CFP: Women & Society Conference 2005 (5/6/05; 9/23/05-9/24/05)

CFP: Women & Society Conference
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY

Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2005 Women & Society
Conference to be held September 23-24, 2005. This feminist conference is
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, covering all aspects of women and
gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models
feminist inquiry and scholarship for undergraduate students so joint
faculty/student papers are also considered. Undergraduate participants may
attend at no cost.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Women & Citizenship
Feminism and/in the Classroom
Trauma, Narrative, and History
Same Sex Marriage
Women and Film
Reality Television
Politics of Illness and Health Care
Women's Lives and Religion
Forming Gender Identities
Transgendered Culture
Policy, Politics and Race
Food and Feminism
Sex Workers and the Sex Industry
Women and Combat
Revolutionary Women of Today
Women and Creativity

Adrienne Rich will be giving a reading on Friday evening and Paula
Rothenberg will be delivering the keynote address on Saturday.

Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio (and all of your
contact information for summer correspondence) postmarked by May 6, 2005
to:

Women & Society Conference
c/o Jennifer Driscoll
Assistant Professor Of English
Fontaine 220
School of Liberal Arts
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
email: Jennifer.Driscoll_at_marist.edu
(845) 575-3000, ext. 2404

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