CONGRESS CANCELED Gender and the Law: In Honor of Sally Livingston
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This session on “Gender and the Law” is sponsored in honor of Sally Livingston, former SMFS President, who died in summer 2018 following a long battle with brain cancer.
Sally was an indefatigable champion of feminist scholars and scholarship, with particular interests in her own work in the intersection between women and gender studies, literary studies, and economics. Her book, Marriage, Property, and Women’s Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) is an examination of the construction of women’s authority in marriage narratives through the discourse of property rights, arguing that “Women writers frame their response to both owning property and being property within the context of marriage. They use the power of language to tell stories that allow them to access the property they cannot or have not been able to hold materially. Language is bound up with material goods and the right to those goods. Literature thus becomes the site for women to work out their views on marriage; through literature, they write their rights through authorship.” (2)
This session honors her memory by featuring an interdisciplinary roster of papers focusing on aspects of “gender and the law,” in literature, history, and culture. Melissa A. Elmes
CONGRESS CANCELED Gender and the Law: In Honor of Sally Livingston
Fetzer 2016
This session on “Gender and the Law” is sponsored in honor of Sally Livingston, former SMFS President, who died in summer 2018 following a long battle with brain cancer.
Sally was an indefatigable champion of feminist scholars and scholarship, with particular interests in her own work in the intersection between women and gender studies, literary studies, and economics. Her book, Marriage, Property, and Women’s Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) is an examination of the construction of women’s authority in marriage narratives through the discourse of property rights, arguing that “Women writers frame their response to both owning property and being property within the context of marriage. They use the power of language to tell stories that allow them to access the property they cannot or have not been able to hold materially. Language is bound up with material goods and the right to those goods. Literature thus becomes the site for women to work out their views on marriage; through literature, they write their rights through authorship.” (2)
This session honors her memory by featuring an interdisciplinary roster of papers focusing on aspects of “gender and the law,” in literature, history, and culture. Melissa A. Elmes