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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Alaimo, Stacy. "Cartographies of Undomesticated Ground: Nature and Feminism in American Women's Fiction and Theory," Department of English, University of Illinois, May 1994.
This dissertation examines how American women writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have rearticulated gendered ideologies of nature. A cultural studies approach enables me to reveal how women’s texts transform the representations promoted by literary, popular, and political discourses. By analyzing environmental and feminist history I demonstrate how a diverse array of fiction transfigures the ideologies of nature for feminist, and sometimes environmentalist ends. Informed by feminist and poststructuralist theory, this study also critiques the way these theories have distanced themselves from the category of nature. In contrast, I argue that “nature” has been and continues to be a crucial site for feminist cultural intervention.
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