FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:25:45 -0400
From: "Ingram, Annie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gendered Environments:
The 4th Biennial Associated Colleges of the South(ACS) Women's Studies
Conference
An Interdisciplinary Conference for Students, Staff, Faculty and
Community at Birmingham-Southern College -- October 15-17, 1999
Have you ever been to a baby shower? a poker game? a Tupperware party? a
deer lease? Such gatherings are typically attended by women or men but not
both. They are, in other words, "gendered." Places such as sporting arenas
and hair salons, though frequented by both women and men, may nevertheless
also be considered gendered. These examples from American culture prompt
serious questions: in what ways are other spheres of human activity - such
as work places and political environments - also gendered? Are our
relationships to nature, landscape and geographical space always (or
necessarily) gendered? What is the basis for these distinctions?
Call for papers, round tables, workshops, panels, performances and
exhibitions on gendered spaces, e.g.,
Places in literature and art
Natural and constructed landscapes
Place in the ancient world
Political environments
The workplace
Queer spaces
Eco-feminist perspectives
Travel writing
Age and gendered spaces
Place in popular culture
The laboratory, classroom, studio
Restrooms Cross-cultural perspectives
Alterity
Prisons
The closet
The college campus
The marketplace
Cyberspace
Ritual gathering places
Intersections of race, class and gender
Domestic space
Possible topics include men and women in the Civil Rights Movement and other
social movements; environmental racism; nursing homes and the gendering of
geriatrics; environmental illness; unisex restrooms; and the campus
environment and student life. As with past ACS Women's Studies conferences,
student submissions are particularly welcome. Select papers from the
conference will be considered for publication in the on-line ACS journal for
undergraduate and faculty research.
Submission Guidelines
To be considered, please submit our application form and an abstract of
approximately 500 words. Submissions may be made either on-line or via post.
For more information, contact Jane Archer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 1999
[you can also find this cfp on the ACS website at:
http://www.colleges.org/~wms/cfp99.html
and, shortly, on the ASLE website, too.]
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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