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> CALL FOR PAPERS: American Studies Association 2000 Annual Meeting
> (11-14 October, Detroit, MI)
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> Women and Trauma
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> Members of the ASA Women's Committee seek to convene one or more panels
> on the topic of women and trauma, broadly interpreted. In keeping with
> the theme of the 2000 ASA convention, "The World in American Studies,
> American Studies in the World," we invite proposals that reflect on the
> relationship of women and trauma in global and/or public contexts. We
> invite submissions that focus on such topics as women's traumas as
> spectacle; the traumatization of women and /as warfare; trauma and the
> policing or stigmatizing of women's gender, class, racial, sexual, and
> other identities; trauma and disability; trauma and women's rites of
> passage; trauma and women's complicity; trauma and melodrama; trauma and
> religion; trauma, mutilation, and beauty; voicing hidden trauma; women,
> trauma, and genocide; classroom traumas; girlhood traumas; queer
> traumas; maternal traumas; ancestral trauma and identity politics;
> trivializing trauma; trauma, sympathy, and the mobilization of
> sentiment. One-page proposals and short CVs by January 10 to Nancy
> Hewitt, Department of History, 16 Seminary Place, Rutgers University,
> New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901 (nhewitt@rci.rutgers.edu)
>
>
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