Calls for Papers

Sponsored by
The Medieval and Early Modern Women Interest Group
National Women's Studies Association
Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana
June 19-24, 2003

Submissions are invited on any topic that explores either the Medieval or the Early Modern period. Papers might address the following: race, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, colonialism, language, culture, religion, geography, science, medicine, law, and education. Submissions considering the place of feminism in teaching and studying the Medieval and Early Modern periods will also be considered. Submissions that engage in interdisciplinary scholarship are especially encouraged.
Submission should include both a 50-word abstract and a one-page description. Completed papers should be approximately eight pages, for a reading time of 15 minutes.

Submit papers to both interest group organizers. Email submissions are preferred. Deadline October 11, 2002

For further information visit www.nswa.org or contact:
Alice Sowaal Jennifer Palmer
Department of Philosophy Department of History and
Promgram in Women's Studies Women's Studies Program
Texas Tech University University of Michigan
Lubbock, TX 79409-3092 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
alice.sowaal@ttu.edu palmerjl@umich.edu

Call for Abstracts and Session Proposals - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Women's Studies Program and The Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA)

SEWSA 2003
GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY

from scholars, activists, policy makers, and artistsProposed papers and entire sessions (with 3-4 papers each) are sought, etc. engaged with questions of gender, inequality and technology. Gender is understood to be shaped by a multitude of other social positions such as race, sexuality, class, nationality, physicabroadestl ability, and age. Technology is understood in the possible sense.
Send a 250 word proposal no later than November 1, 2002 for a scholarly paper, multimedia exhibit, performance, workshop, or entire session, including its relationship to the conference theme to the submission box at www.cis.vt.edu/ws/SEWSA2003.html . Deadline November 1, 2002

The FSU Women's Studies Program is seeking proposals for colloquia and brown bag lunch topics on Women's/Gender Studies . For those who are interested in sharing their current research or other topical issues during the current academic year, please contact the FSU Women's Studies Program at womenstudies@mailer.fsu.edu or by phone at 644-9514.

Call for Papers - University of Miami, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Foreign Language and Literatures

The Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies presents:

Proposals are invited on any aspect of Islam in the Medieval and Early Modern periods. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: cultural, translation, conversion, heresy, pilgrimage, religious, and political ligitimation, conquest, colonization, trade, exchanges, travel, and travel narratives, representations of the Other, etc. Papers bridging periods, nations and/or disciplines are especially welcome .

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, FL 33124-4650

Call for Papers! Feminist Session of the Society for Advancement of American Philosophy

We welcome any paper on the relationship between the classical American philosophic tradition and its relationship to contemporary feminism. Drawing on the themes of the conference, we are looking for papers that cross traditions, bringing American philosophy together different spheres of influence in feminist thought. As examples, papers could address contemporary feminist issues regarding race theory, phenomenology, education, epistemology, or ethics, demonstrating how American philosophy has been, or could be, a resource in these areas.

Papers are due on August 5, 2002, and decisions will be communicated to the participants by August 20, 2002. Presenters will know the results of this session prior to the due date for the main conference proposals (September1).
Papers may be presented either in the traditional paper format (3,500 words, or approximately 20 reading time), or as a discussion paper. Discussion papers should be no longer than 6,000 words and will be posted on-line prior to the conference. Discussion paper presentations are limited to a 10 minute summary. Papers will be posted on the SAAP web site, and made available at the conference in full. (See SAAP 2003 CFP for more details on format. www.american-philosophy.org/2003_conference )

Please submit 2 copies of your paper, with abstract. Your name should appear only on the cover letter. Papers should be sent to:
    Judy Whipps
    Department of Philosophy
    219 Lake Superior Hall
    Grand Valley State University
    Allendale, MI 49401
Please mark on the outside of the envelope "SAAP 2003"

The feminist session will be on the second day of the conference, just before lunch. All SAAP members interested in feminist issues are welcome to join us for lunch immediately after the session. See sign-up sheet at registration.

The AMSA Program Committee is seeking paper proposals for its 11th annual conference to be held April 11-13, 2002 at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. The program committee will consider proposals on any well-developed topic grounded in one of more of the many disciplines represented in the critical study of men and masculinities.

E-mail submissions are strongly preferred and should be sent to Mark Justad at mark.justad@vanderbilt.edu Questions may also be directed to that e-mail address. Proposals should be 250 to 500 words in length and include presenter's name, title, and institutional affiliation (if applicable), address, phone number, and/or e-mail address. Printed submissions may be mailed to: Mark Justad, 2307 Warfield Lan, Nashville, TN 37215. Go to www.mensstudies.org for more about AMSA.

Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture : Call for Contributors to a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women in the Popular Media - For a new anthology on the depiction of tough women in the contemporary popular media (1985-present), I am seeking essays that explore the complex depictions of tough women in the modern popular media. How are women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions of tough women? How do different popular genres depict tough women? Are these new depictions progressive? How does popular culture depict tough women from different races, classes, and ethnic backgrounds? How is toughness in women constituted differently than in men? The range of materials that could be addressed is vast:
toys, television shows, films, video games, comic books, to name just
a few. Essays that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their
material are welcome, as are ones that discuss race, ethnicity, and
socioeconomic class. Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging;
they should be of broad interest to scholars in many academic
disciplines from the humanities, including history, women's studies,
English, American studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American studies,
and African-American studies. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000
words (including notes and references); accompanying photographs are
welcome. Please send completed article and curriculum vita to: Dr. Sherrie A. Inness, Department of English, 1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio 45011 (inness@muohio.edu). Submissions must be received by September 1, 2002. Early submissions are encouraged.

Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture: Call for Contributors to a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women in Popular Culture For a new anthology on the depiction of tough women in contemporary popular culture (1985-present), I am seeking essays that explore the complex depictions of tough women in popular culture. How are women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions of tough women? How do different popular genres depict tough women? Are these new depictions progressive? How does popular culture depict tough women from different races, classes, and ethnic backgrounds? How is toughness in women constituted differently than in men? The range of materials that could be addressed is vast: toys, television shows, films, video games, comic books, to name just a few. Essays that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their material are welcome, as are ones that discuss race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class. Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging; they should be of broad interest to scholars in many academic disciplines from the humanities, including history, women's studies, English, American studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American studies, and African-American studies. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes and references); accompanying photographs are welcome. Please send completed article and curriculum vita to Dr. Sherrie A. Inness, Department of English, 1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio 45011 (inness@muohio.edu). Early submissions are encouraged. Submission deadline: by October 1, 2002.

The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 5.1 of the Journal of The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) to be published in Spring/Summer 2003. The journal will explore the subject: Mothering, Popular Culture and the Arts. The journal will explore the topic of mothering, popular culture and the arts from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from students, activists, scholars, artists and others who research in this area. We also welcome creative reflections such as: poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject. If you are interested in writing a book review, we have books in need of a review, or if you know of a recent publication that you think would be relevant, please contact Cheryl Dobinson at cjdobins@yorku.ca

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Book reviews are to be no more than 2 pages (500 words), articles
should be 15 pages (3750 words). All should be in MLA style, in WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.

For more information, please contact us at:
ARM: 726 Atkinson College, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3.
Call us at (416) 736-2100, x60366, or email us at arm@yorku.ca or visit our website at www.yorku.ca/crm Submissions must be received by November 1, 2002. To submit work to the journal, one must be a member of ARM and memberships must be received by November 1, 2002.

Sexing the Political: A Journal of Third Wave Feminists on Sexuality is a new monthly on-line journal for third wave feminists to theorize, satirize, politicize and organize about issues related to women's sexuality. It will serve as a forum for the creative and radical political expression of third wave feminists from diverse cultural, sexual, and economic perspectives. Sexing the Political is currently seeking contributions from third wave feminists on the topic of sexuality. Sexuality, defined in the broadest sense of the word, includes but is not
limited to:
                                  Gay/les/bi/trans Sexuality
                                  Gender Expression
                                 Motherhood
                                  Childlessness
                                  Same-Sex Marriage
                                  Heterosexual Marriage
                                  Being Single
                                  Pregnancy
                                  Breast-feeding
                                  Childbirth
                                  Abortion
                                  Adoption
                                  Birth Control
                                  Reproductive Technology
                                  Infertility
                                  Artificial Insemination
                                  Sexual Health
                                  Violence against Women Sexual Exploitation
                                  Erotica and Pornography
                                  Sex Industry
                                  Prostitution
                                  Pornography
                                  Sexual Empowerment
                                  Masturbation
                                  Virginity
                                  Sexual Pleasure
                                  Male Sexuality
                                  Sexuality & Pop Culture
                                  Reclaiming Women's Bodies and Sexuality
                                  Spirituality and Sexuality
                                  Sexual Coming of Age
                                  Female Sexual Rites of Passage
                                  Menstruation
                                  Body Image and Body Awareness
                                  Monogamy & Polyamory
                                  Plural Marriage
                                  Adolescent Women's Sexuality

Sexing the Political will feature regular web columns written by third wave feminists. Web columns will explore a variety of topics such as: third wave activism, sex advice, queer identity, the feminism of everyday life, pregnancy and motherhood, ecofeminism, and music and book reviews. To complement these columns, the webeditor seeks: editorials, short essays (fiction and nonfiction), book and music reviews, art work, and photographs of third wave feminists. Written work should not exceed 600 words, however, occasionally exceptions will be made. Contributors must be 20 or 30 something feminists. Sexing the Political will be located at the web page http://www.sexingthepolitical.com . Please send your contributions, questions and comments to Krista Jacob, webeditor and publisher, at SexingthePolitic@aol.com Submissions are due by the 15th of each month and should be sent as attachments with specific instructions for downloading.

Meridians is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish work that is grounded in the particularities of history, economics, geography, class and culture; that informs the contradictions and politics of women’s lives; illuminates the forms and meanings of resistance, migration, exile, and artistic expressions; the provokes the critical interrogation of the terms used to shape activist agendas, theoretical paradigms, and political coalitions; and that is substantive and readable, as well as relevant and useful to researchers, educators, students and practitioners. The submission of essays, interviews, poetry, fiction, theater, cover art, artwork, and photo-essays, as well as political manifestoes, position papers, and archival documents of continuing interest. For more information, visit their website at www.smith.edu/meridians , call 413-585-3388 or email staff at meridians@smith.edu. Meridians accepts submissions on a rolling basis.

Call for Monographs - New Series: Sexual Diversity and the Law Series Editor: Mark Strasser.

Praeger Publishers is pleased to announce a new series focusing on legal
issues implicating sexual orientation or sexual/gender identity. This series
will examine a whole host of issues impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgendered individuals including discussions of the law on marriage,
family, employment, immigration, human rights, etc., in both the national
and the international context. The series will include works that focus on
the law of a particular country as well as works on comparative or
international law. Individuals with a proposal for a book-length manuscript should send it to:

Mark Strasser
Trustees Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
303 East Broad St.
Columbus OH, 43215
mstrasser@law.capital.edu
No deadline given.

The International Task Force of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) - based in the U.S., NWSA invites you to submit proposals for NWSA 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. For NWSA 2002, the International Task Force is again hosting 3 Roundtables. It offers the following topics and looks forward to receiving your proposals.

Roundtable #1: Counter-Hegemonic Leaderships
Grassroots efforts, non-governmental organizations, and other community-based movements play an important part in challenging and reformulating dominant policies and practices in the current world events. How do women and men, as individuals, participate in collaborative efforts, many of which are formed at a busy intersection of race, sexuality, gender, nationality, religion, and class? What is the impact of such organizations on systemic inequities?do they perpetuate and/or reconceive existing norms? How do we recognize the limitations they face and the advantages they enjoy? Most importantly, what are the present and future prospects for feminist, trans-categorical, leadership and change?

Roundtable #2: Feminist Politics of Positionality in Research
Tied to the first roundtable in significant ways, because of the often-contentious relationship between academics and activism, this roundtable focuses on the issues that arise in both familiar and unfamiliar terrains of feminist research. How do modern and postmodern attitudes about race, nation, class, gender, religion, and sexuality facilitate and/or obstruct the realms in which we can speak and write? Are there always notions of authenticity and legitimacy that abide, even as previous boundaries of feminist research are broken?

Roundtable #3: Coalitions and Fractures
Given the complex issues of membership and representation that emerge in the first two roundtables, this roundtable analyzes and speculates on the promise and fate of feminist convergences and divergences. In the context of contemporary events based in military and political might, minority resistances, international conferences (on racism, on globalization, on terrorism), do we have local loyalties (of gender, nation, race, etc.) that contribute to, or on the other hand, supersede more extended/global concerns? Or is the opposite true: Is it imperative that we think of our interrelated identities as urgently determining the commitments we make? Do we coalesce and fracture simultaneously, and is that inevitable?

Please send a 750-1000 word proposal, in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format, electronically to sarker@macalester.edu or in print form to Sonita Sarker, Women's and Gender Studies, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, USA. Please include your full contact information. No deadline given.

Feminist Teacher seeks articles on the theory and/or practice of feminist pedagogy, annotated course descriptions, bibliographical essays, and letters to the collective. Feminist Teacher is committed to publishing
materials that challenge traditional teaching and institutional practices,
disciplinary canons, research methodologies, and approaches to daily
classroom interactions. Feminist Teacher reaches educators in a variety of disciplines and at all grade levels -- preschool through graduate school,
in traditional as well as nontraditional classroom settings. The journal
also seeks reviews of books, periodicals, and videos that address
pedagogical issues from a feminist perspective.

For more information or for a copy of our "Guidelines for Authors," contact:
Theresa D. Kemp
Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Department of English
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
No deadline given.

Feminist Theory is a new international interdisciplinary journal published by SAGE Publications. The journal is being launched to provide a forum for critical analysis and constructive debate within feminist theory. The journal will be edited by Gabriele Griffin (Kingston University, UK), Rosemary Hennessy (State University of New York, Albany, USA), Stevi Jackson (University of York, UK) and Sasha Roseneil (University of Leeds, UK). They will be supported by Associate Editors (Sarah Franklin, Sneja Gunew, Trinh T Minh-Ha, Veronique Mottier and Alison Young) and an International Advisory Board.

Feminist Theory will be genuinely interdisciplinary and will reflect the diversity of feminism, incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical stances. The journal will be published three times a year.

For those interested in submitting a manuscript, contact:
The Editors
Feminist Theory
Centre for Women's Studies
University of York
Heslington, York YO1 5DD UK
Tel: +44 (0)1904 433672/433671.
E-mail: sfj3@york.ac.uk
To receive further information e-mail Jane Makoff: jane.makoff@sagepub.co.uk No deadlines given.

Gender Policy Review is a journal created to provide insight into current debates on the status of women and gender power relations. The
magazine focuses on political, economic, and legal policies, in the areas of international affairs, environment, trade and development policy. The editors are interested in the writings of policy professionals, grass-root advocates, as well as individuals directly affected by gender related policies, whether they be a domestic violence ordinance or World Bank loan guidelines. GPC's primary goal is to create a dialogue concerning the removal of power imbalances, through academically providing background and policy strategies on topics of interest. For a free subscription and to send in your submissions , email: gender-policy@mailcity.com. Visit the Gender Policy Review web site at: http://www.genderpolicy.org/ No deadlines given.

Feminist Economics is an innovative, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to developing an interdisciplinary discourse on feminist perspectives. Specifically, Feminist Economics aims to: advance feminist inquiry into economic issues affecting the lives of women, men, and children; provide a feminist rethinking of theory and policy diverse in subfields and related areas, including those not directly related to gender; provide insights into the relationship between gender and power relations in the economy and in the construction and ligitimization of economic knowledge; extend feminist theoretical, historical, and methodological insights to economics and the economy; and offer feminist insights into the underlying constructs of the economics discipline and into the historical, political, and cultural context of economic knowledge. The editors welcome submissions from authors wishing to contribute to the journal. Manuscripts should follow the ‘Notes for Contributors' guidelines given in every issue of Feminist Economics. These guidelines may also be found on the journal's web page at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~femec/ Alternatively, they may be requested by e-mailing Cheryl Morehead at morehc@rice.edu or by writing to the editorial office. All manuscripts should be sent to: Diana Strassman, Editor, Feminist Economics, MS-9, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA. No deadline given.

Gender Theory , a new series from SUNY Press, seeks submissions for manuscript proposals. They invite theoretically oriented manuscripts centering around and spinning off from gender theory, and are interested in exploring connections between fields that have tended to operate in fairly self-contained orbits to date, e.g., psychoanalysis, race theory, philosophy, literature, and cultural studies. Topics of particular interest include theories of subjectivity and embodiment, technologies of the body, the politics of democracy, politics of difference, the role of aesthetics in contemporary society, film theory and feminism, the value of psychoanalytic approaches for feminism, and the intersections of race, gender, and class. All manuscripts must be typewritten, double-spaced, on one side only of good quality, white 8 1/2" x 11" paper, unbound, with one-inch margins on all sides and numbered consecutively; hand numbering is acceptable. For correct punctuation, capitalization, organization of material, usage, and the like, we recommend the comprehensive guide, The Chicago Manual of Style, 14'", Edition (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Also refer to The Elements of Style, 4t" Edition by William Strunk )r. and E. B. White (Allyn and Bacon, 1999; paperback). Take particular care with footnotes and bibliographies. In general, follow the form given in The Chicago Manual of Style. However, some subject areas, e.g., anthropology, psychology, and law, have special requirements for references, footnotes, and bibliographies. Consult the appropriate style or publication manual for details. Include a resume which includes your complete contact information. Direct material to the editorial office at the following address: Editor-in-Chief, State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246-0001. No deadline given.

Forthcoming Issues of Women's Studies Quarterly - Since 1972, Women's Studies Quarterly has been the leading journal in teaching in women's studies. Thematic issues feature vital and accessible material for a broad audience of readers: anyone engaged in education, research, or feminist action, and interested in the impact of new scholarship on women and the curriculum. Recent scholarship, in jargon-free language, combines with classroom aids such as course syllabi, discussions of strategies for teaching, and up-to-date bibliographies, as well as hard-to-find or never-before-published documents and literary materials. Women's Studies Quarterly is committed to publishing international perspectives and to exploring the intersections of race, class, and gender. A peer-reviewed, theme-based journal, Women's Studies Quarterly is published twice a year in double issues compiled by distinguished guest editors. Women's Studies Quarterly is an educational project of The Feminist Press at The City University of New York in cooperation with Rochester Institute of Technology. For more information on the journal or The Feminist Press, consult the Web site: www.feministpress.org or contact Women's Studies Quarterly at 212-817-7925. No deadline given.

The Journal of Medical Humanities seeks feminist and cultural studies manuscripts as part of a change in the journal's focus. Send inquiries to Brad Lewis, Journal of Medical Humanities, University of Pittsburgh Cultural Program, lewisbe@msx.upmc.edu
No submission deadline.

The Asian Journal of Women's Studies (AJWS), a multidisciplinary international forum for the presentation of feminist scholarship and criticism in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences, seeks contributions from individuals and collectives of different backgrounds not merely in Asia but all over the world. Editors invite contributions of article-length research papers and theoretical position papers that might be appropriately published under the headings of articles, personal narratives, review articles, reports, notes, letters, and book reviews, that have not been previously published in English, nor submitted to other journals or publishers. For more information, visit their website at http://ews.ewha.ac.kr or email staff at the Asian Center for Women’s Studies at Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, Korea at acwsewha@mm.ewha.ac.kr.
No deadline given.


Women's Studies Program Florida State University 214-J William Johnston Bldg. Tallahassee, FL 32306-2205 Phone: (850) 644-9514 FAX: (850) 644-7661 Table of Contents Announcements Calendar of Events Frequently Asked Questions Curriculum Student Opportunities Faculty Dissertation Support Group Newsletter FSU Women's Groups Local Women's Groups Women's Studies Links FSU Library Women's Studies Library Resources - FSU FSU Women's Studies Program Institutional Memberships FSU Women in Math, Science & Engineering Program		Calls for Papers Call for Papers - for a panel on the Medieval and Early Modern Period Sponsored by The Medieval and Early Modern Women Interest Group National Women's Studies Association Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-24, 2003 Submissions are invited on any topic that explores either the Medieval or the Early Modern period. Papers might address the following: race, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, colonialism, language, culture, religion, geography, science, medicine, law, and education. Submissions considering the place of feminism in teaching and studying the Medieval and Early Modern periods will also be considered. Submissions that engage in interdisciplinary scholarship are especially encouraged. Submission should include both a 50-word abstract and a one-page description. Completed papers should be approximately eight pages, for a reading time of 15 minutes. Submit papers to both interest group organizers. Email submissions are preferred. Deadline October 11, 2002 For further information visit www.nswa.org or contact: Alice Sowaal Jennifer Palmer Department of Philosophy Department of History and Promgram in Women's Studies Women's Studies Program Texas Tech University University of Michigan Lubbock, TX 79409-3092 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 alice.sowaal@ttu.edu palmerjl@umich.edu Call for Abstracts and Session Proposals - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Women's Studies Program and The Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) SEWSA 2003 GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY from scholars, activists, policy makers, and artistsProposed papers and entire sessions (with 3-4 papers each) are sought, etc. engaged with questions of gender, inequality and technology. Gender is understood to be shaped by a multitude of other social positions such as race, sexuality, class, nationality, physicabroadestl ability, and age. Technology is understood in the possible sense. Send a 250 word proposal no later than November 1, 2002 for a scholarly paper, multimedia exhibit, performance, workshop, or entire session, including its relationship to the conference theme to the submission box at www.cis.vt.edu/ws/SEWSA2003.html . Deadline November 1, 2002 The FSU Women's Studies Program is seeking proposals for colloquia and brown bag lunch topics on Women's/Gender Studies . For those who are interested in sharing their current research or other topical issues during the current academic year, please contact the FSU Women's Studies Program at womenstudies@mailer.fsu.edu or by phone at 644-9514. Call for Papers - University of Miami, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Foreign Language and Literatures The Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies presents: ISLAM February 21-22, 2003 Proposals are invited on any aspect of Islam in the Medieval and Early Modern periods. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: cultural, translation, conversion, heresy, pilgrimage, religious, and political ligitimation, conquest, colonization, trade, exchanges, travel, and travel narratives, representations of the Other, etc. Papers bridging periods, nations and/or disciplines are especially welcome . Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2002 Send a 500 word abstract and curriculum vita to: Jane Connolly connolly@miami.edu OR Maria Galli Stampino mgstampino@miami.edu Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Miami P.O. Box 248093 Coral Gables, FL 33124-4650 Call for Papers! Feminist Session of the Society for Advancement of American Philosophy March 13-15, 2003 Denver, Colorado Conference Theme: Crossing Traditions, Crossing Divides Session Topic: American Philosophy's Influence on Contemporary Feminism We welcome any paper on the relationship between the classical American philosophic tradition and its relationship to contemporary feminism. Drawing on the themes of the conference, we are looking for papers that cross traditions, bringing American philosophy together different spheres of influence in feminist thought. As examples, papers could address contemporary feminist issues regarding race theory, phenomenology, education, epistemology, or ethics, demonstrating how American philosophy has been, or could be, a resource in these areas. Papers are due on August 5, 2002, and decisions will be communicated to the participants by August 20, 2002. Presenters will know the results of this session prior to the due date for the main conference proposals (September1). Papers may be presented either in the traditional paper format (3,500 words, or approximately 20 reading time), or as a discussion paper. Discussion papers should be no longer than 6,000 words and will be posted on-line prior to the conference. Discussion paper presentations are limited to a 10 minute summary. Papers will be posted on the SAAP web site, and made available at the conference in full. (See SAAP 2003 CFP for more details on format. www.american-philosophy.org/2003_conference ) All proposals must include an abstract of 100-150 words. Due date: August 5, 2002 Notification date: August 20, 2002 Please submit 2 copies of your paper, with abstract. Your name should appear only on the cover letter. Papers should be sent to: Judy Whipps Department of Philosophy 219 Lake Superior Hall Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 49401 Please mark on the outside of the envelope "SAAP 2003" The feminist session will be on the second day of the conference, just before lunch. All SAAP members interested in feminist issues are welcome to join us for lunch immediately after the session. See sign-up sheet at registration. Questions may be sent to Judy Whipps at WhippsJ@gvsu.edu. The AMSA Program Committee is seeking paper proposals for its 11th annual conference to be held April 11-13, 2002 at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. The program committee will consider proposals on any well-developed topic grounded in one of more of the many disciplines represented in the critical study of men and masculinities. E-mail submissions are strongly preferred and should be sent to Mark Justad at mark.justad@vanderbilt.edu Questions may also be directed to that e-mail address. Proposals should be 250 to 500 words in length and include presenter's name, title, and institutional affiliation (if applicable), address, phone number, and/or e-mail address. Printed submissions may be mailed to: Mark Justad, 2307 Warfield Lan, Nashville, TN 37215. Go to www.mensstudies.org for more about AMSA. *Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture* : Call for Contributors to a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women in the Popular Media - For a new anthology on the depiction of tough women in the contemporary popular media (1985-present), I am seeking essays that explore the complex depictions of tough women in the modern popular media. How are women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions of tough women? How do different popular genres depict tough women? Are these new depictions progressive? How does popular culture depict tough women from different races, classes, and ethnic backgrounds? How is toughness in women constituted differently than in men? The range of materials that could be addressed is vast: toys, television shows, films, video games, comic books, to name just a few. Essays that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their material are welcome, as are ones that discuss race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class. Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging; they should be of broad interest to scholars in many academic disciplines from the humanities, including history, women's studies, English, American studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American studies, and African-American studies. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes and references); accompanying photographs are welcome. Please send completed article and curriculum vita to: Dr. Sherrie A. Inness, Department of English, 1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio 45011 (inness@muohio.edu). Submissions must be received by September 1, 2002. Early submissions are encouraged. Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture: Call for Contributors to a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women in Popular Culture For a new anthology on the depiction of tough women in contemporary popular culture (1985-present), I am seeking essays that explore the complex depictions of tough women in popular culture. How are women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions of tough women? How do different popular genres depict tough women? Are these new depictions progressive? How does popular culture depict tough women from different races, classes, and ethnic backgrounds? How is toughness in women constituted differently than in men? The range of materials that could be addressed is vast: toys, television shows, films, video games, comic books, to name just a few. Essays that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their material are welcome, as are ones that discuss race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class. Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging; they should be of broad interest to scholars in many academic disciplines from the humanities, including history, women's studies, English, American studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American studies, and African-American studies. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes and references); accompanying photographs are welcome. Please send completed article and curriculum vita to Dr. Sherrie A. Inness, Department of English, 1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio 45011 (inness@muohio.edu). Early submissions are encouraged. Submission deadline: by October 1, 2002. The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 5.1 of the *Journal of The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)* to be published in Spring/Summer 2003. The journal will explore the subject: Mothering, Popular Culture and the Arts. The journal will explore the topic of mothering, popular culture and the arts from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from students, activists, scholars, artists and others who research in this area. We also welcome creative reflections such as: poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject. If you are interested in writing a book review, we have books in need of a review, or if you know of a recent publication that you think would be relevant, please contact Cheryl Dobinson at cjdobins@yorku.ca SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Book reviews are to be no more than 2 pages (500 words), articles should be 15 pages (3750 words). All should be in MLA style, in WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible. For more information, please contact us at: ARM: 726 Atkinson College, York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3. Call us at (416) 736-2100, x60366, or email us at arm@yorku.ca or visit our website at www.yorku.ca/crm Submissions must be received by November 1, 2002. To submit work to the journal, one must be a member of ARM and memberships must be received by November 1, 2002. *Sexing the Political: A Journal of Third Wave Feminists* *on Sexuality* is a new monthly on-line journal for third wave feminists to theorize, satirize, politicize and organize about issues related to women's sexuality. It will serve as a forum for the creative and radical political expression of third wave feminists from diverse cultural, sexual, and economic perspectives. Sexing the Political is currently seeking contributions from third wave feminists on the topic of sexuality. Sexuality, defined in the broadest sense of the word, includes but is not limited to: Gay/les/bi/trans Sexuality Gender Expression Motherhood Childlessness Same-Sex Marriage Heterosexual Marriage Being Single Pregnancy Breast-feeding Childbirth Abortion Adoption Birth Control Reproductive Technology Infertility Artificial Insemination Sexual Health Violence against Women Sexual Exploitation Erotica and Pornography Sex Industry Prostitution Pornography Sexual Empowerment Masturbation Virginity Sexual Pleasure Male Sexuality Sexuality & Pop Culture Reclaiming Women's Bodies and Sexuality Spirituality and Sexuality Sexual Coming of Age Female Sexual Rites of Passage Menstruation Body Image and Body Awareness Monogamy & Polyamory Plural Marriage Adolescent Women's Sexuality *Sexing the Political* will feature regular web columns written by third wave feminists. Web columns will explore a variety of topics such as: third wave activism, sex advice, queer identity, the feminism of everyday life, pregnancy and motherhood, ecofeminism, and music and book reviews. To complement these columns, the webeditor seeks: editorials, short essays (fiction and nonfiction), book and music reviews, art work, and photographs of third wave feminists. Written work should not exceed 600 words, however, occasionally exceptions will be made. Contributors must be 20 or 30 something feminists. Sexing the Political will be located at the web page http://www.sexingthepolitical.com . Please send your contributions, questions and comments to Krista Jacob, webeditor and publisher, at SexingthePolitic@aol.com Submissions are due by the 15th of each month and should be sent as attachments with specific instructions for downloading. *Meridians* is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish work that is grounded in the particularities of history, economics, geography, class and culture; that informs the contradictions and politics of women’s lives; illuminates the forms and meanings of resistance, migration, exile, and artistic expressions; the provokes the critical interrogation of the terms used to shape activist agendas, theoretical paradigms, and political coalitions; and that is substantive and readable, as well as relevant and useful to researchers, educators, students and practitioners. The submission of essays, interviews, poetry, fiction, theater, cover art, artwork, and photo-essays, as well as political manifestoes, position papers, and archival documents of continuing interest. For more information, visit their website at www.smith.edu/meridians , call 413-585-3388 or email staff at meridians@smith.edu. Meridians accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Call for Monographs - New Series: *Sexual Diversity and the Law* Series Editor: Mark Strasser. Praeger Publishers is pleased to announce a new series focusing on legal issues implicating sexual orientation or sexual/gender identity. This series will examine a whole host of issues impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals including discussions of the law on marriage, family, employment, immigration, human rights, etc., in both the national and the international context. The series will include works that focus on the law of a particular country as well as works on comparative or international law. Individuals with a proposal for a book-length manuscript should send it to: Mark Strasser Trustees Professor of Law Capital University Law School 303 East Broad St. Columbus OH, 43215 mstrasser@law.capital.edu No deadline given. The International Task Force of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) - based in the U.S., NWSA invites you to submit proposals for NWSA 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. For NWSA 2002, the International Task Force is again hosting 3 Roundtables. It offers the following topics and looks forward to receiving your proposals. Roundtable #1: Counter-Hegemonic Leaderships Grassroots efforts, non-governmental organizations, and other community-based movements play an important part in challenging and reformulating dominant policies and practices in the current world events. How do women and men, as individuals, participate in collaborative efforts, many of which are formed at a busy intersection of race, sexuality, gender, nationality, religion, and class? What is the impact of such organizations on systemic inequities?do they perpetuate and/or reconceive existing norms? How do we recognize the limitations they face and the advantages they enjoy? Most importantly, what are the present and future prospects for feminist, trans-categorical, leadership and change? Roundtable #2: Feminist Politics of Positionality in Research Tied to the first roundtable in significant ways, because of the often-contentious relationship between academics and activism, this roundtable focuses on the issues that arise in both familiar and unfamiliar terrains of feminist research. How do modern and postmodern attitudes about race, nation, class, gender, religion, and sexuality facilitate and/or obstruct the realms in which we can speak and write? Are there always notions of authenticity and legitimacy that abide, even as previous boundaries of feminist research are broken? Roundtable #3: Coalitions and Fractures Given the complex issues of membership and representation that emerge in the first two roundtables, this roundtable analyzes and speculates on the promise and fate of feminist convergences and divergences. In the context of contemporary events based in military and political might, minority resistances, international conferences (on racism, on globalization, on terrorism), do we have local loyalties (of gender, nation, race, etc.) that contribute to, or on the other hand, supersede more extended/global concerns? Or is the opposite true: Is it imperative that we think of our interrelated identities as urgently determining the commitments we make? Do we coalesce and fracture simultaneously, and is that inevitable? Please send a 750-1000 word proposal, in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format, electronically to sarker@macalester.edu or in print form to Sonita Sarker, Women's and Gender Studies, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, USA. Please include your full contact information. No deadline given. *Feminist Teacher* seeks articles on the theory and/or practice of feminist pedagogy, annotated course descriptions, bibliographical essays, and letters to the collective. Feminist Teacher is committed to publishing materials that challenge traditional teaching and institutional practices, disciplinary canons, research methodologies, and approaches to daily classroom interactions. Feminist Teacher reaches educators in a variety of disciplines and at all grade levels -- preschool through graduate school, in traditional as well as nontraditional classroom settings. The journal also seeks reviews of books, periodicals, and videos that address pedagogical issues from a feminist perspective. For more information or for a copy of our "Guidelines for Authors," contact: Theresa D. Kemp Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of English Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004 No deadline given. *Feminist Theory* is a new international interdisciplinary journal published by SAGE Publications. The journal is being launched to provide a forum for critical analysis and constructive debate within feminist theory. The journal will be edited by Gabriele Griffin (Kingston University, UK), Rosemary Hennessy (State University of New York, Albany, USA), Stevi Jackson (University of York, UK) and Sasha Roseneil (University of Leeds, UK). They will be supported by Associate Editors (Sarah Franklin, Sneja Gunew, Trinh T Minh-Ha, Veronique Mottier and Alison Young) and an International Advisory Board. *Feminist Theory* will be genuinely interdisciplinary and will reflect the diversity of feminism, incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical stances. The journal will be published three times a year. For those interested in submitting a manuscript, contact: The Editors Feminist Theory Centre for Women's Studies University of York Heslington, York YO1 5DD UK Tel: +44 (0)1904 433672/433671. E-mail: sfj3@york.ac.uk To receive further information e-mail Jane Makoff: jane.makoff@sagepub.co.uk No deadlines given. *Gender Policy Review* is a journal created to provide insight into current debates on the status of women and gender power relations. The magazine focuses on political, economic, and legal policies, in the areas of international affairs, environment, trade and development policy. The editors are interested in the writings of policy professionals, grass-root advocates, as well as individuals directly affected by gender related policies, whether they be a domestic violence ordinance or World Bank loan guidelines. GPC's primary goal is to create a dialogue concerning the removal of power imbalances, through academically providing background and policy strategies on topics of interest. For a free subscription and to send in your submissions , email: gender-policy@mailcity.com. Visit the Gender Policy Review web site at: http://www.genderpolicy.org/ No deadlines given. *Feminist Economics* is an innovative, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to developing an interdisciplinary discourse on feminist perspectives. Specifically, Feminist Economics aims to: advance feminist inquiry into economic issues affecting the lives of women, men, and children; provide a feminist rethinking of theory and policy diverse in subfields and related areas, including those not directly related to gender; provide insights into the relationship between gender and power relations in the economy and in the construction and ligitimization of economic knowledge; extend feminist theoretical, historical, and methodological insights to economics and the economy; and offer feminist insights into the underlying constructs of the economics discipline and into the historical, political, and cultural context of economic knowledge. The editors welcome submissions from authors wishing to contribute to the journal. Manuscripts should follow the ‘Notes for Contributors' guidelines given in every issue of Feminist Economics. These guidelines may also be found on the journal's web page at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~femec/ Alternatively, they may be requested by e-mailing Cheryl Morehead at morehc@rice.edu or by writing to the editorial office. All manuscripts should be sent to: Diana Strassman, Editor, Feminist Economics, MS-9, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA. No deadline given. *Gender Theory* , a new series from SUNY Press, seeks submissions for manuscript proposals. They invite theoretically oriented manuscripts centering around and spinning off from gender theory, and are interested in exploring connections between fields that have tended to operate in fairly self-contained orbits to date, e.g., psychoanalysis, race theory, philosophy, literature, and cultural studies. Topics of particular interest include theories of subjectivity and embodiment, technologies of the body, the politics of democracy, politics of difference, the role of aesthetics in contemporary society, film theory and feminism, the value of psychoanalytic approaches for feminism, and the intersections of race, gender, and class. All manuscripts must be typewritten, double-spaced, on one side only of good quality, white 8 1/2" x 11" paper, unbound, with one-inch margins on all sides and numbered consecutively; hand numbering is acceptable. For correct punctuation, capitalization, organization of material, usage, and the like, we recommend the comprehensive guide, The Chicago Manual of Style, 14'", Edition (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Also refer to The Elements of Style, 4t" Edition by William Strunk )r. and E. B. White (Allyn and Bacon, 1999; paperback). Take particular care with footnotes and bibliographies. In general, follow the form given in The Chicago Manual of Style. However, some subject areas, e.g., anthropology, psychology, and law, have special requirements for references, footnotes, and bibliographies. Consult the appropriate style or publication manual for details. Include a resume which includes your complete contact information. Direct material to the editorial office at the following address: Editor-in-Chief, State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246-0001. No deadline given. *Forthcoming Issues of Women's Studies Quarterly* -** Since 1972, Women's Studies Quarterly has been the leading journal in teaching in women's studies. Thematic issues feature vital and accessible material for a broad audience of readers: anyone engaged in education, research, or feminist action, and interested in the impact of new scholarship on women and the curriculum. Recent scholarship, in jargon-free language, combines with classroom aids such as course syllabi, discussions of strategies for teaching, and up-to-date bibliographies, as well as hard-to-find or never-before-published documents and literary materials. Women's Studies Quarterly is committed to publishing international perspectives and to exploring the intersections of race, class, and gender. A peer-reviewed, theme-based journal, Women's Studies Quarterly is published twice a year in double issues compiled by distinguished guest editors. Women's Studies Quarterly is an educational project of The Feminist Press at The City University of New York in cooperation with Rochester Institute of Technology. For more information on the journal or The Feminist Press, consult the Web site: www.feministpress.org or contact Women's Studies Quarterly at 212-817-7925. No deadline given. *The Journal of Medical Humanities* seeks feminist and cultural studies manuscripts as part of a change in the journal's focus. Send inquiries to Brad Lewis, Journal of Medical Humanities, University of Pittsburgh Cultural Program, lewisbe@msx.upmc.edu No submission deadline. *The Asian Journal of Women's Studies* (AJWS), a multidisciplinary international forum for the presentation of feminist scholarship and criticism in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences, seeks contributions from individuals and collectives of different backgrounds not merely in Asia but all over the world. Editors invite contributions of article-length research papers and theoretical position papers that might be appropriately published under the headings of articles, personal narratives, review articles, reports, notes, letters, and book reviews, that have not been previously published in English, nor submitted to other journals or publishers. For more information, visit their website at http://ews.ewha.ac.kr or email staff at the Asian Center for Women’s Studies at Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, Korea at acwsewha@mm.ewha.ac.kr. No deadline given.
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