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tree_and_leafBirmingham Uni has launched a call for papers for a conference on 'Genderful Experience'.
I know I ought to be used to gender studies jargon by now - and it's not that a gender-studies approach can't produce useful and/or interesting work, but what is it with fashionable critical theory and abusing the English language?
And how does one have a genderful experience?
Got a certain amount of snarky amusement out of the fact that they are using a quote from Little Gidding as an epigraph 'We have had the experience but missed the meaning' and imagining Eliot's probable response to such perversions of academic English as the sentence "Titled -Genderful Experiences,- in reference to the interacting dynamics of identity and experience, we invite submissions of theoretical and practical applications that consider our positions as multiply producible subjects. "
Sometimes I wish I lived in the 1920s and could be a hard-core Lachmannian textual scholar.
I'd have to move college, though. And probably have to take a lot of crap from male scholars, but at least they wouldn't talk about themselves as mulitply producible subjects.
Mind you, I'd have to wait thirty years to read LotR. Maybe not.
On the upside, my supervisor actually liked my paper!
I know I ought to be used to gender studies jargon by now - and it's not that a gender-studies approach can't produce useful and/or interesting work, but what is it with fashionable critical theory and abusing the English language?
And how does one have a genderful experience?
Got a certain amount of snarky amusement out of the fact that they are using a quote from Little Gidding as an epigraph 'We have had the experience but missed the meaning' and imagining Eliot's probable response to such perversions of academic English as the sentence "Titled -Genderful Experiences,- in reference to the interacting dynamics of identity and experience, we invite submissions of theoretical and practical applications that consider our positions as multiply producible subjects. "
Sometimes I wish I lived in the 1920s and could be a hard-core Lachmannian textual scholar.
I'd have to move college, though. And probably have to take a lot of crap from male scholars, but at least they wouldn't talk about themselves as mulitply producible subjects.
Mind you, I'd have to wait thirty years to read LotR. Maybe not.
On the upside, my supervisor actually liked my paper!
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Date: 2006-01-19 05:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-19 11:17 pm (UTC)