Calls For Manuscripts, Articles, Submissions
Call for Research
LGBTQ Youth
Deadline May 30th, 2008
http://www.issuelab.org/call_for_research
During the month of June IssueLab will be focusing on research that addresses issues related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Questioning Youth. This age group is experiencing unprecedented levels of acceptance and expression while at the same time facing ongoing discrimination and isolation. IssueLab is looking for nonprofit produced research on this dynamic topic. If you are a nonprofit and are doing work in the field of LGBTQ youth -- please register at IssueLab today. We are asking that organizations list their research with IssueLab by the last week in May.
Our LGBTQ Youth CloseUp will include research on the following topics:
• LGBTQ Youth cultures
• Cyberworlds and LGBTQ Youth
• LGBTQ Youth resilience
• LGBTQ Youth of color
• LGBTQ Youth in rural environments
• Homelessness among GLBT Youth
• LGBTQ Youth suicide
• Special health issues faced by LGBTQ Youth
• Making schools safe for LGBTQ Youth
Expose Your Work to a Broader Audience in 3 Easy Steps. IssueLab is a free service to all participating nonprofits. The process for listing your research takes about five minutes.
1. Register your nonprofit with IssueLab through our simple web-based form. You will receive an email asking that you verify your registration. Once this is done, you are ready to list research.
2. Log into your account and add as many publications as you would like. Once we have approved a publication your listing will be "live" and available to the public.
3. Edit, hide, delete or add as many listings as you wish. (You can also track the number of users downloading your work and visiting your organizational profile by simply logging into your IssueLab account.) That's it! Adding your research to IssueLab's CloseUp means that it will get featured in next month's eNews, regular RSS feeds and any outreach we do to blogs, journalists and digital librarians. Got Questions? Gabriela Fitz, gabi@issuelab.org 773-649-1790
Call for Submissions:
I Was There: Stories from the Feminist Front Think
Ongoing submissions welcome
Girl, a feminist organization dedicated to informing and empowering women (thinkgirl.net), invites you to contribute to our newest project, I Was There: Stories from the Feminist Front. Executive Director, Sarah Morgan, was inspired to begin this project after reading Susan Brownmiller's description in Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs of her work on reproductive rights during the Roe v Wade fight. Her first person account of rallying, flyering, marching and, finally, celebrating struck a cord with Sarah and had her wanting more. She soon learned about the 1998 book The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. She wanted to deepen the dialogue on feminism and anti-racism, to cull past and present stories of activism, and to bridge generational divides between feminists.
In this spirit, Think Girl asks women of all ages, races and backgrounds to submit stories of their work as activists for women's issues. (Think: A Radical Chicken Soup for the Feminist Soul.) These first person stories of strength, perseverance and courage will serve as inspiration to women and girls as they continue their work in or enter the movement. Stories will be posted weekly at ThinkGirl.net. We also aim to publish a collection of these stories.
About Think Girl: Think Girl believes in feminist activism that is both global and local. We aim to center women of color in our dialogues and activism, and to represent the ways in which all social justice and environmental movements intersect. Globally, our web site links activists with women's news, educational resources, and personal writings. We hope to help girls and women understand feminism's past and present, and encourage them to contribute to its future. We are co-organizing The Feminist Summit, a national conference coming to Detroit in 2009.
Locally, Think Girl bridges women in Metro Detroit: women of all races and ethnicities, of low- and middle-income, of all body abilities, of spiritual and secular beliefs, and from Detroit and the suburbs. We present educational workshops for preteen girls on media literacy and body image, women's history and feminism, and challenging stereotypes. For more information, or for a flyer, contact Sarah Morgan at thinkgrrl@gmail.com and visit our web site at www.thinkgirl.net.
Call for Submissions
Addressing Diversity Issues within the Writing Classroom
Deadline, May 30, 2008
The editors of a new professional development book under contract with Fountainhead Press are soliciting essay submissions. Addressing Diversity Issues within the Writing Classroom will consist of 15-20 essays that showcase effective pedagogical ideas on bringing diversity into and addressing issues of diversity within the writing classroom. The intended audience consists of graduate students and first time instructors, as well as experienced university, community college, and high school instructors who want to find a place (contact zone) where they can meet their diverse students and then help them make the journey through a composition class.
Each essay should be focused around a specific type of diversity issue or theme and provide examples of how new and experienced teachers can use diversity issues to invigorate their teaching of writing. Essays should be pedagogical in nature; however, a familiarity with how addressing and/or using diversity fits in with current composition models is expected. Essays that include examples of student writing and sample writing assignments are particularly encouraged. We hope to have at least half the essays focused on the experience of new teachers (graduate assistants, high school teachers, or professors new to this pedagogy).
Submissions should not exceed 5000 words and should adhere to the series style guide, which can be viewed at http://www.fountainheadpress.com/english/xseries.html
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, incorporating/ integrating the following in the writing classroom or focusing on the following as writing subject matter: Race, Global Issues, Class, Mental abilities, Gender/ gender roles, Physical abilities, Sexuality, Age, Economics, Religion, Ethnicity, Nationality, Multiculturalism, Physical appearance, Culture, Political affiliation, Language, Dialects, Illness, Regionalism.
Queries can be submitted to Gwendolyn Hale (Haleg@savstate.edu). For full consideration, essays should be submitted in either digital or print form by May 30, 2008 to:
Call for Manuscripts
Transformations, a peer-reviewed journal
Teaching the Body
Deadline: 1 June 2008
The editors of Transformations, a peer-reviewed journal, seek pedagogical articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and pedagogical media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore the body in a variety of pedagogical contexts and from diverse disciplinary perspectives—literature, science, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, cultural studies, working-class studies, ethnic studies, disability studies, age studies, narrative medicine and others.
Topics might include: the body in global and transnational contexts; the culture of self-help; environmental issues; im/migration and transnational labor; body rituals and body modification (from tattooing and piercing to cosmetic surgery); reproductive rights; transgender, intersex, and queer bodies; bodies and sports; bodies and religion; military bodies; disciplining the bodies; imprisoned bodies; body economics; bodily knowledge; the body in virtual spaces; students as bodies; language of genetics in discussion of bodies; bodies as biological entities; bionic bodies; online communities (icons and avatars). Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.): Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to: transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations. Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University. Edvige Giunta, Editor, Transformations egiunta@njcu.edu
Call for Submissions
Invisible Culture: issue 13, Fall 2008
After Postcolonialism?
Guest Editors Maia Dauner and Cynthia Foo, University of Rochester
Deadline for Papers June 1, 2008
This issue of Invisible Culture seeks to explore the limits and possibilities for post-colonial theoretical discourse as it relates to artistic and cultural practice. Art works, performances, films, videos, and other cultural production that engage with issues of global migration and the muddying of identity markers of race and class suggest the importance of doubt when considering history writing and fact-gathering. Performance artists The Yes Men fake their identities and take their practice outside of the gallery in an attempt to chip at the legitimacy of political structures such as the World Trade Organization. Visual artist Ken Lum offers a commentary on how one may understand visual markers of identity. Visual and performance artist Walid Ra'ad's works under the name The Atlas Group suggest the anxiety-producing task of stitching together history from material evidence. La Pocha Nostra's Chica Iranian Project investigates the political dimensions of visual misrecognition in post 9/11 United States. These practices suggest the possibility for identity to be context- and site-specific, and to mobilize identity markers to critically examine practices of authorship, history writing, and institutional practices.
But is identity truly mutable? Can we be in a post-post-colonial era where identity is understood to be contextually informed, partial, and provisional? And if so, what does this look like? Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for the unfixed cosmopolitan in his 2004 monograph Cosmopolitanism, a utopic figure which some critics have suggested presents a re-framed flâneur, able to travel the globe freely with little consideration for the class and political restrictions that impede the movement of those less fortunate. Other writers and theorists have asserted that this is not a post-colonial era; that we are still dealing with colonialization's legacy, whether we call this period post- or neo-colonial. Yet others suggest that post-colonial theory still maintains its position as a vital field of examination when considering visual presentations of identity, providing important tools to critically analyze place, class, race, and practice. What is the place for art and globalization in this context? What possibilities and limitations do various forms of theorization (post-colonial, neo-colonial, Cosmopolitanism, or post-post-colonialism) offer to a consideration of artistic practice concerned with identity and place? What role does the gallery and the site play in this presentation?
We are particularly interested in papers that take into account the multi-faceted experiences of post-colonial thought. Possible methodological frameworks include: interdisciplinary visual culture, gendered experience, inquiries considering notions of class, and/or other streams that may contribute to a rich and nuanced inquiry into the state of post-colonial theory and practice. How is identity represented, performed, interrogated? How do these examinations tie in with post-colonial theoretical discussions? What are the boundaries of post-colonial discussions when dealing with contemporary artistic practice?
Possible topics include:
• Representations of identity in art, video, film, and/or performance which blur the boundaries between self and other;
• The future of post-colonial discourse and practice: current methodological challenges and how to proceed from here;
• Identity politics: dead or alive? Does cultural production involving a claim of identity or lack thereof continue to have political and aesthetic valence?
• Visible minority or visible stereotype? How does one represent an Othered group without calling up its stereotype? What are some alternate ways to address or perform racial identity? Or is race obsolete?
• The New Cosmopolitan: challenges and possibilities in the cultural sphere suggested by Kwame Anthony Appiah and others proposing a cosmopolitan rather than regional approach to ethical race relations;
• Whither whiteness studies? What role do studies of whiteness play into notions of post-colonialism, when racial identities are troubled? What are some methodological tools which whiteness studies offers in a field post- post-colonialism?
• Post-colonialism or Neo-colonialism? Marxist theorists suggest that there has never been a move away from the colonial moment. What are the possibilities and challenges of both methodological premises, particularly in understanding cultural production?
• The museum and the minority. How far have museums come to address issues of equality fought for in since the 1960s? Guillermo Gomez-Peña pointed out in a 1995 essay "From Art-Mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto Against Censorship" (published in Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art Ed. Suzanne Lacy. Seattle, WA: Bay Press), that equality may only be truly measured by the number of minorities who hold administrative positions. How has this wish been realized? Does this wish still hold true? Or does hiring based on minority standing in any form repeat practices of stereotyping?
Please send submissions of 2,500 – 5,000 words and a 500 word abstract to Cynthia Foo (foo.cynthia@gmail.com) AND Maia Dauner (mdauner@mail.rochester.edu)
Call for Papers from Critical Half
Global Women’s Movements in Changing Societies
Deadline for Submissions: June 16, 2008
Women for Women International, a non-profit humanitarian organization, seeks submissions for the Fall 2008 issue of its bi-annual academic journal, Critical Half. This issue will focus on global women’s movements and women’s movements globally in various contexts, including politics, women’s rights, social change, religion, and economic endeavors. Women’s movements may be global in their organization or effects, as in the international feminist movement, or they may be global in their concerns but local or ‘grassroots’ in their organization and immediate impact. Papers might consider the genesis and logistics of women’s movements; the underlying ideological concerns which give rise to and sustain, or counteract, these movements; or the interaction of women’s movements with local, regional, and global organizations, such as religious groups, political parties, or local or international local women’s groups. Papers which address issues of women’s movements in conflict and post-conflict societies, developing countries, and trans-national contexts are particularly encouraged. Articles should be 2,000-2,500 words long. For further information, including topic suggestions, article possibilities, and submission guidelines, please see http://www.womenforwomen.org/cfpapers.htm
Call for Submissions
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism is now accepting submissions for two issues:
Trivia Issue #7/8, an open double issue:
Deadline June 13, 2008
TRIVIA is a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. We encourage writers to take risks with language and form so as to give their ideas the most original and vital expression possible. TRIVIA's larger purpose is to foster a body of rigorous, creative and independent feminist thought.
See our submission guidelines for details: http://www.triviavoices.net
Trivia Issue #9, *Are lesbians going extinct?*
Deadline December 12, 2008
In an essay written in 1983, Nicole Brossard wrote: “/Une lesbienne qui ne reinvente pas le monde est une lesbienne en voie de disparition./” (A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian going extinct.) At that time, the phrase made very good sense. As writers, thinkers, activists, and in our day-to-day lives we felt (many of us) compelled to reinvent a world in which we were for the most part invisible if not unthinkable, a world whose values we largely rejected. Today, over 20 years later, we are accepted, even embraced, by mainstream culture-- as co-workers, wives, mothers, talk show hosts-- in ways we could not have imagined then. But are we still reinventing the world? Is there still a radical edge to the word “lesbian”? Or are we now, by Brossard’s definition, a disappearing species? We want to hear from young lesbians as well as anyone who ever embraced and/or lived this notion of lesbians as political trailblazers, radical visionaries. If you still identify as lesbian, what does it mean to you to be a lesbian today? In what relationship do your politics stand to your sexuality? Do you still see lesbians as a vanguard? See yourself as reinventing the world? If you no longer identify as lesbian, are there political/cultural reasons for this? Are there aspects of lesbian existence that you miss? Are glad to be free of? Do you still identify as a political trailblazer, a radical visionary? We welcome responses in the form of essays, poems, stories, creative nonfiction, and any in-between genres.
See our submission guidelines for details: http://www.triviavoices.net
TRIVIA : Voices of Feminism is an online relaunch of TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas, an award-winning international feminist literary magazine published from 1982 to 1995. The online journal is a team effort by veteran feminist editors Lise Weil, founding editor of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, and Harriet Ellenberger, founding editor of Sinister Wisdom, the world's longest running lesbian journal, in collaboration with feminist geek web developer Susan Kullmann.
Call for Papers from thirdspace
The Future Landscape of Sexualities
Deadline: June 20, 2008
/thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture/ invites contributions for its forthcoming issue on ‘The Future Landscape of Sexualities.’ Recognizing the central role which discussions of sexuality, identity, and culture have played in recent feminist scholarship, this issue will consider how sexuality informs gendered identities, as well as nodes of power including, race, class, ability, age, culture, nation, and religion. What does the future hold for human sexualities and sexual identities? How might current practices, assumptions, power relations, and identities shape these future sexualities? What new forms might sexualities evolve into in the future? How might these future sexualities transcend/reproduce current definitions of, and ideologies concerning, sexuality and sexual identity?
Possible topics include: future utopic and dystopic sexualities; role(s) of technologies (reproductive, virtual, synthetic) in the evolution and expression of sexuality; the evolution of sex work; queer sexualities; inversions and convergences of sexuality and identity (including female masculinities and male femininities); the future of ‘normative’ masculinities and femininities; sexualities and colour, sexualities and dis/ability, sexualities and age; depictions of future sexualities in fiction, film, music, and art. Papers that ground speculation about the future with historical analyses of past transitions in sexualities are also welcome.
They 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 women’s/gender studies are particularly encouraged. They accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students.
All submissions to the journal must be submitted electronically through their online submission process. All submissions are peer-reviewed by established, senior feminist scholars. For more information on our publishing policies see:
http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/about/editorialPolicies
To submit: Please follow our online submission process at http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/about/submissions
For more information, please contact us at info [at] thirdspace.ca
Call for Papers for 2008 Fall and Winter Issues
Asian Women is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural journal, which is published in English by the Research Institute of Asian Women at Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea.
Ongoing and
Deadline June 30th for Fall and September 30th for Winter
Asian Women seeks submission for gender issues. We are accepting the submission for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights, eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men's studies and other relevant themes in gender studies. Submissions that are based on collaborative or independent scholarship are welcome. For the information regarding submission guidelines, we will send you the call for papers. Please visit our English homepage in order to get more information about guidelines for contributors. Address: 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea 140-742; Email: asianfem@sm.ac.kr English Homepage: http://riaw.sookmyung.ac.kr
Call for submissions
Queer Excursions: New Directions In Language, Gender And Sexuality Research
Editors: Jenny Davis, Joshua Raclaw, and Lal Zimman (Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Abstracts due June 30, 2008.
First round of full drafts due September 1, 2008.
Submissions are invited for a new edited volume in the field of language, gender, and sexuality that seeks to expand the present scope of these research areas. The volume will showcase work that considers how speakers (re)produce gender and sexuality outside of the traditional dichotomies that have been dominant in both scholarship and popular discourses. Topics of chapters currently under consideration focus on issues of linguistic practice among understudied communities such as female-to-male transsexuals, genderqueer individuals, tomboys and their girlfriends in Indonesia, polyamorists and other non-monogamists, and members of Native American two-spirit groups; additionally, much of this work underscores the theoretical limitations of a sociolinguistics driven by binary categorization. The editors welcome abstracts from scholars working within various disciplinary traditions, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse and rhetorical analysis, gender and queer studies, and others.
Background: The past two decades have seen a significant rise in what has been termed a poststructuralist sociolinguistics, a shift reflected in the adoption of a wide range of third-wave feminist and queer stances within language, gender and sexuality research. Adopting the trend toward critical examination of the dominant dichotomization of gender and sexuality, researchers within the last decade have considered additional intersections such as class and ethnicity, have deconstructed the traditional primacy assigned to male/female difference, and have established the importance of examining queer subjecthood. Yet research that looks at gender and sexuality as positioned outside of dichotomous categorizations – such as transgenderism and transsexuality, third and fourth gender categories, bisexuality and pansexuality – has been less forthcoming. Indeed, with few exceptions, the field has paid little attention to how social actors might challenge such binary categories through lingu!istic means, or to how speakers enact gendered and sexual identities outside of the dominant categories of male and female, heterosexual and homosexual. Rather than just constituting a simple gap in the literature, such trends potentially contribute to the reinforcement of traditional gender and sexual dichotomies by reinforcing the invisibility of those groups and individuals that remain outside of them (cf. Bing and Bergvall 1996).
Submission Guidelines: Potential contributors should email a 500-1000 word abstract, including a title and a description of the topic of the proposed chapter, theoretical frameworks and methodologies employed, and how this work is situated outside of, or provides new insight into or potential challenges to, the binaries discussed above. Complete manuscripts are also welcome for submission at this time. Please restrict these submissions to a maximum length of 10,000 words and follow the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics (located at http://www.linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/JournalUnifiedStyleSheet2007.pdf). Please direct all correspondence to the editors at jennifer.davis@colorado.edu, raclaw@colorado.edu, zimman@colorado.edu
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Special Issue:
Knowledge that Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology and Science Studies
Deadline: September 1st, 2008
http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/frontiers/submit.html
Theme: Gender, race, sexuality, and power are intricately connected to the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge. This special issue of Frontiers will consider emerging scholarship on the topic of feminist epistemology, methodology, and science and technology studies Suggested Topics: How do we do science responsibly after the feminist critique of science? Can science serve social justice in ways that expand democratic participation and empowerment? How do formations of class, gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and differences unspecified determine the social structure of technology and science, the questions considered relevant within it, and the outcomes that emerge from it? What is the convergence between how we think about social reproduction and the gendered/radicalized division of labor within science, and our understanding of why we have the science (and scientists) we have? How can we do better? What are some promising new or emerging methodological strategies that can help us to understand the way science and technology construct and govern subjects? How can we build more sustained relationships between science and technology studies and women and gender studies?
Guidelines: Authors’ names should not appear on the manuscript; please list contact information separately CFP Address: Submissions can be sent by email or on a disc to: Mary Margaret Fonow, Women and Gender Studies Program, Arizona State University, PO Box 873404, Tempe, AZ 85287-2357 Contact: Mary Margaret Fonow campbn2@rpi.edu
The Role of Visual Culture in War: Radical History Review (RHR)
Issue #106: Taking Sides: The Role of Visual Culture in War, Occupation and Resistance
Deadline November 15, 2008
The RHR solicits contributions for a special issue on visual culture in war, occupation and resistance. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 106 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Winter 2009. Please see RHR link for more information on topics. Submissions should be submitted electronically, as an attachment, to rhr@igc.org with "Issue 106 submission" in the subject line. For artwork, send images as high-resolution digital files (each image as a separate file). For preliminary e-mail inquiries, include "Issue 106" in the subject line.
Call for Submissions
Women and Language
A special issue dedicated to “Hip Hop’s Languages of Love”
Deadline no later than January 15, 2009
Women and Language, an international, interdisciplinary research periodical publishing thought provoking essays and inquiries, book reviews, bibliographies, and more, on topics of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in communication, language and gender, will be edited for this special issue by Ebony A. Utley and Brenda J. Allen. The issue will focus on love in hip hop as it relates to language and gender, to be published in the Fall of 2009. Critical examination of hip hop’s languages of love is important because despite its crude stereotypes, hip hop is an often-consulted source on the subject. We intend to expand the definition of love by embracing its complexities. We seek perspectives on love that are not singular and do not polarize. For instance, we welcome manuscripts that address diverse sexual identities and relationships. Moreover, our definition of hip hop extends beyond rap music to embrace an entire culture that includes other forms of music, dance, visual art, comedy, fashion, film, poetry, journalism, literature, scholarship, and politics. The culture’s influences are readily found in media, professional athletics, and religious and educational institutions, just to name a few of the major sites. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· How is language used to portray intimacy among and between men and women in hip hop?
· What role does the language of passion play in hip hop’s heterosexual and homoerotic spaces?
· What relationships exist among language, love, and the pornographic in hip hop?
· What language patterns and definitions represent commitment (or the lack thereof) in hip hop among individuals, between individuals and the industry, and/ or between individuals and the art of performance?
· In what ways does self-love manifest in hip hop?
· What relationships exist between the love of the divine and the language of hip hop?
· What are the ramifications of conceptualizing hip hop as a love-filled or loveless space?
We invite scholars from diverse disciplines, experiences, and backgrounds to consider such questions in a special issue devoted to hip hop and love. We seek pieces that take theoretical, critical, scientific or creative approaches to developing an understanding of the interactive dynamics of hip hop, love, language, and gender. Submissions can range from theoretical or critical analysis to personal experience, to reports of research, to book or film reviews, book notices, or poetry.
Submissions should be sent as MS Word attachments to Ebony A. Utley at hiphoplove09@gmail.com Author identifications should appear in the body of the email and not with the paper itself. Any material that includes references should be prepared following the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Manual. Preferred maximum length of submissions is 15 pages or 3600 words, but longer articles will be considered. If you would like to discuss your ideas in advance with the editors, please e-mail Ebony A. Utley: hiphoplove09@gmail.com. Any questions related to other issues involving W & L should be directed to Ataylor@gmu.edu.
Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines
Journal of Hate Studies
The Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate* is soliciting submissions for the seventh volume of the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Journal of Hate Studies.
Deadline February 1, 2009
We are interested in papers from various disciplines that address "The Science of Hate." This may include research and knowledge about hate's origins and manifestations seen through the lenses of empirical sciences that rely on experimental, quantifiable data or the scientific method and emphasize reliability and validity. We are also interested in papers that explore solutions and strategies for addressing hate from an empirical perspective, as well as methods and content that may combat the manifestation of hate. A special invitation is extended to scholars from disciplines such as biology, medicine, chemistry, economics, genetics, cybernetic evolution, and the neurosciences. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines.
Submissions should be between 5000-10,000 words. Submissions should include one hard copy and an electronic copy in MS Word format. Please do not submit PDF files. Submissions should be presented in APA format and contain endnotes rather than footnotes.
Address submissions and questions to the Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate, AD Box 43 , 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane WA 99258-0043; email address: againsthate@gonzaga.edu; phone: (509) 323-3665.
The Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate was founded as a positive and enduring vehicle for combating hate and hate crimes on campuses and in communities throughout the nation. The Institute’s primary goal is to focus multi-disciplinary academic resources on the causes and effects of hate as well as potential strategies for combating hate. Please visit us at www.gonzaga.edu./againsthate.
Call for Submissions
“Best Bi Short Stories”
(Open deadline)
http://www.biwriters.org Requirements & Publishing Info: Short stories should be max length 15,000 words/30 pages and preferably in Word. Deadline has not yet been imposed but we can’t wait to see your work! We plan to submit to traditional publishers: therefore we need to gather some material for the proposal. However if all else fails we will self-publish. Title page of manuscript should have in the upper left corner or centered on top: Story title & author\'s pen name (or legal name if the same) on first line, author\'s legal name, email address, street address and phone number. If story has been published anywhere before please state when and where. Contact: Sheela Lambert
E-Mail: info@biwriters.org
Journal of International Women's Studies
(Open 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. JIWS accepts book review submissions that have not been previously published or that are not currently under consideration by other journals or publications. Book review articles may vary and range from 1,000 to 2,500 words. For further information on the style and content required for the books reviews, please see website.
Contact: Suzanne Baker suzbaker@twmi.rr.com
NWSA Journal
(Open deadline)
http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/ The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Women’s Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Women’s Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective. Our current rate of acceptance is 20%.
Suggested Topics:
• Women in international perspectives; e.g. place and diaspora studies, immigration
• Feminist theory and research methodologies, including global feminism
• Women and science
• Women and religion, including fundamentalism
• Women, girls and education
• Ecology, ecofeminism, health and the environment
• Feminist generations: the future of feminism, young feminists, children
• Postcolonial studies
• Women and activism
• Women and the arts
• Women writers: autobiographies and reflexive writings
• Race, class, sexualities, and gender intersections
• Women and the media
• Women and disabilities
• Women’s history
• Feminist pedagogy
Guidelines: Send one e-copy and two print copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages, doubled spaced), with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style
CFP Address: Becky Ropers-Huilman, Editor
NWSA Journal
Louisiana State University
146 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Contact: Managing editor, Brenda Macon nwsaj@lsu.edu
Qui Parle
(Open 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. Guidelines: Please contact the editors if you are interested in submitting an article for Qui Parle or if you have any further questions about the journal. For more information please visit Qui Parle at the Indiana University Press at http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/qui or at http://quiparle.berkeley.edu
CFP Address: Inquiries or submission can be sent in hard copy or electronically to:
Qui Parle
Att: Editors
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2340
Contact: Diana Anders, Nima Bassiri, Michelle Branch, Kelvin Black, Peter Skafish
quiparle@berkeley.edu
Women's Studies International Forum
(Open 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
LGBTQ Youth
Deadline May 30th, 2008
http://www.issuelab.org/call_for_research
During the month of June IssueLab will be focusing on research that addresses issues related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Questioning Youth. This age group is experiencing unprecedented levels of acceptance and expression while at the same time facing ongoing discrimination and isolation. IssueLab is looking for nonprofit produced research on this dynamic topic. If you are a nonprofit and are doing work in the field of LGBTQ youth -- please register at IssueLab today. We are asking that organizations list their research with IssueLab by the last week in May.
Our LGBTQ Youth CloseUp will include research on the following topics:
• LGBTQ Youth cultures
• Cyberworlds and LGBTQ Youth
• LGBTQ Youth resilience
• LGBTQ Youth of color
• LGBTQ Youth in rural environments
• Homelessness among GLBT Youth
• LGBTQ Youth suicide
• Special health issues faced by LGBTQ Youth
• Making schools safe for LGBTQ Youth
Expose Your Work to a Broader Audience in 3 Easy Steps. IssueLab is a free service to all participating nonprofits. The process for listing your research takes about five minutes.
1. Register your nonprofit with IssueLab through our simple web-based form. You will receive an email asking that you verify your registration. Once this is done, you are ready to list research.
2. Log into your account and add as many publications as you would like. Once we have approved a publication your listing will be "live" and available to the public.
3. Edit, hide, delete or add as many listings as you wish. (You can also track the number of users downloading your work and visiting your organizational profile by simply logging into your IssueLab account.) That's it! Adding your research to IssueLab's CloseUp means that it will get featured in next month's eNews, regular RSS feeds and any outreach we do to blogs, journalists and digital librarians. Got Questions? Gabriela Fitz, gabi@issuelab.org 773-649-1790
Call for Submissions:
I Was There: Stories from the Feminist Front Think
Ongoing submissions welcome
Girl, a feminist organization dedicated to informing and empowering women (thinkgirl.net), invites you to contribute to our newest project, I Was There: Stories from the Feminist Front. Executive Director, Sarah Morgan, was inspired to begin this project after reading Susan Brownmiller's description in Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs of her work on reproductive rights during the Roe v Wade fight. Her first person account of rallying, flyering, marching and, finally, celebrating struck a cord with Sarah and had her wanting more. She soon learned about the 1998 book The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. She wanted to deepen the dialogue on feminism and anti-racism, to cull past and present stories of activism, and to bridge generational divides between feminists.
In this spirit, Think Girl asks women of all ages, races and backgrounds to submit stories of their work as activists for women's issues. (Think: A Radical Chicken Soup for the Feminist Soul.) These first person stories of strength, perseverance and courage will serve as inspiration to women and girls as they continue their work in or enter the movement. Stories will be posted weekly at ThinkGirl.net. We also aim to publish a collection of these stories.
About Think Girl: Think Girl believes in feminist activism that is both global and local. We aim to center women of color in our dialogues and activism, and to represent the ways in which all social justice and environmental movements intersect. Globally, our web site links activists with women's news, educational resources, and personal writings. We hope to help girls and women understand feminism's past and present, and encourage them to contribute to its future. We are co-organizing The Feminist Summit, a national conference coming to Detroit in 2009.
Locally, Think Girl bridges women in Metro Detroit: women of all races and ethnicities, of low- and middle-income, of all body abilities, of spiritual and secular beliefs, and from Detroit and the suburbs. We present educational workshops for preteen girls on media literacy and body image, women's history and feminism, and challenging stereotypes. For more information, or for a flyer, contact Sarah Morgan at thinkgrrl@gmail.com and visit our web site at www.thinkgirl.net.
Call for Submissions
Addressing Diversity Issues within the Writing Classroom
Deadline, May 30, 2008
The editors of a new professional development book under contract with Fountainhead Press are soliciting essay submissions. Addressing Diversity Issues within the Writing Classroom will consist of 15-20 essays that showcase effective pedagogical ideas on bringing diversity into and addressing issues of diversity within the writing classroom. The intended audience consists of graduate students and first time instructors, as well as experienced university, community college, and high school instructors who want to find a place (contact zone) where they can meet their diverse students and then help them make the journey through a composition class.
Each essay should be focused around a specific type of diversity issue or theme and provide examples of how new and experienced teachers can use diversity issues to invigorate their teaching of writing. Essays should be pedagogical in nature; however, a familiarity with how addressing and/or using diversity fits in with current composition models is expected. Essays that include examples of student writing and sample writing assignments are particularly encouraged. We hope to have at least half the essays focused on the experience of new teachers (graduate assistants, high school teachers, or professors new to this pedagogy).
Submissions should not exceed 5000 words and should adhere to the series style guide, which can be viewed at http://www.fountainheadpress.com/english/xseries.html
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, incorporating/ integrating the following in the writing classroom or focusing on the following as writing subject matter: Race, Global Issues, Class, Mental abilities, Gender/ gender roles, Physical abilities, Sexuality, Age, Economics, Religion, Ethnicity, Nationality, Multiculturalism, Physical appearance, Culture, Political affiliation, Language, Dialects, Illness, Regionalism.
Queries can be submitted to Gwendolyn Hale (Haleg@savstate.edu). For full consideration, essays should be submitted in either digital or print form by May 30, 2008 to:
- Gwen Hale, English Department, Savannah State University, 265 Whiting Hall, PO Box 20428, Savannah, GA 31405, haleg@savstate.edu
- T.A. Holmes, English Department, East Tennessee State University, Burleson Hall, PO Box 70683, Johnson City, TN 37601, holmest@etsu.edu
- Mike Mutschelknaus, English Department, Rochester Community and Technical College, 851 30th Av
Call for Manuscripts
Transformations, a peer-reviewed journal
Teaching the Body
Deadline: 1 June 2008
The editors of Transformations, a peer-reviewed journal, seek pedagogical articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and pedagogical media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore the body in a variety of pedagogical contexts and from diverse disciplinary perspectives—literature, science, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, cultural studies, working-class studies, ethnic studies, disability studies, age studies, narrative medicine and others.
Topics might include: the body in global and transnational contexts; the culture of self-help; environmental issues; im/migration and transnational labor; body rituals and body modification (from tattooing and piercing to cosmetic surgery); reproductive rights; transgender, intersex, and queer bodies; bodies and sports; bodies and religion; military bodies; disciplining the bodies; imprisoned bodies; body economics; bodily knowledge; the body in virtual spaces; students as bodies; language of genetics in discussion of bodies; bodies as biological entities; bionic bodies; online communities (icons and avatars). Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.): Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to: transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations. Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University. Edvige Giunta, Editor, Transformations egiunta@njcu.edu
Call for Submissions
Invisible Culture: issue 13, Fall 2008
After Postcolonialism?
Guest Editors Maia Dauner and Cynthia Foo, University of Rochester
Deadline for Papers June 1, 2008
This issue of Invisible Culture seeks to explore the limits and possibilities for post-colonial theoretical discourse as it relates to artistic and cultural practice. Art works, performances, films, videos, and other cultural production that engage with issues of global migration and the muddying of identity markers of race and class suggest the importance of doubt when considering history writing and fact-gathering. Performance artists The Yes Men fake their identities and take their practice outside of the gallery in an attempt to chip at the legitimacy of political structures such as the World Trade Organization. Visual artist Ken Lum offers a commentary on how one may understand visual markers of identity. Visual and performance artist Walid Ra'ad's works under the name The Atlas Group suggest the anxiety-producing task of stitching together history from material evidence. La Pocha Nostra's Chica Iranian Project investigates the political dimensions of visual misrecognition in post 9/11 United States. These practices suggest the possibility for identity to be context- and site-specific, and to mobilize identity markers to critically examine practices of authorship, history writing, and institutional practices.
But is identity truly mutable? Can we be in a post-post-colonial era where identity is understood to be contextually informed, partial, and provisional? And if so, what does this look like? Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for the unfixed cosmopolitan in his 2004 monograph Cosmopolitanism, a utopic figure which some critics have suggested presents a re-framed flâneur, able to travel the globe freely with little consideration for the class and political restrictions that impede the movement of those less fortunate. Other writers and theorists have asserted that this is not a post-colonial era; that we are still dealing with colonialization's legacy, whether we call this period post- or neo-colonial. Yet others suggest that post-colonial theory still maintains its position as a vital field of examination when considering visual presentations of identity, providing important tools to critically analyze place, class, race, and practice. What is the place for art and globalization in this context? What possibilities and limitations do various forms of theorization (post-colonial, neo-colonial, Cosmopolitanism, or post-post-colonialism) offer to a consideration of artistic practice concerned with identity and place? What role does the gallery and the site play in this presentation?
We are particularly interested in papers that take into account the multi-faceted experiences of post-colonial thought. Possible methodological frameworks include: interdisciplinary visual culture, gendered experience, inquiries considering notions of class, and/or other streams that may contribute to a rich and nuanced inquiry into the state of post-colonial theory and practice. How is identity represented, performed, interrogated? How do these examinations tie in with post-colonial theoretical discussions? What are the boundaries of post-colonial discussions when dealing with contemporary artistic practice?
Possible topics include:
• Representations of identity in art, video, film, and/or performance which blur the boundaries between self and other;
• The future of post-colonial discourse and practice: current methodological challenges and how to proceed from here;
• Identity politics: dead or alive? Does cultural production involving a claim of identity or lack thereof continue to have political and aesthetic valence?
• Visible minority or visible stereotype? How does one represent an Othered group without calling up its stereotype? What are some alternate ways to address or perform racial identity? Or is race obsolete?
• The New Cosmopolitan: challenges and possibilities in the cultural sphere suggested by Kwame Anthony Appiah and others proposing a cosmopolitan rather than regional approach to ethical race relations;
• Whither whiteness studies? What role do studies of whiteness play into notions of post-colonialism, when racial identities are troubled? What are some methodological tools which whiteness studies offers in a field post- post-colonialism?
• Post-colonialism or Neo-colonialism? Marxist theorists suggest that there has never been a move away from the colonial moment. What are the possibilities and challenges of both methodological premises, particularly in understanding cultural production?
• The museum and the minority. How far have museums come to address issues of equality fought for in since the 1960s? Guillermo Gomez-Peña pointed out in a 1995 essay "From Art-Mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto Against Censorship" (published in Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art Ed. Suzanne Lacy. Seattle, WA: Bay Press), that equality may only be truly measured by the number of minorities who hold administrative positions. How has this wish been realized? Does this wish still hold true? Or does hiring based on minority standing in any form repeat practices of stereotyping?
Please send submissions of 2,500 – 5,000 words and a 500 word abstract to Cynthia Foo (foo.cynthia@gmail.com) AND Maia Dauner (mdauner@mail.rochester.edu)
Call for Papers from Critical Half
Global Women’s Movements in Changing Societies
Deadline for Submissions: June 16, 2008
Women for Women International, a non-profit humanitarian organization, seeks submissions for the Fall 2008 issue of its bi-annual academic journal, Critical Half. This issue will focus on global women’s movements and women’s movements globally in various contexts, including politics, women’s rights, social change, religion, and economic endeavors. Women’s movements may be global in their organization or effects, as in the international feminist movement, or they may be global in their concerns but local or ‘grassroots’ in their organization and immediate impact. Papers might consider the genesis and logistics of women’s movements; the underlying ideological concerns which give rise to and sustain, or counteract, these movements; or the interaction of women’s movements with local, regional, and global organizations, such as religious groups, political parties, or local or international local women’s groups. Papers which address issues of women’s movements in conflict and post-conflict societies, developing countries, and trans-national contexts are particularly encouraged. Articles should be 2,000-2,500 words long. For further information, including topic suggestions, article possibilities, and submission guidelines, please see http://www.womenforwomen.org/cfpapers.htm
Call for Submissions
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism is now accepting submissions for two issues:
Trivia Issue #7/8, an open double issue:
Deadline June 13, 2008
TRIVIA is a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. We encourage writers to take risks with language and form so as to give their ideas the most original and vital expression possible. TRIVIA's larger purpose is to foster a body of rigorous, creative and independent feminist thought.
See our submission guidelines for details: http://www.triviavoices.net
Trivia Issue #9, *Are lesbians going extinct?*
Deadline December 12, 2008
In an essay written in 1983, Nicole Brossard wrote: “/Une lesbienne qui ne reinvente pas le monde est une lesbienne en voie de disparition./” (A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian going extinct.) At that time, the phrase made very good sense. As writers, thinkers, activists, and in our day-to-day lives we felt (many of us) compelled to reinvent a world in which we were for the most part invisible if not unthinkable, a world whose values we largely rejected. Today, over 20 years later, we are accepted, even embraced, by mainstream culture-- as co-workers, wives, mothers, talk show hosts-- in ways we could not have imagined then. But are we still reinventing the world? Is there still a radical edge to the word “lesbian”? Or are we now, by Brossard’s definition, a disappearing species? We want to hear from young lesbians as well as anyone who ever embraced and/or lived this notion of lesbians as political trailblazers, radical visionaries. If you still identify as lesbian, what does it mean to you to be a lesbian today? In what relationship do your politics stand to your sexuality? Do you still see lesbians as a vanguard? See yourself as reinventing the world? If you no longer identify as lesbian, are there political/cultural reasons for this? Are there aspects of lesbian existence that you miss? Are glad to be free of? Do you still identify as a political trailblazer, a radical visionary? We welcome responses in the form of essays, poems, stories, creative nonfiction, and any in-between genres.
See our submission guidelines for details: http://www.triviavoices.net
TRIVIA : Voices of Feminism is an online relaunch of TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas, an award-winning international feminist literary magazine published from 1982 to 1995. The online journal is a team effort by veteran feminist editors Lise Weil, founding editor of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, and Harriet Ellenberger, founding editor of Sinister Wisdom, the world's longest running lesbian journal, in collaboration with feminist geek web developer Susan Kullmann.
Call for Papers from thirdspace
The Future Landscape of Sexualities
Deadline: June 20, 2008
/thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture/ invites contributions for its forthcoming issue on ‘The Future Landscape of Sexualities.’ Recognizing the central role which discussions of sexuality, identity, and culture have played in recent feminist scholarship, this issue will consider how sexuality informs gendered identities, as well as nodes of power including, race, class, ability, age, culture, nation, and religion. What does the future hold for human sexualities and sexual identities? How might current practices, assumptions, power relations, and identities shape these future sexualities? What new forms might sexualities evolve into in the future? How might these future sexualities transcend/reproduce current definitions of, and ideologies concerning, sexuality and sexual identity?
Possible topics include: future utopic and dystopic sexualities; role(s) of technologies (reproductive, virtual, synthetic) in the evolution and expression of sexuality; the evolution of sex work; queer sexualities; inversions and convergences of sexuality and identity (including female masculinities and male femininities); the future of ‘normative’ masculinities and femininities; sexualities and colour, sexualities and dis/ability, sexualities and age; depictions of future sexualities in fiction, film, music, and art. Papers that ground speculation about the future with historical analyses of past transitions in sexualities are also welcome.
They 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 women’s/gender studies are particularly encouraged. They accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students.
All submissions to the journal must be submitted electronically through their online submission process. All submissions are peer-reviewed by established, senior feminist scholars. For more information on our publishing policies see:
http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/about/editorialPolicies
To submit: Please follow our online submission process at http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/about/submissions
For more information, please contact us at info [at] thirdspace.ca
Call for Papers for 2008 Fall and Winter Issues
Asian Women is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural journal, which is published in English by the Research Institute of Asian Women at Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea.
Ongoing and
Deadline June 30th for Fall and September 30th for Winter
Asian Women seeks submission for gender issues. We are accepting the submission for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights, eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men's studies and other relevant themes in gender studies. Submissions that are based on collaborative or independent scholarship are welcome. For the information regarding submission guidelines, we will send you the call for papers. Please visit our English homepage in order to get more information about guidelines for contributors. Address: 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea 140-742; Email: asianfem@sm.ac.kr English Homepage: http://riaw.sookmyung.ac.kr
Call for submissions
Queer Excursions: New Directions In Language, Gender And Sexuality Research
Editors: Jenny Davis, Joshua Raclaw, and Lal Zimman (Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Abstracts due June 30, 2008.
First round of full drafts due September 1, 2008.
Submissions are invited for a new edited volume in the field of language, gender, and sexuality that seeks to expand the present scope of these research areas. The volume will showcase work that considers how speakers (re)produce gender and sexuality outside of the traditional dichotomies that have been dominant in both scholarship and popular discourses. Topics of chapters currently under consideration focus on issues of linguistic practice among understudied communities such as female-to-male transsexuals, genderqueer individuals, tomboys and their girlfriends in Indonesia, polyamorists and other non-monogamists, and members of Native American two-spirit groups; additionally, much of this work underscores the theoretical limitations of a sociolinguistics driven by binary categorization. The editors welcome abstracts from scholars working within various disciplinary traditions, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse and rhetorical analysis, gender and queer studies, and others.
Background: The past two decades have seen a significant rise in what has been termed a poststructuralist sociolinguistics, a shift reflected in the adoption of a wide range of third-wave feminist and queer stances within language, gender and sexuality research. Adopting the trend toward critical examination of the dominant dichotomization of gender and sexuality, researchers within the last decade have considered additional intersections such as class and ethnicity, have deconstructed the traditional primacy assigned to male/female difference, and have established the importance of examining queer subjecthood. Yet research that looks at gender and sexuality as positioned outside of dichotomous categorizations – such as transgenderism and transsexuality, third and fourth gender categories, bisexuality and pansexuality – has been less forthcoming. Indeed, with few exceptions, the field has paid little attention to how social actors might challenge such binary categories through lingu!istic means, or to how speakers enact gendered and sexual identities outside of the dominant categories of male and female, heterosexual and homosexual. Rather than just constituting a simple gap in the literature, such trends potentially contribute to the reinforcement of traditional gender and sexual dichotomies by reinforcing the invisibility of those groups and individuals that remain outside of them (cf. Bing and Bergvall 1996).
Submission Guidelines: Potential contributors should email a 500-1000 word abstract, including a title and a description of the topic of the proposed chapter, theoretical frameworks and methodologies employed, and how this work is situated outside of, or provides new insight into or potential challenges to, the binaries discussed above. Complete manuscripts are also welcome for submission at this time. Please restrict these submissions to a maximum length of 10,000 words and follow the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics (located at http://www.linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/JournalUnifiedStyleSheet2007.pdf). Please direct all correspondence to the editors at jennifer.davis@colorado.edu, raclaw@colorado.edu, zimman@colorado.edu
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Special Issue:
Knowledge that Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology and Science Studies
Deadline: September 1st, 2008
http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/frontiers/submit.html
Theme: Gender, race, sexuality, and power are intricately connected to the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge. This special issue of Frontiers will consider emerging scholarship on the topic of feminist epistemology, methodology, and science and technology studies Suggested Topics: How do we do science responsibly after the feminist critique of science? Can science serve social justice in ways that expand democratic participation and empowerment? How do formations of class, gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and differences unspecified determine the social structure of technology and science, the questions considered relevant within it, and the outcomes that emerge from it? What is the convergence between how we think about social reproduction and the gendered/radicalized division of labor within science, and our understanding of why we have the science (and scientists) we have? How can we do better? What are some promising new or emerging methodological strategies that can help us to understand the way science and technology construct and govern subjects? How can we build more sustained relationships between science and technology studies and women and gender studies?
Guidelines: Authors’ names should not appear on the manuscript; please list contact information separately CFP Address: Submissions can be sent by email or on a disc to: Mary Margaret Fonow, Women and Gender Studies Program, Arizona State University, PO Box 873404, Tempe, AZ 85287-2357 Contact: Mary Margaret Fonow campbn2@rpi.edu
The Role of Visual Culture in War: Radical History Review (RHR)
Issue #106: Taking Sides: The Role of Visual Culture in War, Occupation and Resistance
Deadline November 15, 2008
The RHR solicits contributions for a special issue on visual culture in war, occupation and resistance. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 106 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Winter 2009. Please see RHR link for more information on topics. Submissions should be submitted electronically, as an attachment, to rhr@igc.org with "Issue 106 submission" in the subject line. For artwork, send images as high-resolution digital files (each image as a separate file). For preliminary e-mail inquiries, include "Issue 106" in the subject line.
Call for Submissions
Women and Language
A special issue dedicated to “Hip Hop’s Languages of Love”
Deadline no later than January 15, 2009
Women and Language, an international, interdisciplinary research periodical publishing thought provoking essays and inquiries, book reviews, bibliographies, and more, on topics of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in communication, language and gender, will be edited for this special issue by Ebony A. Utley and Brenda J. Allen. The issue will focus on love in hip hop as it relates to language and gender, to be published in the Fall of 2009. Critical examination of hip hop’s languages of love is important because despite its crude stereotypes, hip hop is an often-consulted source on the subject. We intend to expand the definition of love by embracing its complexities. We seek perspectives on love that are not singular and do not polarize. For instance, we welcome manuscripts that address diverse sexual identities and relationships. Moreover, our definition of hip hop extends beyond rap music to embrace an entire culture that includes other forms of music, dance, visual art, comedy, fashion, film, poetry, journalism, literature, scholarship, and politics. The culture’s influences are readily found in media, professional athletics, and religious and educational institutions, just to name a few of the major sites. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· How is language used to portray intimacy among and between men and women in hip hop?
· What role does the language of passion play in hip hop’s heterosexual and homoerotic spaces?
· What relationships exist among language, love, and the pornographic in hip hop?
· What language patterns and definitions represent commitment (or the lack thereof) in hip hop among individuals, between individuals and the industry, and/ or between individuals and the art of performance?
· In what ways does self-love manifest in hip hop?
· What relationships exist between the love of the divine and the language of hip hop?
· What are the ramifications of conceptualizing hip hop as a love-filled or loveless space?
We invite scholars from diverse disciplines, experiences, and backgrounds to consider such questions in a special issue devoted to hip hop and love. We seek pieces that take theoretical, critical, scientific or creative approaches to developing an understanding of the interactive dynamics of hip hop, love, language, and gender. Submissions can range from theoretical or critical analysis to personal experience, to reports of research, to book or film reviews, book notices, or poetry.
Submissions should be sent as MS Word attachments to Ebony A. Utley at hiphoplove09@gmail.com Author identifications should appear in the body of the email and not with the paper itself. Any material that includes references should be prepared following the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Manual. Preferred maximum length of submissions is 15 pages or 3600 words, but longer articles will be considered. If you would like to discuss your ideas in advance with the editors, please e-mail Ebony A. Utley: hiphoplove09@gmail.com. Any questions related to other issues involving W & L should be directed to Ataylor@gmu.edu.
Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines
Journal of Hate Studies
The Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate* is soliciting submissions for the seventh volume of the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Journal of Hate Studies.
Deadline February 1, 2009
We are interested in papers from various disciplines that address "The Science of Hate." This may include research and knowledge about hate's origins and manifestations seen through the lenses of empirical sciences that rely on experimental, quantifiable data or the scientific method and emphasize reliability and validity. We are also interested in papers that explore solutions and strategies for addressing hate from an empirical perspective, as well as methods and content that may combat the manifestation of hate. A special invitation is extended to scholars from disciplines such as biology, medicine, chemistry, economics, genetics, cybernetic evolution, and the neurosciences. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines.
Submissions should be between 5000-10,000 words. Submissions should include one hard copy and an electronic copy in MS Word format. Please do not submit PDF files. Submissions should be presented in APA format and contain endnotes rather than footnotes.
Address submissions and questions to the Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate, AD Box 43 , 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane WA 99258-0043; email address: againsthate@gonzaga.edu; phone: (509) 323-3665.
The Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate was founded as a positive and enduring vehicle for combating hate and hate crimes on campuses and in communities throughout the nation. The Institute’s primary goal is to focus multi-disciplinary academic resources on the causes and effects of hate as well as potential strategies for combating hate. Please visit us at www.gonzaga.edu./againsthate.
Call for Submissions
“Best Bi Short Stories”
(Open deadline)
http://www.biwriters.org Requirements & Publishing Info: Short stories should be max length 15,000 words/30 pages and preferably in Word. Deadline has not yet been imposed but we can’t wait to see your work! We plan to submit to traditional publishers: therefore we need to gather some material for the proposal. However if all else fails we will self-publish. Title page of manuscript should have in the upper left corner or centered on top: Story title & author\'s pen name (or legal name if the same) on first line, author\'s legal name, email address, street address and phone number. If story has been published anywhere before please state when and where. Contact: Sheela Lambert
E-Mail: info@biwriters.org
Journal of International Women's Studies
(Open 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. JIWS accepts book review submissions that have not been previously published or that are not currently under consideration by other journals or publications. Book review articles may vary and range from 1,000 to 2,500 words. For further information on the style and content required for the books reviews, please see website.
Contact: Suzanne Baker suzbaker@twmi.rr.com
NWSA Journal
(Open deadline)
http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/ The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Women’s Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Women’s Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective. Our current rate of acceptance is 20%.
Suggested Topics:
• Women in international perspectives; e.g. place and diaspora studies, immigration
• Feminist theory and research methodologies, including global feminism
• Women and science
• Women and religion, including fundamentalism
• Women, girls and education
• Ecology, ecofeminism, health and the environment
• Feminist generations: the future of feminism, young feminists, children
• Postcolonial studies
• Women and activism
• Women and the arts
• Women writers: autobiographies and reflexive writings
• Race, class, sexualities, and gender intersections
• Women and the media
• Women and disabilities
• Women’s history
• Feminist pedagogy
Guidelines: Send one e-copy and two print copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages, doubled spaced), with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style
CFP Address: Becky Ropers-Huilman, Editor
NWSA Journal
Louisiana State University
146 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Contact: Managing editor, Brenda Macon nwsaj@lsu.edu
Qui Parle
(Open 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. Guidelines: Please contact the editors if you are interested in submitting an article for Qui Parle or if you have any further questions about the journal. For more information please visit Qui Parle at the Indiana University Press at http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/qui or at http://quiparle.berkeley.edu
CFP Address: Inquiries or submission can be sent in hard copy or electronically to:
Qui Parle
Att: Editors
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2340
Contact: Diana Anders, Nima Bassiri, Michelle Branch, Kelvin Black, Peter Skafish
quiparle@berkeley.edu
Women's Studies International Forum
(Open 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
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