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  Re: Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

  "Realistic-body-shaming"?

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  Jing Zhang Georgia State University

  Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — 4:48 pm

  Dunham ends and Hannah begins? And what are the implications of that on the politics of this show? ...
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  Re: A Meaning of Minority in Girls

  Intelligent Design

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  Phillip Maciak University of Pennsylvania

  Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — 10:22 pm

  bones of the show to begin to ascribe to it things like authorial intent. (In our discussions already, ... a marker of Dunham's point-of-view in this way.) But it also gets us into a pickle when we begin ...
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  Re: Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

  The Ongoing Debate about Dunham's Weight

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  Wednesday, January 9, 2013 — 12:56 pm

  self-hatred (or at least dissatisfaction) as the sex scenes surely indicate. Sexual dynamics aside, though, ...
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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 11, 2013

  1 comment

  an easy word to toss around and is somewhat unhelpful until we begin to break it down:  a sense of ...
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  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  January 14, 2013

  7 comments

  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences irony girls controversy branding audiences Curator's Note From Lena Dunham’s body to the show’s alleged lack of diversity, Girls has garnered much attention for its representational politics. Moreover, Dunham, an ...
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  Re: Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

  Quality

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2013 — 1:32 am

  position, at least in part, a shrewd strategy to ensure another modality of "refined" dialogue ...
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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  January 15, 2013

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  show’s creator, Lena Dunham) proclaims that she’s “the voice of [her] generation…or at least a voice of ...
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  Re: Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

  Girls' Politics?

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  Patricia Nelson University of Southern California

  Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — 1:42 am

  what she's going for--with Hannah at least--in this Vulture interview about season 2: ...
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  Re: Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

  Politics

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — 5:24 pm

  begins. I think that mapping the different iterations of Girls across various platforms, and taking note ...
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  Girls as Autobiography?: Critical Reception of Lena Dunham's "Self-Representation"

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  Patricia Nelson University of Southern California

  January 17, 2013

  3 comments

  her least autobiographical production. And then there is the show’s “meta-title,” which seems to make ...

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