The Mid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Association – Feminism in Hard Times: Challenges and Opportunities

This is a call for paper and panel submissions for our annual conference on Friday and Saturday, April 8 & 9, 2011 at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ 08618 (located between Trenton and Princeton)

 

The focus of this year’s conference is “Feminism in Hard Times: Challenges and Opportunities.” Our two keynote speakers will be:

 

        Liz Abzug: President and co-founder of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute (BALI), former Deputy Commissioner of New York State’s Human Rights Enforcement Agency

        Katha Politt: prize-winning feminist poet and columnist. Since 1995, author of “Subject to Debate,” a regular column in The Nation that has been described as “the best place to go for original thinking on the left.”

 

The objective of the conference is to provide a venue for collective reflection on where feminism is, and where it needs to go, in the contemporary context of war, economic decline, and widening social inequalities. We are looking for papers and panels that contribute to this urgent conversation. We welcome panels and paper submissions from students and activists as well as scholars and teachers. Topics may include (but are not limited to):  

 

        Historical perspectives on feminist struggle in hard times

        How contemporary crises impel trends and changes in the gender order

        Contemporary feminist debates around militarism, economics and social inequality

        Women of color in the new economy

        Contemporary trends in the feminization of poverty

        Changes in the family

        The “re-masculinization” of American politics and culture

        Feminism in current political struggles

        New formations of race, class and gender

        Body Politics

        Directions in Sexual/Reproductive Politics

        Women, War and Peace

        Women and the Global Economy

        Women’s Studies and the Academy

        Women’s leadership programs in the university

        Girls Studies

        Women in electoral politics

        LGBT issues and initiatives

        The legal politics of marriage

        Gender differences labor  and immigration

        Local and global experiential learning–successful practices, fiscal constraints, and future possibilities

 

Please send abstracts for paper or panel presentations as email attachments to John Landreau (landreau@tcnj.edu) or Mary Lynn Hopps (mlhopps@tcnj.edu) by December 15, 2010.

                         

Include full names, titles, affiliations, and contact information for all presenters.

Please direct all questions to John Landreau and/or Mary Lynn Hopps     

 

 

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