Feminist scholars such as Doreen Massey and Dolores Hayden have provided informative models for understanding the ways in which gender informs our perceptions of space and place, space and place inform our understandings of gender, and the significance of the city and urban environments to these ideas. Along these lines and in keeping with the theme of next year's ASA, I would like to put together a panel that will examine the ways in which U.S. novelists and/or filmmakers from 1945 to the present have participated in crafting gendered constructions of “the city,” “the metropolis,” or “the urban” in their work and the implications of such constructions for better understanding relationships between space, place, and gender in U.S. culture. My paper will focus on contemporary women novelists’ representations of post-World War II Atlanta, Georgia, and the ways in which urban and regional identities appear intimately tied to gender and race within these writers’ works. Please submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and a one-page CV via email attachment to me (e-mail address shown below) by January 10, 2005.