SMF Speakers Series - Carla Rice here on March 8th, 7pm/SMF Symposium

[Tracy Penny Light]

Dear Colleagues,

Just a quick reminder about the talk by Carla Rice, Canada Research Chair in Care, Gender and Relationships at the University of Guelph will be here this Thursday.  We are also holding our annual SMF Symposium on Friday March 30th (details below) All are welcome at both - hope to see you soon!

Thursday March 8th, 7pm (Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University)
Dr. Carla Rice, Canada Research Chair (University of Guelph)

"Re*Visioning "Miss" representations"

For girls coming of age in consumerist, individualist, and media-driven culture, the body has become an important identity project. While the body has come to be a key medium of self-making, many girls and women also experience it as a significant obstacle and a source of distress. This is, in large part, due to a psychologically sophisticated, highly profitable, globalizing beauty/dieting industry that colonizes and capitalizes on women’s most intimate wishes and worries about their bodies in order to sell a dizzying array of products to expanding markets. As a result, millions are affected by a global trade in harmful skin-lightening products, by a culture of cosmetic surgery, and by fears about an obesity epidemic said to threaten public health. In this talk, I draw on narrative research to analyze the scope and reach of cultural misrepresentations and their wide-ranging consequences for ordinary Canadian women: those of varying shapes and sizes, diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and with and without disabilities and physical differences. Moving beyond “the problem,” I shed light on the limits and possibilities of pathways for change, analyzing recent examples of “positive” interventions from within commercial culture itself and highlighting the tremendous potential and promising avenues that exist through new media for our critical analysis, creative expression, and collective action.


Friday March 30th, 9am-5pm (St. Jerome's University)
3rd Annual SMF Sympsosium - "Everyone Counts: Couples, Families and Relationships in a Globalized World"

Join us for a day of research and discussion.  More information to follow - check out the website at http://smfsymposium.ca

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Tracy Penny Light, Ph.D.
Acting Chair, Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies

Assistant Professor, Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies/History
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Public Health and Health Systems (UW)

St. Jerome's University
STJ 1013B
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G3
519-884-8110 x.28291

tplight at uwaterloo.ca

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

  ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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