This call for papers is for a proposed panel session to be held at "Disjunctions: Romancing Heteroglossia" at the University of California Riverside's 11th Annual Humanities Conference. This graduate student conference will be held April 9-10, 2004.
Panel Topic: "Trans-Formations: Transvestism, Transgenderism, and Transsexuality"
This is an investigation into the portrayal of transvestism, transgenderism, and/or transsexuality specifically in literature, art, and film. Papers on any aspect relating to these issues or focusing any period are welcome.
Issues for consideration, among others, are the following:
Interplay of gender and sexuality
Interaction with the Queer community
Medical transformations
Challenges and Complications of identity
Fictional versus Historical figures
Television documentaries
Body image
Visibilty/Invisibility
Passing
Position within Queer Theory
One page abstracts should be submitted by March 08. Please send to Megan Fowler at pre-raphaelite@earthlink.net
For more information on the conference, visit http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/
Megan Fowler
Dept. of English
UC Riverside
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