11TH ANNUAL BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS CONFERENCE
"Gendering Philosophy: Body, Mind, and Culture in 18th and 19th Century
Discourse"
March 20-23, 2003
UPDATE: Keynote speakers will include Tricia Lootens (University of
Georgia) and Laura Brown (Cornell University).
The conference invites participants and speakers to cross disciplinary and
scholarly boundaries. In questioning the gendering of discourse in
philosophy and contemporary theorizations of women's writing, we aim to
broaden our understanding of the history of ideas via 18th and 19th
century modes of thinking.
Hosted by TCU, the conference will be held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in
Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
While scholarship on all aspects of 18th and 19th century British women
writers is welcome, we are particularly interested in explorations of
topics such as the following:
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE:
Developing Disciplines of Evolutionary Theory and Anthropology
Professionalization of Medicine
Midwifery and/or Wet-nursing
British Empiricism
Display of the Body as Scientific Object - Vivisection, Mummies, Cadavers,
Etc.
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BODY:
Carnivalesque Bodies
Motherhood and the Service Body
Fashion as Politics
Passing and Performance
SEXUALITY:
Representation and Regulation of Sexuality
Mythos of Morality, e.g. Pornography, Angel of the House
Classifying Gender / Classifying Sex
CULTURE OF SENSIBILITY:
Intellectualism vs. Sensibility
Gendering of Sensibility
Feminine Writing / Femininity and Authorship
THE "DEVIANT" WOMAN:
Is She Revolutionary, Complicit, or Pointless?
Sexual Others
Criminals and Prostitutes
"MAsculine" Women and Free Thinkers
Motherhood and the Construction of Gender
Madwomen Outside the Attic
LITERARY PRACTICE:
Gender in the Literary Marketplace
Text and Textual History
Travel Writing and the Luxury of Movement
Urban Literature and/or the Confined Writer
Political Rhetoric and Public Speaking
Essentialism and the Emergence of the Subject as Author
GENRE STUDIES AND THE READER:
Periodical Press and Access to Text
Marketing Texts / Identifying and Targeting Audiences
Advertising / Text as Commodity
Literary Salons and Communal Interpretation
Closet Dramas
Women in the Production of "Fact" / Producing Science, History, Etc.
RACE, RELIGION, AND THE OTHER:
Rhetoric of Degeneration
Racial and Sexual Paranoia in the Declining Empire
"Family Values" and the Loss of State Authority
Empire of Race
Leaving the Other Behind / Racist Rhetoric in Women's Discourse
Protestantism and Colonial Authority
WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY:
Cost of Recovering Literary Women
The De-Valorization of Feminism
Political Responsibility and the Woman Writer
Problematizing the Canon
Whose Feminism? Essentialism, Constructivism, and the (Masculine) Subject
Teaching Women Writers / What Are Our Responsibilities?
PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE / LITERARY PHILOSOPHY:
Narrative and/or Poetics as Philosophical Discourse
Aestheticism, Romanticism, and the Gendered Subject
Women as Philosophers
Publics, Politics, and Humanitarian Ideals
UPDATE: Send 1-2 page abstracts for papers and/or proposals for panels
(including cover sheet with name, mailing address, and email) by OCTOBER
31st, 2002, to the following address:
Melissa Blackman
Department of English
TCU Box 297270
Fort Worth, TX 76129
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Email abstracts (including name and mailing address) to: [log in to unmask]
Visit the 2003 British Women Writers Conference website at:
www.eng.tcu.edu/BWWC
Thank you for your interest!
Christina Shaner
2003 BWWC Steering Committee
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