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Communties of Women: Woman Writing and Written in Literary and Cultural
Experience
Department of English and Armstrong Browning Library
Baylor University, Waco, TX
24-25 September 1999
Keynote: Nina Auerbach, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English at U Penn,
author of Our Vampires, Ourselves (1995), Romantic Imprisonment: Women and
Other Glorified Outcasts (1985), Women and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian
Myth (1982), and Communites of Women: An Idea in Fiction (1978).
We invite panelists whose work reflects an investigation of female writers and
writings in English and artists of all periods and their negotiation of their
social worlds via a connection to, or an exclusion from, other women. We also
welcome presentations on male-authored texts and their rendering of female
experience, examined in terms of female community and kinship. The parameters
of the conference are purposefully extenstive as we wish to generate diversity
among our panels. Possible paper and/or panel submissions could address, but
are not limited to:
Traditional Aggregates of Women (within the church, the home, the educational
system, the constructs of courtship, nuptials, and marriage) and Their
Interaction with Exterior Authority
Female Mystics: Medieval to Modern
Female Friendship and Camaraderie
Biological and/or Emotional Sisterhood
Mothers, Mammies, and Matriarchy
The Woman Writer: Authoring/Abandoning Female Community
An Exile in One's Own Country (Native American and Minority Women Writers)
Communal Art (quilting, sewing circles, literary societies, storytelling)
Confronting Isolation (the female exile, artist, spinster, spouse, parent,
professional, criminal, fallen women, "wunderkind")
Individual Voices and the Communal Chorus: Female Subversive Writing
Women on Stage: Theatricality, Performance, and Female Experience
Utopian and Distopian Narratives of Female Community
Unity and Discord: Race, Class, and Communities of Women
Women, Radicalism, and Social Reform (suffrage, temperance, abolition,
reclamation societies, civil rights, women's rights, civic improvement, etc.)
The Rise of Mercantilism (women in the craft guild, the market, the workplace)
Women Professionals and the Academy
Abstracts (approx. 200 words) of papers suitable for a 20 min. presentation
and/or panel proposals should be postmarked no later than 10 May 1999 and sent
to Kirsten Escobar, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, Baylor University, Box
97350, Waco, TX 76710. Direct inquiries and comments to
Kirsten_Escobar@baylor.edu
or 254-710-4715.
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