Call for Papers for the 2010 College Art Association Conference

Session:
Women, Femininity, and Public Space in Nineteenth-Century Visual
Culture

Chairs: Temma Balducci, Arkansas State University and Heather Belnap
Jensen, Brigham Young University

It is tantamount to scripture that genteel women of the nineteenth
century were associated exclusively with the spaces of domesticity.
While recent scholarship on the flâneuse has gone some way toward
challenging this assumption, our session is premised on the notion that
the descriptor "flâneuse" does not adequately capture the myriad
positions available to bourgeois women vis-à-vis the public sphere. We
are seeking proposals that engage with the specificity of women's
activities outside the home and other conventional "spaces of
femininity". What venues and mechanisms facilitated women's
participation in public culture? In what ways did their activities
shape notions of gender and public space? From a historiographic
standpoint, what is the continued lure of the separate spheres ideology
for art historians?

Please submit an abstract and CV by May 8, 2009 by email to both
tbalducciastate.edu and heather_jensenbyu.edu or by mail to:

Heather Belnap Jensen
3122 JKB
Department of Visual Arts
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

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