[Comedias] CFP: Women's Art and Artifice in Early Modern Iberia and the New World

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We are now accepting abstracts for the following special session, sponsored
by GEMELA, at this fall's M/MLA in Milwaukee, November 7-10.  Deadline for
abstracts is June 14.

 

Techne: Women's Art and Artifice in Early Modern Iberia and the New World

 

 

      As wives, mothers, servants, and slaves, women were responsible for
such essential domestic tasks as food preparation and family medicine in
early modern Spain and the New World. Their labor required extensive
knowledge and practical skill-techne-that discomfitted uninitiated men,
including authors, doctors, and agents of the law. Inquisitors, for
instance, tried a disproportionately large number of women for Judaizing
precisely because they prepared suspicious family meals. In literature,
figures like Celestina bespeak profound anxiety over skilled women's
potential to undermine the patriarchal lineage system by remaking virgins.
We solicit papers on how women used both art and artifice to create their
own cultural spheres of influence, alleviate oppression, or challenge men's
readings of them. We are particularly interested in papers that consider the
contributions of racial and religious minorities.

 

      Please send 250-word abstracts by June 14th to both Bradford Ellis,
brad.ellis at snc.edu and Madera Allan, madera.allan at lawrence.edu.

 

      Chair: Bradford Ellis, St. Norbert College

 

 

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Bradford Ellis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Modern Languages & Literatures

St. Norbert College

 

Treasurer, GEMELA

Faculty Advisor, Phi Sigma Iota

 

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