>Call for Papers
>
>Feminist Theory
>
>Special Issue:
>Feminist Theory and/of Science
>
>Guest Editor: Susan M. Squier
>
>Articles are invited that consider the relations between feminist theory
>and science, as well as feminist theories of science. Essays may vary in
>subject area and methodology. Literary, historical, and/or visual and
>cultural studies approaches, sociological and anthropological approaches,
>as well as perspectives from the scientific disciplines, are
>encouraged. Possible subjects of exploration include: feminist theory and
>the biological body and brain; the limits of materiality; the limits of
>social construction; feminist theories of information and communication
>technology (ICT); is there a feminist science? Is there a scientific
>feminism? Discourses of science and feminist theory; feminist science
>studies or queer science studies: what are the differences? What is the
>role of literature in feminist theory / in feminist science studies? How
>does feminist theory respond to the risk society? How does feminism
>understand the categories of gender, race, class, disability, and/or
>species as they are constituted and/ or deployed in scientific practice?
>Is a 'non-modern' feminist science studies possible? What are the
>essential texts for feminist theory of science? What practices
>characterize feminist science studies or the feminist theory of science?
>
>Feminist Theory is a peer-reviewed journal and all articles will be
>subject to the usual refereeing process. Six copies should be submitted.
>Author's names and biographical notes should appear only on a cover sheet,
>and all identifiers in the text should be masked so that manuscripts can
>be reviewed anonymously. Each article should be accompanied by an
>abstract and keywords and a brief biographical note. Articles should be
>typed double spaced, with references in the Harvard Style and substantive
>footnotes at the end of the article. Manuscript length should be between
>6,000 and 8,000 words.
>
>Detailed notes for contributors are available on request from the Feminist
>Theory office: email feminist.theory@york.ac.uk Other inquiries should be
>directed to the issue editor by e-mail, at sxs62@psu.edu
>
>This special issue will review only unpublished manuscripts that are not
>simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere.
>
>Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2003.
>
>Manuscripts should be clearly marked 'Special Issue' and sent either to
>Feminist Theory, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York,
>Heslington, York YO10 5DD or, in the case of North American authors, to
>Susan Squier, PO Box 557, 211 Miller Lane, Boalsburg, PA 16827, USA.
>Susan Squier is Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English at the
>Pennsylvania State University, where she is a member of the Science,
>Medicine, Technology and Culture group and the Disability Studies group of
>the Rock Ethics Institute. She has served as President of the Society for
>Literature and Science, and is currently on its Executive Board. Among her
>publications are: Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of
>Reproductive Technology, Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations,
>Fantasies and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (edited with E. Ann
>Kaplan), Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
>(co-edited with Helen Cooper and Adrienne Munich). Her edited collection,
>Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture, is forthcoming in
>2003 from Duke University Press. In summer 2002, she co-directed (with
>Anne Hunsaker Hawkins) the National Endowment for the Humanities summer
>institute on "Literature, Medicine and Culture" at Penn State University
>Hershey Medical Center.
Susan Squier
Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English
S228 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-3604 (do not call during the summer)
Home address: PO Box 557, 211 Miller Lane, Boalsburg, PA 16827
814-466-7626
cell phone: 814-360-9622
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