From: pseary@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA (Peter David Seary)
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Subject: Re: Endorsement Requested, Thank You for your Help
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:33:04 GMT
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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:
>
>
> __Peter Seary______________________________________________________
> (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!
>
Peter Seary
New College
University of Toronto
(pseary@epas.utoronto.ca)
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