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From: Judith Ezekiel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: CFP: Feminist Interpretations of Adorno
> Call for Papers: Proposed volume: Feminist Interpretations of Theodor
Adorno
> For Pennsylvania State University Press
>
> The editors of this proposed volume are seeking abstracts for papers that
> explore whether and how feminism might benefit from engagement with
Theodor
> Adorno's work.
> Adorno might seem an unlikely interlocutor for feminist theory and
> politics. The common narrative about his life and work includes the
> following: He was excoriated by the new left for his deliberate distance
> from "real" politics. His language is infamously difficult; indeed he
> resists being "plainspoken" on principle. He argues that with the
> absorption of all things into an economy of equivalence, structural and
> cultural conditions become indistinct as the exchange relations of late
> capitalist/consumer mass culture constitute a totality. He understands
the
> realm of high culture to be a final, fragile site of resistance to that
> totality.
> The editors of this proposed volume contend that the above descriptions,
> while not necessarily inaccurate, are incomplete. However, these
> descriptions have effectively imposed closure on discussion of Adorno's
> potential contributions to debates in contemporary feminist theory and
> politics. We invite abstracts that reopen the discussion of Adorno's work
> in light of contemporary feminist debates.
> The following is a list of possible thematic areas: writing
> history/genealogy; memories or the remembrances of suffering;
> identity/difference debates in feminism; the politics of critical theory/a
> critical theory of politics; language and power; epistemological
critique;
> aesthetics and politics; art and politics; the domination of
> (wo)man/nature; body politics; the commodification of feminism; feminist
> critiques of liberalism.
> We are soliciting abstracts of a maximum of 750 words. Abstracts may be
> for proposed, completed, or reprinted papers. Our deadline for receiving
> proposals is April 30th. Please send them to either of the following
> addresses:
> Renee Heberle Ashley Pryor
> Dept of Political Science Department of Philosophy
> University of Toledo University of Toledo
> Toledo, Ohio 43606 Toledo, Ohio 43606
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> Fax: 419-530-4199 Fax: 419-530-618
> Phone: 419-530-4061 Phone: 419-530-4517
>
> Email and fax submissions are welcome, as are further inquiries.
>
> Dr. Renee Heberle, Asst. Professor fax: 419-530-4199
> Department of Political Science and phone: 419-530-4061
> Public Administration
> The University of Toledo
> Toledo, Ohio 43606
>
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