Forwarded email from Beth Tobin <[log in to unmask]>:
We invite proposals for essays for a collection titled Women and Things:
Material Culture, 1750-1950. This collection invites scholars to consider
women’s engagement with the material world, from the most ordinary,
mundane daily practices and objects to the most extraordinary, life-
altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year period of 1750
to1950.
Since material culture encompasses all human-made objects, the possibility
of topics is wide open so long as they connect women to things. Therefore,
topics might include, but are certainly not limited to: fiber arts
(needlework, quilting, knitting, crocheting); decorative arts; other kinds
of crafts; painting; sculpture; scrapbooks; albums; china; porcelain;
architecture; interior design; landscape and gardening; shopping;
clothing; fashion; and food. The focus might be on all or part of the life-
cycle of an object, from design, to production, to circulation, to
consumption, to commodification, to valuation, to collection and display.
Although scholars in anthropology, museum studies, and decorative arts
have long taken material culture as their focus, in the past twenty years
scholars from other disciplines that have traditionally been more text-
centric have increasingly turned their attention to material objects in
what might be termed the material turn. This edited collection is designed
to serve those scholars. We look forward then to proposals from a wide
variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, cultural studies,
history, literature, rhetoric and composition, art, art history and art
theory, communication studies, visual design, race studies, and women’s
studies. We encourage and wish to present multiple theoretical frames and
methodologies that grapple with questions concerning women and material
things.
Please send your 250-500-word proposal and a CV as electronic attachments
in MS-word or RTF format to Beth Fowkes Tobin ([log in to unmask]) and
Maureen Daly Goggin ([log in to unmask]) by March 30, 2007.
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin
Department of English
Arizona State University
Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
480-965-3535
Email: [log in to unmask]
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