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SUMMARY:Fashion as Transnational Feminist Methodology for African Studies 
  - Dr Simidele Dosekun\, University of Sussex
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:Picture a tube of red lipstick travelling as a gift\, and as a
 n interpellative device\, from one young Nigerian woman in London to anoth
 er in Lagos. A picture of technologies of femininity and brands of feminis
 m in motion\, it is also one of the forging of new transnational subjectiv
 ities by capitalist consumer culture\, diasporic movements and geopolitics
 . Drawing on a research project on ‘spectacularly feminine’ self-fashi
 oning among young Lagos women\, from which this picture derives empiricall
 y\, this talk will offer methodological reflections on how the study of fa
 shion and beauty in Africa can contribute to rethinking African Studies.\n
 \nSimidele Dosekun is a lecturer in media and cultural studies at the Univ
 ersity of Sussex\, before which she was a fellow in qualitative methodolog
 y at the London School of Economics. She is currently completing a book ma
 nuscript provisionally entitled Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular femin
 inity and transnational culture in Nigeria 
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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