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Call For Papers
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Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy seeks interviews in different formats (i.e. traditional interviews, conversations/dialogues, etc.) with educators from a variety of disciplinary and institutional settings, including non-academic in the US and abroad for upcoming special issue on: Teaching the Body. Cross-disciplinary and divergent perspectives are welcome. Send Proposals and inquiries to editors Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta at transformations@njcu.edu by June 1.
Trivia: Voices of Feminism is seeking submissions for its September 2008 issue. Trivia, a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. Trivia encourage writers to take risks with language and form so as to give their ideas the most original and vital expression possible. Trivia's larger purpose is to foster a body of rigorous, creative and independent feminist thought. This issues’ submissions are open to all topics. See submission guidelines for details: http://www.triviavoices.net. Submissions due June 13.
The Encyclopedia of Infanticide is seeking submissions. The one-volume specialized encyclopedia, to be published by the Edwin Mellen Press, will be devoted to the topic of infanticide across human history and in its worldwide context. While remaining accessible to the general public, this interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be aimed primarily at college students, scholars in related fields, and professionals. It will include entries of various lengths, and longer contributions on broad geographic areas. All will be signed by their authors, who will also receive individual bylines in the volume. For submission please email to both co-editors: Brigitte Bechtold; becht1bh@cmich.edu and Donna Cooper Graves; dgraves@utm.edu by June 15.
Women for Women International, a non-profit humanitarian organization seeks submissions for the Fall 2008 issue of its bi-annual academic journal, Critical Half. This issue will focus on global women’s movements and women’s movements globally in various contexts, including politics, women’s rights, social change, religion, and economic endeavors. Papers might consider the genesis and logistics of women’s movements; the underlying ideological concerns which give rise to and sustain, or counteract, these movements; or the interaction of women’s movements with local, regional, and global organizations, such as religious groups, political parties, or local or international local women’s groups. Articles should be 2,000-2,500 words long. For further information, including topic suggestions, article possibilities, and submission guidelines, visit http://www.womenforwomen.org/cfpapers.htm. Submissions due June 16.
Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism is looking for contributions for upcoming issues. Women’s writing from radical feminist perspectives and writing that contributes to radical feminist ideas are welcomed. Rain and Thunder is interested in theory, opinion, strategy, action updates, news, reviews, and upcoming events. Contributions can be sent to Rain and Thunder: rainandthunder@yahoo.com. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis through September 1.
Emotion, Space and Society invites submissions from across the full spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. Research articles and opinion pieces should investigate the multiplicity of spaces and places that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life. We encourage a broad range of theoretical and methodological engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon, and welcome innovative presentational formats. Submissions are being accepted all year until appropriate material is found. To submit an article online, go to: http://ees.elsevier.com/emospa/.
Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health In The Twenty-First Century welcomes submissions from scholars in medical sociology, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, bioethics, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, and other interdisciplinary fields, and especially seek projects that offer new theoretical insights about biopolitics, analyze health-related topics in fresh ways, or take up an intellectual problem in relation to biopolitics. The series seeks to understand how society and culture foster the new developments in these fields that "work on" human bodies. Submissions are being accepted all year until appropriate material is found. For more information please visit the website at: www.nyupress.org.
