Lg & masculinities panel at IPrA 2003

[Zuraidah Mohd.Don]

Dear Jeff

I'm interested to be on the panel. However, I'm attending a conference and will be back on Wednesday. Will send you an abstract once I'm back at work. I hope I'm still able to be part of the panel

Zuraidah
Malaysia

On 18.10.2002 14:07:08, Ehya Amalsaleh <asalehe at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

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