Public/Private: Navigating the Materiality of Home Economics (proposal due on Jan. 8)

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American Studies Association in Denver 2016
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I am proposing a panel that centers on the material realities of the flows, negotiations, and exchanges between the "public" space of political economies/markets and the "private" space of domestic economies/ecologies. Broadly, this panel is focused on the impacts of the exchanges between the two spaces, how they bleed into each other, and ultimately to, in the words of the conference theme, to make "a claim on the way where we are shapes and shakes up the grounding and grounded-ness of the work we imagine, make, perceive, and do."
Subject area, time period, and media are open. My own work focuses on women's domestic nonfiction and homemaking magazines from the early Cold War period.
Please email Jill E. Anderson at andersonwires@gmail.com by Jan. 8 with a 350-word abstract and short bio.