Guest Lecture - "Cosmopolitan Women"   Add to Cal   • Speaker:
Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee   • Host
Department: Germanic Languages and Literatures   • Date:
01/18/2013   • Time: 02:00PM - 04:00PM    • Location: 3308
Modern Language Building  (Show map)    • Description:      In
everyday parlance, “cosmopolitanism” evokes neither
philosophical nor social scientific notions, but rather images
and ideas derived from popular culture, especially as addressed
to women. The “cosmopolitan,” for example, is a popular cocktail
consisting of vodka, cointreau, cranberry and lime (made famous
on the television series Sex and the City). It also is the name
of a glossy women’s magazine, which was launched in 1886 as a
“family magazine,” only to become a specifically “women’s
magazine” in the 1960s, known for its advice to “cosmo girls”
about sex, beauty, and fashion. If the relationship between
women, popular culture, and cosmopolitanism is thus obvious,
having entered the vernacular in our own time via