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  1. phillAugust 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    Hi guys
    we have organised this talk that you may be interested in
    many thanks
    phill

    Free School Presents:

    'Hanging with Halo Jones'
    7.30pm, Wed 25th August
    Swedenborg Institute, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
    Halo Jones, a character created by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson who appeared in the pages of 2000AD in the mid-1980s, was described by The Observer as ‘possibly the first feminist heroine in comics’. In this talk Maggie Gray will discuss not only how this strip contested the conventional representation of female characters in Anglophone comics, but how it also engaged with feminist theory and practice. Rooted in the experience of women under Thatcherism, the strip refracted the debates that fragmented the British women’s liberation movement (over issues such as class, work, imperialism, the family, pornography, rape and violence), as well as interrogating philosophical questions regarding sex and gender. At a time when feminist activists are renewing many of these debates and continuing to evaluate the legacy of second- and third-wave feminism, revisiting one of celebrated writer Alan Moore’s lesser known comics is both thought-provoking and timely.
    Maggie Gray completed her PhD in History of Art at UCL in 2010, her thesis 'Love your Rage, Not Your Cage' Comics as Cultural Resistance: Alan Moore 1971 - 1989 used the early work of Alan Moore as a case study to consider the potential for the creation of adversarial mass culture, in the face of the rise of Thatcherism and New Right hegemony. She has taught at UCL, Central St Martins and Middlesex University.

    http://maggiegray.blogspot.com

    email: freefreeschool@gmail.com for more details

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