Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:58:10 -0400
From: Robert Marzec <marzec-AT-fredonia.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: V-Day Movement


For anyone interested...


The Vagina Monologues.  Papers are solicited for a collection of critical 
essays on Eve Ensler's play, and the V-Day movement.  The volume will 
examine the distinctive nature of the play/movement, specifically the 
indissoluble relationship between 1) the text of The Vagina Monologues, 2) 
the event of various performances of the play, and 3) the larger context of 
the V-Day movement (the V-Day College Campaign and the World Wide V-Day 
Campaign).  Among a variety of possible focuses, the anthology seeks essays 
that address the following in particular: the way this three-fold 
relationship at work in The Vagina Monologues impacts the standard 
connections between sites of cultural production (national, political, 
sexual, racial, etc.); the introduction of "male monologues" to the play in 
the performances of 2003, and the way in which the presence of "male" 
identities affects the play's critical engagement with traditional 
conceptions of gender and the political status of women; the effectiveness 
of the play/movement (the degree of it tangible activism, as well as its 
limitations); the play's persuasiveness in different cultural contexts 
across the globe ("Third World" performances as opposed to "first world," 
"east" as opposed to "west," "north" as opposed to "south"); the 
"usefulness" of the play in terms of the proceeds it generates, and the 
distribution of proceeds (10% going to RAWA in 2002, 10% going to the 
"Indian Country Project" in 2003); and the position of The Vagina 
Monologues in the discipline of feminism (i.e., is the play/movement an 
"essentialist" or a "constructionist" feminist text? or both?).   Final 
papers (20-25 pp, in Chicago Manual of Style) are due 1 January, 
2005.  Send inquiries to Adrienne McCormick (McCormic-AT-fredonia.edu) and 
Robert Marzec (marzec-AT-fredonia.edu), English Department, SUNY Fredonia, 
Fredonia NY 14063. 

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