gender studies and sexuality

Updated Submission Deadline: September 15, 2005
CFP: Black & South Asian British Women's Comedies

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, 2006
Philadelphia, PA
2-5 March 2006
Convention information: www.nemla.org
(Panelists must be members of NEMLA)

The William Dean Howells Society invites paper proposals that examine
Howells's relationships with women, broadly defined. Possible paper
topics may include Howells's own personal life, his fiction and
criticism, literary friendships, writings on marriage and sexuality, or
editorial work.

Please send by January 8, 2006 paper proposals no longer than 500 words
and copy of cv to Claudia Stokes at Claudia.stokes_at_trinity.edu or by
post to Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity
Place, San Antonio, TX 78212.

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Dr. Claudia Stokes

Assistant Professor of English

Co-Director, Women's and Gender Studies

Trinity University

"Women's Autobiography: Private Memories, Public Voices." Panel for Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Philadelphia, March 2-5, 2006.

This panel will examine critical questions about women's autobiographical writing, a topic which has generated wide interest over the past three decades. Looking at women's writing in this genre from historical and theoretical perspectives complicates the issues raised in discussions of autobiographical writing and identifies the use of strategies such as imitation, masquerade, subversion, and disruption of conventions. Papers may focus on different types of autobiographical writing by women in different historical time periods and cultures.

Looking Backwards: Re-reading Hollywood's Queer Images, 1969 – 1985

At last year's NEMLA, the GLBT caucus sponsored an engaging panel on the relevance of Vito Russo's landmark study of Hollywood cinema, The Celluloid Closet; this panel seeks to continue the discussion by focusing on Hollywood products from the years 1969 – 1985.

Theory: The process of theorizing gender in medieval texts

This panel will be dedicated to exploring the process of theorizing =20
gender in medieval texts.
It will focus on some key questions inherent to this process, such as =20=

the politics of interpreting particular texts and artifacts, and of =20
relating those interpretations to prevailing constructions of history =20=

and/or culture.

When we read a text or an artifact we make some fundamental decisions =20=

Gayle Gullett
Co-editor
FRONTIERS: A JOURNAL OF WOMEN STUDIES
Associate Professor
History Department
Arizona State University
PO Box 872501
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
(480) 965-4787
fax (480) 965-0310

CFP: Domestic Frontiers: Domestic Colonization (12/31/05; journal issue)

A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Guest editors

Victoria K Haskins (Flinders University of South Australia)
Victoria.Haskins_at_flinders.edu.au
Margaret Jacobs (University of Nebraska)
mjacobs3_at_unlnotes.unl.edu

Call for papers

CFP: New Antigone: Gender, Kinship, Family (9/1/05; journal issue)

New Antigone ISSN 1832-7680 vol 1 October 2005 online and print
fully refereed journal is dedicated to J Butler's study, Antigone's
Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000).

http://www.newantigone.com

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
37th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, March 30-April 2, 2006

Session Title: "Sex, Secularism and Enlightenment"

In <Formations of the Secular>, Talal Asad has described secularism as a
political ideology that took shape in the nineteenth century, based on the
concept of "the secular" that coalesced in early modernity and the
eighteenth century. What role did sex and gender play in this
conceptualization of the secular, in religious and non-religious texts and
identities? What are the sexualized components of a secular identity or
subjectivity? How do they impact the transformation of religious
identities in the period?

CALL FOR PAPERS: Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change
A Conference Hosted by the Florida Consortium for Women's Studies
April 6-8, 2006
Tampa, Florida

Cambridge Scholars Press has contacted me and would like me to submit a book proposal on my proposed Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel titled "Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace." Though I can only accept four papers for the conference, I need about twelve to fifteen papers for the book. I would like to get the book proposal out before the end of this year; therefore, please note the deadline listed below. The focus of the book will be on the American marketplace and how women writers dealt with their editors ("gentlemen publishers"). In other words, how did the woman writer's relationship with the publisher influence or change her work?

2006 NEMLA Women's Caucus Best Essay Award

Call for Papers:
Women's Caucus Best Essay in Women's Language and Literature Award
Given for a 20-25 page essay, based on a paper presented at 2005 NEMLA
Convention in Boston, using women's centered approaches (concentrating
on women characters or women authors, using feminist analysis). The
essay may not be submitted to another journal for the duration of the
award's deliberation.

Deadline 11/15/05

Submissions to:

Oneida Sanchez

osanchez_at_bmcc.cuny.edu

or mail to:
132-40 Sanford Ave., Apt.4-D, Flushing, NY 11355
 

The author's name, address, and academic affiliation should appear only
on a separate cover sheet.

Northeast Modern Language Association Conference

Philadelphia, PA, March 2-5, 2006

Panel: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Turn-of-the-Century Speculative Fiction.

We would like to announce a new peer-reviewed, online journal--Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies--and invite submissions for the inaugural issue.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The journal is a collaborative effort that brings together advanced graduate students and scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place and nationality.

Narratives of Community: American Women's "Story Books"