The development of feminist critical discourses
has shown that ‘woman’, ‘gender’, or ‘feminism’
are relational, not foundational, categories that are positioned within
space and time and intersect with a multiplicity of categories, race
and class prime among them. Within this framework, this session seeks
to probe the role of women and gender within German-speaking literary/cultural
contexts and to also explore which shape emancipatory feminist projects
could take in the 21st century. Specifically, how can feminist theory
and practice address the needs of women belonging to different religious
or ethnic minorities? While the focus is on German literature and culture,
comparative approaches on the following issues area also invited:
• examination of feminist critical discourses
• gender and globalization
• intersections of gender and nation
• intersections of gender and race, class, ethnicity, religion,
sexuality, age or disability
• role of popular culture in the construction of gender
Please send abstracts (approx. 250 words) and a brief biography which
includes recent publications to the section chair, Monika Shafi, University
of Delaware (mshafi@udel.edu) by
March 15, 2007
