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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:38:35 -0500
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Subject: Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE (please forward)
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THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE
UTA Conference on the Suppressions and Reassertions of
The Female Principle in Human Cultures.
University of Texas at Arlington, March 30-April 1, 2000.
This conference recognizes the suppression
of femaleness as a primary meaning
of Western and other cultures over a long period.
It seeks to identify, document,
account for, and interpret this suppression via
the specific forms it takes from
and describe newly developing
practices that counter it. Exposures, descriptions,
and theorizations of such
suppression may be essential to projecting a
future for femaleness in human
societies.
We invite proposals from all fields of the humanities
and the social and behavioral
sciences. Papers may deal exclusively with
suppressions (including concealments
of suppression) and their cultural contexts,
with the figures or contents
suppressed, with examples of femaleness
that uncharacteristically elude
suppression or otherwise counter it, or
with re-emergences, or combinations of
these, and may draw on the following as a
possible framework:
Bearing a positive social value in an advanced
Asian society as late
as the seventh century, the female principle
sinks into general
anathema in the West by the time of classical
civilization, and into
near oblivion by the time of the early church.
There it remains,
under powerful forms of social repression,
into the twentieth century.
Then, via numerous separate discourses,
pluralist thought creates a
climate of opinion in which femaleness can
re-emerge in literary,
philosophical, religious, and other languages
under a positive sign.
Papers may be descriptive, and/or interpretive
or theoretical accounts of specific
forms of suppression, such as the sexual; of
forms taken by coverups of
suppression; of cultural contexts mandating
suppression; and of femaleness
eluding suppression or otherwise countering it--
all these in discourses and social
practices worldwide. Cross-disciplinary and
new theoretical approaches are
encouraged.
Submission Information:
See the following page or send inquiries to:
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Postal mail:
Conference on the Female Principle
Department of English 19035
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 760l9
Ph. 817-272-2692
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