FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Women and Power Conference Location: Tennessee, United States Call for Papers Deadline: 2000-11-15 WOMEN AND POWER: ENGENDERING RISK A Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's Studies At Middle Tennessee State University (just south of Nashville) March 8-10, 2001 Keynote Speaker: Mab Segrest, author of _Memoirs of a Race Traitor_ Featured Speaker: Miriam Ching Louie, speaking on immigrant women and labor Featured Filmmaker: Barbara Trent, Oscar award-winner for _The Panama Deception_ A call for proposals for individual papers, panels, and other presentation formats (such as roundtables and performances) addressing the conference theme of Women and Power: Engendering Risk. Engendering Risk-risks women face as well as risks women take, particularly as risk relates to structures, experiences, and representations of power. Possible topics include o Risky feminisms and risky politics o Technological ventures and body politics o Daredevils: women in risky sports o Soldiers, supporters, dissenters: women and war o Croning: growing older o Women's spirituality o Risky business: global and local commodification of women o The new woman in literature and art o Risqu® women o Harsh punishments: women and crime o Investing in women: education, business o Breaking the glass ceiling o Pioneering women o Power, play, sex, and desire o Gender variation o Risky women authors and characters o Women in media: risking feminism o The action-adventure heroine and the limits of media o Environmental hazards and eco-feminism o Women at economic risk Proposals for 18-20-minute papers should be 250-500 words with working bibliography. Proposals for panel sessions should include a description of purpose, form, and content with names and addresses of each member and abstracts of contributing papers. All materials should be postmarked by November 15, 2000. (Extended deadline.) Proposals should be sent to: Melissa Schrift or Jackie Eller, Program Committee Co-chairs Women and Power Conference Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Box 10 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 Fax and Telephone: (615) 898-2125 Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Other questions or queries regarding the conference to: Elyce Rae Helford or Marion Hollings, Conference Co-chairs Women and Power Conference Women's Studies Program, Box 498 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 Telephone: (615) 898-5910 Fax: (615) 898-5289 Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Call for Papers website: http://www.mtsu.edu/~womenstu/wp.html This announcement was submitted via the H-Net Announcements Website. Find it at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=126574 ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************