CFP: Death and Violence: Representations of Gender in the Middle East, 10/18/02, 11/13/03-11/15/03

Please circulate widely:

I am in the process of putting together a proposal for a
panel presentation at the __Women's Sexualities__ Conference, to be held
in Bloomington, Indiana (November 13-15, 2003).  At present, we are
looking for a third panelist.  

"Death and Violence:  Representations of
Gender in the Middle East."  The past few years have seen a surge of
interest in the fate of women in/of the Middle East, resulting in a number
of documentaries, television specials, and extensive newspaper reports
about what is often configured as the plight and trauma of the female, and
feminised, Middle East.  This panel seeks to interrogate, analyse, and
complicate such representations.  How might such accounts/representations
be an implicit/explicit sexualised and gendered reordering of the current
"war on terrorism?"  How might they articulate and/or reinforce dominant
paradigms of progress and barbarism, liberation and oppression,
globalisation and insularity?  How do such such representations further
solidify and/or complicate the established dynamics of race, gender, and
class privilege?  

The papers already in place are:  "Murder in Purdah in
Wichita, KS" about class and racial identity, focusing on the
cooptation of middle class women into the war on terror, and "Death by
Vogue," about the reformulation of the Eastern Feminine,  especially  the
recent efforts by __Vogue__ magazine to "liberate" and empower Afghani
women through a well-funded campaign to teach them make-up and hairstyling
techniques.

Please send 300-word abstracts to Yasmin Nair, yasmin@xxxxxxx 
Deadline:  October 18, 2002                        






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