Discourses of Stability and Change: Gendered Identities and Children’s Television

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar I

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This panel features four studies supported and sponsored by the Internationales Zentralinstitut für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen (IZI) in Munich, Germany, pursued by scholars from around the world and from a variety of organizations. The panelists will draw on research data, storytelling, and dialogue to provide insights into the connections between gender, ethnicity and sexuality in children’s television programming. The panel promotes comparative/contrastive considerations of how children’s television formulates, depicts and shapes gendered identities.

Sub Unit

• Scholar to Scholar Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Children’s Television, Ethnicity and Gender in the United States - Angharad Valdivia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Learning About Being a Girl from the Disney Exotic Princesses - Charu Uppal, University of South Pacific; Diana Nastasia, University of North Dakota

Session Organizer

• Diana Nastasia, University of North Dakota