CALLS FOR PAPERS FOR JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS

LIST REFLECTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE (abstract and/or full manuscript)

Open Calls (jump)

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2. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS “BEST BI SHORT STORIES”
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3. Feminisms of the Global South (working title)
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4. Historical Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive Lives: From Ancient to Modern
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5. Journal of International Women's Studies
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6. Negotiating space, confronting contradictions: How human rights activists find a place inside/outside the movement
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7. NWSA Journal
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8. Qui Parle
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9. Women's Studies International Forum
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January (jump)

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June (jump)

1. Critical Matrix
(June 1st, 2008)

2. Advances in Medical Sociology
(June 15th, 2008)

3. Latina/Chicana Mothering
(June 15th, 2008)

4. Technogenerians: Studying Health and Illness through an Aging, Science, and Technology Lens
(June 20th, 2008)

5. NWSA Journal
(June 30th, 2008)

July (jump)

August (jump)

1. Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Special Issue: Knowledge that Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology and Science Studies
(September 1st, 2008)

1. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 11.1: "Maternal Health and Well-Being"
(November 1st, 2008)

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2. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS “BEST BI SHORT STORIES”

Editors: Sheela Lambert

Journal URL: http://www.biwriters.org

Theme:
What is a bi short story?
We are seeking stories that illuminate something about the experience of being bi. Stories can focus on relationships, romance, dating and sex, of course but we’d like to see more than that. We’d like to see stories about relationships with parents, relatives or children…Passover Seder anyone? We’d like a bi military story, a bi same-sex marriage story, a job discrimination or acceptance story, a story about a bisexual pet…from the pet’s point of view. We want to see bi athletes, bi cowboys at Gay Rodeo, bi action-heros, spys, super-heros and vampires. Bi friends go to a movie, bump into their exes who dumped them, and hold hands; pretending to be on a date. A bi artist struggles to finish a painting. A bi senior citizen in a nursing home looks out the window as the Pride March is passing by and reflects on all the protest marches she went to when she was young. A bi person having a spiritual vision, a bi transsexual teacher who leaves for summer vacation as Don and
comes back on the first day of school as Donna.

Suggested Topics:
All genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, romance, historical, mystery, western, vampires, etc. as well as contemporary fiction are encouraged.
Sex scenes in the context of a story are fine but erotica not accepted.

Be creative.
We are so tired of the overused bisexual plot: bi person cheats on lover, causing pain to everyone. A couple of these have been accepted because they were well written, and contained something unexpected.
If you’ve already written one, send it in and it will be reviewed.
If you are starting something new, please come up with something more original.

Guidelines:
Requirements & Publishing Info: Short stories should be max length 15,000 words/30 pages and preferably in Word. Deadline has not yet been imposed but we cant wait to see your work! We plan to submit to traditional publishers: therefore we need to gather some material for the proposal. However if all else fails we will self-publish. Title page of manuscript should have in the upper left corner or centered on top : Story title & author\'s pen name (or legal name if the same) on first line, author\'s legal name, email address, street address and phone number. If story has been published anywhere before please state when and where.

CFP Address:
Submit as attachment along with bio pasted at end of story to:
CFP E-Mail: info@biwriters.org

Contact: Sheela Lambert
E-Mail: info@biwriters.org

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

3. Feminisms of the Global South (working title)

Editors: Sanjukta Ghosh and Patricia van der Spuy

Journal URL:

Theme:
The book will provide accessible descriptions and explanations of key feminist movements and theories within the global South, setting them in their historical and geopolitical contexts, demonstrating historical and current connections. The book will focus on three regions: South Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is not an anthology, but rather it will translate difficult theoretical concepts into language that is more accessible to undergraduates.

Suggested Topics:
The current authors are academics teaching women’s and gender studies at a small undergraduate teaching college. We seek a co-author with expertise in Latin American feminisms, for a companion to general undergraduate textbooks in both Women’s Studies and World History.

Guidelines:
As currently conceptualized, the book will consist of three sections, each focusing on one core region. Each section will consist of a broad thematic overview of feminist movements within the particular region, followed by two chapters, each one providing an analysis of feminism within one particular country in ways accessible to undergraduate readers. Each chapter would be approximate 5000 words in length. Please send an extended abstract of between 1500 and 2000 words, in which you provide an overview of key feminist movements and theories in Latin America, setting them in their historical and geopolitical contexts, with reference to the particular foci of the second and third chapters. This would ideally form the basis of the broad thematic overview chapter on Latin America. The extended abstract should be submitted via email by January 30th, 2008. We will respond before February 28th. Submissions should be emailed as attachments in Word (2003). Please email us with any questions; we envisage the third author as a full participant in this process.

CFP Address:
Email only
CFP E-Mail: Sanjukta.ghosh@castleton.edu and patricia.vanderspuy@castleton.edu

Contact:
E-Mail:

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Telephone:

4. Historical Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive Lives: From Ancient to Modern

Editors: Sharmain van Blommestein

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Theme:
The encyclopedia will condense and document “all” information related to women’s reproductive lives (menstruation, birth, menopause etc) via literature, history, and culture/pop culture from ancient to contemporary times.

Suggested Topics:
Topics include art and performing art, literature (ancient to modern), juvenile literature, law, medicine/gynecology and obstetrics, birth control and abortion, anorexia, American and world history, film and media, race/class/poverty and ethnicity, family, social work, economics and business, social mores/taboos and rituals, prostituion, the military/WWI & II, and more.

Guidelines:
Please contact the Editor (Dr. Sharmain van Blommestein) for further information on specific entry topics and guidelines. Faculty, grad students, and independent scholars are welcome to contribute.

CFP Address:
Email inquiries only
CFP E-Mail: svanblomm@yhaoo.com

Contact: Sharmain van Blommestein
E-Mail: svanblomm@yhaoo.com

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Sharmain van Blommestein

5. Journal of International Women's Studies

Editors: Diana Fox, Executive Editor Suzanne Baker, Book Review Editor

Journal URL: http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/JIWS/

Theme:
The Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) is currently accepting book reviews for possible publication. JIWS is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; "western" and "third world" feminisms; professionals and students; men and women.

Suggested Topics:
JIWS accepts book review submissions that have not been previously published or that are not currently under consideration by other journals or publications. Book review articles may vary and range from 1,000 to 2,500 words. For further information on the style and content required for the books reviews, please see website.

Guidelines:

CFP Address:
Book reviews must be sent via E-mail as attachments in Microsoft Word only to:
Suzanne Baker, Book Review Editor
CFP E-Mail: suzbaker@twmi.rr.com

Contact: Suzanne Baker
E-Mail: suzbaker@twmi.rr.com

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Suzanne Baker

6. Negotiating space, confronting contradictions: How human rights activists find a place inside/outside the movement

Editors: Karen Morgaine

Journal URL:

Theme:
This book will be a collection of writings by human rights activists exploring issues such as legitimizing human rights, mobilizing grassroots in the shadow of the UN, the public/private split in human rights, pragmatism versus ideology, voices of marginalized groups within the human rights arena, and openings for constructive critique. Both within and beyond the US, human rights activists confront contradictions in the human rights field; faced with these contradictions, how do they negotiate space—physical, emotional, and ethical space that allows them to engage in activism?

Suggested Topics:
Legitimizing human rights in a state in which human rights are not seen as a relevant issue—particularly in the United States

Using a gendered lens to expand the reaches of a field that has historically been dominated by “public” rather than “private” human rights abuses and has privileged males over females

Grassroots activism and international human rights—Advancing grassroots concerns to allow for local issues to be addressed within a system that is founded on universal constructs and which can be dominated by top-down politics

Advocating for emerging human rights issues by bringing to light a particular issue or population that has been marginalized

Applying human rights on the ground—aligning with social justice movements and NGOs who see human rights as theoretical and not grounded in practice

Supporting human rights ideals while developing a constructive critique of the movement

Guidelines:
Papers should range between 10-20 pages (5,000-10,000 words), although there is some flexibility with length. Papers need to be in English, preferably in Word or rich text format. Please include a short bio paragraph also. I will be submitting the full book proposal in early January and have targeted a number of possible publishing venues. I hope to have a number of submissions/submission ideas at that point and will continue to collect submissions throughout the first 3-6 months of 2008. If you have thoughts or ideas you would like to discuss with me, please feel free to email or call.

CFP Address:
Karen Morgaine
Portland State University
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
University Center Building, Suite 400
527 SW Hall
Portland, OR 97201
(503) 780-2209
Fax (503) 725-5545

CFP E-Mail: morgaine@pdx.edu

Contact: Karen Morgaine
E-Mail: morgaine@pdx.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Karen Morgaine/503-780-2209

7. NWSA Journal

Editors: Becky Ropers-Huilman

Journal URL: http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/

Theme:
The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Women’s Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Women’s Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective. Our current rate of acceptance is 20%.

Suggested Topics:
• Women in international perspectives; e.g. place and diaspora studies, immigration
• Feminist theory and research methodologies, including global feminism
• Women and science
• Women and religion, including fundamentalism
• Women, girls and education
• Ecology, ecofeminism, health and the environment
• Feminist generations: the future of feminism, young feminists, children
• Postcolonial studies
• Women and activism
• Women and the arts
• Women writers: autobiographies and reflexive writings
• Race, class, sexualities, and gender intersections
• Women and the media
• Women and disabilities
• Women’s history
• Feminist pedagogy

Guidelines:
Send one e-copy and two print copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages, doubled spaced), with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style

CFP Address:
Becky Ropers-Huilman, Editor
NWSA Journal
Louisiana State University
146 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
CFP E-Mail: nwsaj@lsu.edu

Contact: Managing editor, Brenda Macon
E-Mail: nwsaj@lsu.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Brenda Macon, 225.578.6906

8. Qui Parle

Editors: Diana Anders, Nima Bassiri, Michelle Branch, Kelvin Black, Peter Skafis

Journal URL: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/

Theme:
Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues. Since its inception in 1986, the print journal has explored questions of language and textuality, theories of subjectivity, aesthetics, gender studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the journal has expanded upon its original affiliation with literary criticism and Continental philosophy in order to feature articles from the human sciences, including the philosophy of science, anthropology, and sociology. This dilation enables even greater possibilities for comparative examinations of critical questions of concern for the humanities and social sciences alike, including: cultural alterity, the politics of visual culture, secularity and religion, nationalisms, political violence, migration and diaspora, questions of psychological development and trauma, the politics of memory, the historical anthropology of science, and modes of non-European or Anglo-American intelligibility.

Suggested Topics:
The publication history of qui parle is replete with significant figures in recent multi-disciplinary scholarship, including Giorgio Agamben, Benedict Anderson, Judith Butler, Hans Blumenberg, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Michael Hardt, Alphonso Lingis, Achille Mbembe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Denise Riley, Loïc Wacquant, and Slavoj Zizek,. Qui Parle is dedicated not only to fostering dialogue and critical thought, but to introducing hitherto under-examined analytic modes, as well as hitherto underrepresented thinkers.

Guidelines:
Please contact the editors if you are interested in submitting an article for Qui Parle or if you have any further questions about the journal. For more information please visit Qui Parle at the Indiana University Press at http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/qui or at http://quiparle.berkeley.edu

CFP Address:
Inquiries or submission can be sent in hard copy or electronically to:
Qui Parle
Att: Editors
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2340


CFP E-Mail: quiparle@berkeley.edu

Contact: Diana Anders, Nima Bassiri, Michelle Branch, Kelvin Black, Peter Skafish
E-Mail: quiparle@berkeley.edu

Alternate E-Mail: danders@berkeley.edu

Telephone: Diana Anders

9. Women's Studies International Forum

Editors: Christine Zmroczek, Editor in Chief Denise Roman, European Editor

Journal URL: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journalaudience.cws_home/361/description#audience

Theme:
Articles discussing gender/women/sexualities in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe, particularly within transnational/globalization frameworks, including the new identity of Europe as European Union and its extension toward Eastern Europe.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
Please consult the journal\'s style before making any submissions Guidelines

CFP Address:
On line only
CFP E-Mail: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/361/editorialboard

Contact: Denise Roman, Ph.D., WSIF European Editor
E-Mail: denizr@ucla.edu

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1. Critical Matrix

Editors: Marcelline Block, Megan Heuer

Abstract Deadline: June 1st, 2008
Full Deadline: June 1st, 2008
Journal URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/graduate/critical_matrix/cm_forthcoming.html

Theme:
Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture invites original submissions for its forthcoming issue dedicated to collaboration. As the rhetoric of collaboration permeates contemporary discourse—from political and economic globalization to “relational aesthetics”—what is the potential for new feminist practices and what are the historical lessons of feminism about the limits and possibilities of collaborative practices?

Suggested Topics:
To collaborate means to work together, usually in order to create and/or to change something. Implying more than one author, artist, and/or producer, collaboration denotes activity shared between individuals. Much work that has been historically gendered female falls into the realm of collaborative and/or collective effort—often effacing or transforming questions of authorship. A crucial strategy for the feminist movement, collaboration has also been one of its greatest myths, most profoundly in struggles within the feminism to recognize divisions along the lines of race, economics, and sexuality. Collaboration can also be understood as an abiding ethos of Women’s and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field in which collaboration between disciplines is an ideal as well as a practical reality. Women’s and Gender Studies has developed one model of feminist collaboration where scholars and students work across and between disciplines as well as both within and outside of the academy.

What are new possibilities for feminist strategies of collaboration? How do earlier models or instances of collaboration offer new insights and critiques for contemporary feminist scholarship? Possible modes of collaboration to be considered include, but are not limited to: translation, (re)interpretation, and rewriting; participation; social, political, and creative collectives; copyrights and digital information; games and play; utopias; collaborations between/across disciplines, languages, genres, generations.

Guidelines:
We welcome submissions from all disciplines including creative work, as well as collaboratively produced projects addressing this topic. Submissions of 15-25 pages in length and according to the Chicago Manual of Style, as well as inquiries, are to be sent to matrix@princeton.edu by June 1, 2008. Please include a brief CV with your submission.

CFP Address:
Megan Heuer and Marcelline Block, editors
CRITICAL MATRIX
Program in the Study of Women and Gender
Princeton University
113 Dickinson
Princeton, NJ 08544
matrix@princeton.edu

CFP E-Mail: matrix@princeton.edu

Contact:
E-Mail: matrix@princeton.edu

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Telephone:

2. Advances in Medical Sociology

Editors: Ananya Mukherjea

Abstract Deadline: June 15th, 2008
Full Deadline: June 15th, 2008
Journal URL:

Theme:
"Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches.” This volume will present sociological contributions to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. Preference will be given to qualitative or critical work, but all submissions will be considered.

Suggested Topics:
Proposed papers may address a given disease or epidemic condition (MRSA, HIV/AIDS, malaria, autism, ADHD, depression, etc.); the concept of emerging epidemics (to what extent are they actually \\\\\\\'new?\\\\\\\' is the current focus on viral epidemics warranted?); or social, media, institutional, and governmental responses to and management of epidemics, including specific policies. While much of the volume will focus on infectious disease, I would very much like to include articles considering psychiatric epidemics as well as analysis of the political consequences and cultural meanings of all epidemics. U.S., world, and comparative perspectives are all welcome as are a variety of analytical and methodological approaches.

Guidelines:
Please submit an abstract and brief (< 1,500 words) description of the proposed paper, along with name and affiliation (if any), to by 15 June 2008. Please e-mail any questions to the same address.

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail: emergingepidemics@gmail.com

Contact: Robert Heath
E-Mail: rheath@emeraldinsight.com

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

3. Latina/Chicana Mothering

Editors: Dorsía Smith Silva

Abstract Deadline: June 15th, 2008
Full Deadline: June 15th, 2008
Journal URL:

Theme:
Latina/Chicana Mothering

Suggested Topics:
The topic of Latina/Chicana Mothering is an important emerging motherhood theme. I invite submissions on this topic from a wide variety of perspectives and themes to include in an upcoming book. Submissions from scholars, graduate students, activists, mothers, and researchers in this field are welcome. Historical, comparative, and inter-disciplinary work is also encouraged.

Guidelines:
Papers should be original and previously unpublished. In addition, they should be 15-25 pages and sent as attachments in MS Word or WordPerfect format. All submitted papers will be blind-reviewed by the editor. Your paper should therefore include your name and contact information only on a separate cover page, which should also have a brief biography. The deadline is June 15, 2008.

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail: latinachicanamothering@

Contact: Dorsía Smith Silva
E-Mail: latinachicanamothering@

Alternate E-Mail: djsmithsilva@yahoo.com

Telephone:

4. Technogenerians: Studying Health and Illness through an Aging, Science, and Technology Lens

Editors: Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe

Abstract Deadline: June 20th, 2008
Full Deadline: October 15th, 2008
Journal URL:

Theme:
We seek submissions that put aging, science, and technology in the center of analyses of health and illness. We are particularly interested in submissions that contribute theoretical and empirical depth to our understanding of: (1) biomedicalization processes and anti-aging or longevity medicine—practices that aim to reconfigure aging bodies into youthful ones, or (2) the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions¬¬— fields that largely use technology to accommodate and support aging bodies and lives. ***The monograph will be published both as a journal issue and as a book.

Suggested Topics:
- The varied meanings and experiences of aging people in relation to everyday technologies and health (e.g., walkers, transportation, glucose monitors)
- Aging bodies, anti-aging medicine and biomedicalization (e.g., longevity clinics, pharmacology of aging, neutraceutical use and negotiation)
- Environmental geriatrics and health (e.g., settings where aging, home design, and health intersect, including surveillance technologies in assisted living facilities and university programs or companies that design technologies with older bodies in mind)

Guidelines:
All such submissions will be refereed in the usual way for Sociology of Health and Illness submissions and should follow the journal’s style guidelines (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0141-9889). The planned publication date is February 2010

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail: kajoyc@wm.edu

Contact:
E-Mail:

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Telephone:

5. NWSA Journal

Editors: Lourdes Torres and Lorena Garcia

Abstract Deadline: June 30th, 2008
Full Deadline: November 1st, 2008
Journal URL:

Theme:
The NWSA Journal invites proposals from scholars/activists around the topic of Latina sexualities. This special issue will focus attention on how the relationship between race, ethnicity, sexuality, and power has, and continues to shape Latina sexualities in the U.S. It intends to highlight debates, ideas, and practices relating to the meanings assigned to Latina bodies in the U.S., how Latinas experience their socially regulated bodies, and how those bodies are framed with regard to issues of knowledge, truth, politics, and history.

Articles that critically examine the state of empirically grounded, historicized, and theoretically informed research around Latina bodies and sexualities are especially welcome. Particularly interesting will be analyses that highlight how interventions in Latina sexualities have made an impact on the fields of Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; sexuality studies; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer studies; as well as mainstream disciplines like literature, sociology, history, public health, psychology, art history, public policy, etc.

Suggested Topics:

• (Im)Migration, Diaspora and Transnationalism and Latina Sexualities
• Globalization of Latina Sexualities
• Construction and Impact of Latina Sexualities through HIV and AIDS
• Health and Latina Sexualities
• Sex Work and Sex Tourism
• Sexualized Latina Identities
• Diversification of Latina sexualities
• Latina Sexualities in Literature, Film, and Music
• Latina Sexual Politics
• Intersections of Latinidad, Sexuality and Spirituality
• Making and Un/Making of Erotic Latina/o Bodies
• Psychoanalytical Approaches to Latina/o Sexualities
• Queer Latina Feminisms
• Latina Sexualities and Reproductive Rights
• Sexual Rights, Civil Rights and Citizenship
• Visual Cultures and Latina Sexualities
• Visual Cultures and Latina Sexualities
• Representations, Pornography and Mass Media Communication of Latina Sexualities

Guidelines:
Submission: Abstracts of 500 words or less are due June 30th, 2008. E-mail your abstract to ltorres@depaul.edu or lorena@uic.edu. Subject heading should read NWSA: ABSTRACT. Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors. If your abstract is accepted, you will be invited to submit a manuscript. You will receive a detailed letter with specific author submission instructions and a deadline. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed prior to acceptance for publication in the journal. The special issue is scheduled for release in 2009. If you have any questions about the special issue, contact one of the editors.

CFP Address:
E-mail your abstract to ltorres@depaul.edu or lorena@uic.edu. Subject heading should read NWSA: ABSTRACT.
CFP E-Mail: ltorres@depaul.edu or lorena@uic.edu. Subject heading should read NWSA: ABSTRACT.

Contact:
E-Mail:

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

1. Works & Days Global Age of War and Imperialism

Editors:

Abstract Deadline: August 1st, 2008
Full Deadline: October 1st, 2008
Journal URL: http://www.english.iup.edu/publications/works&days/

Theme:
Invisible Battlegrounds: Feminist Resistance in the Global Age of War and Imperialism

In the contemporary global era of capitalism, as imperialism and war have emerged as dominant geopolitical forces, feminist analysis is, more than ever, urgently needed. Women's lives are affected disproportionately by violently imposed global restructuring, even as feminist attempts to create alternatives to exploitative and environmentally destructive forms of capitalist accumulation are largely neglected by dominant institutions and representations. Feminist critique of contemporary capitalism has, in fact, developed diverse approaches and strategies, among which notably include feminist theorizing within the areas of postcolonial, transnational, Marxist, and environmental thought. Feminist writers and thinkers working in these areas provide an invaluable analysis of the inherent connections among capitalism, war, and imperialism, and of the repressions of race, class, and gender that are required by capitalism to maintain unjust divisions of labor and resources. Also, their work provides vital oppositional images, identities, and narratives, ones attuned to mutual interdependency and the principles of social justice, sustainability, and radical democracy. This issue of Works & Days seeks to bring together theoretical work and cultural critique of anti-war feminist scholars and activists from across social locations and disciplines.

Suggested Topics:
·Explore how contemporary feminist theory and literature construct critique and opposition to prevailing patriarchal formations of race, gender, and class, particularly in connection with escalating violence against women and exploitation of labor and land.

·Investigate the ways civil wars and conflicts can be traced to earlier eras of capitalist and imperialist restructuring that reinforced, if not created, reifying divisions and hierarchies of race, ethnicity, and religion.

·Reflect on the ways that capitalism and imperialism reinforced, and often reinvented, patriarchal formations of the family and state. Now often referred to as client or peripheral states of imperialist centers, state power also sometimes relies on paternalistic forms of nationalism that imply polarized patriarchal gender identities, class power, and often elite claims of ethnicity and religion. This state power has taken the form of extreme militarism as well.

·Examine the profound changes in patriarchal orders as a result of war and occupation that organize the meanings of gender, especially of heavily gendered spaces, objects, or processes, such as the boundaries between home and street, private and public, friend and stranger, nature and culture.

·Consider how many contemporary social contradictions coalesce around heavily loaded metaphors, images, narratives, or signs of gender in transnational contexts—such as the veil, female genital mutilation, and so on.

Guidelines:

CFP Address:
Susan Comfort, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705
CFP E-Mail: scomfort@iup.edu

Contact:
E-Mail:

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

1. Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Special Issue: Knowledge that Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology and Science Studies

Editors: Mary Margaret Fonow (Arizona State University) Nancy Campbell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Abstract Deadline: September 1st, 2008
Full Deadline: September 1st, 2008
Journal URL: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/frontiers/submit.html

Theme:
Gender, race, sexuality, and power are intricately connected to the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge. This special issue of Frontiers will consider emerging scholarship on the topic of feminist epistemology, methodology, and science and technology studies

Suggested Topics:
How do we do science responsibly after the feminist critique of science?
Can science serve social justice in ways that expand democratic participation and empowerment?

How do formations of class, gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and differences unspecified
determine the social structure of technology and science, the questions considered relevant within it, and the outcomes that emerge from it?


What is the convergence between how we think about social reproduction and the gendered/radicalized division of labor within science, and our understanding of why we have the science (and scientists) we have? How can we do better?


What are some promising new or emerging methodological strategies that can help us to understand the way science and technology construct and govern subjects?


How can we build more sustained relationships between science and technology studies and women and gender studies?

Guidelines:
Authors’ names should not appear on the manuscript; please list contact information separately

CFP Address:
Submissions can be sent by email or on a disc to:
Mary Margaret Fonow
Women and Gender Studies Program
Arizona State University
PO Box 873404
Tempe, AZ 85287-2357
CFP E-Mail: frontiers@asu.edu

Contact: Mary Margaret Fonow
E-Mail: campbn2@rpi.edu

Alternate E-Mail: mfonow@asu.edu

Telephone: Mary Margaret Fonow, 480-965-2358

1. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 11.1: "Maternal Health and Well-Being"

Editors: The Association for Research on Mothering Journal Advisory Board

Abstract Deadline: November 1st, 2008
Full Deadline: November 1st, 2008
Journal URL: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/vol11no1.html

Theme:
(physical, psychological, social, economic, sexual, political and spiritual issues)
The journal will explore the topic of Maternal Health and Well-Being from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, health care professionals and other health workers, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.

Suggested Topics:
maternal health promotion and education; globalization and maternal health; maternal health activism; reproductive justice; public policy and maternal health; the environment and maternal health issues; mothers and healthy living; maternal health and challenges within Indigenous communities; mothers with disabilities; mothers with illnesses; HIV/AIDS; breast cancer; mental health issues; postpartum depression; disease prevention; psychiatry; psychology; medicine; pregnancy; childbirth; breastfeeding; young mothers; mothers and aging; work and family balance; maternal nutrition; disordered eating; mothering children with disabilities; violence against mothers and children; sexual abuse, healing through the arts; addictions and recovery; raising healthy children; politics of reproduction; abortion; sterilization; maternal sexuality; maternal health promotion and education; LBGT maternal health issues; menstruation; menopause; mothers and the health professions; representations/images of mothers and health/well-being issues

Guidelines:
Articles should be 15 pages (3750 words). All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible. Please see our style guide for complete details. http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html

CFP Address:
Rm. 726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
CFP E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Contact: Andrea O'Reilly/Renee Knapp
E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Renee Knapp 416-736-2100 x 60366