XI Stream: Gender

11.1. Girl Talk (panel)
11.2. Gender, Media and Society

Content of the sessions

11.1. Girl Talk (panel)

Coordinators

Veronika Honkasalo
Researcher
Finnish Youth Research Network
University of Helsinki
Finland
E-mail veronika.honkasalo@nuorisotutkimus.fi

Heta Mulari
Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
E-mail heaimu@utu.fi

Speakers

Åsa Bäckström
PhD, Senior Lecturer
Child and Youth Studies,
University of Stockholm
Sweden

Linda Duits
PhD, independent social scientist
Diep Onderzoek (Thorough Research)
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands

Elina Oinas
Senior Lecturer
University of Helsinki
Adjunct Professor
Åbo Akademi University, University of Turku
Finland

Malin Gustavsson
Folkhälsans Förbund
Finland

Description

This panel addresses questions of girlhood studies and girl work. The focus will be on both current research on girls and girlhood and on practical girl work. We aim for a critical and analytical approach towards key concepts in girlhood studies, such as agency, power, feminism and empowerment. How are these concepts understood and used in feminist girlhood studies? How do they affect researcher’s view and interpretations? And how are they circulated in media? Further, our goal is a dialogue between academic girlhood studies and girl work. How is girl work affected by the changing emphases of girlhood studies and vice versa? What does feminist agenda mean in girl work? What kinds of differences are there in girl work, depending on country or area? The panel is organised by the Finnish Network of Girlhood Studies.

Themes of the panel include:

1. The concept of agency in girlhood studies and girl work

2. Feminism and empowerment

3. Researcher and worker’s positions: ethical and political challenges and dilemmas

4. Future themes and challenges

Time and Place

Sessions 1
Monday 13th
15.30-17.00

EDU 2
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

11.2. Gender, Media and Society

Coordinators

Åsa Bäckström
PhD, Senior Lecturer
University of Stockholm
Sweden
E-mail asa.backstrom@buv.su.se

Heta Mulari
Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
heaimu@utu.fi

Karoliina Ojanen
Researcher
University of Helsinki
Finland
E-mail karoliina.ojanen@helsinki.fi

Participants

Beautiful Women and Athletic Men? – Doing Gender in Young Consumers’ Success Stories
Autio, Minna of University of Helsinki

Changes in Gender Representations of Young Drinking Adults in Finnish and Swedish Women’s Magazines’ Advertisements from the 1960s to the 2000s
Törrönen, Jukka of SoRAD/ Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs

”I Wish to Be Bella!” Finnish Girls Reading Vampire Books
Leppälahti, Merja of University of Turku

Anorexia and Bulimia among Young People. Defying Own Health or Social Order?
Hernández Gutiérrez, Julia of Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Mexico

Geography of Hanging-Out – Teenage Girls as Users of Urban Space
Pyyry, Noora of University of Helsinki

Time and Place

Sessions 5
Wednesday 15th
10.00-12.30

EDU 2
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5