{"id":1766,"date":"2009-11-11T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2009-11-11T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:42:50","slug":"girl-talk-quick-takes-on-difficult-dialogues-and-wimpy-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/11\/11\/girl-talk-quick-takes-on-difficult-dialogues-and-wimpy-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"GIRL TALK: Quick Takes on Difficult Dialogues and Wimpy Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Difficult Dialgoues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get the latest on girls and girls studies this week at the National Women&#8217;s Studies Association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwsaconference.org\">annual conference<\/a> in Atlanta, Georgia from November 12-15.\u00c2\u00a0 The conference theme is &#8220;Difficult Dialogues,&#8221; and we expect our largest event in recent history.\u00c2\u00a0 On tap: more than 1,600 feminist scholar-activists gathering to exchange ideas in more than 300 sessions.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll hear analyses of girls&#8217; lives and experiences, including sessions like &#8220;Girls of Color and Performance Ethnographies&#8221; and &#8220;Voices of Girls in Urban Schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And if you can&#8217;t make it you can find updates on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#\/pages\/National-Womens-Studies-Association\/104380345030?ref=nf\">Facebook<\/a> page or after the conference on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwsa.org\">NWSA <\/a>site where we expect to make a podcast of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwsa.org\/conference\/keynote.php\">Angela Davis<\/a> keynote address available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wimpy Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can also hit the newsstand and pick up the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmagazine.com\/fromtheissue.asp\"><em>Ms. Magazine<\/em><\/a> where you&#8217;ll find my contribution on Jeff Kinney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimpykid.com\/\"><em>Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/em><\/a> book series.\u00c2\u00a0 My daughter Maya is one of my expert sources along with Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown and Mark Tappan, who&#8217;ve just released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Packaging-Boyhood-Superheroes-Slackers-Stereotypes\/dp\/0312379390\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1257946320&amp;sr=8-2\"><em>Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difficult Dialgoues Get the latest on girls and girls studies this week at the National Women&#8217;s Studies Association annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia from November 12-15.\u00c2\u00a0 The conference theme is &#8220;Difficult Dialogues,&#8221; and we expect our largest event in recent history.\u00c2\u00a0 On tap: more than 1,600 feminist scholar-activists gathering to exchange ideas in more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21103],"tags":[4124,2397,245,21387,21395,21934],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-girl-talk","tag-academe","tag-boys","tag-feminism","tag-gender-studies","tag-girls","tag-womens-studies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}