WOMEN AND POWER: ENGENDERING RISK
A Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's Studies
At Middle Tennessee State University (just south of Nashville) March 8-10, 2001

Keynote Speaker: Mab Segrest, author of _Memoirs of a Race Traitor_
Featured Speaker: Miriam Ching Louie, speaking on immigrant women and labor
Featured Filmmaker: Barbara Trent, Oscar award-winner for _The Panama Deception_

A call for proposals for individual papers, panels, and other presentation formats (such as roundtables and performances) addressing the conference theme of Women and Power: Engendering Risk.

Engendering Risk-risks women face as well as risks women take, particularly as risk relates to structures, experiences, and representations of power. Possible topics include

      o Risky feminisms and risky politics
      o Technological ventures and body politics
      o Daredevils: women in risky sports
      o Soldiers, supporters, dissenters: women and war
      o Croning: growing older
      o Women's spirituality
      o Risky business: global and local commodification of women
      o The new woman in literature and art
      o Risqué women
      o Harsh punishments: women and crime
      o Investing in women: education, business
      o Breaking the glass ceiling o Pioneering women
      o Power, play, sex, and desire
      o Gender variation
      o Risky women authors and characters
      o Women in media: risking feminism
      o The action-adventure heroine and the limits of media
      o Environmental hazards and eco-feminism
      o Women at economic risk

Proposals for 18-20-minute papers should be 250-500 words with working bibliography. Proposals for panel sessions should include a description of purpose, form, and content with names and addresses of each member and abstracts of contributing papers.

All materials should be postmarked by November 15, 2000. (Extended deadline.)

Proposals should be sent to: Melissa Schrift or Jackie Eller, Program Committee Co-chairs Women and Power Conference
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Box 10
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Fax and Telephone: (615) 898-2125
Email: or

Other questions or queries regarding the conference to:

Elyce Rae Helford or Marion Hollings,
Conference Co-chairs Women and Power Conference
Women's Studies Program, Box 498
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Telephone: (615) 898-5910
Fax: (615) 898-5289
Email: