FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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>Organization: http://www.PhilosophyNews.com
>THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE:
>ECLIPSES AND RE-EMERGENCES
>
>UTA Conference on the Suppressions and Reassertions of The Female
>Principle
>in Human Cultures.
>
>KEYNOTES:
>Martha Nussbaum, March 30
>Drucilla Cornell, March 31
>Eva Keuls, April 1
>Nancy Tuana, April 1
>
>University of Texas at Arlington,
>March 30-April 1, 2000.
>
>This interdisciplinary 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 forms it takes--many still
>concealed, clandestine, underexplored--and their counterforms, from
>early periods to the present, and to identify and describe newly
>developing practices that counter it. Exposures, descriptions, and
>theorizations of this suppression are 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 the forms of
>suppression (including concealments of suppression), with the figures
>or contents suppressed, with examples of femaleness that 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 suppressions, such as the sexual; of forms taken
>by coverups of suppression; of cultural contexts mandating
>suppression; and of examples that suppression overlooks--all these in
>discourses and social practices worldwide. Cross-disciplinary and new
>theoretical approaches are encouraged.
>
>DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: DECEMBER 15, 1999
>
>Submission Information:
>Propective participants please send statement
>of intent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>For information on proposals, please request info sheet from
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] or see website:
>http://www.uta.edu/english/hermann/2000/
>
>Or write:
>Conference on the Female Principle
>Department of English 19035
>University of Texas at Arlington
>Arlington, Texas 760l9
>
>Or call: (817) 272-2692
>
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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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