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Date:   Thu, 31 Oct 1996 03:22:48 -0500 
From:   Dawn Henwood <[log in to unmask]>  
Call for Papers: 
 
MLA 1997 Special Session, "Early Twentieth-Century American Female 
Autobiography and Women's Work" 
 
Papers might explore--but are by no means limited to--such topics as: 
 
Domestic work and female identity 
Progressivism and women's autobiography 
Autobiographies of women labour radicals 
Autobiography as woman's special literary "work" 
Images of working women in autobiographical fiction/poetry by women 
Self-effacement and self-promotion in autobiographies of famous wives/partners 
Writing the "labour" of motherhood 
Retelling women's role in antebellum plantation life 
Home as a site of contest between public and private worlds of work 
 
Please send a one-page abstract by 30 NOV 96 to: 
 
Dawn Henwood 
e-mail: [log in to unmask] 
Or 
English Department 
University of Toronto 
7 King's College Circle 
Toronto ON 
M5S 1A1 
Canada 
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