[ecrea] Feminist Alternative Media in the long 1970s

>Feminist Alternative Media in the long 1970s
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>Co-chairs: Karen Alexander and Agatha Beins
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>42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
>April 7-10, 2011
>New Brunswick , NJ Hyatt New Brunswick
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>Host Institution: Rutgers University
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>How did the burgeoning women's beration movement in the 1970s change women'=
>s involvement in, creative use of, and relationship to new and existing med=
>ia? This panel seeks papers that examine the ways feminists embraced the op=
>portunities presented by both technological changes and the political chang=
>es wrought by struggles for equality to create and control representations =
>of themselves, reality, and politics through the production of alternative =
>media. Attention to the materiality of feminist media reveals the ways that=
>  they are sites of struggle not only in content but also in production. The=
>refore, examinations of feminist alternative media must take into account t=
>he debates and dialogues in the finished products as well  as who had acces=
>s to the tools required to produce them and the way these
>tools both afforded opportunities and entailed constraints. We welcome arti=
>cles that discuss women's video and film; feminist serial and ephemeral pub=
>lications; women artists, alternative exhibition spaces, and art collective=
>s; performance pieces; and feminist publishers and distributors. Authors ma=
>y consider addressing questions related to how feminist media presented rev=
>isions of the past and visions of a feminist future, created material and i=
>deological spaces for feminism, and challenged conventional conceptions of =
>aesthetics. We prefer papers that take a gender analytical approach and tha=
>t are grounded in historical research
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>Deadline: =3DC2=3DA0 September 30, 2010=3D20
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>Please send an abstract and brief CV to Karen Alexander: kalexander@signs.r=
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>utgers.edu .=3D20
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>Please also include:=3D20
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>Name and Affiliation=3D20
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>Postal address=3D20
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>A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration
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>The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 360 sessions, as well=
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>  as pre-conference workshops, dynamic speakers and cultural events. =3DC2=
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>Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2011 Convention will be po=
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>sted in June: www.nemla.org<http://www.nemla.org>.
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>Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session
>; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar).  Convent=
>ion participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creat=
>ive session or participate in a roundtable. Do not accept a slot if you may=
>  cancel to present on another session.=3D20
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>Karen Alexander PhD
>Senior Editor
>Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
>(kalexander /at/ signs.rutgers.edu)
>732-932-9577=3D20
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>Rutgers University=3D20
>Voorhees Chapel=3D20
>5 Chapel Drive=3D20
>New Brunswick, NJ 08901=3D20

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