[Discussion] Women and Medieval Islam

[gonul@bilkent.edu.tr]

 Subject   CFP: Women and Medieval Islam (9/13/03; K'zoo, 5/6/04-5/9/04)  

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Posting: International Medieval Congress: 9/13/03; 5/6-9/04 

I am organizing a session on Women and Medieval Islam at the International 
Medieval Congress to be held May 6-9 of 2004 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 
empires of Islam held much of Europe and the near east in the medieval 
period, and people of many faiths lived under their rule. While there has 
been a significant amount of work on legislation regarding women in this 
period, there is very little scholarly work on the writing of the women 
themselves- Muslim, Jewish, or Christian. I am also particularly interested 
in papers addressing relations between women of different faiths, in 
literature and in life. 

Possible topics might include: 

1. Writing of the slave-poetesses 
2. Poetry of noblewomen 
3. Interfaith women's relations, in literature and in life 
4. Women representing their own bodies 
5. Women representing men 
6. Women musicians and dancers 
7. Patronage 
8. Women apprenticing other women (poets, musicians and dancers) 
9. Women and games 
10. A comparative treatment of the lives of women of different faiths in 
the same geographical area 

Please submit a proposal no later than 9/13/03 to Marla Segol at 
mbs34@cornell.edu