Call for papers for a *proposed* special session at
MLA 2002 in New York (December 2002).
MAKING SENSE OF _MAKING SEX_: ON THOMAS LAQUEUR
This panel proposes to explore, challenge, and/or
revise Thomas Laqueur’s history of gender. Thomas
Laqueur's _Making Sex_ suggests a pre-modern "one-sex
model" of gender in which men and women were placed in
a hierarchy. Contrasting with modernity's formulation
that men and women are "opposites,"in the earlier
model Laqueur proposes, women were seen as
fundamentally similar--yet imperfect or
failed--versions of men.
Of particular interest are the following questions:
Rather than seeing this shift as a smooth transition,
how can we examine the conflicts between the one-sex
model and its successor model during the long period
of transition?
How do histories of sexuality, psychoanalytic theory,
and/or feminist studies fit with--or cause us to
revise--Laqueur's narrative?
1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; David W. Toise, Dept. of
English, CSU-Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento,CA,
95819-6075 (dwtoise@yahoo.com).
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