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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

  surrounding the show? Quite possibly. Is the whole endeavor earnest social commentary or cynical capitalism, ...
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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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  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

  the widest audience possible but I think that the more interesting question is to consider just who ... extended adolescence of Hannah Horvath but also, more dangerously, suggests a possible reason why the ...
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  Re: Slapstick "Sexposition": Girls vs. the Body Politics of HBO

  Everyday Sex

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Wednesday, January 9, 2013 — 11:16 pm

  point about gendered authorship, Mumblecore might be the first film “movement” aside from that by 1970s ... cinefeminists to be equally populated by male and female filmmakers alike, so I’m tempted to connect the dots... ...
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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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  Slapstick "Sexposition": Girls vs. the Body Politics of HBO

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  Phillip Maciak University of Pennsylvania

  January 09, 2013

  6 comments

  Slapstick "Sexposition": Girls vs. the Body Politics of HBO Sexposition Girls: Diversity and Sexuality Game of Thrones Curator's Note When Lena Dunham’s Girls debuted in Spring 2012, the biggest thing on HBO was Game of Thrones. A proto-typ ...
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  Re: A Meaning of Minority in Girls

  Intent v. Accident

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  Ashar Foley SUNY Stony Brook

  Wednesday, January 9, 2013 — 1:16 am

  employer takes Jessa aside and offers her unsolicited but nonetheless pertinent perspective on Jessa's ...
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  Re: A Meaning of Minority in Girls

  Importance of the audience

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — 8:10 pm

  I’m also intrigued by your formulation of Hannah’s confessionals as “talking cures.” Like the “speech ...
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  Re: Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

  In praise of character flaws

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — 7:51 pm

  Thank you, Chizoba, for weighing in so thoughtfully. I’m sure your comments will continue to ...
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  A Meaning of Minority in Girls

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  Ashar Foley SUNY Stony Brook

  January 08, 2013

  8 comments

  fear of, and possible desire for, AIDS—one she developed after seeing a white woman die of it in ...

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