Call for Papers: Missing Women Study Day
24th May 2017, University of Southampton
The call for papers is now open for the Missing Women study day, an
interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Southampton on
24th May 2017.
Exclusion, neglect, or omission from analysis has been the undue fate for many
women through history. Female contributions and representations have all too
been dismissed or forgotten, resulting in the absence of female voices.
The study day aims to bring together work from across the Humanities that
focuses upon women who are “missing” from conventional discourse. We hope to
promote discussion of women whose creative or historical contributions have
been unjustly forgotten or overlooked.
We welcome submissions from academics and postgraduate students (including MA
students) from across the Humanities.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
· Female practitioners/writers/historical figures who have previously
been excluded from academic discussion
· Female characters/subjects/representations that have been left out of
analysis
· Women who have worked to draw attention to female output
· Previously overlooked or understudied works by more prominent women
· Creative movements or historical networks from which female
contributions have been ignored
· Work by women that has previously been wrongly attributed to men
· Women whose legacy or renown has been wrongly defined
· Work by women on the themes of absence, displacement, neglect,
invisibility or alterity status
· Work that deals with gender as cause for exclusion
Please send 200 word abstracts for a 20-minute paper, and brief bibliographical
information to Sarah Smyth (ss33g10@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ss33g10@xxxxxxxxxxx>)
by 3rd March 2017.
Zobedie: a city built from a dream of woman
‘The city is a representation of woman; woman, the ground of that
representation… She is both the source of the drive to represent and its
ultimate, unattainable goal. Thus the city, which is built to capture men’s
dream, finally only inscribes woman’s absence.’ Teresa de Laurentis, Alice
Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics and Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1984)
