Other CFPs: If you presented @BWWA_BWWC #BWWC20 @TCU, there's a Special Issue for you! @ABOwomeninarts is taking article versions of your paper. New submission deadline: July 1 https://bwwc2020.tcu.edu/abo-special-issue/
I need to stop falling in love with conferences. #bwwc20 is amazing!!! And here’s hoping #ASECS20 happens.
#bwwc20 @profccferguson: this keynote is fabulous & contines to be so in Q&A: connections to Behn’s Oroonoko, gendering of scholarly fields today (occult vs spiritualism), etc 12/12
#bwwc20 @profccferguson keynote: Q: how does witchcraft and hysteria fit into this?
A: Occultism, more elitist & exclusive than spiritualism, distanced itself from witchcraft as a folk tradition, “low” magic, focusing on rejecting body & sexuality (eg not having children) 11/
#bwwc20 @profccferguson keynote: late #c19 women w/ diversely beliefs used reincarnation romance to address failings of the law to protect rape survivors. Forensics helped in someways but failed when a body didn’t “show” the “right” evidence of resistance 10/
#bwwc20 @profccferguson keynote these reincarnation romances’ visions of restorative justice counters the victim blaming narrative that survivors karmically “deserved” their rape. Such views appeared in early #c20 occultism as well as #c21 new age. 8/
#bwwc20 @profccferguson keynote reincarnation was appropriated by #c19 women who were the main disseminators of the concept to the mainstream. Image: slide “female pioneers of reincarnation belief” with images of Blavatsky, Countess of Cathiness, Besant, Kingsford 7/
#bwwc20 @profccferguson keynote reclaims the “reincarnation romance” from writers such as Haggard (didn’t know there was a sequel to SHE!) and Hardy, focusing on Mabel Collins and Marie Corelli. In this, karmic justice for rape is centered on reincarnation & meted out by women 5/
#bwwc20 @profccferguson keynote counters the islamaphobia found in the secularism of white feminism (ie work focuses on maintaining class, race, sexual, etc hierarchies while seeming to espouse gender equality) & mischaracterizations of women as passive in occultism 4/
#bwwc20 @profccferguson keynote examines the mainstreaming of reincarnation into late #c19 british culture as it fits into women’s rights & rape culture. 3/
Sidenote: @stiruni offers one of the few masters programs focused on the Gothic #bwwc20 2/
So excited to hear @profccferguson @StirUni as the first keynote of #bwwc20 @BWWA_BWWC @TCU (image: program description, keynote title slide: “Where Sex is the First Great Teacher”: Tape & the Woman’s Reincarnation Romance in the Fin de Siècle” https://dir.lat/AV43WD 1/
#BehnBurney19 @ASECSWomen has a new prize focused on intersectional projects (review guaranteed @ABOwomeninarts) & @BWWA_BWWC #BWWC20 is still accepting proposals (producing @ABOwomeninarts special issue) https://bwwc2020.tcu.edu/
