CFP: C18 Writing Women's History Today (9/1; ASECS, 4/12-4/16)

From: Joy (arbor@jps.net)
Date: Mon Jul 19 1999 - 14:40:02 EDT


Call for Papers: Questions of Historiography: Writing Women's History
Today (Women's Caucus) ASECS 2000

With the burgeoning project of historicizing women's lives and works, many
scholars are engaged in writing women's history. The second half of the
Women's Caucus two-part series on women and history, this panel seeks to
investigate the theoretical and pr actical challenges of researching,
writing, and teaching (long) eighteenth-century women's histories today.
Areas of focus may include but are not limited to:

The difficulties of approaching/knowing/writing/narrating/shaping/teaching
eighteenth-century women's histories

The problems of authority and working with extant manuscripts and/or
non-traditional texts/working without text

Working on the margins - writing histories of underrepresented
groups/writing race, ethnicity, class, nation, religion, sexuality

Possibilities and limitations of feminist/women's/lesbian recovery
projects

Contemporary theory/politics and approaching the eighteenth century

Narrating the unseen/private sphere/the body

This panel will be comprised of five (ten-minute) presentations.

Send 1-2 page abstracts (10 minute presentations) by September 1 to:
Joy Arbor-Karnes
11266 Taylor Draper Lane #1411
Austin, TX 78759

Send questions to arbor@jps.net

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