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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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