CFP: Gender and Modernism Between the Wars, 1918-1939 (4/1/02; journal issue)

From: Amy Watson Ruth (speeraw@appstate.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 09:16:44 EDT

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    Call for Papers
    NWSA Journal Special Issue, 2003
    "“Gender and Modernism Between the Wars, 1918-1939"

    The _NWSA Journal_, the scholarly publication of the National Women’s
    Studies Association, announces plans for a special issue, “Gender and
    Modernism Between the Wars, 1918-1939.”

    The interwar period is particularly interesting for interrogating the
    various meanings of modernism and its connection to gender questions in
    cultural and social history. Although the two decades between the world
    wars are the focus, coverage may be broadly conceived, in terms of
    trends, causes, and influences outside the period.

    The special issue seeks contributions from philosophy, literature, art,
    music, drama, film, criticism and theory, history, popular culture, and
    the social sciences. We also encourage studies of events and movements
    in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as North America and Europe.
    We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary studies that cut
    across traditional boundaries and challenge received opinions on
    modernism and modernization. Reviews and review essays will also be a
    part of the issue.

    Some topics that could be addressed:
    --The Making of the Modern Woman (in different cultures?)
    --Nationalism and Gender in Eastern Europe
    --Modernism and Gender in the cultures of Asia, 1918-1939
    --Is gender a necessary part of the definition of modernism?
    --How do the specifics of various national revolutions and independence
    movements--—Russia, Turkey, India, for exampl--—relate to gender
    questions and received opinions about modernity, race, and sexuality?
    --Contextual studies of specific thinkers
    --How ideas about “the modern” and “gender” were constructed and
    traveled
    --How views of feminism intersected with ideas on sexuality, the
    “abnormal,” the disabled.”

    Authors are invited to query and/or send a 300 word abstract by April 1,
    2002, but decisions will be based on complete papers. Deadline for 3
    copies of 25-30 page papers, double-spaced, with parenthetical citations
    and a complete references page: 30 June 2002. Decisions in the fall of
    2002.

    Send to:
    Dr. Maggie McFadden, Editor, NWSA Journal
    109 IG Greer, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608 U.S.A.
    mcfaddenmh@appstate.edu

    --
    Amy Watson Ruth, Managing Editor
    _NWSA Journal_
    109 IG Greer
    PO Box 32132
    Appalachian State University
    Boone, NC 28608-2132
    voice: 828.262.6541
    fax: 828.262.6543
    e-mail: speeraw@appstate.edu
    

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