Dr. Meenakshi Gigi Durham

School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of Iowa

Superhighway of Sex:

Adolescent Girls, Sexuality, and the Media

in an Era of Globalization

Monday, September 14^th, 2009    4:30 p.m.   Communications 1032

Sexuality is increasingly being defined and negotiated in a media-saturated environment where cultures, identities and myths collide. In this lecture, Durham discusses the impacts of these contemporary cross-currents on adolescent girls growing up in an era of global media, examining the construction of female sexuality in the context of post-colonialism, neoliberalism and the multinational culture industries of the 21st century.

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