<P>Dear Jeff
<P>I have worked on the depiction of women in Persian proverbs and have come up with interesting thing in some Persian poems in this regard. There women are appreciated with masculine yardstick. That is, women are downgraded except when they possess sort of male charecteristics. I may elaborate on that if it is in line with what you are going to do in the panel. Now, I am away from home, in Spain, for presenting that paper. If it interests you please let me know.
<P>Ms. Ehya Amalsaleh
<P> <B><I>Jeff Deby <debyj@GEORGETOWN.EDU></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hello all,<BR><BR>Scott Kiesling (U Pittsburgh) and I are proposing a panel on language and<BR>masculinities to submit to the 2003 International Pragmatics Association<BR>conference. We find ourselves fairly close to the submission deadline with<BR>an open fourth paper-giving spot, and are looking for someone to join us. A<BR>description of the panel is below. In addition to ourselves, Joan Weston<BR>(Oberlin) will also be giving a paper; Mary Bucholtz (U California at Santa<BR>Barbara) will be a discussant.<BR><BR>If you are interested, please reply to me as soon as possible with a brief<BR>description of your proposed paper. One-page abstracts will be required by<BR>Oct 25th in order to get all the paperwork sorted out and sent to Brussels<BR>by their Nov 1st deadline. Please note that IPrA guidelines limit papers to<BR>15 minutes.<BR><BR>The conference takes place in Toronto, 13-18 July 2003. Further conference<BR>details at their web site: http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/.<BR><BR>My apologies if you've received this message more than once due to<BR>cross-posting.<BR><BR><BR>Panel description<BR><BR>The papers in this panel will focus on masculinities in the plural. Even<BR>within (sub)cultures, the existence of gender variation across individuals,<BR>groups, situations, and time show the need to deconstruct monolithic notions<BR>of gender. By recognizing gender multiplicity, either within a normative<BR>gender category such as 'men' (Connell 1995) or as performances which<BR>problematize binary gender distinctions (Butler 1990), the field of<BR>masculinity studies is opened up to examining the existence of, and<BR>interaction among, many different ways of linguistically performing<BR>maleness and of identifying as a man.<BR><BR>Papers are based on naturally-occurring discourse data, identifying<BR>different dimensions of masculinity and how they are negotiated, reproduced,<BR>resisted and/or challenged in specific contexts. Papers show how<BR>micro and/or macro analyses of language-in-use can illuminate the study of<BR>masculinities, for example (but not limited to) the uses and kinds of power<BR>associated with men (either in single-gender or mixed-gender contexts), the<BR>polarization or blurring of masculine and feminine, the interaction of<BR>masculinity and sexuality, and the mechanics of multifaceted<BR>gendered/gendering performances.<BR><BR>References<BR><BR>Connell, Robert. 1995. Masculinities. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.<BR><BR>Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of<BR>identity. New York: Routledge.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Jeff<BR>--<BR>Jeff Deby<BR>PhD Candidate, Linguistics (Sociolinguistics)<BR>Georgetown University<BR>debyj@georgetown.edu<BR>http://www.georgetown.edu/users/debyj</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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