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Subject: Call for papers for an anthology

Dear Readers,
We welcome queries and, of course, more sustained interest in this 
project.  Those with an expertise in the subject and the region are 
encouraged to contact us.  The description below attests to the 
uniqueness of the project.

Call for Papers --
Gender and Space: South/ Southeast Asia.  

We invite critical essays for an interdisciplinary anthology on the 
conceptualization of space in South and Southeast Asian contexts in the 
19th and 20th centuries.  The emphasis is on a feminist analytics of women's 
and men's experiences of space in such topics as political, social, 
and/or psychic cartographies of imperialism, nationhood, urbanization, 
technological production (cyberspace, etc.), (e)migration, enforced/ chosen 
exile, and cosmopolitanism.  Papers might also consider how narratives 
(visual, written, spoken, enacted), spatial designs, 
and sociocultural practices configure race, class, gender (also 
transgendering), sexuality, religion/ spirituality, and  the politics of 
public and private realms inside, between, and outside predetermined 
boundaries.  Countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, 
India, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri 
Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the  Philippines.  

Send 2-3 page proposals or papers (25--30 pages) by May 15, 1996 to Esha 
Niyogi De (UCLA) or Sonita Sarker (Macalester College) at 
idr2end-AT-mvs.oac.ucla.edu or mail to S. Sarker, Women's and 
Gender Studies, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105.

ATTENTION: A panel on this subject, chaired by Esha Nigoyi De and 
respondent Sonita Sarker, will be presented at the Modern Language 
Association in Chicago this month.  
Place: Chicago Ballroom C, Chicago Marriott
Date: Friday, 29 December 1995
Time: 1:45--3:00 p.m.
If you plan to attend, leave messages for either of us at (312) 464-1000

Sonita Sarker                  Assistant Professor
Women's Studies and English    Macalester College
Office Phone: (612)696-6316    Fax: (612)696-6430  
e-mail:sarker-AT-macalstr.edu