Simidele Dosekun will be speaking on her new book: "Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture". Dr Simidele Dosekun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. Her research centres African women to explore questions of gender, race, subjectivity, and power in a global context. Her work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Feminism and Psychology, Qualitative Inquiry, and Feminist Africa, among others. Before joining the department, she was a lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Sussex. She received her PhD in gender and cultural studies from King’s College London.

Discussant: Nadia Abu-Zahra, DPhil (Oxon), Associate Professor and Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, Université de Carleton et Université d'Ottawa | Carleton University and University of Ottawa

Moderator
Shireen Hassim, Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics and Professor of African Studies.