A4: Who Is a Woman? Who Wants to Be One? - Session I

Seminar Leaders: Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College and Paula Straile-Costa, Ramapo College

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Conservatory

Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College: “‘This Above All…’: Refusing to Be a Woman in Clarice Lispector’s Near To The Wild Heart and Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman”

Paula Straile-Costa, Ramapo College: “Feminine Masks, Racial Identity and Spiritual Initiation in Helena Parente Cunha’s Mulher no Espelho and Clarice Lispector’s A Paixao Segundo G.H.”

Cheryl Toman, Case Western Reserve University: “Who Is a Woman? African Theories on Power and Femininity”

Nicole A. Roux, University of Michigan: “Coming of Age in Guinea Bissau”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Conservatory

Ildiko Olasz, Michigan State University: “The Survival of the Beautiful? Aestheticism and Feminine Beauty in 1850-1870 British Novels”

Geetha Ramanathan, West Chester University of Pennsylvania: “Filmic Critiques of Commodity Aesthetics: The Surfeit of the Feminine/Visual”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Conservatory

Jana Evans Braziel, University of Cincinnati: “‘Honey, Honey, Miss Thing’: Drag Queen Blues (Assotto Saint) and Drag King Dyasporas (Mildred Gerestant) in Haiti’s 10th Departement”

Erin Douglas, Miami University: “The Erotic Femme Challenge: Femme Disidentification and the (Re)Making of Femininity in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues”

Giuliana Perco, Pennsylvania State University: “Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Dacia Marini’s Isolina: Uncovering Silenced Voices”