B4: Who Is a Woman? Who Wants to Be One? - Session II

Seminar Leader: L. Bailey McDaniel, Indiana University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM� � 12:30 PM, Conservatory

L. Bailey McDaniel, Indiana University: �Beyond Difference: Articulations of Multiple Subjecthood in a Very Dramatic Academy�

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Conservatory

Laura Major, Bar Ilan University: �Propaganda for Motherhood�

Laura Tuley, Dillard University: �Resolute Maternity, or the Art of Letting Go: On Steven Shainberg�s Secretary�

Christine Tulley, University of Findlay: ��Better Than a Double-Prozac Latte�: Constructions of �Hip� Motherhood at HipMama.com�

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Conservatory

Nadeea Saeed, George Washington University: �Contesting Boundaries and Claiming Spaces: Gender and Nationalism in Sara Suleri�s Meatless Days and Bapsi Sidhwa�s Cracking India�

Maria Granic, Sam Houston State University: �Clear Light of Day: The Old Woman, the New Woman, and the Modern Woman�

Jurate Motiejunaite, University of Alberta: �Girl Power: Womanhood, and Women�s Desire for Agency in Western and Soviet Feminist Writing�