She’s a Valley Girl and There is No Cure: The Jewish Body and the Valley Girl, 1982-now

Name: She’s a Valley Girl and There is No Cure: The Jewish Body and the Valley Girl, 1982-now
Start: 2026-10-25T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-10-25T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Danforth University Center (FREE PARKING)

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Sun, October 25, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Danforth University Center (FREE PARKING) (directions)

Join Friedman postdoctoral fellow Erin Faigin as she reframes the Vally Girl stereotype as a product of Jewish ethnoburbs in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley and offers a new angle on suburbanization, upward mobility, and Jewish difference in the postwar age.