Widegren explores death and childhood femininity when the ‘outsider’ artist Henry Darger’s work on girls is transformed into a play.
Kajsa Widegren
Kajsa Widegren is a Senior Analyst at the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies. As an analyst, she mainly works with research policy and the academic conditions for Gender Research and Gender Studies in Sweden. As a researcher, she is primarily interested in cultural and aesthetic constructions of identity positions at the intersection of age and gender, and agonistic views on girlhood in relation to the cultural construction of innocence and sexuality.
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