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Call for Papers for a Proposed Panel at the Meeting of MWASECS,
Springfield, MO, 10-12 October 2002:
Motherhood in 18th-Century Life and Literature:
>From Adrienne Rich's _Of Woman Born, Motherhood as Experience and
Institution_ (1975) to Sara Ruddick's _Maternal Thinking_ (1989) to Toni
Bowers' _The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760_
(1996), theorists, historians, and literary critics have explored the
fascinating relationship of motherhood to the culture and society of
different historical periods. Rich and Ruddick remind us that,
historically, mothers themselves often supported the status quo by
"imprinting future adults with patriarchal values"(Rich 25). Children,
especially daughters, learned very quickly that the mother's "authority"
was "nothing but a sham"(Ruddick 35). Early women writers, "mothers of
the novel," as Dale Spender significantly calls them, sought desperately for
their own and their heroines' "authority." Often these heroines were
mothers.
This panel hopes to contribute to the ongoing dialogue. Papers can
explore maternal failure and success, survival of motherhood,
relationships between mothers and daughters, or any aspect of
"motherhood" in eighteenth-century life and literature.
Abstracts by April 15 to:
Professor Bonnie Nelson
Department of English
Denison Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506 or e-mailed to Bonnie@ksu.edu
The Call for Papers for the MWASECS meeting is available on the web at
http://www2.oakland.edu/english/mwasecs/cfp02.htm. Calls for papers for
panels are available at
http://www2.oakland.edu/english/mwasecs/panelcalls02.html.
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