UPDATE: Margaret Fuller and Women's Health (7/20; 2/14/01-2/18/01)

From: SKBarron@aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 11:31:23 EDT

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    Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to July 20,
    2000.

    Call for Papers: Panel on Margaret Fuller and Women's Health at SSAWW (7/20,
    2/14-18, 2001)

    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 20 to the address below:

    Stephanie K. Barron
    MS 4227
    Department of English
    Texas A&M University
    College Station, TX 77843
    skbarron@aol.com

    The CFP also appears on the Margaret Fuller Society Homepage at
    http://www-english.tamu.edu/fuller

    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 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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