CFP: Queer women's discourse and representation

[Lucy Jones]

Contributions are invited to the session 'Queer Women's Discourse and 
Representation' (description below) which will feature in the 19th 
annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics conference. The conference 
will be held at American University (Washington, D.C.) from 10-12 
February 2012. For more information, please see 
www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages 
<http://www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages>

Please send abstracts of 250 words (excluding references) to 
lucy.jones at edgehill.ac.uk <mailto:lucy.jones at edgehill.ac.uk> by Monday 
31^st October 2011. Please also feel free to email with any questions or 
to express your interest in the conference or this panel.

*QUEER WOMEN'S DISCOURSE AND REPRESENTATION*

The panel explores current developments in an understanding of 
"non-normative" women's experiences. Whilst a specific focus of the 
panel will be the significance of ideologies and cultural expectations 
surrounding womanhood and femininity, papers will engage with the myriad 
identities and practices falling under the umbrella term of "queer" and 
will, therefore, take a constructionist perspective. Papers may focus on 
such identities/categories as lesbian and bisexual women, transgendered 
women, women who are polyamorous or engage in non-heteronormative sexual 
practices, as well as research into genderqueer identities and 
representation, for example. Abstracts are welcomed from researchers 
engaged in any aspect of queer womanhood which have a linguistic focus.

-- 
Dr Lucy Jones

Senior Lecturer in English Language
Admissions Tutor
Department of English and History
Edge Hill University
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4QP
UK

e/ lucy.jones at edgehill.ac.uk
t/ (+44)1695 657 154
w/ http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/about/staff/lucy-jones

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