Call for Papers: Society for Early Americanists
Panel Title:
"Constructing Manhood and Masculinity in the Early Americas"

From: kohnd@hobbes.gborocollege.edu

Subject: CFP: Masculinity in Early Americas (9/15; 3/8/01-3/10/01)

Society for Early Americanists
Biennial Conference: March 8-10, 2001
Norfolk, VA

Please send or e-mail a one-page abstract by September 15, 2000 to:

Denise Kohn
Department of English
815 West Market Street
Greensboro College
Greensboro, NC 27408-1875
kohnd@gborocollege.edu

"Constructing Manhood and Masculinity in the Early Americas"

This panel will explore different ways that texts, music, and/or art construct definitions of manhood and masculinity. Panelists may want to consider representations of masculinity in English, French, and/or Spanish cultures of the early Americas. Possible issues to be examined include (but are not limited to) the ways genres or cultures define differing and even competing constructs of masculinity and manhood. Which versions of masculinity are validated and which ones rejected? Is the masculine subject always an adult male? How are representations of masculinity used as counterpoints or complements to femininity and childhood? What are the relationships between perceived notions of masculinity and sexuality? How is masculinity linked to citizenship and national identity? What anxieties and ambivalences are expressed about masculinity or through the masculine subject?