[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfP: Women's Studies Quarterly: Women and Development

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 Florian Bieber wrote:From Florian Bieber Mon Sep 16 10:38:54 2002
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From: Florian Bieber 
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:38:54 +0200
Subject: [balkans] CfP: Women's Studies Quarterly: Women and Development

From: Edvige Giunta <egiunta at njcu.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers Women's Studies Quarterly
Date: September 16, 2002

Call for Papers / Appel à contributions

Women and Development:  Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing
Practice

Women’s Studies Quarterly
Guest Editors:  Frances Vavrus and Lisa Ann Richey

Since 1972, Women’s Studies Quarterly has been the leading journal on
teaching in women’s studies.  Thematic issues feature material for
specialists and generalists, including the most recent scholarship
available in accessible language; teaching material; creative writing; book
reviews; and up-to-date bibliographies.  The intersections of race and
class with gender are of special concern, as are international
perspectives.

Women’s Studies Quarterly is now seeking submissions for a special
Spring/Summer 2004 issue on Women and Development.  The issue will
focus on the gendered effects of development policies and practices as
well as the growing significance of post-development theory and action.
We invite submissions drawing upon different feminist approaches to the
study of women and development—including liberalism, Marxism, and
postmodernism—from those engaged with post-development
scholarship and activism along with those who create and implement
policies and programs for development organizations.
The inclusion of diverse perspectives on women and development will
enable readers to appreciate the breadth of meanings associated with
the term “development” and the depth of the debate over how
development processes restructure gender, power, and geopolitical
relations in communities subject to interventions.  We want to extend the
boundaries of debate as far as possible by encouraging contributions that
reflect on the concept of development from historical and contemporary
perspectives, and that report on the experience of development through
analyses of specific policies and practices affecting women’s lives.

The issue will feature articles, essays, creative writing, teaching
material, and book reviews that address one or more of the following
questions:

1)      What is development?  Whose interests does it serve?  Have we
moved into a post-development era?
2)      What are the gender-based challenges faced by women in specific
contexts in the ‘North’ and ‘South’ today that have changed since the
inception of women in development (WID) in the 1970s?  In particular,
how have the contexts of the Cold War, decolonialization, and
neo-liberalism affected development programs in the areas of education,
employment, health, and politics?
3)      How can liberal, Marxist, and postmodern feminist scholarship
contribute to our understanding of development for women?  What are the
specific features of feminist post-development theory, and how does it
differ from other forms of scholarship on gender and development (GAD)?
4)      How do the dynamics of race, class, gender, education, and urbanism
limit women’s participation in the development process?  Do these
dynamics look different at various levels of development implementation?
How might a focus on gender inform debates on the dynamics of other
forms of inequality?
5)      What might feminist development theory and practice look like in the
coming decades as a result of the cultural, economic, and political
changes brought about by the forces of globalization?  What challenges
do the anti-globalization and subsistence movements pose for
development programs, policy, and practices?
6)      How can teachers incorporate women and development issues into
the curriculum to foster learning and debate about gender and power
relations at the local, national, and international levels?

Contributions accepted for the special issue will be reviewed by at least
two reviewers with the understanding that the materials have not been
submitted to another journal.  All submissions should be double-spaced,
printed on one side of paper with 1-inch margins, and conform to the APA
(in-text) citation style.  Articles should not exceed 20 pages (5,000 words)
in length, excluding references.  Essays, short stories, and strategies for
teaching (with syllabi) should not exceed 15 pages (3,750 words).  Book
reviews should not exceed 3 pages (750 words), and they should include
a complete citation for the book under review.

Please send a disk and three hard copies of submissions along with a
full mailing address, daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address
to Professor Frances Vavrus, Teachers College, Columbia University, 525
W.
120th Street, Box 55, New York, NY 10027, USA.  Queries should be sent
to either Fran Vavrus fv84 at columbia.edu or to Lisa Ann Richey lri at cdr.dk.

Poetry submissions should be sent to Edvige Giunta, Poetry Editor,
Women's Studies Quarterly, Department of English, New Jersey City
University, Jersey City, NJ 07305.

The deadline for submission is November 29, 2002.

Women’s Studies Quarterly
An Educational Project of the Feminist Press at the City University of New
York in Cooperation with Rochester Institute of Technology
General Editor, Diane S. Hope, Rochester Institute of Technology



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