[Gesth-l] women writers and intellectuals

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> ASPASIA - INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK
> 
> Aspasia is a new, international, and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to
> bring out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and
> gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern, and
> South Eastern Europe. Its editors are Francisca de Haan, Maria Bucur and
> Krassimira Daskalova. Aspasia is published by Berghahn Books (New York and
> Oxford). 
> 
> Call for Papers for Aspasia 2: Women Writers and Intellectuals
> 
> We are soliciting articles of up to 8,000 words for inclusion in Aspasia
> Volume 2 (to appear in 2007). The theme of the volume will be: Women Writers
> and Intellectuals
> 
> By developing and spreading new ideas and aesthetic visions, writers and
> intellectuals -- men and women -- have played a crucial role in the complex
> social, cultural and political histories of Central, Eastern and South Eastern
> Europe (CESEE). However, very little is known about the lives, works and
> gender-specific contributions of women writers and intellectuals, or the
> visions they had and the obstacles they encountered in patriarchal contexts.
> In pursuing this topic we take a broad definition of "writers," including
> professional women writers as well as those who wrote fiction and non-fiction
> for themselves, for pleasure or other reasons, those who published and those
> who didn't manage to see their work in print. We include those who wrote
> letters, or kept journals that had either a semi-private, or only abstract
> audience, but which still allowed their authors to represent themselves
> through writing.  The types of writings we include in this definition are also
> very broad, from letters, diaries, novels and stories to journalism and essay
> writing, children's books, religious meditations, and political manifestoes.
> The purpose of this volume is to stimulate interdisciplinary feminist
> scholarly work on this important but under-researched group of women and their
> work. While we are interested in biographical texts, we hope that these and
> other submissions will theorise and problematise aspects of the lives, ideas,
> social contexts and reception of women writers and intellectuals. We are also
> interested in contributions that historicize and contextualize the terms
> "writer" and "intellectual," and approach them from a critical and comparative
> gender perspective. Possible topics and questions for this volume include:
> 
> 
> Women's lives/networks/women's movements
> * What were the material and immaterial or social and cultural conditions that
> enabled women writers and intellectuals to think and write? How difficult was
> it to be a professional or published "woman author"?
> * Did women writers and intellectuals form part of intellectual or other
> networks? Was there a women's heritage in which they could place themselves?
> Who were their male and female examples? What role did women take on inside
> and outside these contexts?
> * What role did women writers and intellectuals play in women's movements, and
> how did they contribute to various forms of feminism? How willing were these
> women to accept a political or socially engaged public role?
> * Did women write memoirs or autobiographies? How did they themselves perceive
> their public roles as writers and intellectuals?  Can one speak of an
> "ecriture feminine" in CESEE, to quote Julia Kristeva?
> 
> The role and intersections of gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nation and
> religion
> * What was the place of gender issues in women's writings? Did they write
> about and/or problematise men and masculinities? What was the role of
> sexuality in their work, and which gender and sexual identities did they
> struggle with, envision, develop, or play with?
> * What role did their writings play in constructing the nation?
> * Did they see the emancipation of women and that of the nation as projects
> that mutually supported each other, or was women's emancipation seen as
> contributing to the 'bigger' nationalist goal?
> * Did women intellectuals of ethnic majority groups write about ethnic
> minority women, and if so, how?
> * In their work and thinking, how did the emancipatory projects of ethnic
> majority and minority women, working-class and peasant women and that of "the
> nation" relate to, support or hinder each other?
> * What appeal did different political ideologies have - how did/do women
> writers and intellectuals relate to war, nationalism, anti-Semitism, fascism,
> communism, liberalism and feminism?
> 
> Women writers and intellectuals in patriarchal contexts
> * What are the topics that women dealt/deal with? Are they the same as or
> different from men's? Who did women writers see as their audience?
> * What are the main differences and similarities between the social role and
> status of male and female intellectuals? Have these changed significantly
> during the 19th and 20th centuries?
> * Are there significant differences between CESEE countries in the role of
> women writers and intellectuals, and if so, how can these be explained?
> * Are women writers and intellectuals seen a part of the critical intellectual
> traditions of the region? If not, why not?
> 
> Manuscripts can be submitted between 1 November 2005 and 1 May 2006.
> The final deadline for submission is 1 May 2006. Please send a copy as a Word
> attachment to: Maria Bucur mbucur at indiana.edu
> 
> For the Guidelines for Authors or other questions, please contact:
> Maria Bucur 
> John V. Hill Chair in East European History
> Indiana University
> Department of History
> Ballantine Hall 742
> Bloomington, IN 47405
> Email: mbucur at indiana.edu
> or
> Francisca de Haan
> Central European University
> Nador u. 11
> H-1051 Budapest, Hungary
> Email: dehaanf at ceu.hu
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Katalin Fabian
Lafayette College
Department of Government and Law
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