Thanks,
Viviane Lerner
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of STEFANIE S. RIXECKER
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 10:28 AM
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT
> Subject: (Fwd) CFP: The Female Principle
>
>
> 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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