CFP: Educating Women (9/10; ASECS 4/3-7)
Proposals are solicited for a panel on "Educating Women": Annual
conference of American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies,
Colorado Springs, CO April 3-7, 2002
What did contemporaries mean by "education"? Who and what educates us and
to what ends? Is education something added to a preexisting being, or the
process of forming and even creating that being? As Mary Wollstonecraft
observed in 1792, "the word is not precisely defined," yet education has
been a significant theme of women's writing at least since Christine de
Pisan, Sor Juana de la Cruz, and Mary Astell. This panel seeks to arrive at
an understanding of what education signified to and for eighteenth-century
women as both subjects of education and educators themselves. The organizers
welcome papers under this broad rubric from a range of disciplines and
perspectives: possible topics include theories, practices, and definitions
of education; education and Enlightenment empiricism; writers on education
(including Locke, Astell, Defoe, Addison, Haywood, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft,
Genlis, Goethe, and others); conduct book literature; charity schools;
education as a vehicle for gender construction and class mobility; education
and emergent discourses of sexual difference; education and sexuality;
education and the formation of national identity.
Inquiries and one-page Proposals to either co-chair:
Miriam L. Wallace, New College of Florida, COH-104, Humanities,
Sarasota, FL 34243
(941) 359-4335 phone
(9410 359-4479 FAX
mwallace@virtu.sar.usf.edu
OR to
Sarah Ellenzweig, Department of English--MS 30, Rice University, P.O.
Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892
(713) 348-3208 (phone)
(713) 348-5991 (fax)
sellenz@rice.edu (email)
Details of the conference and the organization can be found at
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/asecs
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