CALL FOR PROPOSALS
EDUCATING WOMEN IN A CULTURE OF CONSUMPTION
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS)
November 18-21, 2004
Orlando, Florida
Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2004
This panel seeks papers exploring the relationship between women's learning
and consumption in any of its various manifestations in the 16th, 17th, or
18th centuries. Possible topics might include, but are certainly not
limited to, the following:
--The instruction of women in the acquisition or use of consumer goods.
--Fashion and women's education.
--Educating women as consumers of romances, novels, and other texts.
--Educating women as consumers of public entertainment.
--The role of fiction, drama, or poetry in the education of the female
consumer.
--The role of diaries, almanacs, periodicals, cookbooks, domestic manuals,
or textbooks in the education of the female consumer.
--The treatment of breastfeeding in domestic manuals.
--The instruction of women as consumers of time and space.
--The problem of desire and other consuming passions in women's education.
--The instruction of women in the treatment of diseases and other consuming
maladies.
Please send 250-word abstracts by April 30 to Sharon Palo at spalo1@uic.edu.
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Sharon Palo
Department of English (MC 162)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60607-7120
spalo1@uic.edu
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