Seminars
Intergenerational Perspectives:
Mothers, Daughters, and the Feminine/Feminist
Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford
Monday 13th September 2010
Intergenerational shifts in cultural norms about femininity are often played out in tensions between mothers and daughters over consumption issues in the arenas of dress, domesticity, contraception, recreation, and media habits. Important shifts in collective values-for instance, the degree of religiosity within the community-are often articulated in these same battles. Over time, therefore, we can trace the emergence of different values, including ideas about what is appropriately "feminine" or "feminist", in the popular discourse surrounding mother-daughter battles over consumption.
This final seminar in the series will focus upon the variation in values between female generations, as manifest in popular culture in the UK and US over the past 100 years, with special emphasis on contemporary comparisons between Second and Third Wave feminists.
To be hosted at the University of Oxford 13th September 2010 with a doctoral colloquium attached on 14th September.