Working-Class Studies and Women's Studies

Call for Proposals
National Women’s Studies Association Conference (Oakland, CA; June 15th-18th, 2006)__________________________________________________________________
On behalf of the newly-formed Working-Class Studies Association, I am soliciting proposals for a panel on the intersections of Working-Class Studies and Women’s Studies. Suggested topics:
--Teaching working-class students in Women’s Studies
--Perspectives of Women’s Studies practitioners from working-classbackgrounds
--Incorporating working-class texts and perspectives into the WSclassroom
--Emphasizing the place and nature of class in a race/class/gender analytical framework
--Feminist perspectives on theories of social class

If you are interested, please e-mail complete contact information and a brief (1-2 page) abstract to Christie Launius claunius@aug.edu by October 24th, 2005.

For information about the Working-Class Studies Association, visit http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/wcm.nsf/pages/wcsa
Information about NWSA is available at www.nwsa.org