B4: Who Is a Woman? Who Wants to Be One? - Session II

Seminar Leader: L. Bailey McDaniel, Indiana University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Conservatory

L. Bailey McDaniel, Indiana University: “Beyond Difference: Articulations of Multiple Subjecthood in a Very Dramatic Academy”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Conservatory

Laura Major, Bar Ilan University: “Propaganda for Motherhood”

Laura Tuley, Dillard University: “Resolute Maternity, or the Art of Letting Go: On Steven Shainberg’s Secretary”

Christine Tulley, University of Findlay: “‘Better Than a Double-Prozac Latte’: Constructions of ‘Hip’ Motherhood at HipMama.com”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Conservatory

Nadeea Saeed, George Washington University: “Contesting Boundaries and Claiming Spaces: Gender and Nationalism in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India”

Maria Granic, Sam Houston State University: “Clear Light of Day: The Old Woman, the New Woman, and the Modern Woman”

Jurate Motiejunaite, University of Alberta: “Girl Power: Womanhood, and Women’s Desire for Agency in Western and Soviet Feminist Writing”