Calls For Manuscripts, Articles, Submissions
Call for Submissions
Our Stories, OurSelves: The EmBODYment of Womenís Learning
Deadline: September 30th, 2009
http://www.litwomen.org/publications/embody/index.html
How do women's bodies matter in adult literacy and basic education?
Our Volume 1 (Empowering Women through Literacy: Views from Experience) focused on empowering women in the classroom and primarily addressed intellectual and personal barriers to and growth for women's literacy learning. However, we are aware of the many ways in which women's bodies and whole selves are integral to the womanhood we celebrate, yet are ignored, or even silenced, in traditional adult ABE, ESOL, and literacy classes. Even when we do recognize or talk about women's bodies, these discussions generally focus on sexual violence, childcare/parenting, or health. Educators and students seek expression as embodied women, but find these realities difficult to include in current programs and classes. The editors seek to gather writings about the many dimensions of womanhood, specifically related to em-body-ment, as they are experienced in literacy and basic/developmental educational settings.
Call for Papers
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Session Title: The Role of Non-tenure Track Faculty in the Academy (CAITY sponsored panel)
April 7-11, 2010
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
Recent articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education, New Directions for Higher Education and elsewhere question the wisdom of so many part-timers teaching General Education Courses at U.S. colleges and universities. Sponsored by the Contingent / Adjunct / Independent Scholar / Two-Year (C.A.I.T.Y.) Caucus, this roundtable proposes to explore ways non-tenure track faculty can acquire respect within the academy and resist marginalization. It welcomes participants from part- and full-time faculty to consider the question of how to provide equitable and dignified compensation for the non-traditional faculty member, NeMLA roundtables typically feature 3-6 participants who give brief, informal presentations (5-10 minutes) with the remainder of the session open for general discussion. NeMLA charges panelists a media handling fee of $10 for standard audio-visual requests (TV/VCR/DVD, slide projector, overhead projector, media projector). One-page abstracts may be sent via regular or electronic mail to the Panel Chair at the following addresses, where inquiries are also welcome. Mary Ann Tobin, English Department, Triton College, 2000 Fifth Avenue, River Grove, IL 60171, mtobin@triton.edu
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements ($10 handling fee for equipment)
Call for Submissions
Studies in the Humanities
Theoretical Perspectives on Women in Higher Education
Deadline: October 1st, 2009
The editors will cast their net widely: we will seek thesis-driven, innovative essays about women and their experience as students, administrators, and faculty in Normal Schools, colleges, seminaries, and universities that examine pedagogical, scholarly, and research practices in light of (but not to exclusive to) cultural, feminist, gender, historical, rhetorical, and socio-political epistemologies. Essays should have a solid theoretical foundation, and we especially look for those essays that explore past and present contexts of neo-liberal socio/political reform and responses to gender disparities in higher education. Please submit essays of no more than 7-10 double-spaced pages in MLA format by electronic attachment compatible with Microsoft Word. Dr. Theresa McDevitt and/or Dr. Rosalee Stilwell to stilwell@iup.edu or mcdevitt@iup.edu
Call for chapters in an edited volume:
Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism
Deadlines: 300-word abstracts electronically submitted by October 1, 2009, completed chapters will be due by July 1, 2010.
http://groups.google.com/group/philosophy-updates/browse_thread/thread/8de89ee379c304a6
In an article published in Hypatia almost two decades ago, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, asked, ìWhere are all the Pragmatist Feminists?î Seigfried found it curious that feminists had not integrated the intellectual tradition of the United States into their thinking as well as why American pragmatists had failed to engage feminism in a more meaningful manner despite the obvious points of contact between the two branches of thought. Her question remains valid today. Feminist pragmatist scholarship remains a marginalized, albeit robust, area of study. What has occurred in the intervening two decades is the important feminist work of recovery. Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism is an interdisciplinary collection of original chapters that explores the present implications of feminism and pragmatism for theory, policy, and action. Chapters in this volume can take a variety of forms including the drawing of contemporary inference from the work of classical American feminist pragmatist thinkers.
Submissions from all fields are invited. For inquiries please contact Celia Bardwell-Jones at cbardwelljones@towson.edu or Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu . The editors request that 300-word abstracts be sent electronically by October 1, 2009 to Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu Abstracts will be evaluated for and comments/suggestions will be offered to those accepted for the volume.
Call for submissions:
The Tract House is looking for new tracts on 'Darwiniana!'
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum and Philagrafika, The Tract House: The Darwin Addition will be distributing tracts in Philadelphia in early 2010.
Deadline for tracts: October 1, 2009
http://stealthissweater.blogspot.com/2009/08/tract-house-is-looking-for-new-tracts.html
For this special incarnation of The Tract House, we are specifically seeking tracts that have to do with the ideas, themes, and life of Charles Darwin! Tracts can focus on all matter of Darwiniana, including, but not limited to: geology, theology, sexuality, asexuality, extinction, deep time, God, God-lessness, natural selection, mutation, survival of the fittest, breeding, inbreeding, observation, cannibalism, ape relatives, botany, barnacles, hermaphrodites, lost continents, heredity, and animal emotions. In addition, tract writers may want to tackle more practical issues, such as: food and hygiene on a five year journey, how to make friends with strangers living on islands, beards, pet turtles, on-board diversions, keeping specimens from accidentally being eaten, killing for science, and world travel pre-internet.
For images of The Tract House in action, visit http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/projects/tracthouse/index.html
Please submit your text to: TheTractHouse@gmail.com
What is a tract?
A tract is generally a concise treatise, printed for mass distribution in pamphlet form. Though the most commonly stumbled-upon tracts are religious in theme, tracts historically have also included political manifestos and other ideas.
What about artwork?
If you imagine that there should be a graphic or drawing accompanying your words, send something along or let us know what it is youíd like to see and weíll see what we can dig up.
Call for Essays
Hampton Press book series
Transnational Feminisms
Deadline October 15, 2009
Final essays should be submitted by January 1, 2010
Essays are sought for the first volume in the Hampton Press book series, Transnational Feminisms, that investigates current concepts of transnational or global feminisms, and the attention and critique such concepts have receive within public, scholarly, international, creative and performative discourses. The editors seek a broad-ranging set of investigations on areas including, but not limited to, ethics and transnational feminisms, women and leadership, diverse enactments of feminist activism, and transnational politics of difference. Authors will engage with multiple constructions of global feminism that assume common concerns and similar shared lived experiences by all women in current times. Essays that interrogate intersections of gender, class, nation, ethnicity, and the tendencies of globalization on womenís roles, identities and communities are encouraged. Please send queries and/or abstracts to Noemi Marin, nmarin@fau.edu or Lara Lengel, lengell@bgsu.edu
Call for Submissions
Invisible Culture: A Journal for Visual Culture
The Cultural Visualization of Hurricane Katrina
Deadline for Papers: October 15, 2009
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
Guest Editors: Nicola Mann and Victoria Pass, University of Rochester
Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute. This issue aims to analyze representations of Katrina and its aftermath using the methodologies of visual and cultural studies. We are interested in the ways that analyses of the politics of representation, as exemplified in the case of Katrina, opens up into a discussion the evolution of visual and cultural studies in the last ten or twenty years. We seek papers that consider visual representations of Hurricane Katrina in a ways unimaginable at earlier points in the intersection between visual studies and cultural studies. Accepted essays will accompany the transcript of an upcoming roundtable discussion between the founders of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochesterís co-founders, on the occasion of the programís twentieth anniversary (Mieke Bal, Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Kaja Silverman, Constance Penley, and Janet Wolff; moderated by Douglas Crimp). Please send inquiries and completed papers (MLA style) of 2,500 ñ 5,000 words to Nicola Mann (nmann2@mail.rochester.edu) and Victoria Pass (vpass@mail.rochester.edu).
Call for Reviewers
In Visible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book and exhibition reviews (600-1000 words). To submit book or exhibition review proposals please email ivcbookreviews@gmail.com. For a list of reviewable titles, see: http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Reviews/review_copies.html
Request for Proposals
2010 Gulf-South Summit
PEOPLE, PLACE, & PARTNERS: Building and Sustaining Engagement in Critical Times
Deadlinefor submissions: October 19, 2009
March 3-5, 2010
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2010 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education March 3-5, 2010. Please see the website http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/gulf_south/ for more details.
Call for Papers
A Special Issue of Women's Writing on Fanny Trollope
Deadline October 31, 2010
Please submit papers for consideration between 4000-7000 words to Tamara S. Wagner at tamarasilviawagner@yahoo.com.sg
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/womenswriting
Still largely overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances (or Fanny, as she preferred to be called) Trollope is now almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, not only covered and transgressed numerous narrative trends. It also spanned from the early 1830s into the mid-fifties, which also prompts us to reconsider conventional lines of demarcation between periods as well as genres. A contemporary of Jane Austen, Trollope started writing at a time when fashionable silver-fork fiction was being self-reflexively reassessed and, throughout her extensive oeuvre, continued to combine diverse narrative forms while capitalizing on the rapidly evolving subgenres of the time. Recent interest specifically in her social-problems novels has brought at least some of her so far lesser known works back into print, while research into women's contributions to periodicals has newly unearthed parallels between her seemingly very different works. A thorough reassessment of her position in nineteenth-century literary culture, however, promises to highlight her own versatility and the diversity of as well as important intersections between literary developments. Contributors should follow the journal's house style details of which are to be found on the Women's Writing web site http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0999082.asp This is the new MLA. Please note that instead of footnotes, we use endnotes with NO bibliography. All bibliographical information is included in the endnotes. For example, we require place of publication, publisher and date of publication in brackets after a book is cited for the first time. Please also include an abstract, a brief biographical blurb (100 words maximum), and a key of 6 words suitable for indexing and abstracting services.
Call for Submissions
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 12.1
Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War and Social Justice
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
The journal will explore the topic from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, anti-violence activists and other professionals and community workers. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.
Call for Proposals for Chapters
Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.aera.net/HREL.htm
Edited by Linda C. Tillman and James Joseph ìJimî Scheurich
Associate Editors: Colleen Capper, James Earl Davis, Andrea Evans, Gerardo Lopez, Sylvia Mendez Morse, and Grayson Noley
Over the last decade, U.S. schools have been called upon to provide an equitable and excellent education for students who traditionally have been marginalized: students of color, students from low-income homes, students with disabilities, LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered) students, students in families in which English is not the dominant language, female students, and so forth. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity, a project of the American Educational Research Association, will feature chapters that reframe research within the field of educational leadership; a reframing that is consonant with the existing social, cultural, economic, and political contexts of U.S. schools. The goal of the proposed handbook is to present theoretical and empirical scholarship that focuses on socially just educational leadership, particularly with respect to the education of diverse student populations. Additionally, the orientation of the handbook will be assets based; that is, diversity as an asset to those individuals living it and to schools and society. The primary audience for the handbook is the research and scholarly community. The handbook is intended to serve as a source of knowledge for the next generation of researchers and to lay the foundation for promising and significant directions for future research on leadership, diversity, equity, and social justice. Developed under the auspices of AERAís books program, this handbook was advanced by the editors as a Division A (Administration, Organization, & Leadership) initiative. Proposals are welcomed and encouraged from scholars with relevant research backgrounds, irrespective of AERA or division memberships.
Call for chapters in an edited volume
Demeter Press
South Asian Mothering
Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2009
Deadline March 7, 2010
Publication Date: Fall 2011
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/demeterpress.html
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection by Jasjit Kaur Sangha to be published in 2011. South Asian culture reveres mothers for being selfless, nurturing, and devoted to their family. This reverence predicates that women will find fulfillment in mothering, and that mothering will occur in the context of a heterosexual family. This edited collection seeks to unravel the complexity of South Asian mothering by asking: What does it mean to be a South Asian mother? How do embedded cultural values influence South Asian mothering practices? How does non-conformity to South Asian norms and customs affect South Asian mothers? How are South Asian mothers affected by the process of migration? What are the barriers and difficulties experienced by South Asian mothers? What is beneficial about being a South Asian mother? The aim of this collection is to initiate dialogue on the paradoxical experience of South Asian mothering. Theoretical, narrative and arts-informed creative submissions are welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts: 250 words in length.
Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2009
Academic Papers: 15-18 pages, Narratives: 8-12 pages, Creative submission 5-8pages Deadline for Papers: March 7, 2010
Please submit proposals to: Jasjit Kaur Sangha jasjit.mothering@gmail.com
Call for Submissions
Gender, Dressing and Transnational Bodies
Deadline: November 12th, 2009
http://www2.drury.edu/ekenny/
This is a call for contributions for a volume on gender, dressing and transnational bodies as part of a new series called ìContributions to Transnational Feminism.î The series is concerned with innovative discussions of gender in a transnational context that investigate and engage various aspects of power and privilege at play in the interaction of peoples, ideas, and commodities in a global economy. Submissions can originate in gender studies, dress studies, social theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, feminist anthropology, cultural geography, art history, critical theory, development studies or other interdisciplinary fields. Contributions should offer new theoretical insights and/or grounded empirical research that engage with/contest the emerging field of transnational feminism(s). More information on the series can be found here: http://www2.drury.edu/ekenny/. See website for more information.
Call for academic editorial contributors
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Todayís World
Editors are making assignments with a submission due date of December 1, 2009
This is a new print and electronic reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the encyclopedia will focus on womenís status starting in approximately 2000 and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research, ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary womenís and gender studies. This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the libraryís electronic services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K. Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature, redefining womenís issues in todayís terms. Moreover, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more. The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.
If interested contact Sue Moskowitz, Director of Author Recruitment, Golson Media by e-mail at: women@golsonmedia.com Please provide a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in womenís and gender issues.
Call for Submissions for book
Women and the Media: Global Perspectives
Abstract Deadline: December 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: June 1st, 2010
The editors of Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives are seeking articles and essays for a new book which addresses the global status of women in the media. Looking for such topics as: stereotypical depictions of women, women and political activism, women as commodities, hegemony and the status quo, a new look at the male gaze, and women who are media pioneers. Contact: Theresa Carilli, Department of Communication, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323, carilli@calumet.purdue.edu
Call for Authors and Reviewers
Thirdspace
Deadline December 1, 2009
http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/announcement/view/5
Thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture invites reviews for its forthcoming issue on gender, sport and the Olympics. We welcome reviews of books, films and other media forms that explore the key themes of the issue. If you are the author of a book you would like considered for review, or someone who wishes to submit a suggestion for a book to review, please contact the review editors Lizzie Seal (lizzie.seal@durham.ac.uk) and Joni Palmer (joni.palmer@colorado.edu). If you would like to contribute to this issue as a reviewer but do not have a book, film, or other media in mind: Please see attached list of books, films, etc. Book reviews should range from 650 words to 850 words (about 4-5 paragraphs or 1-2 pages). Review essays (reviewing two or more books in a field) or an in-depth review of an anthology are also welcome, and should be no more than 2000 words (about 7 pages). Reviews of films, performances, exhibitions, computer games and other media forms that concern women and/or gender issues are encouraged. Reviews of this nature should be informed by feminist thinking and demonstrate scholarly criticism. Reviews should range from 650 words to 850 words (about 4-5 paragraphs or 1-2 pages). We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives. Submissions from researchers working within, or among, the disciplines of geography, sociology, literature, area studies, cultural studies, film/media studies, art, history, education, law, and womenís/gender studies are particularly encouraged. We accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students. All submissions in this category undergo an internal editorial screen and review process and must conform to our style guide. See website for books available for Review: (A complimentary copy of the book will be sent to the reviewer).
Call for Submissions
A Queer Gaze: Media and the Global GLBT Community
Abstract Deadline: December 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: June 1st, 2010
The editors are looking for research and essays that address how the GLBT communities are represented in the media, both in the U.S. and around the world. They would like to hear from scholars and activists how these communities are silenced or given voice through the media. Contact: Theresa Carilli, Department of Communication, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323, carilli@calumet.purdue.edu
Call for Articles and Essays for a special cluster of Pedagogy on:
Interdisciplinary Pedagogies
Full drafts for review will be due December 31, 2009
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pedagogy/
Guest edited by Michelle Gibson (University of Cincinnati) and Jonathan Alexander (University of California, Irvine) The growing consensus in many academic fields is that students can and do benefit from interdisciplinary courses. These courses utilize pedagogical methods, research, theory, and other scholarship from multiple fields, applying them to issues, problems, or questions. Instructors of interdisciplinary courses usually choose materials based on what is applicable; this distinguishes interdisciplinary courses from multidisciplinary courses, which can often maintain a course focus on disciplinary thinking by providing ìmultiple perspectivesî rather than offering students that theory and research which most effectively forms a nexus of knowledge around the subject(s) under discussion. Some institutions have developed interdisciplinary programs in which faculty from diverse disciplines work together to create interdisciplinary programs. In other locations, particularly in area studies programs like Womenís Studies, Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies, etc., instructors working alone develop interdisciplinary pedagogies without the direct input of scholars from ìotherî disciplines. No matter whether teachers work collaboratively or independently to develop interdisciplinary pedagogies, interdisciplinary courses and programs are often touted for their comprehensiveness, their potential for offering creative and innovative coursework, and for the energy and enthusiasm they seem to engender in both students and faculty. We seek articles for a dedicated ìstrandî or ìclusterî of the journal Pedagogy which provide thoughtful and carefully presented definitions of interdisciplinary pedagogy, examples of interdisciplinary pedagogy ìin action,î and/or theory about the interdisciplinary pedagogical endeavor. In general, we hope that authors will avoid simple ìhow-toî articles or simple ìcelebrationsî of interdisciplinary pedagogy. The articles that will interest us most will be those which are themselves interdisciplinary and which are theoretical even as they narrate. Ultimately, we hope to expand our understanding of 'interdisciplinary pedagogy' by problematizing our understandings of it. What is interdisciplinarity in the classroom? In our curricula? In our programs? And in our pedagogies and pedagogical theories?
All articles submitted for this strand will receive two levels of peer review. The strand editors will provide initial review and the articles selected for submission to the journal will then be reviewed using the journalís usual peer-review process. The journalís editors have final say on all essays submitted for publication. For more information, contact either Michelle Gibson (gibsonma@ucmail.uc.edu) or Jonathan Alexander (jfalexan@uci.edu). Proposals for articles are welcome.
Call for Submissions
HEADCASE: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer (LGBTQ) Writers
and Artists on Mental Illness
An anthology edited by Teresa Theophano, LMSW
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Headcase will be an anthology comprised of 15-20 nonfiction pieces by writers and artists both established and new, exploring the theme of mental health, mental illness, and mental health care in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community. The book is currently being considered for publication by a major queer press. The anthology seeks essays, poetry, and comics by queer consumers of mental health services or queer individuals who have been diagnosed, but do not identify as patients, with mental illness. Works should explore the intersection of queerness and mental health and can include topics such as psychotropics; Gender Identity Disorder and its acceptance or rejection as a legitimate mental disorder; conventional, holistic treatment; experiences in therapy, groups, and/or institutions; how race and ethnicity, class, sex, gender identity, age, and disability impact access to treatment; addiction, self-medicating, and recovery. Modest compensation provided upon publication to contributors whose pieces are chosen.
Guidelines:
Call For Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Inventions of Activism
Michael Benton, Alan Clinton, Wes Houp and Danny Mayer, editors.
Deadline no later than February 1, 2010
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/upcoming.shtml
This issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture solicits a variety of work which looks to activism as a broad array of creative practices yet to be defined. We seek not to revisit debates between theory and practice, but to view activism as a form of invention which may lead to new cultural formations. What challenges do activists face as practicing utopians? What more or less local examples of activism can be looked to as models for further practice? How can activism as performance, as technology, as art lead to the production of new political and social theory? How is activism the art of the possible? Please send completed papers and abstracts to the editors at inventionsofactivism@gmail.com no later than February 1, 2010. Earlier submissions and queries are welcome as we may be able to collaborate with authors in order to produce work that not only fits with the intent of the issue but with the standards of Reconstruction.
Call for Articles
Academic Exchange Quarterly, Summer 2010, Volume 14, Issue 2:
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Submission deadline: Any time until the end of February 2010
Submission Procedure: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm
The focus of this issue is on the process of learning.
Who May Submit:
Papers are invited that focus on issues and research related to this "meta-pedagogy." Subject areas might include classroom methods, teaching technologies, assessment that enhances learning, strategies that promote equal opportunity in the classroom, learning styles and beliefs, outcomes-based learning, teacher effectiveness, the use of writing journals or other approaches to represent and assess thinking processes, meta-cognitive strategies used by teachers or students, and the use of different models of learning such as constructivist or behaviorist. Papers may represent investigations at any grade level, K-graduate level
See details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short ñsee http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm#date
Early submission offers an opportunity to be considered for Editors' Choice - http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edchoice.htm
Please identify your submission with keyword: SCHOLAR-2
Feature Editor: Dr. Betsy Eudey, Associate Professor of Gender Studies & Director of the
Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning California State University Stanislaus
Email: BEudey@csustan.edu
Call for Submissions
Journal of American Culture
The Greening -- or not -- of America
The deadline for submission is Dec. 31 2010
The issue will be published in March 2012
At the focus of this special issue is the global environmental crisis now sometimes being faced, and undeniably also sometimes being denied. What are its implications for the culture of the United States of America , because of its position as the worldís dominant military superpower and consumer of resources, occupies a critical role in the environmental crisis. In this special issue the editors seek contributions from a range of interdisciplinary environmental thinkers, dreamers and practitioners. Essays can address an environmental practitioner or thinker, an idea, issue, philosophy or form of activism, historical or current. They can examine explicitly environmental texts, provide new readings of texts not generally understood as 'green,' and/or also take the form of a 'manifesto.' They can explore 'green' understandings of such basics as birth, food, community, sex, health, sickness, spirituality, and death. They particularly welcome essays based in ecological feminist and transnational perspectives and in awareness of the intersections of environmental devastations with all forms of social injustice. Submissions, generally 15-25 pages in length, are to be original scholarly manuscripts formatted according to MLA style guidelines using in-text citations with author's name and page number. Endnotes and works cited should appear at the end of the paper. In light of space limitations, please avoid excessive use of endnotes. This issue will be edited by Jane Caputi ( jcaputi@fau.edu ) and Suzanne Kelly ( suzmkelly@aol.com ). Direct inquiries to either editor. Send completed manuscripts to The Journal of American Culture at jac@vwc.edu or The Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan College , 1584 Wesleyan Drive , Norfolk , VA 23502 .
Call for Submissions
The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (JARM)
Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief JARM Vol. 12.2
Deadline: May 1st, 2010
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/journal.html
The journal will explore the topic of Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, health care workers, and other professionals and community workers. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.
Call for Submissions
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Open submission deadline
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/092/contents092.shtml
This journal is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes three themed issues and one open issue per year. Send open submissions (year round) to reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com and submissions for themed issues to the appropriate editors listed on the site.
Call For Submissions
Best Bi Short Stories
Open submission deadline
http://www.biwriters.org
Seeking stories that illuminate something about the experience of being bi. Stories can focus on relationships, romance, dating and sex, of course but weíd like to see much more than that. All genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, romance, historical, mystery, western, vampires, etc. as well as contemporary fiction are encouraged.
Call For Submissions
Journal of International Women's Studies
Open submission deadline
http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/JIWS/
The Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) is currently accepting book reviews for possible publication. JIWS is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; "western" and "third world" feminisms; professionals and students; men and women.
Call for Submissions
Journal of Women's Intercultural Leadership
Open submission deadline
http://www.saintmarys.edu/cwil/jwil
The Journal of Womenís Intercultural Leadership serves as a resource for scholars and practitioners who seek to bring intercultural perspectives and practices to their classes, research, programs, or institutions. This refereed journal focuses on womenís studies, leadership development, and intercultural education (including international and domestic multicultural) and the complex interdisciplinary intersections between these disciplines to yield a distinctive, interconnected synthesis of ideas and best practices. The Journal contains articles, discussion forums, and book reviews.
Call For Submissions
NWSA Journal
Open submission deadline
http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/
The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Womenís Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Womenís Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective.
Call For Submissions
Qui Parle
University of California Berkeley
Open submission deadline
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/
Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues. Since its inception in 1986, the print journal has explored questions of language and textuality, theories of subjectivity, aesthetics, gender studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the journal has expanded upon its original affiliation with literary criticism and Continental philosophy in order to feature articles from the human sciences, including the philosophy of science, anthropology, and sociology. This dilation enables even greater possibilities for comparative examinations of critical questions of concern for the humanities and social sciences alike, including: cultural alterity, the politics of visual culture, secularity and religion, nationalisms, political violence, migration and diaspora, questions of psychological development and trauma, the politics of memory, the historical anthropology of science, and modes of non-European or Anglo-American intelligibility.
Call For Submissions
Women's Studies International Forum
Open submission deadline
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journalaudience.cws_home/361/description#audience
Articles discussing gender/women/sexualities in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe, particularly within transnational/globalization frameworks, including the new identity of Europe as European Union and its extension toward Eastern Europe.
Call For Submissions
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Open submission deadline
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for its 2009-2010 editorial year. Women's Studies provides a forum for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. We encourage scholars from all disciplines to submit articles based in film, television, literature, art, or other media. Women\'s Studies also publishes creative fiction, creative non-fiction, and book reviews. Submissions for cover art or art essays are always welcome.
Submissions: Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts must be formatted according to MLA guidelines. Essays should be approximately 25 pages in length. Authors should also supply a shortened version of the title for a running head, not exceeding 50 character spaces, an abstract of approximately 100 words, the author\'s affiliation and location. Each submitted article must contain author\'s mailing address, telephone number, e-mail, and a short biographical paragraph.
Send a cover letter, three copies of the manuscript, and a copy on disk to:
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Sharon Becker, Associate Editor
Claremont Graduate University
Department of English, Blaisdell House
143 East Tenth Street
womstudj@cgu.ed
Our Stories, OurSelves: The EmBODYment of Womenís Learning
Deadline: September 30th, 2009
http://www.litwomen.org/publications/embody/index.html
How do women's bodies matter in adult literacy and basic education?
Our Volume 1 (Empowering Women through Literacy: Views from Experience) focused on empowering women in the classroom and primarily addressed intellectual and personal barriers to and growth for women's literacy learning. However, we are aware of the many ways in which women's bodies and whole selves are integral to the womanhood we celebrate, yet are ignored, or even silenced, in traditional adult ABE, ESOL, and literacy classes. Even when we do recognize or talk about women's bodies, these discussions generally focus on sexual violence, childcare/parenting, or health. Educators and students seek expression as embodied women, but find these realities difficult to include in current programs and classes. The editors seek to gather writings about the many dimensions of womanhood, specifically related to em-body-ment, as they are experienced in literacy and basic/developmental educational settings.
Call for Papers
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Session Title: The Role of Non-tenure Track Faculty in the Academy (CAITY sponsored panel)
April 7-11, 2010
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
Recent articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education, New Directions for Higher Education and elsewhere question the wisdom of so many part-timers teaching General Education Courses at U.S. colleges and universities. Sponsored by the Contingent / Adjunct / Independent Scholar / Two-Year (C.A.I.T.Y.) Caucus, this roundtable proposes to explore ways non-tenure track faculty can acquire respect within the academy and resist marginalization. It welcomes participants from part- and full-time faculty to consider the question of how to provide equitable and dignified compensation for the non-traditional faculty member, NeMLA roundtables typically feature 3-6 participants who give brief, informal presentations (5-10 minutes) with the remainder of the session open for general discussion. NeMLA charges panelists a media handling fee of $10 for standard audio-visual requests (TV/VCR/DVD, slide projector, overhead projector, media projector). One-page abstracts may be sent via regular or electronic mail to the Panel Chair at the following addresses, where inquiries are also welcome. Mary Ann Tobin, English Department, Triton College, 2000 Fifth Avenue, River Grove, IL 60171, mtobin@triton.edu
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements ($10 handling fee for equipment)
Call for Submissions
Studies in the Humanities
Theoretical Perspectives on Women in Higher Education
Deadline: October 1st, 2009
The editors will cast their net widely: we will seek thesis-driven, innovative essays about women and their experience as students, administrators, and faculty in Normal Schools, colleges, seminaries, and universities that examine pedagogical, scholarly, and research practices in light of (but not to exclusive to) cultural, feminist, gender, historical, rhetorical, and socio-political epistemologies. Essays should have a solid theoretical foundation, and we especially look for those essays that explore past and present contexts of neo-liberal socio/political reform and responses to gender disparities in higher education. Please submit essays of no more than 7-10 double-spaced pages in MLA format by electronic attachment compatible with Microsoft Word. Dr. Theresa McDevitt and/or Dr. Rosalee Stilwell to stilwell@iup.edu or mcdevitt@iup.edu
Call for chapters in an edited volume:
Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism
Deadlines: 300-word abstracts electronically submitted by October 1, 2009, completed chapters will be due by July 1, 2010.
http://groups.google.com/group/philosophy-updates/browse_thread/thread/8de89ee379c304a6
In an article published in Hypatia almost two decades ago, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, asked, ìWhere are all the Pragmatist Feminists?î Seigfried found it curious that feminists had not integrated the intellectual tradition of the United States into their thinking as well as why American pragmatists had failed to engage feminism in a more meaningful manner despite the obvious points of contact between the two branches of thought. Her question remains valid today. Feminist pragmatist scholarship remains a marginalized, albeit robust, area of study. What has occurred in the intervening two decades is the important feminist work of recovery. Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism is an interdisciplinary collection of original chapters that explores the present implications of feminism and pragmatism for theory, policy, and action. Chapters in this volume can take a variety of forms including the drawing of contemporary inference from the work of classical American feminist pragmatist thinkers.
Submissions from all fields are invited. For inquiries please contact Celia Bardwell-Jones at cbardwelljones@towson.edu or Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu . The editors request that 300-word abstracts be sent electronically by October 1, 2009 to Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu Abstracts will be evaluated for and comments/suggestions will be offered to those accepted for the volume.
Call for submissions:
The Tract House is looking for new tracts on 'Darwiniana!'
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum and Philagrafika, The Tract House: The Darwin Addition will be distributing tracts in Philadelphia in early 2010.
Deadline for tracts: October 1, 2009
http://stealthissweater.blogspot.com/2009/08/tract-house-is-looking-for-new-tracts.html
For this special incarnation of The Tract House, we are specifically seeking tracts that have to do with the ideas, themes, and life of Charles Darwin! Tracts can focus on all matter of Darwiniana, including, but not limited to: geology, theology, sexuality, asexuality, extinction, deep time, God, God-lessness, natural selection, mutation, survival of the fittest, breeding, inbreeding, observation, cannibalism, ape relatives, botany, barnacles, hermaphrodites, lost continents, heredity, and animal emotions. In addition, tract writers may want to tackle more practical issues, such as: food and hygiene on a five year journey, how to make friends with strangers living on islands, beards, pet turtles, on-board diversions, keeping specimens from accidentally being eaten, killing for science, and world travel pre-internet.
For images of The Tract House in action, visit http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/projects/tracthouse/index.html
Please submit your text to: TheTractHouse@gmail.com
What is a tract?
A tract is generally a concise treatise, printed for mass distribution in pamphlet form. Though the most commonly stumbled-upon tracts are religious in theme, tracts historically have also included political manifestos and other ideas.
What about artwork?
If you imagine that there should be a graphic or drawing accompanying your words, send something along or let us know what it is youíd like to see and weíll see what we can dig up.
Call for Essays
Hampton Press book series
Transnational Feminisms
Deadline October 15, 2009
Final essays should be submitted by January 1, 2010
Essays are sought for the first volume in the Hampton Press book series, Transnational Feminisms, that investigates current concepts of transnational or global feminisms, and the attention and critique such concepts have receive within public, scholarly, international, creative and performative discourses. The editors seek a broad-ranging set of investigations on areas including, but not limited to, ethics and transnational feminisms, women and leadership, diverse enactments of feminist activism, and transnational politics of difference. Authors will engage with multiple constructions of global feminism that assume common concerns and similar shared lived experiences by all women in current times. Essays that interrogate intersections of gender, class, nation, ethnicity, and the tendencies of globalization on womenís roles, identities and communities are encouraged. Please send queries and/or abstracts to Noemi Marin, nmarin@fau.edu or Lara Lengel, lengell@bgsu.edu
Call for Submissions
Invisible Culture: A Journal for Visual Culture
The Cultural Visualization of Hurricane Katrina
Deadline for Papers: October 15, 2009
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
Guest Editors: Nicola Mann and Victoria Pass, University of Rochester
Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute. This issue aims to analyze representations of Katrina and its aftermath using the methodologies of visual and cultural studies. We are interested in the ways that analyses of the politics of representation, as exemplified in the case of Katrina, opens up into a discussion the evolution of visual and cultural studies in the last ten or twenty years. We seek papers that consider visual representations of Hurricane Katrina in a ways unimaginable at earlier points in the intersection between visual studies and cultural studies. Accepted essays will accompany the transcript of an upcoming roundtable discussion between the founders of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochesterís co-founders, on the occasion of the programís twentieth anniversary (Mieke Bal, Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Kaja Silverman, Constance Penley, and Janet Wolff; moderated by Douglas Crimp). Please send inquiries and completed papers (MLA style) of 2,500 ñ 5,000 words to Nicola Mann (nmann2@mail.rochester.edu) and Victoria Pass (vpass@mail.rochester.edu).
Call for Reviewers
In Visible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book and exhibition reviews (600-1000 words). To submit book or exhibition review proposals please email ivcbookreviews@gmail.com. For a list of reviewable titles, see: http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Reviews/review_copies.html
Request for Proposals
2010 Gulf-South Summit
PEOPLE, PLACE, & PARTNERS: Building and Sustaining Engagement in Critical Times
Deadlinefor submissions: October 19, 2009
March 3-5, 2010
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2010 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education March 3-5, 2010. Please see the website http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/gulf_south/ for more details.
Call for Papers
A Special Issue of Women's Writing on Fanny Trollope
Deadline October 31, 2010
Please submit papers for consideration between 4000-7000 words to Tamara S. Wagner at tamarasilviawagner@yahoo.com.sg
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/womenswriting
Still largely overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances (or Fanny, as she preferred to be called) Trollope is now almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, not only covered and transgressed numerous narrative trends. It also spanned from the early 1830s into the mid-fifties, which also prompts us to reconsider conventional lines of demarcation between periods as well as genres. A contemporary of Jane Austen, Trollope started writing at a time when fashionable silver-fork fiction was being self-reflexively reassessed and, throughout her extensive oeuvre, continued to combine diverse narrative forms while capitalizing on the rapidly evolving subgenres of the time. Recent interest specifically in her social-problems novels has brought at least some of her so far lesser known works back into print, while research into women's contributions to periodicals has newly unearthed parallels between her seemingly very different works. A thorough reassessment of her position in nineteenth-century literary culture, however, promises to highlight her own versatility and the diversity of as well as important intersections between literary developments. Contributors should follow the journal's house style details of which are to be found on the Women's Writing web site http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0999082.asp This is the new MLA. Please note that instead of footnotes, we use endnotes with NO bibliography. All bibliographical information is included in the endnotes. For example, we require place of publication, publisher and date of publication in brackets after a book is cited for the first time. Please also include an abstract, a brief biographical blurb (100 words maximum), and a key of 6 words suitable for indexing and abstracting services.
Call for Submissions
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 12.1
Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War and Social Justice
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
The journal will explore the topic from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, anti-violence activists and other professionals and community workers. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.
Call for Proposals for Chapters
Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.aera.net/HREL.htm
Edited by Linda C. Tillman and James Joseph ìJimî Scheurich
Associate Editors: Colleen Capper, James Earl Davis, Andrea Evans, Gerardo Lopez, Sylvia Mendez Morse, and Grayson Noley
Over the last decade, U.S. schools have been called upon to provide an equitable and excellent education for students who traditionally have been marginalized: students of color, students from low-income homes, students with disabilities, LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered) students, students in families in which English is not the dominant language, female students, and so forth. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity, a project of the American Educational Research Association, will feature chapters that reframe research within the field of educational leadership; a reframing that is consonant with the existing social, cultural, economic, and political contexts of U.S. schools. The goal of the proposed handbook is to present theoretical and empirical scholarship that focuses on socially just educational leadership, particularly with respect to the education of diverse student populations. Additionally, the orientation of the handbook will be assets based; that is, diversity as an asset to those individuals living it and to schools and society. The primary audience for the handbook is the research and scholarly community. The handbook is intended to serve as a source of knowledge for the next generation of researchers and to lay the foundation for promising and significant directions for future research on leadership, diversity, equity, and social justice. Developed under the auspices of AERAís books program, this handbook was advanced by the editors as a Division A (Administration, Organization, & Leadership) initiative. Proposals are welcomed and encouraged from scholars with relevant research backgrounds, irrespective of AERA or division memberships.
Call for chapters in an edited volume
Demeter Press
South Asian Mothering
Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2009
Deadline March 7, 2010
Publication Date: Fall 2011
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/demeterpress.html
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection by Jasjit Kaur Sangha to be published in 2011. South Asian culture reveres mothers for being selfless, nurturing, and devoted to their family. This reverence predicates that women will find fulfillment in mothering, and that mothering will occur in the context of a heterosexual family. This edited collection seeks to unravel the complexity of South Asian mothering by asking: What does it mean to be a South Asian mother? How do embedded cultural values influence South Asian mothering practices? How does non-conformity to South Asian norms and customs affect South Asian mothers? How are South Asian mothers affected by the process of migration? What are the barriers and difficulties experienced by South Asian mothers? What is beneficial about being a South Asian mother? The aim of this collection is to initiate dialogue on the paradoxical experience of South Asian mothering. Theoretical, narrative and arts-informed creative submissions are welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts: 250 words in length.
Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2009
Academic Papers: 15-18 pages, Narratives: 8-12 pages, Creative submission 5-8pages Deadline for Papers: March 7, 2010
Please submit proposals to: Jasjit Kaur Sangha jasjit.mothering@gmail.com
Call for Submissions
Gender, Dressing and Transnational Bodies
Deadline: November 12th, 2009
http://www2.drury.edu/ekenny/
This is a call for contributions for a volume on gender, dressing and transnational bodies as part of a new series called ìContributions to Transnational Feminism.î The series is concerned with innovative discussions of gender in a transnational context that investigate and engage various aspects of power and privilege at play in the interaction of peoples, ideas, and commodities in a global economy. Submissions can originate in gender studies, dress studies, social theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, feminist anthropology, cultural geography, art history, critical theory, development studies or other interdisciplinary fields. Contributions should offer new theoretical insights and/or grounded empirical research that engage with/contest the emerging field of transnational feminism(s). More information on the series can be found here: http://www2.drury.edu/ekenny/. See website for more information.
Call for academic editorial contributors
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Todayís World
Editors are making assignments with a submission due date of December 1, 2009
This is a new print and electronic reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the encyclopedia will focus on womenís status starting in approximately 2000 and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research, ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary womenís and gender studies. This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the libraryís electronic services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K. Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature, redefining womenís issues in todayís terms. Moreover, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more. The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.
If interested contact Sue Moskowitz, Director of Author Recruitment, Golson Media by e-mail at: women@golsonmedia.com Please provide a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in womenís and gender issues.
Call for Submissions for book
Women and the Media: Global Perspectives
Abstract Deadline: December 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: June 1st, 2010
The editors of Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives are seeking articles and essays for a new book which addresses the global status of women in the media. Looking for such topics as: stereotypical depictions of women, women and political activism, women as commodities, hegemony and the status quo, a new look at the male gaze, and women who are media pioneers. Contact: Theresa Carilli, Department of Communication, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323, carilli@calumet.purdue.edu
Call for Authors and Reviewers
Thirdspace
Deadline December 1, 2009
http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/announcement/view/5
Thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture invites reviews for its forthcoming issue on gender, sport and the Olympics. We welcome reviews of books, films and other media forms that explore the key themes of the issue. If you are the author of a book you would like considered for review, or someone who wishes to submit a suggestion for a book to review, please contact the review editors Lizzie Seal (lizzie.seal@durham.ac.uk) and Joni Palmer (joni.palmer@colorado.edu). If you would like to contribute to this issue as a reviewer but do not have a book, film, or other media in mind: Please see attached list of books, films, etc. Book reviews should range from 650 words to 850 words (about 4-5 paragraphs or 1-2 pages). Review essays (reviewing two or more books in a field) or an in-depth review of an anthology are also welcome, and should be no more than 2000 words (about 7 pages). Reviews of films, performances, exhibitions, computer games and other media forms that concern women and/or gender issues are encouraged. Reviews of this nature should be informed by feminist thinking and demonstrate scholarly criticism. Reviews should range from 650 words to 850 words (about 4-5 paragraphs or 1-2 pages). We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives. Submissions from researchers working within, or among, the disciplines of geography, sociology, literature, area studies, cultural studies, film/media studies, art, history, education, law, and womenís/gender studies are particularly encouraged. We accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students. All submissions in this category undergo an internal editorial screen and review process and must conform to our style guide. See website for books available for Review: (A complimentary copy of the book will be sent to the reviewer).
Call for Submissions
A Queer Gaze: Media and the Global GLBT Community
Abstract Deadline: December 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: June 1st, 2010
The editors are looking for research and essays that address how the GLBT communities are represented in the media, both in the U.S. and around the world. They would like to hear from scholars and activists how these communities are silenced or given voice through the media. Contact: Theresa Carilli, Department of Communication, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323, carilli@calumet.purdue.edu
Call for Articles and Essays for a special cluster of Pedagogy on:
Interdisciplinary Pedagogies
Full drafts for review will be due December 31, 2009
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pedagogy/
Guest edited by Michelle Gibson (University of Cincinnati) and Jonathan Alexander (University of California, Irvine) The growing consensus in many academic fields is that students can and do benefit from interdisciplinary courses. These courses utilize pedagogical methods, research, theory, and other scholarship from multiple fields, applying them to issues, problems, or questions. Instructors of interdisciplinary courses usually choose materials based on what is applicable; this distinguishes interdisciplinary courses from multidisciplinary courses, which can often maintain a course focus on disciplinary thinking by providing ìmultiple perspectivesî rather than offering students that theory and research which most effectively forms a nexus of knowledge around the subject(s) under discussion. Some institutions have developed interdisciplinary programs in which faculty from diverse disciplines work together to create interdisciplinary programs. In other locations, particularly in area studies programs like Womenís Studies, Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies, etc., instructors working alone develop interdisciplinary pedagogies without the direct input of scholars from ìotherî disciplines. No matter whether teachers work collaboratively or independently to develop interdisciplinary pedagogies, interdisciplinary courses and programs are often touted for their comprehensiveness, their potential for offering creative and innovative coursework, and for the energy and enthusiasm they seem to engender in both students and faculty. We seek articles for a dedicated ìstrandî or ìclusterî of the journal Pedagogy which provide thoughtful and carefully presented definitions of interdisciplinary pedagogy, examples of interdisciplinary pedagogy ìin action,î and/or theory about the interdisciplinary pedagogical endeavor. In general, we hope that authors will avoid simple ìhow-toî articles or simple ìcelebrationsî of interdisciplinary pedagogy. The articles that will interest us most will be those which are themselves interdisciplinary and which are theoretical even as they narrate. Ultimately, we hope to expand our understanding of 'interdisciplinary pedagogy' by problematizing our understandings of it. What is interdisciplinarity in the classroom? In our curricula? In our programs? And in our pedagogies and pedagogical theories?
All articles submitted for this strand will receive two levels of peer review. The strand editors will provide initial review and the articles selected for submission to the journal will then be reviewed using the journalís usual peer-review process. The journalís editors have final say on all essays submitted for publication. For more information, contact either Michelle Gibson (gibsonma@ucmail.uc.edu) or Jonathan Alexander (jfalexan@uci.edu). Proposals for articles are welcome.
Call for Submissions
HEADCASE: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer (LGBTQ) Writers
and Artists on Mental Illness
An anthology edited by Teresa Theophano, LMSW
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Headcase will be an anthology comprised of 15-20 nonfiction pieces by writers and artists both established and new, exploring the theme of mental health, mental illness, and mental health care in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community. The book is currently being considered for publication by a major queer press. The anthology seeks essays, poetry, and comics by queer consumers of mental health services or queer individuals who have been diagnosed, but do not identify as patients, with mental illness. Works should explore the intersection of queerness and mental health and can include topics such as psychotropics; Gender Identity Disorder and its acceptance or rejection as a legitimate mental disorder; conventional, holistic treatment; experiences in therapy, groups, and/or institutions; how race and ethnicity, class, sex, gender identity, age, and disability impact access to treatment; addiction, self-medicating, and recovery. Modest compensation provided upon publication to contributors whose pieces are chosen.
Guidelines:
- Pieces should be between 750 and 1500 words (approximately 3 to 5 double-spaced pages).
- While the deadline for a 2010 publication date has not yet been established, submitting your piece by December 1, 2009 is recommended.
- Descriptions of pieces in progress are also welcome.
- Submissions should be sent as a Microsoft Word document, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman font.
- Please provide a brief (100 words or less) bio with your submission
Call For Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Inventions of Activism
Michael Benton, Alan Clinton, Wes Houp and Danny Mayer, editors.
Deadline no later than February 1, 2010
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/upcoming.shtml
This issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture solicits a variety of work which looks to activism as a broad array of creative practices yet to be defined. We seek not to revisit debates between theory and practice, but to view activism as a form of invention which may lead to new cultural formations. What challenges do activists face as practicing utopians? What more or less local examples of activism can be looked to as models for further practice? How can activism as performance, as technology, as art lead to the production of new political and social theory? How is activism the art of the possible? Please send completed papers and abstracts to the editors at inventionsofactivism@gmail.com no later than February 1, 2010. Earlier submissions and queries are welcome as we may be able to collaborate with authors in order to produce work that not only fits with the intent of the issue but with the standards of Reconstruction.
Call for Articles
Academic Exchange Quarterly, Summer 2010, Volume 14, Issue 2:
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Submission deadline: Any time until the end of February 2010
Submission Procedure: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm
The focus of this issue is on the process of learning.
Who May Submit:
Papers are invited that focus on issues and research related to this "meta-pedagogy." Subject areas might include classroom methods, teaching technologies, assessment that enhances learning, strategies that promote equal opportunity in the classroom, learning styles and beliefs, outcomes-based learning, teacher effectiveness, the use of writing journals or other approaches to represent and assess thinking processes, meta-cognitive strategies used by teachers or students, and the use of different models of learning such as constructivist or behaviorist. Papers may represent investigations at any grade level, K-graduate level
See details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short ñsee http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm#date
Early submission offers an opportunity to be considered for Editors' Choice - http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edchoice.htm
Please identify your submission with keyword: SCHOLAR-2
Feature Editor: Dr. Betsy Eudey, Associate Professor of Gender Studies & Director of the
Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning California State University Stanislaus
Email: BEudey@csustan.edu
Call for Submissions
Journal of American Culture
The Greening -- or not -- of America
The deadline for submission is Dec. 31 2010
The issue will be published in March 2012
At the focus of this special issue is the global environmental crisis now sometimes being faced, and undeniably also sometimes being denied. What are its implications for the culture of the United States of America , because of its position as the worldís dominant military superpower and consumer of resources, occupies a critical role in the environmental crisis. In this special issue the editors seek contributions from a range of interdisciplinary environmental thinkers, dreamers and practitioners. Essays can address an environmental practitioner or thinker, an idea, issue, philosophy or form of activism, historical or current. They can examine explicitly environmental texts, provide new readings of texts not generally understood as 'green,' and/or also take the form of a 'manifesto.' They can explore 'green' understandings of such basics as birth, food, community, sex, health, sickness, spirituality, and death. They particularly welcome essays based in ecological feminist and transnational perspectives and in awareness of the intersections of environmental devastations with all forms of social injustice. Submissions, generally 15-25 pages in length, are to be original scholarly manuscripts formatted according to MLA style guidelines using in-text citations with author's name and page number. Endnotes and works cited should appear at the end of the paper. In light of space limitations, please avoid excessive use of endnotes. This issue will be edited by Jane Caputi ( jcaputi@fau.edu ) and Suzanne Kelly ( suzmkelly@aol.com ). Direct inquiries to either editor. Send completed manuscripts to The Journal of American Culture at jac@vwc.edu or The Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan College , 1584 Wesleyan Drive , Norfolk , VA 23502 .
Call for Submissions
The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (JARM)
Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief JARM Vol. 12.2
Deadline: May 1st, 2010
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/journal.html
The journal will explore the topic of Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, health care workers, and other professionals and community workers. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.
Call for Submissions
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Open submission deadline
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/092/contents092.shtml
This journal is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes three themed issues and one open issue per year. Send open submissions (year round) to reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com and submissions for themed issues to the appropriate editors listed on the site.
Call For Submissions
Best Bi Short Stories
Open submission deadline
http://www.biwriters.org
Seeking stories that illuminate something about the experience of being bi. Stories can focus on relationships, romance, dating and sex, of course but weíd like to see much more than that. All genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, romance, historical, mystery, western, vampires, etc. as well as contemporary fiction are encouraged.
Call For Submissions
Journal of International Women's Studies
Open submission deadline
http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/JIWS/
The Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) is currently accepting book reviews for possible publication. JIWS is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; "western" and "third world" feminisms; professionals and students; men and women.
Call for Submissions
Journal of Women's Intercultural Leadership
Open submission deadline
http://www.saintmarys.edu/cwil/jwil
The Journal of Womenís Intercultural Leadership serves as a resource for scholars and practitioners who seek to bring intercultural perspectives and practices to their classes, research, programs, or institutions. This refereed journal focuses on womenís studies, leadership development, and intercultural education (including international and domestic multicultural) and the complex interdisciplinary intersections between these disciplines to yield a distinctive, interconnected synthesis of ideas and best practices. The Journal contains articles, discussion forums, and book reviews.
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NWSA Journal
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http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/
The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Womenís Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Womenís Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective.
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Qui Parle
University of California Berkeley
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http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/
Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues. Since its inception in 1986, the print journal has explored questions of language and textuality, theories of subjectivity, aesthetics, gender studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the journal has expanded upon its original affiliation with literary criticism and Continental philosophy in order to feature articles from the human sciences, including the philosophy of science, anthropology, and sociology. This dilation enables even greater possibilities for comparative examinations of critical questions of concern for the humanities and social sciences alike, including: cultural alterity, the politics of visual culture, secularity and religion, nationalisms, political violence, migration and diaspora, questions of psychological development and trauma, the politics of memory, the historical anthropology of science, and modes of non-European or Anglo-American intelligibility.
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Women's Studies International Forum
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http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journalaudience.cws_home/361/description#audience
Articles discussing gender/women/sexualities in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe, particularly within transnational/globalization frameworks, including the new identity of Europe as European Union and its extension toward Eastern Europe.
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Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for its 2009-2010 editorial year. Women's Studies provides a forum for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. We encourage scholars from all disciplines to submit articles based in film, television, literature, art, or other media. Women\'s Studies also publishes creative fiction, creative non-fiction, and book reviews. Submissions for cover art or art essays are always welcome.
Submissions: Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts must be formatted according to MLA guidelines. Essays should be approximately 25 pages in length. Authors should also supply a shortened version of the title for a running head, not exceeding 50 character spaces, an abstract of approximately 100 words, the author\'s affiliation and location. Each submitted article must contain author\'s mailing address, telephone number, e-mail, and a short biographical paragraph.
Send a cover letter, three copies of the manuscript, and a copy on disk to:
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Sharon Becker, Associate Editor
Claremont Graduate University
Department of English, Blaisdell House
143 East Tenth Street
womstudj@cgu.ed
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