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White Women, Space Matters (ASA 2005)
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This panel is a work in progress for the 2005 American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. (November 3-6). The panel will bring together domestic discourse, race ideology, and the concept of performance to examine the construction of white femininity. It will engage two central questions: How has white femininity figured culturally as a contradiction in terms, as whiteness is so often intertwined with the power of masculinity? And do white women, even more so then men, bear the burden of "civilized" whiteness? Taking as inspiration Ruth Frankenberg’s White Women, Race Matters, this panel will address the conference theme of "Groundwork: Space and Place in American Culture" by offering a contribution—informed by current discussions in race theory—to the "separate spheres" debate. While domestic ideology positions ideal (white) femininity in places understood as private, women also, cultural critics make clear, successfully carry domestic identity into spaces undeniably outside that imagined sphere—into halls of political debate, the frontier, the marketplace, and the theater. This panel is specifically interested in women’s performances as an opportunity to examine how the negotiation of race systems and the claiming of white power works differently for women than it does for men. We seek a panelist, chair, and respondent for this panel. Please send c.v. and abstract by January 5 to Lydia Fisher and Lori Harrison-Kahan (e-mail addresses given below).
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Lori Harrison-Kahan
230 Bishops Forest Drive
Waltham, MA 02452
781-899-0096
Lydia Fisher
Department of English
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-726-6965
Email: harris8@fas.harvard.edu, lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu
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