call for papers for a proposed session on "Geographies of Raced and
Gendered Sexuality"
for the annual meeting of the American Studies Association
October 16-19, 2003
Hartford Civic Center -- Hilton Hartford -- Crowne Plaza Hartford
Hartford, Connecticut
(conference website is at:
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/annualmeeting/index.htm)
Deadline: January 10th, 2003
Geographies of Raced and Gendered Sexuality: Reproducing and Resisting the
U.S. Nation
This session will explore historical and literary/filmic instances of
patriotic and potentially treasonous sex and sexualities at the same time
that it considers the usefulness of rubrics of the national and
transnational in understanding the sexual, broadly conceived.
We are interested in how racialized and gendered sexualities have created
material and imaginary spaces within and outside the construct of the
nation-state in the United States. Certain sex-acts (miscegenation, sex
with birth control, same-sex sex, prostitution, celibacy) have been
historically construed as outside the purview of dominant national
ideologies. How have such practices opened up literal and figurative sites
of national (dis)identification? In what ways have such practices supported
or interfered in the reproduction of U.S. power structures?
Possible topics might include: marriage and U.S. citizenship laws; the
influence of geography on reproductive practices; miscegenation and national
identity; gender, genre, and nation; technologies for reproducing the state;
the place of sex in national and international U.S. politics and policy.
Organizers: Kelly Diane Williams, U Michigan; Naomi Greyser, UC Irvine
Please e-mail proposal abstracts (no attachments) of 250 - 400 words and a
short bio to: ngreyser@uci.edu
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naomi greyser | n g r e y s e r @ u c i . e d u
department of english and comparative literature
interdisciplinary program in women's studies
U C Irvine
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