Call for Papers: Panel on Margaret Fuller and Women's Health at SSAWW
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
First International Conference
San Antonio, Texas
February 14-18, 2001
The Margaret Fuller Society solicits one or two additional papers for a panel
on Margaret Fuller and women's health issues in early to
mid-nineteenth-century America for the inaugural meeting of the Society for
the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW). The panel seeks to explore
Fuller's relationship to or involvement in health issues pertaining to women
in early to mid-nineteenth-century America. Topics for consideration include
but are not limited to illness, pain, the body, phrenology, pregnancy and
childbirth, health issues for mothers and children, social and/or medical
beliefs and attitudes about women's health, education and health, health and
Transcendentalism, health and spirituality or religion, women's writing about
health, women and doctors, advice literature on health, gynecology, health
and legal issues, social health problems (i.e., prostitution, asylum reform),
hygiene, emotional health, and insanity. All theoretical approaches are
welcome.
Please submit 250-word abstracts and contact information (e-mail address,
regular address, institutional affiliation) by July 15 to the address below:
Stephanie K. Barron
MS 4227
Department of English
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
skbarron@aol.com
E-mail submissions to skbarron@aol.com will be accepted if they are included
within the e-mail text (no attachments, please). Type the following
information in the subject line: Abstract for Fuller SSAWW Panel.
Full papers (no longer than 15-minute reading time) will be due January 30,
2001
Participants must be members of SSAWW. Information on SSAWW (including its
affiliation with the journal Legacy) and the conference is available at the
following address: http://www.unl.edu/legacy/SSAWW1.html
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