UPDATE: the meeting will take place in Los Angeles, CA.
"Educating" Women in the 18th-Century: Learned Ladies and Lady
Learners (9/15/02; 8/3-10/03 ISECS [International Society for 18th-C
Studies], Los Angeles, CA)
In the eighteenth-century, women as both the subjects of education
and its practitioners became a particularly contested issue on both
sides of the Atlantic and beyond. Whether women could be educated,
for what purposes and in what manners they ought, and even in what
ways education could create "woman," became global issues. Whether
women were "naturally" inclined to teach, ought to be encouraged or
discouraged from teaching children above a certain age, and what
sorts of knowledge they could legitimately possess spawned ongoing
debates. In works by both radical and conservative writers,
manifestos and conduct books, private journals and novels,
enlightenment thinkers return again and again to the proper education
of women and the proper role of women as teachers.
This panel seeks to arrive at an understanding of what education
signified to and for eighteenth-century women as both subjects of
education and as educators themselves. Is education something added
to a preexisting being, or the process of forming and even creating
that being? How did intellectuals, writers, aristocrats, commoners,
men, women, Europeans, colonists, and indigenous people understand
learning for women and learning by women? Are learned ladies
admirable exemplars, examples of failed femininity, or the exception
that proves the rule?
Presentations are expected to represent a range of disciplines,
national traditions, and perspectives. Possible topics include
theories, practices, and definitions of education; education and
Enlightenment empiricism; writers on education (including Locke,
Astell, Defoe, Addison, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Mme de Genlis,
Goethe, and others); conduct book literature; children's literature,
charity schools; education as a vehicle for gender construction and
class mobility; education and emergent discourses of sexual
difference; education and sexuality; education and the formation of
national identity, education and labor, education and slave cultures.
Please send proposals by September 15, 2002 to:
Miriam L. Wallace,
New College of Florida,
COH-104, Humanities,
Sarasota, FL 34243, USA
(941) 359-4335 telephone
(9410 359-4479 FAX
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