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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:28:40 CST
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- Subject: Endorsement Requested, Thank You for your Help
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- FROM: Kevin L. Cope
- TO: C18-L Readership and Others
-
- Dear Readers,
-
- Brian McCrea (of the University of Florida) and I are planning to
- propose a seminar for the 1994 ASECS meeting. We would like to
- request your (electronic) signature by way of endorsement (for
- those of you who might be unfamiliar with ASECS procedures, let me
- mention that those who wish to propose seminars are required to
- submit approbatory signatures from the membership). Below you will
- find the title and the description of our propsoed seminar. Beneath
- the proposal you will find an electronic reply form. Please "clip"
- it (using whatever program you use for such operations), add your
- signature (your name) to it, and send it back to me at my electronic
- address, ENCOPE@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU. Thank you very much.
-
-
- ASECS 1994 SEMINAR: "GENDER IN QUOTATION MARKS: THE QUESTION OF
- FEMALE PLOTS AND TECHNIQUES"
- CHAIRS: KEVIN L. COPE (LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY) and BRIAN MCCREA
- (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA)
-
- The basis for this session is a little-noted tendency in recent
- works by scholar-critics like Patricia Meyer Spacks and Nancy
- Armstrong. A quotation from Spacks's "Afterword" to her recent book,
- _Desire and Truth_, sets the issue quite economically: "To the
- 'masculine' realm belong self-love, reason, sublimity, art. Social
- sentiment, emotion of all kinds, beauty, and nature associate with the
- 'feminine' . . . In a crude sense, self-love, reason, and sublimity
- can be understood as categories of domination, their 'feminine'
- counterparts as emblems of community." Throughough _Desire and
- Truth_, Spacks repeatedly alludes to gender but places her references
- in quotation marks. The reason for this, perhaps, is that she seeks
- to forestall obvious objections to her argument, a listing by her
- critics of works by male authors in which "social sentiment, emotion
- of all kinds, and nature" are valorized. This session will seek
- papers that consider either this recent tendency of leading feminist
- critics to put gender in quotation marks, or papers which consider
- the notion that there are plots and techniques that are the exclusive
- property or discursive domain of females. Since the early 1970s,
- the notion that there are feminine plots has been so widespread as
- to seem indisputable. But does the recent tendency to put gender
- in quotation marks open this indisputable truth to debate?
-
-
- I RECOMMEND THIS PANEL FOR INCLUSION IN THE 1994 ASECS PROGRAM:
-
-
- ________________________________________________________
- (please sign your name electronically)
-
- Return, please, to Kevin L. Cope, at ENCOPE@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU or
- ENCOPE@LSUVM.BITNET or ENCOPE@LSUVM. Thank you so much, and see
- you in South Carolina!
-