CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
College Art Association meeting
February 22-25, 2006

Panel Title: Bringing a feminist perspective to non women-centered topics
(1.5 hour/CAA Committee on Women in the Arts)

Deadline: June 1, 2005

Organizer: Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University

This panel will examine how the theoretical models used in the various
feminist discourses may be legitimately applied to non-women centered
topics. It is just as important to bring gendered perspectives to studies
of male-centered topics as it is to studies of women. So much of
history/culture was constructed and dominated by men that if we restrict
our understanding of feminist scholarship we will lose a vast body of work
and limit the range and value of the critique. Members of the panel will
address questions concerning the changing social/historical contexts of
feminism and its relationship to areas of research outside traditional
women's issues.

Submissions should not be for full-length papers, rather 10-minute précis
on ways subjects outside traditional women's issues have benefited from a
feminist/pluralist perspective. After the panel members have offered their
ideas, the session will be open to questions and discussion with the
audience. It is the hope of the session coordinator that this will
encourage fresh approaches and renew/deepen thinking about old topics.

Please send proposals (no more than one page is necessary) to Janet
Marquardt via email: cfjtmeiu.edu by June 1, 2005.