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TC Women’s and Gender Studies

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  • Profile picture of Rocío Quispe-Agnoli

    Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago

    It is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]

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    Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    New directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]

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    Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago

    In the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]

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    Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago

    It is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Preetha Mani

    Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 months ago

    The influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Cristina León Alfar

    Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]

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    Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]

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    Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    CFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
    We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
    by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
    This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
    issues as they play out…[Read more]

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    Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    CFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
    We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
    by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
    This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
    issues as they play out…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Michelle A. Massé

    Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    This is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere.  I too am looking forward to more information!

  • Profile picture of Beth Widmaier Capo

    Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    This sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?

  • Profile picture of Shannon Herbert

    Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    In 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]

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    Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago

    Hello everyone,

    I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.

    <a title=”Original URL:
    https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019

    Click to follow link.”…[Read more]

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    Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

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    Kendra Leonard deposited “Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    “Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain

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    Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago

    This essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]

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    Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago

    In this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]

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    Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    This class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]

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    Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago

    Abstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.

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    Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion Group logo of TC Women’s and Gender StudiesTC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Locations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing

    International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference

    3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

    Call for Papers

    The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]

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