Call for Papers: Women's Voices in Poetry (RMMLA Convention)

Deadline: 1 March 2011

This session seeks papers on "Women's Voices in Poetry," however broadly you define the topic. Abstracts of 250-300 words are invited for papers to be delivered at the annual conference of the Rocky Mountain MLA in Boulder, Colorado, Oct. 11-13, 2012.

Email abstracts – including your title, institutional affiliation, and email address – to Michele Battiste (michele.battiste@colorado.edu) by March 1, 2012.

All submissions will be acknowledged and notifications sent by March 15, 2012. Non-members are welcome to submit abstracts, but presenters must be members of the RMMLA by April 1.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: michele.battiste@colorado.edu

For submissions: michele.battiste@colorado.edu

Website: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/default.asp

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Call for Papers: Womanhood, Masculinity, and the Family in African American Literature (SMCLA Conference, TX)

Deadline: 15 March 2012

Womanhood, Masculinity, and the Family in African American Literature. This panel will explore masculinity, womanhood and the family in African American Literature, while these topics can be treated separately, they may also be treated together, providing a view of the family within African American texts that can illuminate familial and societal relationships.

250-500 word submissions must be received by March 15th. The SCMLA Conference will be held in San Antonio, TX November 8-10, 2012.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: jxt0090@louisiana.edu

For submissions: jxt0090@louisiana.edu

Website: http://www.southcentralmla.org/

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Call for Essays on The Orange Prize for Fiction

Deadline: 16 September 2011

Abstracts are invited for essays for a proposed collection on the Orange Prize for Fiction, the prestigious women-only literary prize which, since its inception in 1996, has sought 'originality, excellence and accessibility' in fiction writers in English worldwide.

Suggested themes:

- The Gender questions raised by the setting up and success of the Prize as women only
- Marketing and commercial success of the prize
- Essays on any of the winning novels
- Essays on a shortlist and the questions it raises
- Judging and Panels
- The Prize and the Construction of the Canon.
- The Orange Prize versus the Booker Prize
- The Orange Prize and scholarship/the academy
- The Prize and Bourdieu's theories

Final essays will be approximately 7,000 - 9,000 words, with estimated deadline, if abstract is accepted and publishers accept the proposal, of February 2012.

Please send abstracts of approx 250 words, with short biographical details, to Dr Nick Turner, n.turner@mmu.ac.uk, by Sept 16th 2011.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: n.turner@mmu.ac.uk

For submissions: n.turner@mmu.ac.uk

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The $3000 Journal of Women’s History Graduate Student Article Prize

Deadline: 1 March 2012

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Women’s History is proud to announce the initiation of a biennial prize for the best article manuscript in the field of women’s history authored by a graduate student. Manuscripts in any chronological and geographical area are welcome. We seek work that has broad significance for the field of women’s history in general by addressing issues that transcend the particulars of the case or by breaking new ground methodologically.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, along with a cover letter specifying the author’s graduate advisor, program, and status (i.e., year in program, ABD, etc.), by March 1, 2012 to each member of the committee: Durba Ghosh (dg256@cornell.edu); Pamela Scully (pamela.scully@emory.edu); and Judith Zinsser (zinssejp@muohio.edu).

The winning author will receive $3000, and the article will be published in the Journal of Women’s History.

Editors
Journal of Women's History
Department of History
P.O. Box 6000 Rm. LN-G277
Binghamton University, SUNY
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
Tel: 607-777-5060
Fax: 607-777-5100
jwh@binghamton.edu

Contact Information:

For inquiries: Durba Ghosh (dg256@cornell.edu); Pamela Scully (pamela.scully@emory.edu); or Judith Zinsser (zinssejp@muohio.edu)

For submissions: Durba Ghosh (dg256@cornell.edu); Pamela Scully (pamela.scully@emory.edu); and Judith Zinsser (zinssejp@muohio.edu).

Website: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/

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Call for Papers to Proposed Volume "Children's Literature and New York City"

Deadline: 10 December 2011

The proposed volume will examine the varying ways in which children’s literature has engaged with New York as a city space, both in terms of (urban) realism and as ‘idea’ (a place of opportunity, etc). The volume will explore not just dominant themes, motifs, tropes, etc but also the different narrative methods employed to inform readers about the history, function, physical structure, conceptualization, etc of New York City. The volume will also acknowledge the shared or symbiotic relationship between literature and the city: just as the literature can give imaginative ‘reality’ to the city, the city has the potential to shape the literary text.

Many contemporary children’s texts are set in city environments and engage with the complexities of urban life. From the nineteenth century to the present day, New York has featured prominently in children’s literature of the city. Newbery Medal Winners such as Ruth Sawyer’s Roller Skates (1936), Emily Cheney Neville’s It’s Like This, Cat (1963) and E.L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-up File of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) are set in New York, while texts such as Mary Ann Sadleir’s Bessy Conway; or, the Story of an Irish Girl (1863), J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye (1951), Judy Blume’s Are You there God? It’s me Margaret (1970) and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (2006), and Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2006) can all be read within the context of representations of New York City.

The volume will cover a range of forms and genres – picture books, adventure novels, school stories, YA Fiction, fantasy, romantic realism, comic realism, film, etc – and movements – realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. Obvious themes that might be considered in essays include, for example: Class; Race and Ethnicity; Individual and National Identity; Opportunity and Alienation; Immigration and the Other; Globalisation and Cultural Transference/Transformation; Space and Place; Urbanism and the Natural; Metropolis and Hinterland; Megalopolis versus Frontier/Wilderness; and, Industrial versus the Post-industrial.

Readership:

This volume will have an international audience. It will be of interest to postgraduate and undergraduate students of literature and children’s literature, literary scholars, academics, teachers, librarians, people working in the media (both print and television), and to all those interested in publishing and writing for children. However, the volume will also be of interest to scholars from other disciplines engaged in research within the humanities and social sciences.

Deadlines:

A 300- to 500-word abstract (we ask potential contributors to include a critical/theoretical framework, as well as specific primary texts), a brief biography, and a short CV should be submitted as an MS Word attachment by 26 August 2011 by e-mail to childrensliteraturenewyork@gmail.com (complete essays of circa 5,000 words should be submitted by 10 December 2011).

Publisher:

A major international publisher has expressed interest in the volume.

Editors:

Dr Pádraic Whyte is Lecturer in Children’s Literature and co-director of the MPhil in Children’s Literature at the School of English, University of Dublin, Trinity College. He has published several articles and essays in the areas of children’s literature and film. He is author of Irish Childhoods: Children’s Fiction and Irish History (2011).

Dr Keith O'Sullivan is Lecturer in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin (an Associated College of the University of Dublin, Trinity College). He is a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature. His has published on Philip Pullman and Emily Brontë. He co-edited Irish Children’s Literature: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (Routledge 2011).

Contact:

Please direct enquiries and submissions to the editors, Dr Pádraic Whyte and Dr Keith O’Sullivan. Email: childrensliteraturenewyork@gmail.com

Contact Information:

For inquiries: childrensliteraturenewyork@gmail.com

For submissions: childrensliteraturenewyork@gmail.com

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Stanford and Ms. Magazine Essay Contest

Deadline: 15 October 2011

What do these iconic Ms. covers mean to you? A group of Stanford faculty at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the editors of Ms. magazine have selected forty Ms. covers from the magazine’s inaugural freestanding issue in 1972 to today. Over the years, Ms. magazine has offered feminist reporting and perspectives on topics ranging from Marilyn Monroe to childbirth, from breast cancer to domestic violence.

We invite you to submit a 150-word essay about one of these covers.

Some questions you might explore: How did this cover reflect or shape your own life? What does it say about American women, men, and sexuality? About feminism? About the political landscape at the time it appeared or today? How does it capture an era, or moment from the past? How does it resonate with the present? How does it reveal both the strengths and limitations of feminist thought?

Entries will be judged on their originality, vision, awareness of feminist issues, and quality of expression. A group of Stanford faculty, Stegner Fellows, and Ms. editors will select ten winning entries, each of which will be awarded $100 cash prizes and a subscription to Ms. magazine. A number of honorable mentions may also be awarded (the cash prize winners and the honorable mentions are “winners” for the purposes of this agreement). Winning entries will be displayed alongside the Ms. covers in an exhibit on the Stanford campus in 2012.

Contest Rules:

• Contestants must enter in one of two categories: student or non-student. Student status is defined as any full-time student at an educational institution, including colleges, secondary or elementary schools.

• Essays must be 150 words or less, excluding factual information on the entry form (name, date, age, address) (“Ms. Essay”).

• No reference can be made within the body of the essay that will individually identify the contestant. Names and identifying information will be provided on the contest entry form, apart from the essay body.

• No essays will be judged after the final due date, (October 15, 2011 at 5:00pm PT).

• Essays must be original, previously unpublished, and must not infringe the intellectual-property rights of any third party. Each essay must reflect the contestant's own research, writing and original thinking.

• By entering the contest, the contestant warrants the originality of the Ms. Essay and assigns copyright in the Ms. Essay jointly to Stanford University and Ms. Magazine, which includes without limitation the right to publish electronically or in print in any media now known or hereafter created, display, use, edit or modify the Ms. Essay without further permission or further compensation. Beginning in December 2011 for non-winning essays and December 2013 for winning essays, Stanford University and Ms. Magazine license back to the contestant the right to use the Ms. Essay in any and all media, and Stanford and Ms. Magazine waive the right to any royalties flowing from the Ms. Essay based on publications secured by the contestant. Contestants further grant Stanford University and Ms. Magazine the right to use his or her name, likeness and biographic images in connection with the display or publication of his or her winning Ms. Essays, if applicable. (In plain English, you are giving us the rights to control your Ms. Essay so that Stanford and/or Ms. Magazine can use it in the future. You are also agreeing to let us use your name and biographic details about you in the event you are a winner. For all contestants, once the contest is over, December 2011 for unsuccessful contestants, or December 2013 for winning contestants, you can use your essay in any way you want to use it without having any obligations back to us.)

• Each contestant must complete the online entry form fully and accurately. Contestants will be asked to provide their name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, and institutional affiliation (if applicable). Each contestant agrees to indemnify Ms. Magazine and Stanford University for any misrepresentations in a submitted Ms. Essay.

• No literary form other than an essay will be accepted.

• Employees of The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Studies at Stanford University and Ms. magazine and their respective parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries and participating advertising and promotion agencies (including members of their immediate family and/or those living in the same household of each such employee) are not eligible to participate in this contest.

• Sponsor is not responsible for lost or late entries nor for electronic-transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone-equipment, electronic, computer, hardware, or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor or presenter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or any combination thereof.

Contact Information:

For submissions: submit online here

Website: http://gender.stanford.edu/

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Call for Submissions: The Blind Hem

Deadline: 1 November 2011

Introducing The Blind Hem, an online compilation of intelligent fashion writing. The Blind Hem will be an online magazine in blog form, pulling together some of the best available writing on fashion.

Contribute fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, articles, or personal essays!


We welcome submissions from writers of all professional levels, regardless of publishing history. Send submissions to: contribute@theblindhem.com. Please write submission in the body of email or attach in .doc or .rtf form. Fiction and poetry should have some connection to fashion - a theme, a metaphor, etc. Please include a short, third-person biography and links to your blog, portfolio or personal website with each submission.

We are looking for work on how the art of dressing has enhanced life. How the perfect stitching in the seam of a vintage dress are connected to clothing. Fashion as a weapon or as a support system. How does art and culture influence fashion? The history of a certain item. Regional trends that tell a story. The social and cultural constructs surrounding fashion blogging. Reviews of collections seen through a lens (historical, social, cultural, feminist, etc.). Pieces that are heartfelt, honest and intelligent.

Launch schedule: Winter 2011

Please have submissions in before November 1.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: contribute@theblindhem.com

For submissions: contribute@theblindhem.com

Website: http://theblindhem.com/

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Call for Book Chapters - The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Migrant Women’s Creativity and Constraints

Deadline: 1 September 2011

For the past two centuries, people have emigrated from the Mediterranean in search of a better life. Beginning with the great influx of Italians principally from the South of Italy at the middle of the 19th century, and continuing up until the last twenty years with the migration of Greeks and Spaniards to North and South America, Germany and the British Isles, emigration patterns in the Mediterranean were fairly consistent. Numerous events in the last several decades, however, have altered that pattern in ways that the social scientists of the post-war period could never have imagined. Poverty, revolutions, decolonization, civil war, religious persecution, and racial and ethnic strife have together generated a massive exodus not away from but into the Mediterranean countries.

Whether Nice or Naples, Bari or Barcelona, Mediterranean ports and capitals at times characterized by high levels of unemployment have become meccas for populations seeking a better life. At the same, however, their host countries are experiencing their own difficulties: unemployment, poverty, sexual violence, the disintegration of the family, and the breakdown of the educational system—all of which make their citizens hostile to the new arrivals. Although entire families have suffered because of these tensions, in many cases, it is women who bear the brunt of the burden. It is they who must maintain against all odds their home culture, their family religion, and their folk traditions in a world that neither welcomes them nor values the countries they have left behind. Despite this, women have contributed significantly to their adopted lands.

The purpose of this multidisciplinary edited volume is to demonstrate not only the political, social and cultural constraints that have characterized migrant women’s lives, but to explore their artistic, religious, educational and intellectual contributions to the European countries of the Mediterranean.

We are now soliciting proposals for chapters that look at the creative responses of migrant women to the constraints of the host countries they inhabit. We are particularly interested in original research focusing on Spain, Portugal, Greece, and/or France and exploring such topics as the visual and performing arts, activism, sexuality, policy-making, educational reform, and religious practices.

Papers that utilize methodologies from humanities or social science disciplines are preferred. Researchers must demonstrate a commitment to a framework that is sensitive to the intersections of gender, race, and class. Contributions are welcome from scholars at any level of their professional careers.

Proposals should include:

• A 500-750 word abstract
• A brief curriculum vitae (2 pages)
• Full contact information including mail, email, and phone/fax numbers

Proposals are due 1 September 2011 via email to wpojmann@siena.edu. Contributors will be notified by 1 October 2011 if their proposals have been accepted. Full articles of 6000 to 8000 words will be due 15 December 2011. Proposals will be accepted in English, Spanish, French, or Italian. Final papers must be in English.

Editors:

Susana Cavallo – is Dean of Faculty at the John Felice Rome Center and Professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at Loyola University of Chicago. She is the author of La Poetica de Jose Hierro (Taurus 1987) and co-editor of Estudios en Honor de Janet Pérez: el Sujeto Femenino en Escritoras Hispánicas (Scripta Humanistica 1998).

Wendy Pojmann – is Associate Professor of modern European history at Siena College in Albany, New York. She is the author of Immigrant Women and Feminism in Italy (Ashgate 2006) and editor of Migration and Activism in Europe since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan 2008).

Carla Mollica – is Academic Services Advisor at the John Felice Rome Center. She was coordinator of the April 2009 conference “The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Migrant Women’s Creativity and Constraints,” held in Rome, Italy. She received her BA in Communication and Media Studies from Fordham University in 2007.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: wpojmann@siena.edu

For submissions: wpojmann@siena.edu

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Call for Papers for Edited Volume: Women Writers Across Boundaries

Deadline: 21 August 2011

After the success of our book Women on Women; we are looking for quality papers on women writers across boundaries of nation/state/age/class. Suggested Topics:

• Women and sexuality
• Women and Queer desire
• Lesbian Studies
• Women and nation
• women and change
• Women and Sensuality
• Women and religion

Please send a 150-200 word abstract along with a brief bio to asha.choubey@gmail.com by 21 August 2011. Full papers shall be expected by 30 December 2011.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: asha.choubey@gmail.com

For submissions: asha.choubey@gmail.com

Website: read about the book Women on Women here

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Call for Submissions - Maternal Aesthetics: The Surprise of the Real

Deadline: 1 December 2011

Maternal Aesthetics: the Surprise of the Real is a special issue of Studies in the Maternal, aiming to bring together a vibrant intermingling of work by visual artists, scholars of visual culture and feminist theory, poets, writers, activists and more, who are engaged in thinking about new conceptualizations of the maternal.

I am seeking contributions that articulate such transformations: what sorts of ruptures, continuities, resistances, discomforts or other responses are experienced in domestic spaces, public workplaces and other cultural spheres by mothers and articulated as mothers (biological or otherwise). Maternal Aesthetics: the Surprise of the Real will create a forum to represent how feminist artists and writers understand, embrace, resist, live and perform the act of mothering in and throughout their lives. Reflections and analyses addressing such experiences of transformation between the mother and her adult child(ren), as well as intergenerational perspectives are also welcome.

Artwork in all genres can be submitted, including video art and digital work made specifically for web format. Writing can be maximum of sixteen (16) manuscript pages. Submissions will be blind peer-reviewed in collaboration with the guest curator.

Submit work to: aliss7@roadrunner.com
Special Issue of the on-line journal Studies in the Maternal
Birkbeck, University of London
Publication Date: Spring 2013

Contact Information:

For inquiries: aliss7@roadrunner.com

For submissions: aliss7@roadrunner.com

Website: http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/index.html

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Heather Campbell Personal Essay Contest (for Latter-Day Saint Women)

Deadline: 31 December 2011

Personal essays are first-person accounts of life experiences based on a central theme or idea. Please read a variety of essays from our archive to understand what we are looking for. Our Essay Helps guide may also be useful for you.

We welcome unpublished personal essays as entries for our 2010 contest. Entries may address any subject in harmony with our mission statement. Entries should not exceed 3500 words. Entrants must be female members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the staff and their families are ineligible to enter.

Entries are judged by Segullah editors. The winning author receives the Heather Campbell Award for Excellence in Writing ($100). The winning essay, any honorable mentions, and other contest entries selected for publication will be featured in our Fall/Winter issue. The judges reserve the right to withhold the award if none of the entries merits it.

To enter your essay in the contest, please follow these instructions:

* See style guidelines for instructions on formatting your submission.
* Send your submission in the body of the email, not as an attachment.
* In the email body include your full name, street address, email address, phone number, and your essay’s word count.
* In the email subject line type “Personal Essay Contest,” followed by your full name.
* Send your entry to essay.contest [at] segullah [dot] org. You will receive an automated email response confirming our receipt of your submission.
* Other correspondence regarding the Heather Campbell Essay Contest may be sent to prose.editor [at] segullah [dot] org.

Annual Deadline: December 31

Contest results will be announced in our Spring/Summer issue. Authors of the honored essays will be notified in advance. All essays accepted for publication will be subject to thorough revision under the guidance of an editor.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: prose.editor [at] segullah [dot] org

For submissions: essay.contest [at] segullah [dot] org

Website: http://journal.segullah.org/

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Call for Submissions - Kick Ass Moms: Mothering and Reproduction in Science Fiction (FemSpec Journal)

Femspec is an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to sf, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. We have been in print since 1999 and boast of an advisory board that includes Suzie Charnas, Pamela Sargeant, and Samuel Delany. We are currently seeking submissions for a special issue or themed section dedicated to women who balance the worlds of adventurer and caregiver, with a focus on mothering and reproduction in sf.

Most female characters in sf, fantasy, and other supernatural genres do not have children. Those who do are often relegated to a peripheral role until the children are grown. However, characters who balance raising a child and saving the world can be fascinating. Why aren’t there more of them? We are interested in works that explore these issues, as well as writings about mothers and parents who have attempted to rearrange childrearing through creation of intentional community and work about the reconstruction of the breeding process socially in various genres. We are also looking for works that address the intersection of mothering and adventuring – including the adventure of construction of a new society freeing women from reproduction according to traditional norms.

We are hoping to find works which look beyond the stereotype of the mom who will protect her children to the death and investigate mothering at multiple levels including the creation of utopian and dystopian societies in which mothering is arranged differently. We are also interested in papers about teaching any of these works that experiment with reproduction and treatment of reproduction and mothering in early sf.

We would welcome works from the following genres, which address these issues:

• Critical papers
• Fiction
• Non-fiction
• Poetry
• Book Reviews
• Art Work

Please submit two copies of your piece to:

Femspec
1610 Rydalmount Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
USA

Since Femspec is double anonymously peer reviewed, submissions must exclude any indication of your name. Along with your submission, include a separate sheet with:

• The title and genre of your piece
• Your name
• Address
• Email Address
• Phone number
• A two sentence abstract

If your work passes the first round, you will be asked for an electronic submission. All submissions should conform to current MLA guidelines, which can be found online at http://www.mla.org.

Any submission that does not arrive with sufficient copies will not be sent through the review process. Please note that only subscribers may submit to Femspec. To subscribe, please visit our website at http://www.femspec.org. Subscription must be in hand in order for the submission to be reviewed, and it must be maintained throughout the submission, review, and publication process.

If you have any questions, please visit our website or contact femspec@aol.com.

All copyrights will be maintained by Femspec.

The cover artist will receive two free copies of the issue.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: femspec@aol.com

For submissions: Femspec, 1610 Rydalmount Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, USA

Website: http://www.femspec.org

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Gloss Women's Magazine's "Your Story" Essay Contest

Deadline: 1 September 2011

Every woman has a story to tell, and we want to hear yours.

Write an inspiring non-fiction essay about yourself and you could have your story published in the first issue of GLOSS* magazine. Did you overcome a crisis that tested your courage? Or did you find your purpose and passion in life? Perhaps you have conquered a drug addiction, battled a debilitating disease, or maybe you volunteered in rescue and clean-up efforts after a natural disaster. Whatever the experience, we want to know about it.

So start writing!

How to enter:

Write a 1,000- to 1,500- word manuscript and enter it by 5 p.m. Sept. 1, 2011.

The first-place winner will have her story published in the first issue of GLOSS, which will hit stands on Nov. 3, 2011. The winner also will receive a prize, which will be announced at a later date.

Participants must be at least 18 years of age to enter the contest.

GLOSS staff members will judge entries and choose a winner. Judges will consider original style and compelling story.

Please submit your essay at glossthemagazine@gmail.com. We ask you submit documents as RTF files. Because of time constraints, we will only accept files submitted via e-mail.

Entries will be edited for spelling and grammatical mistakes only.

For more information, please e-mail GLOSS editor Kasey Doyle at glossthemagazine@gmail.com.

*GLOSS is a women's magazine published by Advocate Communications, Inc. The magazine is set to launch in the fall, and will appear in several newspapers in Central Kentucky — The Advocate-Messenger, in Danville; The Jessamine Journal, in Nicholasville; The Interior Journal, in Stanford; and The Winchester Sun.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: glossthemagazine@gmail.com

For submissions: glossthemagazine@gmail.com

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Call for Papers: The African Women's Journal (July - December 2011 issue)

Deadline: 31 July 2011

As part of contributing to the African Women’s Decade (2010-2020) through provision of information on the themes of the Decade, the African Women’s Journal for July-December 2011 will focus on the theme: Women’s Education and Training in Africa.

Call for Papers: The African Women's Journal (July-December 2011)

THEME: Promoting Equal Opportunities for Women’s Access to Education and Training in Africa
The Beijing Platform for Action stresses that education is one of the most powerful and effective tool for women’s empowerment in Africa. However, limited access to quality education and training opportunities continues to hinder women’s equal participation in decision making, leadership and also in positively contributing to development in their countries. This is despite the fact that equal access to education is considered one of the fundamental human rights by the United Nations since it adopted the Right to education (Article 26) in 1949. Efforts to attain equal access to education and training for boys and girls; men and women have not yet resulted in gender parity at all levels including in adult education programmes.

As part of contributing to the African Women’s Decade (2010-2020) through provision of information on the themes of the Decade, the African Women’s Journal for July-December 2011 will focus on the theme: Women’s Education and Training in Africa.

The Journal articles will focus on any of the following sub-themes:-

· Strategies being used to attain equal access to education and training in African countries
· The untold stories in the African continent: some unique examples of literacy programmes and innovations that are transforming the lives of women, their families, communities and societies
· The role of adult and continuing education in boosting women’s empowerment and sustainable development in Africa
· Galvanizing African governments to allocate sufficient resources for and monitor the implementation of educational reforms
· From policy to practice: Expanding opportunities for women and girls’ education

Guidelines:

For those interested to submit articles, kindly send us an ABSTRACT of your article on or before 31st July, 2011. The abstract should be written in English or French and must not be more than 200 words.

You will be notified if your abstract has been approved. Only writers with selected abstracts will be asked to submit full article, which must be written in English or French and should be between 800 to 2,000 words. The article also needs to be well researched with clear referencing. A guideline for referencing will be provided. We will also require pictures relating to the article. (NB: The picture will have to be in Jpeg format). Including a brief biographical note, contact information with a JPEG mug shot picture of yourself in high resolution. Deadline for submission of FULL ARTICLE will be 30th August, 2011.

Please note the following key deadlines

• Abstract should be submitted by 31st July, 2011
• Full Article should be submitted by 30th August, 2011

Contact Information:

For inquiries: admin@femnet.or.ke or communication@femnet.or.ke

For submissions: admin@femnet.or.ke or communication@femnet.or.ke

Website: http://www.femnet.or.ke/

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Call for Submissions - M(other)hood Issue of Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (USA)

Deadline: 15 September 2011

This issue of Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life invites submission from 1k-3k words and original art work that provides insight into the many political, social, and cultural aspects of pregnancy and motherhood in contemporary America.

When it comes to attacks on pregnant women’s health and choices, the personal truly is the political. Although abortion and reproductive health services have always been polemical topics, women’s access to adequate health care is under fire at unprecedented levels. Women unfortunate to miscarry in states such as Alabama and Mississippi can face murder charges. Obama buckled under Conservative pressure, and now the Affordable Health Care for America Act includes restrictions on abortion coverage in insurance plans that use federal funds. Kansas nearly lost all of its abortion providers. Jon Kyl’s lie—or rather, not-intended-to-be-a-factual-statement—on the Senate floor that a majority of Planned Parenthood’s activities are abortion-related reinforced the misconception that the organization is only an “abortion mill,” not a community resource that offers its patients low costs cancer screenings and reproductive health care.

Conservatives, who were so vocal against “Obamacare” and government involvement in health care, ironically advocate increased governmental interference and restrictions on women’s access to health care. Why does possessing a uterus make a woman subject to government interference in her health care decisions? Family values proponents apparently only see value in women who aren’t uppity enough to expect to be sovereign when it comes to their own health and fertility. A direct result of this culture milieu of good-girls-don’t and abstinence-only education, abstinence pledges and purity balls are becoming more widespread. As teenagers don’t have access to information, perhaps it’s not surprising that teen pregnancy rates have increased.

America is looking more like the Republic of Gilead every day.

We welcome insightful commentary on topics related to pregnancy and motherhood in twenty-first century America. Submissions are due by September 16, 2011. Please submit essays in .rtf or .doc format. Authors do not have to submit graphics to accompany their pieces. However, if you choose to send a graphic, it must be submitted as a JPEG at 72 or 96 dpi. We favor intelligent writing for a general audience, and discourage footnoted academic papers. Please see Guidelines for Submission for additional details. Send your pieces to Tamara Watkins, Instructor, American Culture and Language Institute, Northern Virginia Community College; and Mike Mosher, Professor, Department of Art, Saginaw Valley State University.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: Tamara.Watkins@gmail.com or mosher@svsu.edu

For submissions: Tamara.Watkins@gmail.com or mosher@svsu.edu

Website: http://bad.eserver.org/

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Call for Submissions from Women: Vaani Anthology

Deadline: 31 August 2011

Submission now open for 2011 VAANI Anthology. V would like to celebrate the ethos of Olympics 2012 happening here in London. Hence V are dedicating our next Anthology to the cause so that people are inspired and encouraged to be a part of the amazing sport culture and its also our way of saying V care.

The topic is emotions, feelings, joys and sorrows related to any sports, or you could write a fictional account of how a particular sport was invented, or on any game that's played only in one particular country/town which no one else knows about.

Submissions are open for short stories, poems and essays. There is a selection process through which all the entries go through and only the selected entries are published. The Anthology is scheduled to be published in October 2011.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: submissions@vaani.org

For submissions: submissions@vaani.org

Website: http://www.vaani.org/

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Call for Papers: Journal of Gender and Justice

Deadline: 25 August 2011

Journal of Gender and Justice invites contributors to consider broad themes such as women's roles in society, history, philosophy, and religion; gender and the media; women and work; gender, race and class; international development; gender and s3xuality; women and politics; women and literature; gender and language; women and social change; women and the family; and gender and the arts. Gender Justice, simply put, refers to equality between the s3xes. It is a correlation of social, economic, political, environmental, cultural and educational factors; these preconditions need to be satisfied for achieving gender justice. Globally, gender justice as a cause has gained in strength over the years, as it has been realized that no state can truly progress if half of its population is held back.

The journal will seek to assess women’s roles as depicted across disciplines and which impact our understanding of society and history and our actions, past and present, within local and global communities.

Also this journal encourages ventures to incorporate gender perspective into reading/teaching/research/and everyday understanding that would not only broaden the scope of disciplines but also of the initiatives taken in the field of social justice.

Manuscript Guide:

Style: Latest MLA

Text: Font 12 Times New Roman

Images/illustrations, if any: copyright free images in JPEG format between 800-1024 pixels on the longest side

Word-limit: minimum 3000 words and maximum 5000 words along with abstract and 5 keywords

Contact Information:

For inquiries: anitasinghh@gmail.com

For submissions: anitasinghh@gmail.com

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Call for Papers: The Child Image (Red Feather Journal)

Deadline: 15 July 2011

Red Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org), an online, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal of the child image, seeks submissions for the Fall 2011 issue (deadline July 15th, 2011).

Red Feather Journal seeks well-written, critical articles on any aspect of the child image. The journal welcomes submissions that examine a broad range of media: children’s film, Hollywood film, international film, Television, the Internet, print resources, art, or any other visual medium. Some sample topics include, but are certainly not limited to: studies of images of children of color; child as commodity; images of children in international films; political uses of the child image; children in advertising; childhood as myth, visual adaptations of children’s literary works; child welfare images; images of children and/in war; the child image in video games; or any other critical examination of the child image, or images of childhood, in a variety of visual mediums.

Red Feather Journal welcomes international submissions.

Red Feather Journal will also consider submissions of tasteful photo essays or artistic works. Copyright information, including permission for use of each image, must be included with the submission. Red Feather will not use any image without the express written consent of its copyright holder.

Red Feather Journal is published twice a year, in March and September, and adheres to the MLA citation system. Authors are welcome to submit articles in other citations systems, with the understanding that, upon acceptance, conversion to MLA is a condition of publication. Red Feather Journal is indexed through EBSCO host and MLA bibliography.

Interested contributors please submit the paper, an abstract, and a brief biography (with full contact information) as attachments in Word to debbieo@okstate.edu

Contact Information:

For inquiries: debbieo@okstate.edu

For submissions: debbieo@okstate.edu

Website: http://www.redfeatherjournal.org

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Call for Essays - Aint I A Woman? Race, Feminism and Social Media

Deadline: 15 September 2011

“Ain’t I A Woman: Race, Feminism and Social Media” Call for Submissions

Morgane Richardson, Professional Feminist, Founder of Refuse the Silence and Ain’t I a Woman Events and Jessie Daniels, Associate Professor, CUNY – Hunter College and the Graduate Center

Overview

We are currently seeking essays on the importance of social media for, by and about women of color within the feminist movement. In 2011, feminists gathered in New York and Los Angeles at Ain’t I A Woman (AIAW) events to discuss race, feminism and social media. The discussions started at those events have continued through a wide range of outlets, both online and offline, challenging conventional notions about feminist activism, women of color and technology. The AIAW events made it apparent that social media has opened up new possibilities for connecting feminist activists across racial lines while at the same time perennial struggles around racism, class privilege and sexuality continue to undermine those alliances.

While there are books about young feminists (e.g., Full Frontal Feminism, Valenti, 2007) and about young feminists of color (e.g., Colonize This! Hernandez and Rehman, 2002), to date, there are no books that explore the experiences of young feminists of color using social media to engage in feminist activism. Ain’t I A Woman: Race, Feminism and Social Media will be the first volume to focus attention on the innovative resistance by women of color in feminist political struggle through social media.

Panelists from the AIAW events are strongly encouraged to submit to the volume, but submission is open to anyone engaged in social media around issues of race and feminism. Ain’t I A Woman is intended to include a range of perspectives by and about women of color, race, feminism and social media. We are interested in contributions on a broad range of topics related to race, feminism and social media, including but not limited to the following:

* Activism, Online Grassroots & Community Organizing
* Race, Feminism & Pop Culture
* Health and Reproductive Rights
* Race and Racism in the Blogosphere
* Sexuality & LGBTQ Issues
* Higher Education and Social Access

The Details

Length: 2,000-3,000 words (10-12 pages, double-spaced, 12pt. Font).

Style: Thoughtful, engaging, critical, and accessible

Format: Please submit electronically as .doc, .docx, or RTF files.

Relevant dates:

* Abstracts (300-500 words) due: September 15, 2011
* Decisions & Requests for full drafts: September 30, 2011
* Initial drafts due: November 15, 2011
* Editors reviews: January 15, 2012
* Final drafts due: February 15, 2012

Contributions and queries should be sent to:

Morgane Richardson
Founder, Ain't I a Woman Events
Founder, Refuse The Silence
Email: Morgane.richardson@gmail.com

Jessie Daniels
Associate Professor, Urban Public Health
CUNY-Hunter College and the Graduate Center
Email: jdaniels@hunter.cuny.edu

Contact Information:

For inquiries: Morgane.richardson@gmail.com or jdaniels@hunter.cuny.edu

For submissions: Morgane.richardson@gmail.com or jdaniels@hunter.cuny.edu

Website: http://aiaw.tumblr.com/

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Call for Essays: Children's Media (spring 2012 issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities)

Deadline: 1 November 2011

The spring 2012 issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities will focus on children’s media. We will be looking for scholarly articles and nonfiction essays that explore works produced for children or works that focus predominantly on children: video games, picture books, fantasy works, hip-hop music/poetry, illustrated works, anime, film, and children's poetry, to name a few. These various media are relevant to children and have become an important part of twenty-first century scholarly study. We ask that all essays be interdisciplinary in nature and that they do not exceed 6,000 words. Please send inquiries and submissions to either Dr. Wynn Yarbrough at wynnyarbrough@hotmail.com or to Dr. Michael Howarth at howarth-m@mssu.edu by November 1, 2011.

Interdisciplinary Humanities is a refereed, scholarly journal published by HERA, the Humanities, Education, and Research Association.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: Dr. Wynn Yarbrough at wynnyarbrough@hotmail.com or to Dr. Michael Howarth at howarth-m@mssu.edu

For submissions: Dr. Wynn Yarbrough at wynnyarbrough@hotmail.com or to Dr. Michael Howarth at howarth-m@mssu.edu

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