MAASA Panelists Wanted:
American Public Cultures: Space, Performance, and Identity
Saint Louis, Missouri
April 7& 8, 2006
"Reclamation and Recovery: Mid Twentieth Century
Masculine, Feminine, and American Domestic Spaces"
As we move from one sphere to the next, as we negotiate our
public and private spaces, we labor to foster complex and
multifaceted identities. In this panel we would like to
emphasize the roles of masculine and feminine domestic
spaces and the ramifications of their constructions as
significant contributors to the development of mid twentieth
century American identity. Our projects will explore these
intricacies in two ways: the first paper will work to
examine masculine domestic spaces such as, but not limited
to, the post World War II 'Óden' and related usable
material culture as a factor in the reclamation of white
masculinity. The second paper will act as an examination of
the recovery of African American, feminine, urban,
spaces^×specifically the 'kitchenette' as explored in
the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. We would like to solicit
additional paper topics pertaining to this exploration of
masculine and feminine domestic space in mid twentieth
century America.
Please send a 250 word abstract, by November 23, 2005, to
Elizabeth Schroeder and Patricia Rooney at schroeer@slu.edu.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Schroeder
Patricia Rooney
Department of American Studies
Saint Louis University
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