Call for Papers
"Signs" Special Issue: "Globalization and Gender"
"Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society" seeks submissions for a
special issue on "Globalization and Gender," slated for publication in
Summer 2001. For this special issue, we will focus on feminist critiques
of the prevailing ways in which globalization has been conceptualized.
Since traditional scholarship on globalization has ignored gender issues,
feminist approaches provide new insights into the reconfiguration of the
state, transnational economies, and cultural formations. Whether these
changes are due to what David Harvey has termed "time-space compression"
or to the movements and flows of finance capital, goods, or labor,
feminist scholarship and pedagogy are vital to understanding global
processes and movements in a transnational moment. For example, feminist
approaches to globalization might address: the emergence of women as a new
labor force; the rise of feminized service industries in many parts of the
world; the centrality of consumption practices; the emergence of gendered
social movements in relation to sexuality, religion, and ethnicity; the
gendering of ecological activism; the practices of global media empires;
the nature of feminist politics in a world of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) and transnational coalitions; and the relationship of
women and gender to new technologies of communication.
This special issue seeks submissions that address such topics as
the relationship between gender and globalization, feminist critiques and
understandings of globalization, earlier forms of globalization in
comparison and connection to contemporary processes, the gendered
dimensions of new forms of global information and finance systems, the
transnationalization of identity politics based on gender and sexuality,
the globalization of race and multiculturalism, global and transnational
women's and gender-related NGOs, and new forms of internationalism and
nationalism. Above all, rather than analyses that simply add women or
gender to the study of globalization, we seek essays that situate and
historicize feminist knowledges as formative and integral to a variety of
global movements. We encourage the submission of essays that address
pedagogical practice as well as research and we are especially interested
in interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches.
The special issues editors are Amrita Basu (political science,
Amherst College), Inderpal Grewal (women studies, San Francisco State
University), Caren Kaplan (womens studies, University of California,
Berkeley), and Liisa Malkki (anthropology, University of California,
Irvine). Please submit articles (five copies) no later than October 31,
1999, to:
Signs, Globalization and Gender
Box 354345
C14 Padelford Hall,
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-4345.
Please observe the guidelines in the Notice to Contributors printed in the
most recent issue of the journal and available online at
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/signs/home.html.
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