[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Call for Proposals for Essays for a Collection

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Maureen Goggin <maureen.goggin at asu.edu>
Subject: Call for Proposals for Essays for a Collection

Call for Proposals

for a collection
Women and Things: Material Culture, 1750-1950
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin, editors

Although the body is both object (for others) and a lived reality (for
the subject), it is never simply object nor simply subject. It is
defined by its relation with objects and in turn defines these objects
as such.

--Maurice Merleau-Ponty

We invite proposals for essays for a collection titled Women and Things:
Material Culture, 1750-1950. This collection invites scholars to
consider women's engagement with the material world, from the most
ordinary, mundane daily practices and objects to the most extraordinary,
life-altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year period of
1750 to1950.

Since material culture encompasses all human-made objects, the
possibility of topics is wide open so long as they connect women to
things. Therefore, topics might include, but are certainly not limited
to: fiber arts (needlework, quilting, knitting, crocheting); decorative
arts; other kinds of crafts; painting; sculpture; scrapbooks; albums;
china; porcelain; architecture; interior design; landscape and
gardening; shopping; clothing; fashion; and food. The focus might be on
all or part of the life-cycle of an object, from design, to production,
to circulation, to consumption, to commodification, to valuation, to
collection and display.

Although scholars in anthropology, museum studies, and decorative arts
have long taken material culture as their focus, in the past twenty
years scholars from other disciplines that have traditionally been more
text-centric have increasingly turned their attention to material
objects in what might be termed the material turn. This edited
collection is designed to serve those scholars. We look forward then to
proposals from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited
to, cultural studies, history, literature, rhetoric and composition,
art, art history and art theory, communication studies, visual design,
race studies, and women's studies. We encourage and wish to present
multiple theoretical frames and methodologies that grapple with
questions concerning women and material things.

Please send your 250-500-word proposal and a CV as electronic
attachments in MS-word or RTF format to Beth Fowkes Tobin
(beth.tobin at asu.edu <mailto:beth.tobin at asu.edu> ) and Maureen Daly
Goggin (maureen.goggin at asu.edu <mailto:maureen.goggin at asu.edu> ) by
March 30, 2007.


Beth Fowkes Tobin, beth.tobin at asu.edu
Maureen Daly Goggin maureen.goggin at asu.edu