Calls for Papers

Thinking Gender, the 13th Annual Graduate Research Conference - The UCLA Center for the Study of Women - Call for Papers
A public conference highlighting feminist research by graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, the Arts, Law, Social Welfare, and Public Health

UCLA Faculty Center, 8 AM- 5 PM, March 7, 2003

Graduate students are invited to present their research on women and/or gender. Papers on women of color and queer issues and any exhibits utilizing the arts are extremely welcome. Please submit an abstract and a CV (each 2 pages maximum) to the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (USC students should submit to the USC Canter for Feminist Research).
Deadline for Submissions is December 6, 2002.
For further information, please contact the CSW office at UCLA

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
288 Kinsey Hall
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504
(310) 825-0590
http://www.women.ucla.edu
email: csw@csw.ucla.edu

THE INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S POLICY RESEARCH (IWPR) - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S POLICY
RESEARCH CONFERENCE: “WOMEN WORKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE”

IWPR’s Seventh International Women’s Policy Research Conference, “Women Working to Make A Difference,” co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program of The George Washington University and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, will be held June 22-24, 2003 , at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will address a range of issues related to women’s economic, political, health, and social status.

The 2003 Conference will bring together policymakers, advocates, researchers, and practitioners from the academic, labor, corporate, government, non-profit and media worlds to discuss new research findings, current trends, and policy strategies relating to women’s lives in the United States and throughout the world.

Conference papers, panels, roundtables, and posters will consider women’s progress in the context of uncertain national economies; globalization; the growing awareness of the need for greater corporate and government accountability nationally and internationally; the search for new mechanisms to curb violence, terrorism and military interventions; the erosion of social safety nets; the changing shape of women’s movements worldwide; and more. Participants will share information and debate strategies concerning gender equity in the home, the informal economy, business, civil society, educational institutions, and government. Sessions will address issues ranging from international trade, structural adjustment, fiscal policy, and corporate behavior to women’s poverty, income and work supports, the earnings gap, collective bargaining, micro enterprise, subsistence agriculture, caregiving, the growing population of the elderly, access to health care and family planning services, immigration and migration, trafficking in women, political participation, human rights, and the many faces of women’s leadership.

IWPR welcomes proposals that focus on policies affecting women and that make connections between research and policymaking. We particularly welcome proposals addressing issues of race/ethnicity, class, disability status, and sexual orientation across the full life-cycle of women including girlhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older age. Proposals for panels (groups of 3 papers) and roundtables comprising members of diverse communities--e.g., researchers, policymakers, and advocates, or women of different generations, nations, or cultural communities are particularly welcome. Abstracts of proposed presentations are due by December 6, 2002.

See the IWPR web site: www.iwpr.org for further information about proposal submissions and information regarding conference logistics.

Call for papers - Binghamton Univeristy Department of Romance Languages and Literatures 14th Annual Conference

Tropology: Text and Context
Keynote Speaker
David Bartine
Chair of the Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Binghamton University
will speak on
Disciplines of Tropology

To be included in the program, you are invited to submit an abstract of your paper (not to exceed 250 words) to the coordinator no later than November 15, 2002.

Suggested Topics Include:

Utopia, The Mirror, Apocalypse, Irony, Parables, Parody, Imagery, Tropes of Decadence, Rhetoric, Metaphors, Symbolism, The Rhetoric of Film, The Rhetoric of History, Metahistory, Comedy, Tragedy, Cultural Tropes, Tropes of Politics, Allegories, Religion as Story, Tropes of Scripture

The conference is designed to explore and issues related to tropology. Papers may relate to the general conference topic in and interdisciplinary manner through literature, history, film, sociology, anthropology, political science, art, philosophy or religion. Suggestions for panels or sessions are welcome.

For further information contact:
Professor Antonio Sobejano-Morán
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Binghamton University
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
-or-
email sobe@binghamton.edu or
cstiner@binghamton.edu

Visit the website at http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/4248

Call for proposals - National Women's Studies Association Conference 2003 - June 19-22, 2003, New Orleans, LA Visit the Women's Studies office for guidelines, information, etc.
Proposal Deadline: Midnight, Sunday November 24, 2002

Call for Papers - Women's Studies Section, Western Social Science Association, 45th Annual Conference - April 9-12, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, Riviera Hotel The Women's Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association invites proposals from faculty, professionals, and students for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions focused on issues/topics related to Women's Studies. Possible topics include:
    Teaching Women's Studies
    Social activism and women's issues
    Gender inequality
    Gender/feminist theory
    Global and multicultural issues
    Women's realities and choices
    Leadership
    Domestic violence and sexual assault
    Border land issues
    Employment/labor issues
    Political, economic and social issues
Other relevant topics are also welcome

Proposals are to be written in abstract form and must not exceed 150 words (see http://wssa.asu.edu for sample abstracts). Abstracts must be professionally written and ready for publication in the WSSA Conference materials. Abstracts will not be edited for spelling/grammatical errors.

In addition, proposals must include:
    Title of paper, panel, or round table discussion idea
    Author(s) name(s)
    Affiliation(s)
    Address(es)
    Phone number(s)
    Email address(es)
    Fax(es)
Proposals that fail to meet the requirements listed will not be accepted.

Proposals may be submitted either as email attachments or on PC diskettes (3.5") in Rich Text format using Word Perfect or Microsoft Word. Hard copies will not be accepted.

Proposals should be sent to:
Susan Green Barger, Women's Studies Section Coordinator
Idaho State University
Campus Box 8079
Pocatello, ID 83209
or
email to bargsusa@isu.edu

Call for Papers - 56th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference - 24-26 April 2003 University of Kentucky

We invite all scholars to submit abstracts. Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. All presenters and attendees must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 FEBRUARY 2003 to be included in the program. The 2003 KFLC program will be shared with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics for possible inclusion in their data bank. For more information on the conference, please visit www.uky.edu/as/kflc , or contact the directors by email: kflc@uky.edu

While papers relating to this area are particularly invited, all proposed sessions and abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program, in the following areas:

French Italian
John Erickson Gloria Allaire
Modern & Classical Languages Modern & Classical Languages
jeric1@uky.edu allaire@uky.edu

French Graduate Students    Linguistics
Julie Human    Anna Bosch
Modern & Classical Languages    Department of English
jlhuma2@uky.edu bosch@uky.edu

German Linguistics Graduate Studen Sections
Linda Kraus Worley Michael O'Hara
Modern & Classical Languages Department of English lworley@uky.edu mjora0@uky.edu

Hispanic Studies: Graduate Luso-Brazilian
Student Sections Euridice Silva-Filho
Rebecca Whitehead Modern Languages & Literatures Hispanic Studies Modern Languages & Literatures rwhit2@uky.edu University of Tennessee
esilva@utk.edu

Hispanic Studies: Pennisular Russian-Slavic & Eastern Studies
Spanish Cynthia Ruder
Ana Rueda Modern & Classical Languages
Hispanic Studies raeruder@uky.edu
rueda@uky.edu

The issue will feature articles, essays, creative writing, teaching material, and book reviews that address one or more of the following questions.

1. What is development? Whose interest does it serve? Have we moved into a post-development era?
2. What are the gender-based challenges faced by women in specific contexts in the 'North' and 'South' today that have changed since the inception of women in development (WID) in the 1970s? In particular, how have the contexts of the Cold War, decolonialization, and neo-liberalism affected development programs in the areas of education, employment, health and politics.
3. How can liberal, Marxist and postmodern feminist scholarship contribute to our understanding of development for women? What are the specific features of feminist post-development theory, and how does it differ from other forms of scholarship on gender and development (GAD)?
4. How do the dynamics of race, class, gender, education, and urbanism limit women's participation in the development process? Do these dynamics look different at various level of development implementation? How might a focus on gender inform debates on the dynamics of other forms of inequality?
5. What might feminist development theory and practice look like in the coming decades as a result of the cultural, economic, and political changes brought about by the forces of globalization? What challenges do the anti-globalization and subsistence movements pose for development programs, policy and practices?
6. How can teachers incorporate women and development issues into the curriculum to foster learning and debate about gender and power relations at the local, national and international levels.

Contributions accepted for the special issue will be reviewed by at least two reviewers with the understanding that the materials have not been submitted to another journal. All submissions should be double-spaced, printed on one side of paper with 1-inch margins, and conform to the APA (in text) citation style. Articles should not exceed 20 pages (5,000 words) in length, excluding references. Essays, short stories, and strategies for teaching (with syllabi) should not exceed 15 pages (3, 750 words). Book reviews should not exceed 3 pages (750 words), and they should include a complete citation for the book under review.

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
Program 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)

Submissions will be accepted from scholars, activists, policy makers, and artists. Proposed 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, physical ability, and age. Technology is understood in the broadest 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

Call for Papers and Panel Proposals - The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, The Indiana University Departments of Gender Studies & History, etc.

For the fiftieth anniversary of Alfred C. Kinsey and Associates' controversial Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) this conference will present recent scholarship on the study, treatment, representation, and regulation of women's sexualities. The conference aims to place women's sexualities in feminist, historical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, and international contexts. It will include special focus on Kinsey's sex research project, its scientific, intellectual, and clinical antecedents and legacies, and its implications for sexual politics and gender relations.

To propose a panel or paper, please submit:
    1. a cover sheet with contact information (names, phones, addresses,             emails) and AV needs
    2. a short abstract of one paragraph, approximately 150 words
    3. a 500-750 word description of each paper.
Send a hard copy or email attachment (Word) to:
        Gail Fairfield, Administrator, Department of Gender Studies
        Memorial Hall East 130, Indiana University
        Bloomington, IN 47405
        gfairfie@indiana.edu
        Phone: USA 812-855-6977

For current conference information (now) and registration (after October 1) visit the website

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 AMSA Program Committee is seeking paper proposals for its 11th annual conference to be held April 11-13, 2003 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 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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Papers on women of color and queer issues and any exhibits utilizing the arts are extremely welcome. Please submit an abstract and a CV (each 2 pages maximum) to the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (USC students should submit to the USC Canter for Feminist Research). Deadline for Submissions is December 6, 2002. For further information, please contact the CSW office at UCLA UCLA Center for the Study of Women 288 Kinsey Hall 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504 (310) 825-0590 http://www.women.ucla.edu email: csw@csw.ucla.edu THE INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S POLICY RESEARCH (IWPR) - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S POLICY RESEARCH CONFERENCE: “WOMEN WORKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE” IWPR’s Seventh International Women’s Policy Research Conference, “Women Working to Make A Difference,” co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program of The George Washington University and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, will be held June 22-24, 2003 , at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will address a range of issues related to women’s economic, political, health, and social status. The 2003 Conference will bring together policymakers, advocates, researchers, and practitioners from the academic, labor, corporate, government, non-profit and media worlds to discuss new research findings, current trends, and policy strategies relating to women’s lives in the United States and throughout the world. Conference papers, panels, roundtables, and posters will consider women’s progress in the context of uncertain national economies; globalization; the growing awareness of the need for greater corporate and government accountability nationally and internationally; the search for new mechanisms to curb violence, terrorism and military interventions; the erosion of social safety nets; the changing shape of women’s movements worldwide; and more. Participants will share information and debate strategies concerning gender equity in the home, the informal economy, business, civil society, educational institutions, and government. Sessions will address issues ranging from international trade, structural adjustment, fiscal policy, and corporate behavior to women’s poverty, income and work supports, the earnings gap, collective bargaining, micro enterprise, subsistence agriculture, caregiving, the growing population of the elderly, access to health care and family planning services, immigration and migration, trafficking in women, political participation, human rights, and the many faces of women’s leadership. IWPR welcomes proposals that focus on policies affecting women and that make connections between research and policymaking. We particularly welcome proposals addressing issues of race/ethnicity, class, disability status, and sexual orientation across the full life-cycle of women including girlhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older age. Proposals for panels (groups of 3 papers) and roundtables comprising members of diverse communities--e.g., researchers, policymakers, and advocates, or women of different generations, nations, or cultural communities are particularly welcome. Abstracts of proposed presentations are due by December 6, 2002. See the IWPR web site: www.iwpr.org for further information about proposal submissions and information regarding conference logistics. Call for papers - Binghamton Univeristy Department of Romance Languages and Literatures 14th Annual Conference Tropology: Text and Context Keynote Speaker David Bartine Chair of the Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric Binghamton University will speak on Disciplines of Tropology To be included in the program, you are invited to submit an abstract of your paper (not to exceed 250 words) to the coordinator no later than November 15, 2002. Suggested Topics Include: Utopia, The Mirror, Apocalypse, Irony, Parables, Parody, Imagery, Tropes of Decadence, Rhetoric, Metaphors, Symbolism, The Rhetoric of Film, The Rhetoric of History, Metahistory, Comedy, Tragedy, Cultural Tropes, Tropes of Politics, Allegories, Religion as Story, Tropes of Scripture The conference is designed to explore and issues related to tropology. Papers may relate to the general conference topic in and interdisciplinary manner through literature, history, film, sociology, anthropology, political science, art, philosophy or religion. Suggestions for panels or sessions are welcome. For further information contact: Professor Antonio Sobejano-Morán Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Binghamton University PO Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 -or- email sobe@binghamton.edu or cstiner@binghamton.edu Visit the website at http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/4248 Call for proposals - National Women's Studies Association Conference 2003 - June 19-22, 2003, New Orleans, LA Visit the Women's Studies office for guidelines, information, etc. Proposal Deadline: Midnight, Sunday November 24, 2002 Call for Papers - Women's Studies Section, Western Social Science Association, 45th Annual Conference - April 9-12, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, Riviera Hotel The Women's Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association invites proposals from faculty, professionals, and students for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions focused on issues/topics related to Women's Studies. Possible topics include: Teaching Women's Studies Social activism and women's issues Gender inequality Gender/feminist theory Global and multicultural issues Women's realities and choices Leadership Domestic violence and sexual assault Border land issues Employment/labor issues Political, economic and social issues Other relevant topics are also welcome Proposals are to be written in abstract form and must not exceed 150 words (see http://wssa.asu.edu for sample abstracts). Abstracts must be professionally written and ready for publication in the WSSA Conference materials. Abstracts will not be edited for spelling/grammatical errors. Submission deadline is November 25, 2002. In addition, proposals must include: Title of paper, panel, or round table discussion idea Author(s) name(s) Affiliation(s) Address(es) Phone number(s) Email address(es) Fax(es) Proposals that fail to meet the requirements listed will not be accepted. Proposals may be submitted either as email attachments or on PC diskettes (3.5") in Rich Text format using Word Perfect or Microsoft Word. Hard copies will not be accepted. Proposals should be sent to: Susan Green Barger, Women's Studies Section Coordinator Idaho State University Campus Box 8079 Pocatello, ID 83209 or email to bargsusa@isu.edu Call for Papers - 56th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference - 24-26 April 2003 University of Kentucky Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 1, 2002 We invite all scholars to submit abstracts. Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. All presenters and attendees must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 FEBRUARY 2003 to be included in the program. The 2003 KFLC program will be shared with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics for possible inclusion in their data bank. For more information on the conference, please visit www.uky.edu/as/kflc , or contact the directors by email: kflc@uky.edu Conference Theme: Border Crossings Translating Text, Deed and Image; Gender and Ethnicity Across Cultures; Transculturalism; Cross-Media Translations While papers relating to this area are particularly invited, all proposed sessions and abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program, in the following areas: Foreign Language and Hispanic Studies: Spanish-American / International Economics Hispanic Linguistics Ted Fiedler Dianna Niebylski Modern & Classical Languages Hispanic Studies tfiedler@uky.edu dcnieb2@uky.edu French Italian John Erickson Gloria Allaire Modern & Classical Languages Modern & Classical Languages jeric1@uky.edu allaire@uky.edu French Graduate Students Linguistics Julie Human Anna Bosch Modern & Classical Languages Department of English jlhuma2@uky.edu bosch@uky.edu German Linguistics Graduate Studen Sections Linda Kraus Worley Michael O'Hara Modern & Classical Languages Department of English lworley@uky.edu mjora0@uky.edu Hispanic Studies: Graduate Luso-Brazilian Student Sections Euridice Silva-Filho Rebecca Whitehead Modern Languages & Literatures Hispanic Studies Modern Languages & Literatures rwhit2@uky.edu University of Tennessee esilva@utk.edu Hispanic Studies: Pennisular Russian-Slavic & Eastern Studies Spanish Cynthia Ruder Ana Rueda Modern & Classical Languages Hispanic Studies raeruder@uky.edu rueda@uky.edu Call for Papers -Articles, Poetry, Memoir, Fiction, Reviews Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing Practice Women's Studies Quarterly is now seeking submissions for a special Spring/Summer 2004 issue on Women and Development. The issue will focus on the gendered effects of development policies and practices as well as the growing significance of post-development theory and action. We invite submissions drawing upon different feminist approaches to the study of women and development--including liberalism, Marxism, and postmodernism--from those engaged with post-development scholarship and activism along with those who create and implement policies and programs for development organizations. The issue will feature articles, essays, creative writing, teaching material, and book reviews that address one or more of the following questions. 1. What is development? Whose interest does it serve? Have we moved into a post-development era? 2. What are the gender-based challenges faced by women in specific contexts in the 'North' and 'South' today that have changed since the inception of women in development (WID) in the 1970s? In particular, how have the contexts of the Cold War, decolonialization, and neo-liberalism affected development programs in the areas of education, employment, health and politics. 3. How can liberal, Marxist and postmodern feminist scholarship contribute to our understanding of development for women? What are the specific features of feminist post-development theory, and how does it differ from other forms of scholarship on gender and development (GAD)? 4. How do the dynamics of race, class, gender, education, and urbanism limit women's participation in the development process? Do these dynamics look different at various level of development implementation? How might a focus on gender inform debates on the dynamics of other forms of inequality? 5. What might feminist development theory and practice look like in the coming decades as a result of the cultural, economic, and political changes brought about by the forces of globalization? What challenges do the anti-globalization and subsistence movements pose for development programs, policy and practices? 6. How can teachers incorporate women and development issues into the curriculum to foster learning and debate about gender and power relations at the local, national and international levels. Contributions accepted for the special issue will be reviewed by at least two reviewers with the understanding that the materials have not been submitted to another journal. All submissions should be double-spaced, printed on one side of paper with 1-inch margins, and conform to the APA (in text) citation style. Articles should not exceed 20 pages (5,000 words) in length, excluding references. Essays, short stories, and strategies for teaching (with syllabi) should not exceed 15 pages (3, 750 words). Book reviews should not exceed 3 pages (750 words), and they should include a complete citation for the book under review. Please send a disk and three hard copies of submissions along with a full mailing address, daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address to: Professor Frances Vavrus Teachers College Coloumbia University 525 West 120th Street, Box 55 New York, NY 10027 Queries should be sent to either: Fran Vavrus fv84@columbia.edu or to Lisa Ann Richey: Iri@cdr.dk Poetry submissions should be sent to: Edvige Giunta Poetry Editor Women's Studies Quarterly Department of English New Jersey City University Jersey City, NJ 07305 egiunta@njcu.edu The deadline for submission is November 29, 2002. 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 Program 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 Submissions will be accepted from scholars, activists, policy makers, and artists. Proposed 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, physical ability, and age. Technology is understood in the broadest 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 Call for Papers and Panel Proposals - The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, The Indiana University Departments of Gender Studies & History, etc. Women's Sexualities: Historical, Interdisciplinary & International Perspectives For the fiftieth anniversary of Alfred C. Kinsey and Associates' controversial Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) this conference will present recent scholarship on the study, treatment, representation, and regulation of women's sexualities. The conference aims to place women's sexualities in feminist, historical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, and international contexts. It will include special focus on Kinsey's sex research project, its scientific, intellectual, and clinical antecedents and legacies, and its implications for sexual politics and gender relations. To propose a panel or paper, please submit: 1. a cover sheet with contact information (names, phones, addresses, emails) and AV needs 2. a short abstract of one paragraph, approximately 150 words 3. a 500-750 word description of each paper. Send a hard copy or email attachment (Word) to: Gail Fairfield, Administrator, Department of Gender Studies Memorial Hall East 130, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 gfairfie@indiana.edu Phone: USA 812-855-6977 For current conference information (now) and registration (after October 1) visit the website 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 The AMSA Program Committee is seeking paper proposals for its 11th annual conference to be held April 11-13, 2003 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 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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