Unmasking Masculinities--2nd Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
February 18-19, 2000
Until recently, critics have studied constructions of femininity in
isolation from constructions of masculinity. Only now are scholars who
theorize gender beginning to realize that the feminine and the masculine
get culturally and socially constructed in terms of each other. In an
effort to further understand the complex constructions of gender, this
conference will focus on construction of masculinities.
We welcome papers
that focus only on the masculine, but we particularly encourage papers
that show how an understanding of the masculine contributes to the ongoing
discussion of the feminine.
This conference is particularly interested in papers/presentations that
make connections between literary studies and other academic disciplines,
including (in no particular order) law, sociology, architecture, popular
culture, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, journalism,
psychology, history, mathematics, biology, physics, anthropology,
philosophy, medicine, visual arts, music, education, children's
literature, etc.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
masculine spaces
working class masculinity
regional masculinity
masculinity and the city
conventionally male figures: the sailor, the soldier, the butcher, the
baker...
feminized men; crossing and passing men
masculinity and the city
male bodies
pedagogies and men
boys in the classroom; reading boys
feminism and manhood
Domestic manhood
men and war
queer pedagogy; homosexual manhood(s)/masculinities
magazines for men and boys; men and publishing
E-mail submissions are welcome. Graduate students and others are
encouraged to apply.
Please send abstracts of approximately 500 words by 12/10/99 to
Lori Cohoon or Caroline Miles
English Department, Box 5037
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
(601) 266-4319
lcohoon@ocean.otr.usm.edu; ciles@ocean.otr.usm.edu
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