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New film: HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY | A Women Make Movies New Release

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Hi All,

I am writing from Women Make Movies, the leading nonprofit distributor of films by and about women. I thought the members of this listserv would be interested in our newest release, HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY. Filmmaker Therese Shechter (I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST) presents a hilarious and eye-opening educational resource that explores complex issues around female sexuality, the cultural value of chastity and the current state of sex education in America. To celebrate this release, WMM is offering a special promotion on selected titles that help support the educational content presented in HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY.

I’m including some additional info on HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY and its related special offer. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, and thanks as always for supporting independent women filmmakers!

HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY
<http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c859.shtml>

Female virginity. The US government has spent 1.5 billion dollars promoting it. It has fetched $750,000 at auction. There is no official medical definition for it. And 50 years after the sexual revolution, it continues to define young women’s morality and self-worth.

This intimate, witty and occasionally alarming documentary uses the filmmaker’s own path out of virginity to explore its continuing value in our otherwise hypersexualized society. Layering vérité interviews and vintage sex-ed films with candid self-reflection and wry narration, Shechter reveals myths, dogmas and misconceptions behind this “precious gift.” Sex educators, porn producers, abstinence advocates, and outspoken teens share their own stories of having – or not having – sex.

A film by Therese Shechter
US, 2013, 66 minutes, Color, DVD

Institutional Price: $295.00
DVD Rental Price: $90.00
K-12, Public Libraries, Community Groups: $89.00

View the trailer: http://www.wmm.com/advscripts/wmmvideo.aspx?pid=228
Purchase the film: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c858.shtml

SPECIAL OFFER: VIRGIN TALES

To celebrate this new release, WMM is offering 25% off our New Release VIRGIN TALES when you purchase HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY at list price! Use promo code LOSVIRLS13 to apply your discount.

The perfect companion film to Therese Shechter’s exposé on the paradoxical value of female virginity in US society, VIRGIN TALES, broadcast on Showtime, poignantly explores the world of Evangelical “Purity Balls.” These ceremonial celebrations of sanctity, chastity and servitude are rapidly becoming the basis of a new and powerful Christian counterculture. VIRGIN TALES goes behind the scenes of this movement, capturing intimate moments within the lives of young participants and closely profiling the Colorado family at the forefront of this modern day crusade.

View the trailer: http://www.wmm.com/advscripts/wmmvideo.aspx?pid=237
Purchase the film: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c859.shtml

Offer expires 11/30/13. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Other restrictions may apply.
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Interested in the pressing issues facing youth today? Join the conversation with WMM’s THE NEXT GENERATION: YOUNG WOMEN & GIRLS Special Collection!
<http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/collect39.shtml>

GIRL POWER: ALL DOLLED UP <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c817.shtml>
“Want to get girls and young women to talk about how their lives are affected by marketing? Show them this film!” -Catherine Orr, Beloit College

THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c726.shtml>
“The movie…is a pungent civics lesson on what can and cannot be accomplished by one plucky, idealistic girl.” -Stephan Holden, The New York Times

SEXY INC. <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c800.shtml>
“Highly Recommended…a must-see for teachers, parents, and others who work with adolescents.” -Educational Media Reviews Online

I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c695.shtml>
“A fun and engaging discussion about the seemingly lost ideals of feminism… this is recommended. 3 Stars.” -Video Librarian

GRRRL LOVE & REVOLUTION: RIOT GRRRL NYC <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c828.shtml>
“Grrrl Love and Revolution is an essential document that offers a rare inside look at Riot Grrrl as it really was.” -Sara Marcus, Author or Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

WIRED FOR SEX, LIES AND POWER TRIPS: IT’S A TEEN’S WORLD <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c777.shtml>
“[A] good choice for instructors… dealing with the impact of sexuality in popular culture and on the Internet on teens.” -Educational Media Reviews Online

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Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: On the Move: In the World: Mobility and Young People

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On the Move, In the World…
Mobility and Young People
A One-day Conference Organized by ARCYP in partnership with ACCUTE At the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Brock University
May 27, 2014
DEADLINE: November 1, 2013

Website: http://arcyp.ca

Mobility and young people: taken together, these terms produce both anxiety and possibility. On the move in the world, young people are widely perceived to be in danger or at risk. Yet young people’s mobility may also be aspirational or generative, as adventure, transformation, good fortune, and border-crossings of all kinds can effect changes in status and re-orientations of consciousness and identity. Further, the narratives circulated by and for those youth are themselves subject to revisions once they, too, have been put in motion. And the very thought of young people’s mobility puts us in the realms of affect and embodiment, of ability and impairment. Affect raises questions about the emotional landscape of the young people so moved, how young people are deployed in a variety of media to move adults, and the ways in which we map and describe our attachments to those cultural objects we find to be moving. The body in motion invites us to think of
childhood in terms of kinesthetics, choreography, and ideologies and architectures of enablement, while the very idea of mobile youth asks us to consider spatio-temporal relationships: how young people move through space and time, measuring time by space and vice versa. All of these ways of thinking about mobility in the context of youth cultures take various narrative, political, aesthetic, and conceptual forms— narratives that are, themselves, subject to movement and therefore subject to revision, reconsideration, subversion, and change. Mobility itself might be seen to generate new youth
movements—opening up ways to think about the cultures of young people and for young people to move our sense of culture.

ARCYP invites proposals for papers (or panels) that consider any and all facets of young people’s mobility/movement: Topics to be considered under the theme of “mobility and young people” may include (but are not limited to):
• Danger, Risk and Safety
• Dancing Children
• Border Crossings and Home(land) Security Systems
• Narrative Subversions and Revisions
• Movement as Performance/Choreography
• Narratives of Upward/Downward Mobility
• Transformations through Mobility/Mobilizing Transformations
• Mobile Audiences and Audiences of Mobility
• Temporalities of Youth
• Movement as Affect and Affect as “Being Moved”
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
• Capitalism’s Children
• Immigration and Generations
• Ability and Impairment
• Kinesthetics or Kin-aesthetics
• Mapping Youth Cultures
• Circuits of Childhood
• Mobilizing Youth Polities
• Digital Movement and Mobile Communication

Following the instructions at http://accute.ca/joint-sessions/<http://accute.ca/joint-sessions/> , if you are submitting a paper, send three documents in separate electronic files directly to admin@arcyp.ca by November 1, 2013:
(1) A 300- to 500-word proposal, without identifying marks;
(2) A 100-word abstract;
(3) 50-word biographical statement; and
(4) A Proposal Submissions Information Sheet.

If you are submitting a panel proposal, please include:
(1) A 700-word panel description, plus 300-word abstracts for each paper in the panel;
(2) A 150-word panel abstract;
(3) 50-word biographical statements for each member of the panel; and
(4) A Proposal Submissions Information Sheet, including contact information for all panel participants.
NOTES: You must be a current member of ARCYP or ACCUTE to submit to this session. Rejected submissions will not be moved into the general “pool” of ACCUTE submissions.

Calls for Papers: Publishing

CFP: Wheelock International Journal of Children, Families, and Social Change

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Inaugural Issue: Call for Papers

Wheelock International Journal of Children, Families, and Social Change
The Wheelock International Journal of Children, Families, and Social Change
(http://journal.wheelock.edu) is an online, open-access, interdisciplinary
forum for substantive conversations about understanding and improving the
lives of children and families throughout the world. Our scope is unique and
broad: peer-reviewed scholarly articles as well as essays by policy makers,
advocates, educators, NGOs, and practitioners. We seek contributions that
infuse intellectual rigor with moral and social purpose, and offer action
strategies to address old problems and new opportunities. We aim for a broad
and inclusive readership. Our goal: to enhance understanding and to foster
change and progress.

The journal is currently accepting manuscripts for our inaugural issue from
both established and emergent scholars and leaders. We publish a range of
contributions, including case-studies, comparative analyses, advocacy, and
policy articles. All submissions are carefully reviewed by relevant scholars
and leaders in the field to maintain the highest standards of rigor and
insight. Submissions to the Research & Scholarship section will be
double-blind, peer-reviewed. We also welcome submissions from outside
academia.

Relevant topics include education and schools, parenting and childrearing,
globalization, gender, new pedagogies, work, service learning, art and
music, violence, urbanism, health, media, technology, and more. We ask
authors to formulate perspectives that are cutting-edge, and to write for a
wide readership that expands beyond the traditional confines of any single
discipline. We invite submissions that learn from the past, explore the
present, and look ahead to a bright future. We welcome authors from a
variety of disciplines: history, education, women’s studies, literature,
psychology, feminism, family studies, religion, childhood studies,
anthropology, sociology, social work, critical theory, political science,
and development studies. The journal seeks to build intellectual bridges
between scholarly disciplines and to bring together theory and practice,
scholarship and activism, the academy and the “real world,” developed and
developing nations. Our scope is global in foc
us and outreach.  We offer the journal at no charge to readers and eagerly
invite contributions from thought leaders around the world.

For further information, submission guidelines, the Editorial Board, and to
sign up for updates, please visit our website: http://journal.wheelock.edu.
You are also welcome to contact the Editor (Eric Silverman) at
editor@wheelock.edu.

The Wheelock International Journal of Children, Families, and Social Change,
like our institutional host Wheelock College, is committed to creating a
just world for children and families.  Join us in this important work.

Job Postings

Three Teaching posts at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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The Department of Childhood Studies at Canterbury Christ Church is looking for three new staff to join the growing department.

Please click on these links to download the job descriptions:

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies

Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies (Foundation Degree in Professional Studies in Early Years)

Senior Lecturer Early Childhood Studies including responsibilities as Placement Co-ordinator

The link below will take you to the CCCU vacancy website: http://vacancies.canterbury.ac.uk/fe/tpl_cccu01.asp. For further information please contact Dr Catherine Meehan catherine.meehan@canterbury.ac.uk.

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association: Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture

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Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association

Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture

Call for Papers

The Area of Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture is now accepting submissions for the PCA/ACA National Conference, Chicago, IL, held April 16-19, 2014 at the Marriott Chicago—Downtown Magnificent Mile. (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/chidt-chicago-marriott-downtown-magnificent-mile).

Educators, librarians, archivists, scholars, independent researchers and students at all levels are encouraged to apply. Submissions that explore, connect, contrast, or otherwise address area themes of schooling, education, teaching (including preparing teachers/preservice teacher education), history, archival studies, and/or their linkages to popular culture from all periods are desired. Sample topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

· Reflections/linkages between schooling and popular culture in the United States;

· The role of history in education, teaching, or preservice teacher education in the United States;

· The use(s) of popular culture in education, teaching, or preservice teacher education in the United States;

· How education has impacted pop culture/how popular culture has impacted education in the United States;

· Representations of teaching and/or schooling in popular culture throughout history in the United States;

· Cross-border/multinational examinations of popular culture and education;

· Using popular culture to subvert/supplement prescriptive curricula in schooling;

· The impact/emergence of LGBTQ studies in schooling and education;

· Queering any of the area fields (education, schooling, history, archival studies, teaching, preservice teacher education, popular culture);

· Developing means to re-integrate foundations of education into preservice teacher education;

· Tapping into (or resisting) popular technology to improve instruction;

· Multidisciplinary analyses of the interactions of schooling and popular culture.

Deadline for proposals is November 1, 2013. To be considered, interested individuals should please prepare an abstract of between 100-250 words and a brief biography of no more than 50 words. Individuals must submit electronically by visiting http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/proposing-a-presentation-at-the-conference/ and following the directions therein.

Graduate students are STRONGLY encouraged to submit their completed papers for consideration for conference award. Graduate students, early career faculty and those travelling internationally in need of financial assistance are encouraged to apply: http://pcaaca.org/grant/overview.php.

Decisions will be communicated within approximately two weeks of deadline. All presenters must be members of the American Culture Association or the Popular Culture Association by the time of the conference. Any further inquiries can be directed to Dr. Edward Janak at ejanak@uwyo.edu <mailto:ejanak@uwyo.edu> . For additional information about the conference, please see http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/

Uncategorized

CFP: Deadline for submissions to Interdisciplinary Child and Teen Consumption conference in Edinburgh is September 30

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The Child and Teen Consumption conference is coming to Edinburgh in April
2014 – and the submission deadline has been extended till September 30.
Keynote speakers are Gary Cross, Sonia Livingstone, Patti Valkenburg and
Agnes Nairn.

Full details are available from the conference website:

http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/ctc2014/

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: 5th CSCY International Conference – Researching Children’s Everyday Lives: Socio-Cultural Contexts – July 2014

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5th International Conference – CALL FOR PAPERS

Title: Researching children’s everyday lives: socio-cultural contexts
Dates: Tuesday 1st – Thursday 3rd July 2014
Venue: The Kenwood Hall Hotel, Sheffield, UK

This conference will explore the idea of the ‘everyday’ as a key component of children’s lives, past and present and cross culturally. To do this means moving away from a ‘problem’ focus on children and childhood by recognising that what counts as the mundane and every day for different children can be radically diverse in different times and places.

Examples of themes to be explored might include:

  • Historical aspects of children’s everyday lives
  • Children’s everyday experiences of living in poverty or experiencing war and conflict
  • Cross-cultural differences in the ‘everyday’
  • Everyday life and children’s agency
  • Theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding everyday life
  • Intergenerational relations in the nature and flow of children’s everyday life

Those wishing to organise small symposia around a specific theme are also invited to submit a proposal.

Abstracts:
Abstracts of no more than 200 words for papers, posters and symposia should be sent to the conference administrator, Dawn Lessels d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk, by January 31st 2014. For full details on submitting abstracts check out our conference page:
http://www.cscy.group.shef.ac.uk/activities/conferences/index.htm