[Comedias] Fwd: [GEMELA] Fwd: CFP for GEMELA session (A gentle reminder)

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GEMELA invites proposals for papers for the following panel for the *Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference* to take place in Vancouver, *British Columbia,
Canada on October 22-25, 2015*.  If this panel is accepted, presenters will
have to become members of Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
(SSEMW).

The omnipresence of military conflict brings many hardships and dangers for
women. In the socio-historical reality of military skirmishes, the rape of
the female (and male) occupants of conquered territory was as ubiquitous an
act as one could imagine. As historian I. A. A. Thompson notes in *War and
Government in Habsburg Spain 1560-1620* (London: The Athlone Press,
University of London, 1976.)*, "The coming of a company of soldiers was
awaited with the same trepidation as a hurricane. Those who could fled its
path; those who could not were forced to abandon their trades to stay at
home to protect their wives, their daughters, and their property*" (113). I
propose a session titled “Women and Warfare” to address literary or
historical sources detailing women’s often reluctant (willing and forced)
participation in military conflicts in early modern Spain or Latin America.
Some subthemes might include: women as warriors, the spoils of war,
camp-followers (wives, prostitutes), or political proponents or opponents
of war.

Please send a 250-word abstract and one-page CV by *Monday, 2 March 2015*
to Stacey Parker Aronson at aronsosp at morris.umn.edu.
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