The original call was sent out with the wrong date; the correct deadline
is not September 1, but September 15, an ASECS-issued date. Please
accept my apologies for any trouble this may have caused.
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Call for Papers: Questions of Historiography: Writing Women's History
Today (Women's Caucus)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting 2000/
April 12-16, 2000, Philadelphia, PA.
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 practical 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 15 to:
Joy Arbor-Karnes
11266 Taylor Draper Lane #1411
Austin, TX 78759
or to arbor@jps.net
Panel will be finalized by September 30th.
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