Consumption and Narratives of the Feminine Self
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street
Urbana
Valerie Walkerdine examines the importance of feminine subjectivity for neoliberalism by exploring, though a series of case studies of young women, the way neoliberalism invites us to constantly remake and re-invent ourselves through practices of consumption.
Hosted by: College of Communications, Institute of Communications Research
In conjunction with: Center on Democracy in a Multicultural Society, Department of Anthropology, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Speech Communication, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Media Studies Program, Office of Women's Studies, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Professor of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom