[nativestudies-l] CFP: Early Modern Women and Material Culture

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

Another opportunity to introduce scholarship about Indians in new venues:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Forum II: Early Modern Women and Material Culture

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (EMWJ) invites 
submissions to an interdisciplinary Forum, Early Modern Women and 
Material Culture, slated for publication in Volume IV (2009). 
Contributors to the forum will explore the nature of the material 
culture of early modern women and girls from different socioeconomic 
levels and from regions across the globe.  Which objects--garments, 
manuscripts, jewelry, toys, housewares, tools, furniture, and musical 
instruments--did they own or use?  How did such objects construct 
identity, strengthen social ties, teach social or economic roles, or 
perform other cultural functions?  What objects were commonly associated 
with women and girls?  What unusual objects did they own or use?  Were 
specific objects associated with certain times in a woman’s life, 
certain places, or particular rituals?  What values, ideas, and 
assumptions were linked to the material culture of women and girls? 
Submissions may also address how men and women might view the same 
material objects differently, how they were branded for gender, and how 
they were used to mediate between men and women.

Submissions should be 1300 words in length (plus footnotes). Building on 
such recent exhibitions as the Victoria and Albert Museum’s At Home in 
Renaissance Italy (2006) and on such recent books as Jacqueline 
Musacchio’s Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy (1999) and 
Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass’s Renaissance Clothing and the 
Materials of Memory (2001), contributions may focus on a single object 
or group of objects that still exist, or on references to objects in 
images, literary texts, or archival documents.  Submissions that explore 
a range of socioeconomic groups and regions across the globe are 
especially welcome.

The deadline for forum submissions is October 31, 2008.

For more information about Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary 
Journal, visit http://www.emwjournal.umd.edu

-- 
Margaret Rice
Pre-Publication Assistant
Early Modern Women:
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
Taliaferro Hall 0139
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7727 USA
tel: 301-405-6830
fax: 301-405-0956