Call for Papers
Special Issue: Women of Color & Gender Equity (due July 15, 2013)
Special Issue: Transnational Feminisms (due May 1, 2014)
**Please note that we continue to accept general submissions on a continual basis, even as we issue calls for special issue papers
A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
Women of Color & Gender Equity
Guest Editors: Anita Tijerina Revilla (Women’s Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) & Wendy G. Smooth (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University)
Due date for Receipt of Papers is July 15, 2013
Call for Papers: Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites submissions for a special issue on women of color and gender equity. With this special issue, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1974 Women’s Educational Equity Act which provided funds for Title IX and codified women’s equality under the law in the U.S. setting forth a foundation for antidiscrimination policies and remedies as well as cultivating a language and rhetoric for gender equity. For this issue, we will explore the nexus between the enactment of gender equity policies, rhetorical and political strategies for empowerment, and the lives of women of color.
We encourage submissions that explore feminist commitments to the socio-political understandings of equality under the law but also conceptualize equity issues in broad terms. For example, we are interested in analyses of gender equity that both expand and challenge notions of women’s equality in formal and informal politics across educational, political and legal institutions .
We especially encourage submissions that further the journal's commitment to scholarship on women of color, third world, transnational, LGBT, and queer movements in local, national, or transnational contexts. Foremost, we are interested in those papers that situate women as racialized, classed and/or sexualized subjects, and explore the collateral effects of these subjectivities in relation to their experiences with equality and the varied socio-political roads necessary to attempt to realize and/or preserve that equity.
An inter- and multidisciplinary journal, Frontiers publishes scholarly, creative, and practioner works that draw on the legacies of women of color and queer women’s political engagement and activism to interrogate women’s equity across issues including education, employment and labor, healthcare and wellness, and immigration/migration. Works must be original, and not published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All special issue submissions and questions should be directed to frontiers@osu.edu. For submission guidelines, please consult our submissions page.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Ohio State University
286 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1367
frontiers@osu.edu
A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies
Transnational Feminisms
Due date for Receipt of Papers is May 1, 2014
Call for Papers: Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies invites submissions for a special issue on transnational feminism and its impact on Women’s Studies as a field. With this special issue, we commemorate the 40th anniversaryof the first United Nations World Conference on Women that took place in Mexico City in 1975. In the forty years since, transnational feminisms, Native and indigenous feminisms, and women of color feminisms have troubled the idea of a global sisterhood while also providing tools to navigate the global realities of our contemporary societies.
Despite the important theoretical and practical interventions mobilized by transnational feminisms, its sedimentation has also produced new challenges. Rather than producing complex analyses of gendered, racialized geo-political relationships, transnational feminisms are now, at times, used to justify the imposition of U.S. and European political-economic systems. Might feminists reclaim the initial promises of transnational feminism to intervene in the global economic system or is western feminism subject to reproducing western narratives of progress? Is transnational feminism’s co-optation the result of U.S. Women’s Studies programs seeking to justify their contributions to universities’ globalizing missions? Can we imagine a global Women’s Studies approach that unsettles not only second wave internationalist narratives but also contemporary western-centered transnational feminist narratives?
This special issue asks feminist scholars to engage these questions and to explore alternatives. What other definitions of transnational feminism are at work, based in struggles for self-definition and decolonization internationally? How might Native feminisms force a reconsideration of feminist assumptions, and how might transnational feminist theory contribute to this reconceptualization? What would U.S. feminism look like if it began not with the United States’ mythical democratic origins, as Andrea Smith suggests, but with transnational dynamics of empire and sovereign struggle? How can we use existing interrogations of imperialism and late capitalism to ask new questions and imagine new ways of resisting and confronting contemporary global and local realities? To this end, we also ask contributors to consider: how do feminists theorize men’s and women’s relationships to postcolonial landscapes, as well as neoliberal and newly colonized geographies? What theories contribute to coalition building across real differences and national borders?
We seek to provoke a productive conversation that draws upon theories of intersectionality, Native feminisms, women of color feminisms, and transnational feminisms in this special issue of Frontiers. We hope to explore how the theoretical contributions in these areas speak to contemporary globalization in a neoliberal era. Selected contributors may be invited to workshop their articles, contingent upon funding.
Guest Editorial Collective based at Arizona State University:
Karen J. Leong, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Roberta Chevrette, PhD student, Communication
Ann Hibner Koblitz, Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Karen Kuo, Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies
Charles T. Lee, Assistant Professor, Justice Studies
Heather Switzer, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
An inter- and multidisciplinary journal, Frontiers welcomes submissions of scholarly papers, activist essays as well as creative works such as artwork, fiction, and poetry. Works must be original and not published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. All special issue submissions and questions should be directed to frontiersjournal@osu.edu. For submission guidelines, please consult the Ohio State University Frontiers websites: http://frontiers.osu.edu/submissions
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies
Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Ohio State University
286 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1367
frontiers@osu.edu
