear and otherness, and the girl-to-woman transition as in need of regulation. Fitzpatrick also considers the damaging implications when girls/women internalize these stigmatizations. BIOS Melanie Hurley is a PhD candidate in English at MUNL and instructor in the Gender Studies Department. She has published in Artifact & Apparatus and in the edited collections The Velveteen Rabbit at 100 and The 80s Resurrected. Her research interests include film, animation, girl culture, and dolls. Krysta Fitzpatrick is a PhD student at MUNL and instructor in the English and Gender Studies Departments. She is an award-winning poet with an upcoming collection of poems and short stories titled The Vicious Kind. Her research interests include girlhood and womanhood, pornography, and sex education. SN-4087 Department of Gender Studies