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Open Calls (jump)

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

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

3. Feminist Formations
(open)

4. Gendered Perspectives on International Development
(open)

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

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

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

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

9. Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity
(open)

10. NWSA Journal
(open)

11. Qui Parle
(open)

12. Women's Studies International Forum
(open)

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

January (jump)

February (jump)

1. I Do Not Miss What I Do Not Want: Asexual Identities, Asexual Lives (Special theme issue of Psychology and Sexuality)
(February 1st, 2011)

2. Women's Studies
(February 15th, 2011)

March (jump)

April (jump)

May (jump)

June (jump)

July (jump)

August (jump)

September (jump)

1. Thealogies of the Goddess: Dialogues within the Feminist Spirituality Community
(September 7th, 2010)

2. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons to Encourage Library Use
(September 26th, 2010)

3. Publicity Methods to Keep Libraries in the News
(September 26th, 2010)

4. Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets
(September 30th, 2010)

October (jump)

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

November (jump)

1. Feminism and the African Diaspora
(November 30th, 2010)

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. Feminist Formations

Editors: Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, Editor Amy Kaminsky, Book Review Editor Megan Atwood, Managing Editor Kathryn Enke, Editorial Assistant

Journal URL:
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/feminist-formations

Theme:
Feminist Formations is a peer-reviewed publication committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, both established and new, results in critical dialogue. We strive to publish articles that further our mission of presenting feminist, gender, and sexuality studies’ scholarship that links research, theory, activism, teaching, and learning.

Suggested Topics:
We invite submissions for:
• Journal articles
• Special issue topics/guest editors
• “Formations and Locations” Web site articles
• Art/fiction/poetry for Web site

Guidelines:
See our Web site: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/Feminist-Formations/Submitting/manuscripts.html

CFP Address:
Feminist Formations
University of Minnesota
330 Wulling Hall
86 Pleasant Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0221
CFP E-Mail: femform@umn.edu

Contact: Kathryn Enke or Megan Atwood
E-Mail: femform@umn.edu

Alternate E-Mail: atwoo031@umn.edu

Telephone: Kathryn Enke 612-626-3818

 


4. 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

 


5. 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

 


6. 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:

 


7. 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

 


8. 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

 


9. Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity

Editors: Betina Entzminger

Journal URL:
http://organizations.bloomu.edu/connect/

Theme:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity

Suggested Topics:
We publish academic essays from any discipline, fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, original artwork, and book reviews.

Guidelines:
Submit via email at connect@bloomu.edu

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail:

Contact: Betina Entzminger
E-Mail: connect@bloomu.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


10. 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

 


11. 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

 


12. 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:

 


13. 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. I Do Not Miss What I Do Not Want: Asexual Identities, Asexual Lives (Special theme issue of Psychology and Sexuality)

Editors: Mark Carrigan - m.a.carrigan@warwick.ac.uk Kristina Gupta - kgupta2@emory.edu Todd G. Morrison - tgm003@mail.usask.ca

Abstract Deadline:
February 1st, 2011
Full Deadline:
February 1st, 2011
Journal URL:

Theme:
Within the past decade, a growing number of individuals, self-identifying as asexual, have come together to form asexual communities. Although self-definitions vary widely, many of these individuals describe themselves as experiencing little or no sexual desire. In addition, they do not regard asexuality as a pathological condition but, rather, as a variant of human sexual expression. For researchers in the field of psychology and related disciplines, the elaboration of asexual identities and the growth of online asexual communities raise a range of empirical and theoretical questions which have heretofore gone largely unaddressed. This special issue of Psychology & Sexuality invites papers which contribute to the academic and social understanding of asexuality.
We welcome papers from the discipline of psychology and allied disciplines. We also welcome papers from outside the discipline that speak to the field of psychology. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work is most welcome. This issue will represent a significant contribution to our understanding of asexuality by bringing together a range of papers on the topic for the first time. It will also provide an opportunity both to map the current state of research on asexuality and to provide a direction for future scholarship and inquiry.

Suggested Topics:
- Asexual identities
- Asexuality and assumed pathology
- Asexuality and sexual normativity
- Asexuality and love
- Asexual relationships
- Asexuality and the LGBT community
- The universality and/or particularity of sexual desire
- Marginalization of asexuality
- Asexuality and the internet
- Social and political goals of the asexual community

Guidelines:
Submission Due Date: Feb 2011
Full length papers (6000 words) and shorter articles (1000-2000 words)

CFP Address:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1941-9899&linktype=1
CFP E-Mail: m.a.carrigan@warwick.ac.uk

Contact: Mark Carrigan - m.a.carrigan@warwick.ac.uk Kristina Gupta - kgupta2@emory.edu Todd G. Morrison - tgm003@mail.usask.ca
E-Mail: m.a.carrigan@warwick.ac.uk

Alternate E-Mail: kgupta2@emory.edu

Telephone:

 


2. Women's Studies

Editors: Shealeen Meaney

Abstract Deadline:
February 15th, 2011
Full Deadline:
February 15th, 2011
Journal URL:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00497878.asp

Theme:
Transformations in technologies of transportation, an expanding economy, and advances in women’s rights legislation collided in the early 20th century, increasing women’s participation in forms of travel ranging from tourism to careerism. The 1920s saw the appearance of “Globe Trotting Working-Girls,” westward bound female “motorgypsies,” and women of the “great migration” headed north in search of opportunity. In the decades after the rise of second wave feminism, women’s participation in travel once again expanded rapidly. Growing numbers of women moved increasingly further from family homes to attend colleges and establish careers. By the end of the century, Newsweek magazine proclaimed that the average adventure traveler of the era was a 47-year-old woman.

This special issue of Women’s Studies focuses on the motivations, modes, and meanings of women’s travel in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Submissions dealing with any intersections of gender, space, and mobility are welcome.

Suggested Topics:
Possible Topics Include:

• Women’s Travel Writing
• Women Adventurers and Explorers
• Women, Television, and Reality Adventure Programming
• Women, Global Volunteerism, and Social Entrepreneurism
• Women, Travel and Literature (fiction, poetry, drama)
• Gender and Sustainable Tourism
• Women’s Work and Mobility
• Women and Spiritual Journeys
• Gendered Spaces at Home and Abroad
• Feminist Study Abroad
• Gay and Lesbian Tourism
• Gender and Travel Guides
• Women-Specific Tourism
• Women’s Virtual Travel Communities
• Women and Surgical tourism

In addition, book reviews related to the topic are welcome. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer and would like to receive suggestions for books please contact the editor.

Guidelines:
Please send manuscript (approximately 25 pages or less) to Shealeen Meaney at meanes@sage.edu by February 15, 2011. See additional instructions below:
Each completed 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:

CFP E-Mail: meanes@sage.edu

Contact: Shealeen Meaney, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Director, Helen M. Upton Center for Women’s Studies Coordinator of American Studies Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180
E-Mail:

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


MARCH

APRIL

MAY


JUNE

JULY

AUGUST
SEPTEMBER

1. Thealogies of the Goddess: Dialogues within the Feminist Spirituality Community

Editors: Angela Hope Katherine MacDowell

Abstract Deadline:
September 7th, 2010
Full Deadline:
February 1st, 2011
Journal URL:
http://sites.google.com/site/thealogiesofthegoddess/

Theme:
This proposed edited book seeks to develop the field of Goddess Thealogy. Interested potential contributors should read the full call for papers available by clicking on the link provided.

Suggested Topics:
See link

Guidelines:
Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words on a separate word document including title and full contact info to Angela Hope at angela.hope@hotmail.com

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail: angela.hope@hotmail.com

Contact: Angela Hope
E-Mail: angela.hope@hotmail.com

Alternate E-Mail: angelah@oceanseminarycollege.org

Telephone: 210.870.9451

 


2. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons to Encourage Library Use

Editors: Carol Smallwood

Abstract Deadline:
September 26th, 2010
Full Deadline:
October 26th, 2010
Journal URL:

Theme:
How to make the multi-cultured community members regular library users. A how-to for librarians restricted by time, money, and staffing: creative librarians using various outreach methods to overcome language and cultural barriers to serve all those in their communities and turn them into regular patrons. Publisher: Routledge Books; 3,000-5,000 words; 1-3 authors.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
Please e-mail in a Word .doc (older version) attachment 2-3 topics/titles each described in 2-3 sentences by September 26, 2010 and a 75-90 word 3rd person bio: your name, library of employment, city/state location, employment title, where you got your degree, awards, publications, and career highlights. Please include publisher/date for books. If co-authored, a separate 75-85 word bio on each contributor. Please: no long resumes or abstracts-your selected title/abstract/bio composes a tentative table of contents for Routledge. You will be contacted which of your topics are not duplications, inviting you to e-mail your submission if Routledge decides to publish; your bio's will appear in the anthology. Please place MULTICULTURAL/your name on the subject line:

CFP Address:
smallwood@tm.net
CFP E-Mail: smallwood@tm.net

Contact:
E-Mail:

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


3. Publicity Methods to Keep Libraries in the News

Editors: Carol Smallwood

Abstract Deadline:
September 26th, 2010
Full Deadline:
October 26th, 2010
Journal URL:

Theme:
An anthology by and for librarians striving to spread the word what their libraries offer, what they do, their service role. Changing economics and life styles presents challenges to librarians often restricted by cutbacks in staff, hours, and money: how creative librarians using many publicity methods to promote their libraries and make them recognized as an essential resource for all ages. Publisher: Routledge.3,000-5,000 words.

Suggested Topics:

Guidelines:
Please e-mail in a Word .doc (older version) attachment 2-3 topics/titles each described in 2-3 sentences by September 26, 2010 and a 75-90 word 3rd person bio: your name, library of employment, city/state location, employment title, where you got your degree, awards, publications, and career highlights. Please include publisher/date for books. If co-authored, a separate 75-85 word bio on each contributor. Please: no long resumes or abstracts-your selected title/abstract/bio composes a tentative table of contents for Routledge. You will be contacted which of your topics are not duplications, inviting you to e-mail your submission if Routledge decides to publish; your bio's will appear in the anthology. Please place PUBLICITY/your name on the subject line: smallwood@tm.net

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail: smallwood@tm.net

Contact:
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4. Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets

Editors: Smallwood & Harris

Abstract Deadline:
September 30th, 2010
Full Deadline:
November 30th, 2010
Journal URL:

Theme:
Contributors needed for articles about: websites for women poets, using life experience, magazine markets, networking, managing family, blogs, unique issues women must overcome, lesbian and bisexual poetry, continuing education, queries and proposals, anthologies, conference participation, contests, promotion, self-publishing, teaching tips, and other areas women poets are interested.
Book Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Suggested Topics:
Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven the most helpful. Please avoid writing too much about “me” and concentrate on what will most help the reader. No previously published, co-written, or simultaneously submitted material.
Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven the most helpful. Please avoid writing too much about “me” and concentrate on what will most help the reader. No previously published, co-written, or simultaneously submitted material.


Guidelines:
Please send 2-3 topics you would like to contribute each described in a few sentences and a 65-75 word bio using the format of the bio's above. Please send in a .doc Word (older version) file by September 30, 2010 using POETS/your last name on the subject line to smallwood@tm.net. You will receive a Go-Ahead with guidelines if your topics haven't already been taken. Contributors will be asked to contribute a total of 1900-2100 words. Those included in the anthology will receive a complimentary copy as compensation.

CFP Address:

CFP E-Mail: smallwood@tm.net

Contact:
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OCTOBER

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

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NOVEMBER

1. Feminism and the African Diaspora

Editors: Sandra Jackson, Guest Editor

Abstract Deadline:
November 30th, 2010
Full Deadline:
August 30th, 2010
Journal URL:

Theme:
Exploration of issues related to Feminism in the Arican Diaspora, drawing upon different disciplines and fields, addressing issues of identity, relationships with others, engagement with feminist and gender discourses, agency and activism.

Suggested Topics:
engagement with feminisms, identify belonging and community, feminism in daily life, activism agency in social movements, gendered discourses and gendered identities, critiques of the mass media and popular culture.

Guidelines:
Submit abstract, 400-500 words by Nov 30th 2010
accompanied with author's name, university affiliation, contact information, mailing address and telephone number

CFP Address:
sjackson@depaul.edu
CFP E-Mail: sjackson@depaul.edu

Contact: sjackson@depaul.edu
E-Mail:

Alternate E-Mail: N/A

Telephone: Sandra Jackson (773)325-7990

 


DECEMBER

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