Posting: International Medieval Congress: 9/13/03; 5/6-9/04
I am organizing a session on Women and Medieval Islam at the International
Medieval Congress to be held May 6-9 of 2004 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The
empires of Islam held much of Europe and the near east in the medieval
period, and people of many faiths lived under their rule. While there has
been a significant amount of work on legislation regarding women in this
period, there is very little scholarly work on the writing of the women
themselves- Muslim, Jewish, or Christian. I am also particularly interested
in papers addressing relations between women of different faiths, in
literature and in life.
Possible topics might include:
1. Writing of the slave-poetesses
2. Poetry of noblewomen
3. Interfaith women's relations, in literature and in life
4. Women representing their own bodies
5. Women representing men
6. Women musicians and dancers
7. Patronage
8. Women apprenticing other women (poets, musicians and dancers)
9. Women and games
10. A comparative treatment of the lives of women of different faiths in
the same geographical area
Please submit a proposal no later than 9/13/03 to Marla Segol at
mbs34@cornell.edu
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