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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:47:01 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Men in Feminism Revisited, SCMLA 2001


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sallyr-AT-tamu.edu (Sally Robinson) sent the following
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Call For Papers

Men and Feminism, Revisited
A panel sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange
South Central Modern Language Association Convention
Tulsa, Oklahoma
November 1-3, 2001

In 1984, the Society for Critical Exchange sponsored a panel at the MLA convention on "Men in Feminism."  Provocative and controversial, the panel set off a spirited debate over the question of whether men could or should be "in" feminism, and resulted in the publication of the influential anthology, Men in Feminism, edited by Alice Jardine and Paul Smith (Methuen, 1987).  In that volume, numerous cultural theorists and critics called for a masculinity studies that would interrogate the social, cultural, political and psychological meanings of "men as men."  Thirteen years later, the field of masculinity studies is a thriving and, still, controversial arena within gender studies and in relation to feminism.  This panel seeks to revisit the question of men in feminism, and welcomes papers on the following topics:  how male theorists imagine their place in feminism; whether the gender of the writer matters in work on masculinity; new readings of old debates, including those published in Men in Feminism; new psychoanalytic understandings of masculinity and male subjectivity; how attention to ethnic and racial difference (including new work on whiteness) alters or complicates the terrain of masculinity studies; the relationship between gay male studies and heteromasculinity studies; the political and/or institutional place of "men's studies"; the relationship between men's studies and women's studies; pedagogical dilemmas of masculinity studies; intersections between academic masculinity studies and popular representations of the 'crisis' in masculinity; evaluations of the political effects of the crisis in masculinity.

Abstracts or papers by March 15, 2001 to:

Sally Robinson
English Department
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77845-4227
sallyr-AT-tamu.edu



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