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1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS “BEST BI SHORT STORIES”
(open)

2. Feminisms of the Global South (working title)
(open)

3. Gendered Perspectives on International Development
(open)

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

5. Journal of American Culture Theme Issue: The Greening -- or not -- of America –
(open)

6. Journal of International Women's Studies
(open)

7. Journal of Women\'s Intercultural Leadership
(open)

8. Library Management Tips That Work
(open)

9. NWSA Journal
(open)

10. Qui Parle
(open)

11. Women's Studies International Forum
(open)

12. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
(open)

January (jump)

February (jump)

1. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
(February 28th, 2010)

March (jump)

1. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
(March 1st, 2010)

2. Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives, Volume 2
(March 1st, 2010)

3. A Queer Gaze: Media and the Gloal GLBT Community
(March 1st, 2010)

April (jump)

May (jump)

1. Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief JARM Vol. 12.2
(May 1st, 2010)

June (jump)

1. Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives
(June 10th, 2010)

2. Unfinished Revolutions: Special Issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
(June 30th, 2010)

July (jump)

August (jump)

September (jump)
October (jump)

1. The Body in Breast Cancer
(October 1st, 2010)

November (jump)
December (jump)
OPEN

1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS “BEST BI SHORT STORIES”

Editors: Sheela Lambert

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

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

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

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

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

If story has been published anywhere before please state when and where.

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

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

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


2. Feminisms of the Global South (working title)

Editors: Sanjukta Ghosh and Patricia van der Spuy

Journal URL:

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

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

Guidelines:
As currently conceptualized, the book will consist of three sections, each focusing on one core region. Each section will consist of a broad thematic overview of feminist movements within the particular region, followed by two chapters, each one providing an analysis of feminism within one particular country in ways accessible to undergraduate readers. Each chapter would be approximate 5000 words in length.

Please send an extended abstract of between 1500 and 2000 words, in which you provide an overview of key feminist movements and theories in Latin America, setting them in their historical and geopolitical contexts, with reference to the particular foci of the second and third chapters. This would ideally form the basis of the broad thematic overview chapter on Latin America. The extended abstract should be submitted via email by January 30th, 2008. We will respond before February 28th. Submissions should be emailed as attachments in Word (2003). Please email us with any questions; we envisage the third author as a full participant in this process.


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

Contact:
E-Mail: patricia.vanderspuy@castleton.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


3. Gendered Perspectives on International Development

Editors: Anne Ferguson, editor Anna Jefferson, managing editor

Journal URL:
http://gencen.msu.edu/publications.htm

Theme:
Gendered Perspectives on International Development (GPID) publishes scholarly work on global social, political, and economic change and its gendered effects in the Global South. GPID cross-cuts disciplines, bringing together research, critical analyses, and proposals for change.

Our previous series, MSU WID Working Papers (1981-2008) was among the first scholarly publications dedicated to promoting research on the links between international development and women and gender issues. Gendered Perspectives on International Development recognizes diverse processes of international development and globalization, and new directions in scholarship on gender relations. The goals of GPID are: (1) to promote research that contributes to gendered analysis of social change; (2) to highlight the effects of international development policy and globalization on gender roles and gender relations; and (3) to encourage new approaches to international development policy and programming.

Suggested Topics:
Individual papers in the series address a range of topics including gender, violence, and human rights; gender and agriculture; reproductive health and healthcare; gender and social movements; masculinities and development; and the gendered division of labor. We particularly encourage manuscripts that bridge the gap between research, policy, and practice. Published WID papers can be accessed at: http://www.wid.msu.edu/resources/publications.htm.

Guidelines:
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to the Working Papers series, please send a 150 word abstract summarizing the paper’s essential points and findings to Dr. Anne Ferguson, Editor, or Anna Jefferson, Managing Editor, at papers@msu.edu. If the abstract suggests your paper is suitable for the Working Papers, the full paper will be invited for peer review and publication consideration.

CFP Address:
206 International Center
Gender, Development, and Globalization Program
East Lansing, MI 48824
CFP E-Mail: papers@msu.edu

Contact: Anna Jefferson, Managing Editor
E-Mail: papers@msu.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Anna Jefferson/517-353-5040

 


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

Editors: Sharmain van Blommestein

Journal URL:

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

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

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

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

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

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Sharmain van Blommestein

 


5. Journal of American Culture Theme Issue: The Greening -- or not -- of America –

Editors: Jane Caputi and Suzanne Kelly

Journal URL:

Theme:
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 ? America , because of its position as the world’s dominant military superpower and consumer of resources, occupies a critical role in the environmental crisis. In this special issue, we seek contributions from a range of interdisciplinary environmental thinkers, dreamers and practitioners. Essays can, for example, 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. We 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.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
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.

CFP Address:
The Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan College , 1584 Wesleyan Drive , Norfolk , VA 23502.

CFP E-Mail: jac@vwc.edu

Contact: Jane Caputi or Suzanne Kelly
E-Mail: jcaputi@fau.edu

Alternate E-Mail: suzmkelly@aol.com

Telephone:

 


6. Journal of International Women's Studies

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

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

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

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

Guidelines:

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

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

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Suzanne Baker

 


7. Journal of Women\'s Intercultural Leadership

Editors: Julie Storme and Catherine Pittman

Journal URL:
http://www.saintmarys.edu/cwil/jwil

Theme:
The Journal of Women’s 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 women’s 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.

JWIL is dedicated to the exploration of questions, concerns, and best practices that focus on women\\\'s and intercultural perspectives, experience, and leadership. JWIL welcomes contributions from scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines and fields. Contributors may use various approaches, including critical/rhetorical, qualitative, and/or quantitative.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
Go to www.saintmarys.edu/cwil/jwil

CFP Address:
Journal of Women\\\'s Intercultural Leadership
Center for Women\\\'s Intercultural Leadership
Saint Mary\\\'s College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
CFP E-Mail: jwil@saintmarys.edu

Contact: Julie Storme or Catherine Pittman
E-Mail: jwil@saintmarys.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Julie Storme or Catherine Pittman 574.284.4051

 


8. Library Management Tips That Work

Editors: Carol Smallwood

Journal URL:

Theme:
Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians sharing their experiences about librarians as managers. Concise, how-to case studies, using bullets, headings, sidebars by librarians based on successful management employing innovation.

Suggested Topics:
Possible topics: staff flex hours, financial planning, administration skills, public relations, time management, library boards, partnering, library manuals, professional ethics, innovative technology, handling employees, volunteers.

Guidelines:
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. To receive a “go-ahead”, please e-mail 1-4 topics each described in 2-4 sentences by February 7, 2010 along with a 85-90 word bio with: your name, library of employment, city/state location, employment title, where you got your degree, awards, publications, and career highlights. If co-authored, each of the two librarian-writers will need a separate bio. You will be contacted as soon as possible telling you which of your topics are not duplications, inviting you to e-mail your submission; an invitation doesn’t guarantee acceptance. One chapter 2400-2500 words; or two chapters (preferred) divided to total 2400-2500 words. Chapters welcomed by one librarian, or if co-authored by the same two librarians.

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail: smallwood@tm.net

Contact: Carol Smallwood
E-Mail: smallwood@tm.net

Alternate E-Mail: smallwood@tm.net

Telephone:

 


9. NWSA Journal

Editors: Becky Ropers-Huilman

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Brenda Macon, 225.578.6906

 


10. Qui Parle

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

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

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

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

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


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


CFP E-Mail: quiparle@berkeley.edu

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

Alternate E-Mail: danders@berkeley.edu

Telephone: Diana Anders

 


11. Women's Studies International Forum

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

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

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

Suggested Topics:

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

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

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

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


12. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Editors: Sharon Becker, Yvonne Flack

Journal URL:

Theme:
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.

The editorial board will also consider suggestions for issues with a special focus or theme as well as issues edited by a guest editor.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
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.

CFP Address:
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 Stre
CFP E-Mail: womstudj@cgu.edu

Contact: Sharon Becker
E-Mail: womstudj@cgu.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


JANUARY

FEBRUARY

1. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts

Editors: Georgina Dodge, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Leslie Shortlidge

Abstract Deadline:
February 28th, 2010
Full Deadline:
February 28th, 2010
Journal URL:
http://www.raceethnicity.org

Theme:
This issue explores the multiple points where race and gender intersect across the globe, the range of consequences that meets those intersections, and the dynamics that occur at those intersections.

Our focus on race and gender recognizes that there are numerous ways in which racialized and gendered identities intersect and that their intersection is often influenced by a variety of other cultural factors. We welcome essays that explore intersections and impacts from perspectives across the world. We also welcome the viewpoints of activists, advocates, researchers, and other practitioners working in the field.

Suggested Topics:
Topics of inquiry may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• How do race and gender intersect with each other to mediate access to social opportunity?
• What is the relationship between gender and racial discrimination? Is gender discrimination likely to be most severe in places where racial discrimination is also severe, or are the two largely independent phenomena? Why is that the case?
• By what means does the intersection of “women” and racial/ethnic “other” as identities so often result in the creation of a subclass considered expendable and exploited?
• More generally, what are the consequences of discriminatory behaviors, institutions and structures acting at the intersection of race and gender?
• What can be done? How might intersections or race and gender be celebrated?

Guidelines:

Submission of artwork for the cover that relates to the theme of the issue is welcome. See website at http://www.raceethnicity.org/coverart.html for submission guidelines. Please see Website for style guide.


CFP Address:
Race/Ethnicity Editor
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
433 Mendenhall Laboratory
125 South Ovall Mall
Columbus OH 43210
CFP E-Mail: race-editor@osu.edu

Contact: Leslie Shortlidge Andrew Grant-Thomas
E-Mail: shortlidge.2@osu.edu

Alternate E-Mail: grant-thomas.1@osu.edu

Telephone: Leslie Shortlidge: 614-292-4817

 


MARCH

1. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Editors: Mary Hawkesworth

Abstract Deadline:
March 1st, 2010
Full Deadline:
March 1st, 2010
Journal URL:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/signs/stimpson.html

Theme:
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the competition for the 2011 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.
The Catharine Stimpson Prize is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select the winner. The prize-winning paper will be published in Signs, and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible publication in Signs.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (less than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that falls within the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. Papers submitted for the prize must be no longer than 10,000 words and must conform to the guidelines for Signs contributors. Guidelines for submission are available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/instruct.html.
Deadline for Submissions: The deadline for submissions for the next Catharine Stimpson Prize is March 1, 2010.
Please submit papers online at http://signs.edmgr.com. Be sure to indicate submission for consideration for the Catharine Stimpson Prize in the cover letter. The honorarium will be awarded upon publication of the prize-winning article.

CFP Address:
http://signs.edmgr.com
CFP E-Mail: signs@signs.rutgers.edu

Contact:
E-Mail: signs@signs.rutgers.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Bahia Munem 732-932-2842 Deanna Utroske 732-932-2841

 


2. Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives, Volume 2

Editors: Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell

Abstract Deadline:
March 1st, 2010
Full Deadline:
July 1st, 2010
Journal URL:

Theme:
deadline extended:
We seek research articles and essays which address the global status of women in the media. Topics might include but are not limited to stereotypical depictions, political activism, women as commodoties, hegemony and the status quo, a new look at the male gaze, and women who are media pioneers.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
Please send abstract. Article must be written in APA style. 15-25 pages double-spaced (sources included)

CFP Address:
Professor Theresa Carilli, Purdue University Calumet, Communication Department, Hammond, IN 46323
CFP E-Mail: carilli@calumet.purdue.edu

Contact: Theresa Carilli
E-Mail: carilli@calumet.purdue.edu

Alternate E-Mail: campbell@calumet.purdue.edu

Telephone: Theresa Carilli/ 219-989-2628

 


3. A Queer Gaze: Media and the Gloal GLBT Community

Editors: Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell

Abstract Deadline:
March 1st, 2010
Full Deadline:
July 1st, 2010
Journal URL:

Theme:
We are seeking research and essays that address how the glbt communities are represented in the media, both in the US and around the world.

Suggested Topics:
We would like to hear from scholars and activists how these communities are silenced or given voice through the media.

Guidelines:
Send abstract. Final paper should be 15-25 pages in length, APA style.

CFP Address:
Theresa Carilli, Purdue University Calumet, Communication Department, Hammond, IN 46323

CFP E-Mail: carilli@calumet.purdue.edu

Contact: Theresa Carilli
E-Mail: carilli@calumet.purdue.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


APRIL

MAY

1. Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief JARM Vol. 12.2

Editors: The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (JARM)

Abstract Deadline:
May 1st, 2010
Full Deadline:
May 1st, 2010
Journal URL:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/journal.html

Theme:
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.

Suggested Topics:
the grief process; social and cultural support, bereavement self-help and peer-support; bereavement counseling and therapy; ‘good grief’; the role of health care workers; spiritual care; loss through reproductive and prenatal technology; loss through miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, SIDS; postnatal depression; death of a child through illness, accident, suicide, or homicide; missing or abducted children; death of an adult child through AIDS, in the military, or through violence; infanticide; child loss and teen moms; lesbians and child loss; bereavement, grief and depression; mothering after losing one’s own parent; representations of grief and bereavement in culture and the media; identity of grieving mothers; foster mothers, stepmothers, othermothers; grief following a child’s disability diagnosis; loss of potential motherhood through infertility or abortion; mothers without custody, loss of child to child protection agencies, or incarceration; motherless daughters and sons; divorce; loss of stepchildren through divorce; adoption; measuring loss; matricide.. and more.

Guidelines:
Articles should be 15-18 pages (3750 words) including references.
All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide for complete details: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html
*One must be a member of ARM to submit:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/armmembership.html

CFP Address:
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
CFP E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Contact: Renée Knapp
E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Alternate E-Mail: aoreilly@yorku.ca

Telephone: Renée Knapp, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (JARM), 416-736-2100 ext 60366. Email correspondence preferred.

 



JUNE

1. Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives

Editors: Michelle Walks Naomi McPherson

Abstract Deadline:
June 10th, 2010
Full Deadline:
June 10th, 2010
Journal URL:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm

Theme:
This anthology will explore the topic and experiences of mothering from a cross-cultural perspective. Although it will primarily focus on cultural anthropological work, we welcome submissions from all four fields in anthropology (linguistic, physical/biological, archeology, and cultural). We encourage writings of recent fieldwork, welcoming the representations of local and global perspectives, and writings that represent all points of the insider-outsider spectrum, including auto-ethnography. Writing styles may vary from field notes to ethnographic fiction to traditional academic writing to poetry to photographic representations. While ethnographic (research-based) submissions will make up the majority of the volume, theoretical submissions are also welcome. The intent is to compile works of geographical and experiential diversity that demonstrate various family forms, as well as styles, contexts and problems of mothering, from an anthropological perspective. We would like to focus on the strengths, empowerment, and agency of mothering. Please note that the editors embrace a broad, inclusive understanding of “mothering”.

Suggested Topics:
Mothering in immigrant and/or refugee communities; mothering in locales of war and/or terror and/or perpetual protest; rural and urban mothering; mothering after the loss of a child and/or miscarriage and/or abortion; the relationship of mothering to infertility and/or miscarriage; the relationship of mothering to NRTs; Indigenous mothering; queer mothering; mothering in communes and/or communal mothering; feminist mothering in the West and/or globally; mothering done by nannies, siblings, aunts, grandparents, co-parents, fathers, non-biological parents, step-mothering; surrogate mothering; primate mothering; allomothering; archeological research on/related to mothering; mothering “in the field”; mothering and the internet; mothering and dis/ability; political and/or activist mothering; mothering in multicultural/multi-racial/multi-ethnic families; mothering & post-partum depression and/or dealing with other mental health issues.

Guidelines:
Submissions should be 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages) (inc. notes + sources).
Please also include a 50-word bio.
Please use the American Anthropological Association style.
Please send submissions and inquiries directly to both:
Dr. Naomi McPherson: Naomi.mcpherson@ubc.ca
Michelle Walks: mwalks@alumni.sfu.ca


CFP Address:
Demeter Press c/o
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

CFP E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Contact: Michelle Walks Naomi McPherson
E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Alternate E-Mail: aoreilly@yorku.ca

Telephone: Renée Knapp 416-736-2100 ext 60366...email directly to the editors preferred.

 


2. Unfinished Revolutions: Special Issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Editors: Phillip Rothwell

Abstract Deadline:
June 30th, 2010
Full Deadline:
June 30th, 2010
Journal URL:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/signs/call.html#Unfinished_Revolutions

Theme:
Revolutions have been a hallmark of modernity, celebrating the transformation of hierarchies and established social relations; the death of traditions; and the emergence of new classes, identities, subjectivities, sexualities, nations, technologies, sciences, methodologies, and ideologies. Yet despite the creative energies unleashed with the initiation of revolutionary change, the completion of revolutionary projects seems remarkably rare. As its etymology suggests, revolution may refer to apparent movement, the action of turning, a return or repetition, or a discursive shift as often as it does to an instance of great change or a complete overthrow of established relations.

For this special issue, we invite feminist explorations of the intricacies of unfinished revolutions, whether situated in the context of cultural, demographic, epistemic, historical, methodological, national, political, scientific, sociological, or technological frames. We welcome submissions that creatively deploy feminist analytical categories to enrich under-standings of the dynamics, effects, implications, and consequences of unfinished revolutions.

Suggested Topics:
For this special issue, we invite feminist explorations of the intricacies of unfinished revolutions, whether situated in the context of cultural, demographic, epistemic, historical, methodological, national, political, scientific, sociological, or technological frames. We welcome submissions that creatively deploy feminist analytical categories to enrich under-standings of the dynamics, effects, implications, and consequences of unfinished revolutions.

Guidelines:
The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2010. The issue will appear in winter 2012. Guidelines for submission are available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/instruct.html.

CFP Address:
http://signs.edmgr.com
CFP E-Mail:

Contact: Bahia Munem Deanna Utroske
E-Mail: signs@signs.rutgers.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Bahia Munem 732-932-2842 Deanna Utroske 732-932-2841

 


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1. The Body in Breast Cancer

Editors: Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar Georgetown University

Abstract Deadline:
October 1st, 2010
Full Deadline:
October 1st, 2010
Journal URL:

Theme:
Social Semiotics invites submissions to a special issue “The Body in Breast Cancer” in order to mobilize new critical interventions into the materiality of breast cancer.

The body, at the level of the breast, is the terrain on and through which breast cancer registers. This body, as understood through poststructuralist theory, is always already constructed and negotiated in relation to technology. This body, then, is a technologized body. The experience of breast cancer at once compels particular interfaces of body and machine in detection, treatment, and “recovery,” and the necessity for corporeal reworking in relation to the machine. Stressing the material breast as a technologized terrain necessitates grappling with the myriad of troubled relations of/to the breast, such as the prosthetic breast, the absent breast, fear of the lost breast, refusal of the breast, the scrutinized fleshy breast. In order to enable such exploration, we solicit papers in the fields of science and technology studies, queer studies, cultural studies, performance studies, and disability studies that enter into dialogue with scholarship on (bio)technologies and/or the posthuman. Foregrounding the technologized materiality in breast cancer will yield new ways of understanding subjectivity and somatic resistance, crafting corporeality, and practicing critique/politics in order to extend “livable lives.”

Suggested Topics:
We are especially interested in accounts of queer, non-white, crip, male, classed bodies, and other particularities of subjecthood, that explore the practices of the technologized body in breast cancer at the level of machine and science, and imagined through biotech, the cyborg, cybernetics, prostheses, biometrics, and so forth.

We welcome articles that investigate:
• Excavations of the breast that foreground the policing, containment, mutilation, resignification, and crafting of the breast
• Bodies in breast cancer surveillance
• Bodies and breast reconstruction
• Bodies in treatment (radiation, the chemotherapy ward, detection, ultrasound, MRI, biopsy, mammogram, the breast clinic)
• Bodies and traces of military technologies; marks of cancer treatment
• Body-erotics/sexuality and breast cancer
• Visual economies of the breast and legalities of breastlessness
• The body and prognosis in breast cancer
• Altered notions of bodily capacity in relation to breast cancer
• Breasted aesthetics as self-crafting/disciplining
• Renegotiations of subjectivity at the interface with machines
• Unstable assemblages between flesh and machine in detection, risk assessment, prognosis
• Cancer and matter
• Regeneration and illness


Guidelines:
We invite traditional essays as well as a variety of alternative forms: short performative pieces, short critical etymologies, visual essays, case studies. We are hoping to put together a range of different submissions for this issue in order to encourage unorthodox approaches to breast cancer.

If submitting a traditional paper, the word count should be no more than 8000, including notes and bibliography. Alternative formats should be between 1 and 15 pages (maximum). For all submissions, please note that one image is equivalent to 250 words (half page).

The journal citation style is Chicago Author-Date. For style guidelines and further information about figures and formatting, please see the journal website instructions for authors: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/csosauth.asp

Articles should be prepared for anonymous review. Please provide a separate short author biography and an abstract of no more than 150 words.

The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2010, with a final publication date scheduled for January 2012. Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment as a Word document (.doc or .txt) or pdf. The subject line of your email should state the special issue title “The Body in Breast Cancer” and be addressed to: specialissuebreast@gmail.com.

CFP Address:
specialissuebreast@gmail.com
CFP E-Mail: specialissuebreast@gmail.com

Contact: Social Semiotics
E-Mail: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/csosauth.asp

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


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