The organizers of the 2024 BWWC invite papers and panel proposals related to the theme of \u2018Reproduction(s)\u2019 in global, transatlantic, and British women\u2019s writing from the long eighteenth century to the present. Beyond the more obvious correlation between this theme and the centrality of reproductive rights to women\u2019s lives, a vital resonance exists between this topic and the commitment of the British Women Writers Association to recovering \u201cwomen\/womxn from the margins to the center of literary history.\u201d The act of recovery (and all forms of reproduction, for that matter) contains the potential for re-emergence and mutation\u2014for moments of slippage and opportunities for change. Participants are encouraged to be especially aware of the potential for disruption embedded within the concept\/practice\/enactment of reproduction(s).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s organizers have deliberately chosen the plural form of \u201creproduction\u201d because the word is simultaneously a noun, a verb, and an adjective. Also, reproduction is both<\/em> biological and technological, as seen in the reverberating effects the industrial revolution had on blurring the supposed boundaries between women\u2019s labor, leisure, and traditional familial structures. The ways in which aesthetics and print culture reproduce these cultural tensions reveal the continual transformations and mutations of women\u2019s roles in society.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n