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CALLS FOR PAPERS FOR JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS
WHERE STUDENT SUBMISSIONS ARE ENCOURAGED

LIST REFLECTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE (abstract and/or full manuscript)

Open Calls (Overview):

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

2. Feminist Formations
(open)

3. Gendered Perspectives on International Development
(open)

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

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

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

Calls With Deadlines (Overview) :

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

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

3. Feminist Formations
(December 31st, 2014)

OPEN CALLS: Full Details

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. 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

 


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 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

 


6. 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:

 


Calls With Deadlines: Full Details

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:

 


2. 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:

 


3. Feminist Formations

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

Abstract Deadline:
December 31st, 2014
Full Deadline:
December 31st, 2014
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

 


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