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MLA 2013 Boston

“Race, Sex, Class, and Bawdy-House Life

in Antebellum America”

(Abstracts Due 15 March 2012)

full name / name of organization: 
Rebecca L. Williams

contact email: 
rebelwill7@gmail.com

This panel examines bawdy-house life and customs during an era of increased anxiety over race, sex, class, immigration, expansion, urbanization, and industrialization.

Topics and/or critical paradigms can include, but are certainly not limited to: miscegenation, class, disease, immigration, urbanization, industrialization, expansion, politics, temperance, manners, conduct, prostitution, gambling, race, gender, abolitionism, feminism, religion, sporting life, critical race/queer theory and reader-response.

Send 1-page abstract and brief bio as Word attachment to Rebecca L. Williams, rebelwill7@gmail.com, with ‘MLA 2013’ in subject line.

via call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu