The Catharine Macaulay Prize Winner for 2022:
Ziona Kocker, "The “Pretty Young Gentleman: Age, Embodiment, and Queerness in The Country Wife”
Ziona Kocher gives us a new reading of The Country Wife by considering the performance of Elizabeth Boutell, who played Margery Pinchwife, and her melding of feminine innocence and masculine dress. The argument explores how gender fluidity is created through the crossdressing figure to layer masculinity and femininity in complex exchanges that center space for same-sex desire. With adept close readings that impressively connect to past and existing scholarship in a short amount of pages and a lively and engaging writing style, Kocher brings new interpretation to a canonical play in discussions of gender and sexuality.
Ziona Kocker, "The “Pretty Young Gentleman: Age, Embodiment, and Queerness in The Country Wife”
Ziona Kocher gives us a new reading of The Country Wife by considering the performance of Elizabeth Boutell, who played Margery Pinchwife, and her melding of feminine innocence and masculine dress. The argument explores how gender fluidity is created through the crossdressing figure to layer masculinity and femininity in complex exchanges that center space for same-sex desire. With adept close readings that impressively connect to past and existing scholarship in a short amount of pages and a lively and engaging writing style, Kocher brings new interpretation to a canonical play in discussions of gender and sexuality.
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The Catharine Macaulay Prize
Deadline for submission: September 1, 2022 The Catharine Macaulay Prize is an annual award made by the Women’s Caucus of ASECS for the best graduate student paper on a feminist or gender studies subject presented at the ASECS Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings during the academic year. In addition to special recognition, the prize carries a cash award of $500. To be eligible for the prize, papers must advance understanding of gender dynamics, women’s experience, and/or women's contributions to eighteenth-century culture, or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. The paper you submit for the prize should be the one you presented at the conference without expansion or significant revision. Submissions for the Catharine Macaulay Prize must be sent directly to the ASECS office for consideration. SUNY Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Ketchum Hall 213, Buffalo, NY 14222; or as an email attachment (Word): asecsoffice@gmail.com). The winner of the prize will be notified soon after the committee has made its decision and will be announced at the following year’s annual meeting and the Women's Caucus luncheon. |
Past Winners
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