CFP: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference (Milwaukee; 1 Mar; 10-14 Nov)

This is drivable!

Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference: Representations
of Love in Film and Television

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Extended Deadline: March 1, 2009


AREA: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts,

Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial exchange
in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious, political, and artistic
traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and love often are bound up in
complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor codes, pieties, and spiritual
allegiances. How do Asians themselves see or represent love? How do
non-Asians see or represent love in Asian contexts?

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the
representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of, Asian
contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for full panels
should include the individual proposals for 3-4 presenters. Possible topics:

* traditional and customary practices--loved or hated--treatments of
historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers

* love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity,
cosmopolitanism, or the status of women

* love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative

* modern international influences (American and European)

* stinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)

* new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

* nsw developments in the films of Islamic cultures

* adaptations


Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

S.A. Thornton
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302

Email: Sybil.Thornton at asu dot edu (email submissions preferred)


Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History
website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

CFA: SAGE Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (31 Dec)

FYI.... encyclopedias are a great, relatively easy way to get your feet wet in academic publishing.

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Multimedia
Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronic
reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the
contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the
encyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000
and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research,
ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and
recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary women’s and gender
studies and the articles will include information relevant to the following
academic disciplinary contexts: women in different cultures/countries; arts
and media; business and economics; criminal justice; education; family
studies; health; media; military; politics; science and technology; sports;
environmental studies; and religion. We are making assignments with a
submission due date of December 31, 2009.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference
and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and
digital product available to students via the library’s electronic
services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the
project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K.
Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is
a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining women’s issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable
publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits.
SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for
smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the
online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, please contact
me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your
academic/publishing credentials in women’s and gender issues.


Thanks very much.

Sue Moskowitz
Director of Author Recruitment
Golson Media
women at golsonmedia dot com

CFP: “Mysterious Things”: The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History (1 Nov; 4-6 Mar; UIUC)

A good number of EALC students have presented at this conference in the past. It's a very supportive place to get experience if you haven't presented very much or at all. And of course there's no transportation or hotel expenses.

You do not have to be focused on history in your degree as long as the paper you propose has a historical aspect to it. This paper could be something you've written or plan to write for a course.

If you haven't presented before, you might want to ask a colleague with experience to help you work on your proposal/abstract.

"Mysterious Things”: The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / March 4-6, 2010

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2009

The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.

The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically, temporally, and topically diverse body of papers. This year’s theme, “Mysterious Things,” speaks to a variety of trends that are currently shaping the field of women’s and gender history. This is particularly the case as we march on through a world where things—be they ideas, objects, or some strange mix thereof—continue to delight, baffle, liberate, and ruin individuals, as well as global institutions. Successful proposals could directly explore and build upon the implications of the moment in Marx’s thought concerning commodities, wherein what should become inanimate matter actually assumes a mysterious, yet undeniable kind of life. Proposals could begin to chart out this life in a variety of fields—particularly gender and sexuality—and its
effects upon those with whom it comes into contact. Indeed, gender and sexuality are, themselves, mysterious things, and proposals could also include any work that seeks to expose and demystify their strange functions in the everyday life of people and institutions. We welcome all proposals that seek to examine and interrogate any of the nebulous, enigmatic areas included under the rubric of gender and women’s history. The choice of theme is purposefully broad but provocative, inviting
perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives.

For this year, the Eleventh Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp at gmail dot com. The subject line of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee.” We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chair, T.J. Tallie at gendersymp at gmail dot com.

CFP: Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World (Encyclopedia; 1 Dec)

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Multimedia
Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronic
reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the
contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the
encyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000
and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research,
ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and
recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary women’s and gender
studies and the articles will include information relevant to the following
academic disciplinary contexts: women in different cultures/countries; arts
and media; business and economics; criminal justice; education; family
studies; health; media; military; politics; science and technology; sports;
environmental studies; and religion. We are making assignments with a
submission due date of December 1, 2009.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference
and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and
digital product available to students via the library’s electronic
services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the
project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K.
Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is
a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining women’s issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable
publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits.
SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for
smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the
online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, please contact
me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your
academic/publishing credentials in women’s and gender issues.


Thanks very much.

Sue Moskowitz
Director of Author Recruitment
Golson Media
women at golsonmedia dot com

CFP: IAHA (International Conference of Historians of Asia) (30 Sept; 22-25 June; Singapore)

Call for papers: 21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) 22-25 June 2010.
DEADLINE 30 Sept. 2009

A warm invitation is extended to all historians and scholars of Asia to come to the dynamic city of Singapore in late June 2010 to attend IAHA 2010. At this conference the Steering Committee will seek to showcase the latest scholarly research and developments that have taken place on a wide range of Asian topics in both the humanities and social sciences. IAHA 2010, generously supported by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore will delve into the past and look into the future. It will provide scholars with the opportunity of evaluating and discussing the emerging themes related to the continent with a large body of delegates from around the world. We would like you to be involved too, so please come and join us!

Our Programme Committee has already identified a number of themes which we would like delegates to explore in their papers and panels (see below), but we are open to other suggestions as well:

Asia's Political/Economic History

Agriculture; Ancient History; Archeological Perspectives; Asian Diasporas; Border & Boundaries; Maritime History; Nation-Building; Trade/Trade Networks; Societies on the Margins

Asian Cultural History

Asian Identities in the Past; Crime and Criminal Activities; Film & Music; Food; Gender; Literature & Art; Popular Culture; Religion/Missionary Activities; Sport

Current Issues & the Past in Asia

Financial Crises; History of the Asian Press; Human Rights; Labour & Labour Movements; Law of the Sea; Piracy; Protest Movements; Terrorism & History

Historiography/Heritage
Archives & the Maintenance of Documents; Asian Historiography; Asia in Museums/Museums in Asia; Educational History; Memory & Heritage; The Idea of Asia

History of Science
Biosciences & Modern Asia; Environmental History; Medicine & Public Health (Biomedicine, Forms of Traditional Practice, Western Medicine); Technology (Traditional to Colonial & Post-Colonial)

Military History
All forms of military involvement in Asia stretching from the distant past to the present will be considered

Proposals for individual papers, panels and colloquia, along with titles and short abstracts, are strongly encouraged from all interested parties and should be sent to the Chair of the Programme Committee to arrive no later than 30 September 2009.

An early bird registration fee of S$300 is offered to all delegates if they make payment by 28 February 2010. Thereafter, the registration fee will be S$350.*

Tentative Programme:

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

6 pm
Opening Event
Address by University Professor Wang Gungwu
National University of Singapore

8 pm
Dinner for all participants

Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9am till Friday 25 June 2010, 5pm

Paper Presentations and Panel Discussions

Friday, 25 June 2010

5 pm
IAHA Business Meeting


Venue:
River View Hotel
382 Havelock Road
Singapore 169629

Tel: +65-6732 9922
Fax: +65-6732 1034
Website: www.riverview.com.sg

Accommodations:

Delegates will arrange their own accommodations. A listing of accommodations in Singapore can be found on this site:

http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/home/where_to_stay/accommodation_in_singapore.html

IAHA 2010 promises to be a vibrant gathering in a safe but vivid environment. This is a conference that shouldn't be missed. Do, please, think about coming here. We would love to have you with us.

Best wishes

The Steering Committee of IAHA 2010

* Conference package will include Opening Event Dinner, 3 lunches, 6 tea/coffee breaks and a conference bag.



Jointly Organized By:
Department of History | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

CFP: “Sex and Love in Asian Contexts” area @ 2010 Film & History Conference (Milwaukee; 1 Nov 2009; 10-14 Nov, 2010)

(It's been a while since I've posted a CFP, mainly because there's been very little I've seen that would be of interest to more than one EALC grad. Please share CFPs that you think others of us might be interested in. You can email them directly to the EALC grads list or to me. Keep in mind that this particular conf is in a very driveable location.)

2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Second-Round Deadline: November 1, 2009


AREA: “Sex and Love in Asian Contexts”

Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial
exchange in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious,
political, and artistic traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and
love often are bound up in complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor
codes, pieties, and spiritual allegiances. How do Asians themselves
see or represent love? How do non-Asians see or represent love in
Asian contexts?

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the
representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of,
Asian contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for
full panels should include the individual proposals for 3-4
presenters. Possible topics:

• traditional and customary practices—loved or hated

• treatments of historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers

• love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity, cosmopolitanism, or the status of women

• love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative

• modern international influences (American and European)

• distinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)

• new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

• new developments in the films of Islamic cultures

• adaptations

Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

S.A. Thornton
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Email: Sybil.Thornton at asu dot edu (email submissions preferred)

Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film &
History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

Announcement: Japan Association for Queer Studies Conference (8-9 Nov; Hiroshima)

Dear Professors and Colleagues,

On behalf of the board members of JAQS (Japan Association for Queer Studies), I am pleased to inform you about this year's conference for the association. It will be at Hiroshima Shudo University in November 8th-9th.

This will be a great occasion for those who are involved in Japanese queer studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies to network with each other. The conference's special symposium titled "Is Japan Queer?" will feature prominent Japanese scholars including Prof. Takemura Kazuko, and Dr. Nakamura Mia. All the discussions and presentations will be held in Japanese.

For the details of the conference, please refer to the association's website.
http://queerjp.org/conf.html (Japanese language only)

If you are interested in becoming a member of the JAQS, please follow the guideline specified on the website.
http://queerjp.org/anai.html

Japan Association for Queer Studies (JAQS) aims to provide a forum for dialogue and the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, in part through an annual JAQS conference and the publication of an annual refereed journal. We welcome membership from not only academics of diverse backgrounds but also from all engaged in discussion of the body, sex, sexuality, gender, and desire.

Please feel free to circulate this information to your friends, colleagues, and students.


With best regards,
Katsuhiko Suganuma

===========================
Katsuhiko Suganuma
Ph.D. candidate
School of Culture and Communication
Cultural Studies Program
University of Melbourne

Post:
School of Culture and Communication
Level 2, West Tower
John Medley Building
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3010
Australia

CFP: History of Feminist Thought (incl Ch & Jp) (encyclopedia entries; 15 Oct)

They are currently seeking contributors to annotate primary source documents in women's history including on China and Japan--in areas that overlap with the interests of some students in EALC. As you probably know, encyclopedia entries aren't exactly gold on a CV, but they're definitely a good way to get started on publications.

I am seeking another round of contributors for an anthology of global documents related to the History of Feminist Thought, to be published by Greenwood Press. This 2-volume set will present approximately 250 primary source documents, tracing responses and challenges to the subordination of women within different national, cultural, and political contexts at different times throughout history. It is a much-needed project in recovering women's voices and incorporating the story of women's rights into the larger themes of world history. In some cases, this will be the first English-language publication of a document and so the possibilities for future research based on our collection are exciting, to say the least.


BELOW is a chronological list of entries for which contributors are currently needed. The main focus of each entry is the primary source document. Contributors will assist in selecting excerpts to use and will write brief contextual essays to accompany the excerpt. Each entry will be approximately 1500 words total, to include both the excerpt and the analysis/context.

Please look over the list for a wide range of geographical and chronological areas of interest - you need not be familiar with an
individual writer or document to write an entry. In most cases, I have already compiled some bibliographical or other information on the specific document and will pass that research on to you to assist you in writing the entry. I will send complete contributor guidelines as well as sample entries to interested writers.

The deadline for these entries is October 15, 2008. The honoraria is $40.00 per entry - contributors completing 4 or more entries may choose a copy of the published set (valued at $225.00) in lieu of cash payment.

PLEASE circulate this call to colleagues at other institutions, to graduate students, or to other interested scholars/writers.

Thank you and I look forward to working with an international community of scholars on this exciting project!

Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD
Independent Scholar
www.womanwriting.com


***************************************************
Call for Contributors - April 28, 2008
History of Feminist Thought (Greenwood Press)
Editor: Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD


1.. "How Should the Woman's Nature Hinder Us?" and other poems from the
Therigatha (India, c. 600 b.c.e.)
2.. "Lessons for Women," Pan Chao (China, 80 c.e.)
3.. "How I could best forward the cause of other women.," Radegund
(Germany?, 520/5-587)
4.. "The marriage knot can only tie one who exists.," Rabi'a (Islamic
empire (Iraq?), c. 800)
5.. ".I always write as I please.," Xue Tao (China, c. 800)
6.. "Because I am a woman." and "This wild lady.," poems by Yeshe
Tsogyal (Tibet, c. 800)
7.. ".they are not of equal status with me.," Dhuoda (Septimia
(France?), 843)
8.. ".my silken woman's dress obscures my poetry.," Yu Xuanji (China, c.
860)
9.. "Scorn he should not render at the writer's weaker gender,"
Hrotsvita (d. c. 973?)
10.. "These Five Obstructions" (to women's enlightenment), Senshi
Naishinno(Japan, c.1000)
11.. ".the fate of being a woman.," Shunzei kyo no musume (Japan, c.1200)
12.. "Letter of the god of love" and "Book of the City of Ladies,"
Christine de Pizan (Italy, 1405)
13.. "But a spindle is all you offer." (and other writings), Argula von
Grumbach (Germany?, c.1530s)
14.. Letter on "the rightful freedom" of women, Louise Labe (France, 1555)
15.. Preface to Calvin's "On the Modesty of Women in Their Dress," Marie
Dentiere
(Geneva, Switzerland, 1561)
16.. "What daunts me most is being a woman.forbidden to write." and other
writings, Maria de San Jose Salazar (Spain, c.1580s)
17.. Disenchantments of Love, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (Spain, 1637)
18.. On the Equality of the Two Sexes, Francois Poullain de la Barre
(France, 1673)
19.. "The Answer," Sor Juana de la Cruz (Mexico, 1691)
20.. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Mary Astell (England, 1694)
21.. "Song of a Married Woman," Sanciya Honnamma (India, date?)
22.. "Appeasing Radhika," Muddupalani (India, c. late 1700s)
23.. "Appeal of One-Half the Human Race," Anna Wheeler (William Thompson)
(England, 1825)
24.. "A Plea for Woman," Marion Reid (Scotland, 1843)
25.. "Liberty," Carolina Coronado (Spain, 1852)
26.. "The Homes of the New World," Fredrika Bremer (Sweden, 1853)
27.. "Woman and her Social Relationships," Anna Maria Mozzoni (Italy, 1864)
28.. "Appeal to the Men of New Zealand," Mary Muller (New Zealand, 1869)
29.. "My Life," Rassundari Devi (India, 1876)
30.. "The Emancipation of Women," Maria Eugenia Echenique (Argentina, 1876)
31.. "We women who are heads of households.," Kusunose Kita (Japan, 1878)
32.. The Political Rights of Women and Social and Political Equality of
Women and Men, Hubertine Auclert (France, 1878-79)
33.. "I am the most interesting book of all." or other writings by Marie
Bashkirtseff (Russia/France, 1878-79)
34.. "A Comparison of Men and Women," Tarabai Shinde (India, 1882)
35.. "Daughters in Boxes," Kishida Toshiko (Japan, 1883)
36.. Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels
(Germany, 1884)
37.. "The High Caste Hindu Woman," Pandita Ramabai Saraswati (India, 1888)
38.. "Equality of Rights," Francisca Diniz (Brazil, 1890)
39.. ".men and women are equal before God.," Muhammad 'Abdu (Egypt c.1890s)
40.. "Fair and Equal Treatment," Zainab Fawwaz (Lebanon, 1892)
41.. "The Emancipation of Women and its Probable Consequences," Adele
Crepaz (Bohemia/Austrio-Hungarian, 1893)
42.. "The Christian Feminist," Marie Maugeret (France, 1897)
43.. "The Coming Woman" and other articles from The Dawn, Louisa Lawson(?)
(Australia, 1899)
44.. "The Liberation of Women," Qassim Amin (Egypt, 1899)
45.. "A Mother's Word on the Woman Question," Marianne Hainisch
(Austria, c. 1900)
46.. "Women of the Philippines," Clemencia Lopez (Philippines, 1902)
47.. Memoranda on women's education, Raden Ajeng Kartini
(Indonesia/Java, 1903)
48.. "Reflection on Woman Suffrage," Briet Bjarnheoinsdottir (Iceland,
1905)
49.. "To Critics of Femininity," Rosa Mayreder (Austria, 1905)
50.. "Feminism is a Force," Julieta Lanteri (Argentina, 1906)
51.. "If I had the right to legislate.," Bahithat al-Badiya (Egypt, 1909)
52.. "The Liberation of Motherhood," Katti Anker Moller (Norway, 1910s?)
53.. "My Opinion," Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico, 1911)
54.. "Future of the Women's Movement," Helena Swanwick (England, 1913)
55.. "To the Women of the World," Hiratsuka Raicho (Japan, 1913)
56.. "Memoirs of a Persian Princess," Taj Al-Saltana (Iran, 1914)
57.. Speech on Woman Suffrage (?), Sarojini Naidu (India, c. 1918)
58.. Resolutions of Zurich Conference, Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (1919)
59.. "The Difference between Men and Women.," Nabawiya Musa (Egypt, 1920)
60.. speech/statement from Woman Suffrage League, Ichikawa Fusae (Japan,
c.1920s?)
61.. "Women's Careers," Yang Zhihua (China, 1922)
62.. "The Woman in Democracy," Frantiska Plaminkova (Czech Republic, 1924)
63.. "Woman as Leaders," Amy Garvey (Jamaica, 1925)
64.. "The Turkish Ordeal," Halide Edib Adivar (Turkey, 1928)
65.. "Unveiling and Veiling: on the Liberation of the Woman.in the
Islamic World," Nazira Zain al-Din (Lebanon, 1928)
66.. "Philippine Women and the Vote," Trinidad Fernandez Lagarda
(Philippines, 1931)
67.. "Facing Two Ways," Shizue Kato (Japan 1935)
68.. "East and West in Cooperation," Shareefeh Hamid Ali (India, 1935)
69.. "Sex and the Truth," Women Today, Murial Phillips (Australia, 1939)
70.. speech at Arab Feminist Conference (& other writings?), Huda
Shaarawi (Egypt, 1944)
71.. "Arab Women's Intellectual Heritage," Zahiya Dughan (Lebanon, 1944)
72.. Nation and Family, Alva Myrdal (Sweden, 1945?)
73.. "We had Equality.," Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Nigeria, 1947)
74.. "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women," Claudia Jones
(Trinidad, 1949)
75.. founding statement of Singapore Council of Women (or other
writings?), Shirin Fozdar (Singapore, 1951?)
76.. charter and "What Women Want," Federation of South African Women
(FSAW) (South Africa, 1954-55)
77.. "Our Constitution-We the Liberated Women," Ghada Samman (Syria, 1961)
78.. pamphlet or statement on Indonesian women's movement, Gerwani
(Indonesia, c.1965)
79.. "Towards Equality," Committee on Status of Women in India (India,
1974)
80.. "A General Strike," Mariarosa Dalla Costa (Italy, 1974)
81.. "Black Sisters, Speak Out," Awa Thiam (Mali, 1978)
82.. "Let Me Speak!" (and/or "The Woman's Problem," 1980?), Domitila
Barios de Chungara (Bolivia, 1978)
83.. U.N. statement on "Women and Apartheid," World Conference/Decade
for Women (United Nations/South Africa, 1980)
84.. "Statement on Genital Mutilation," Association of African Women
(Senegal, 1980)
85.. "Speech before the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly" and "The Day Women
Launched Into Politics," Mitsui Mariko (Japan, 1987)
86.. "Statement on International Woman's Day," Revolutionary Association
of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (Afghanistan, 2004)

Food for Thought: Where Boys Were Kings, a Shift Toward Baby Girls in S Korea

By CHOE SANG-HUN
New York Times December 23, 2007
In South Korea, once a rigidly patriarchal society, a centuries-old preference for baby boys is fast receding.



SEOUL, South Korea — [...] According to a study released by the World Bank in October, South Korea is the first of several Asian countries with large sex imbalances at birth to reverse the trend, moving toward greater parity between the sexes. Last year, the ratio was 107.4 boys born for every 100 girls, still above what is considered normal, but down from a peak of 116.5 boys born for every 100 girls in 1990.

The most important factor in changing attitudes toward girls was the radical shift in the country’s economy that opened the doors to women in the work force as never before and dismantled long-held traditions, which so devalued daughters that mothers would often apologize for giving birth to a girl.

The government also played a small role starting in the 1970s. After growing alarmed by the rise in sex-preference abortions, leaders mounted campaigns to change people’s attitudes, including one that featured the popular slogan “One daughter raised well is worth 10 sons!” [...]

Demographers say the rapid change in South Koreans’ feelings about female babies gives them hope that sex imbalances will begin to shrink in other rapidly developing Asian countries — notably China and India — where the same combination of a preference for boys and new technology has led to the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses.

“China and India are closely studying South Korea as a trendsetter in Asia,” said Chung Woo-jin, a professor at Yonsei University in Seoul. “They are curious whether the same social and economic changes can occur in their countries as fast as they did in South Korea’s relatively small and densely populated society.” [...]

In South Korea, the gap in the ratio of boys to girls born began to widen in the 1970s, but experts say it became especially pronounced in the mid-1980s as ultrasound technology became more widespread and increasing wages allowed more families to pay for the tests. The imbalance was widest from 1990 to 1995, when it remained above 112 to 100.

The imbalance began to close steadily only in 2002. Last year’s ratio of 107.4 boys for every 100 girls was closer to the ratio of 105 to 100 that demographers consider normal and, according to The World Factbook, published by the Central Intelligence Agency, just above the global average of 107 boys born for every 100 girls.

The preference for boys here is centuries old and was rooted in part in an agrarian society that relied on sons to do the hard work on family farms. But in Asia’s Confucian societies, men were also accorded special status because they were considered the carriers of the family’s all-important bloodline.[...]

“In the old days, when there was no adequate social safety net, Korean parents regarded having a son as kind of making an investment for old age security,” Professor Chung said. It was common for married Korean men to feel ashamed if they had no sons. Some went so far as to divorce wives who did not bear boys.

Then in the 1970s and ’80s, the country threw itself into an industrial revolution that would remake society in ways few South Koreans could have imagined.

Sons drifted away to higher-paying jobs in the cities, leaving their parents behind. And older Koreans found their own incomes rising, allowing them to save money for retirement rather than relying on their sons for support.

Married daughters, no longer shackled to their husbands’ families, returned to provide emotional or financial support for their own elderly parents.[...]

The economic changes also unleashed a revolution of a different sort. With the economy heating up, men could no longer afford to keep women out of the workforce, and women began slowly to gain confidence, and grudging respect.

Although change is coming slowly and deep prejudices remain — in some businesses, women are pressured to leave their jobs when pregnant — women are more accepted now in the workplace and at the best universities that send graduates to the top corporations.

Six of 10 South Korean women entered college last year; fewer than one out of 10 did so in 1981. And in the National Assembly, once one of the nation’s most male-dominated institutions, women now hold about 13 percent of the seats, about double the percentage they held just four years ago.

“When I first joined the company in 1995, a woman was expected to quit her job once she got married; we called it a ‘resignation on a company suggestion,’” said Shin Hye-sun, a 39-year-old who works at the TBC television station in Taegu, in central South Korea. Now, she said, women take a three-month break after giving birth before returning to work. “If someone suggests that a woman should quit after marriage, female workers in my company will take it as an insult and say so,” Ms. Shin said.[...]

With the move toward democracy in the late 1980s, the concept of equal rights for men and women began to creep into Koreans’ thinking. In 1990, the law guaranteeing men their family’s inheritance — a cornerstone of the Confucian system — was the first of the so-called family laws to fall; the rest would be dismantled over the next 15 years. [...]

And last year, a study by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs showed that of 5,400 married South Korean women younger than 45 who were surveyed, only 10 percent said they felt that they must have a son. That was down from 40 percent in 1991. [...]

CFP: International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema (15 Jan; 25 Feb; Nanjing)

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema
Date: June 26 28, 2008
Place: Nanjing University, China
Keynote Speakers: Mary Ann Doane and Dai Jinhua
Organizers: Nanjing University and Brown University

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008
Notice of acceptance by email: February 25, 2008

The conference aims to 1) foreground gender as a critical and analytical
lens in the study of Chinese films, and 2) to advance gender studies in the
areas of Chinese visual culture, media, and modernity. The conference
committee welcomes papers on all aspects of gender and Chinese cinema,
particularly papers that focus on Chinese women¹s roles as directors,
producers, cinematographers, and scriptwriters. Chinese cinema is broadly
conceived here to include films produced in mainland China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and in the overseas diaspora. Categories of interest include but are
not limited to:

1. Study of Chinese female authors/auteurs (directors, producers,
cinematographers ,scriptwriters)
2. Feminist re-view of canonical Chinese films
3. Feminist theory and Chinese women¹s cinema
4. Gender, cinema, and Chinese community-building (national, regional,
ethnic, and diasporic)
5. Cinematic representation of women and Chinese visual modernity
6. Gender, spectatorship, and Chinese audience
7. Cinematic (re)constructions of femininity and masculinity in modern China
8. Gender and socialist cinema
9. Gender and genre in Chinese cinema
10. Chinese gender, aesthetics, and cinematic narrative
11. Gender, sexuality, and performance in Chinese cinema
12. Colonialism, post-colonialism, and gender in Chinese cinema

Interested scholars and graduate students should submit Chinese and English
abstracts (approximately 250 words) for individual presentations and panel
proposals (by January 15) to Professor Yang Yishu at the following email
addresses:

gender politics njlyric@gmail.com or yishuyang632@hotmail.com

Please include:
1. Name and title.
2. Institutional affiliation and mailing address.
3. Email address.
4. Title of proposed paper.

"Best mom" chosen as face of Korean currency

"Best mom" chosen as face of currency
Tue Nov 6, 2007 9:17am EST

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's central bank on Monday chose the face of Korean motherhood as the first woman to be featured on its banknotes, but women's rights groups say the selection only reinforces sexist stereotypes.

Shin Saimdang, known for raising a famed Confucian scholar and having a deft hand in painting, will grace the new 50,000 won ($55) note when it debuts in early 2009, the Bank of Korea said.

Women's groups say her selection bolsters the idea that mothers should stay at home and devote their lives to their children's education.

Shin, whose nickname is "wise mother," gave birth to the 16th-century scholar Yi I, also known by his pen name Yulgok. She is celebrated for placing her son on the path to fame.

The rest of the article can be found here.

CFP: Marriage and Family in Asia for Spring 2008 issue of _Education About Asia_ (journal issue; 20 Dec.)

Once again, here's a great and relatively easy to get published and get a line on the CV--and show your commitment to teaching. Why pass it up again?

----
Call for manuscripts:
Marriage and Family in Asia for Spring 2008 issue of _Education About Asia_;
also reviews for non-thematic section

Education About Asia Spring 2008 Call for Manuscripts


Education About Asia (EAA) is the teaching journal for the Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic understanding of Asia-related content. Manuscripts submitted for consideration for publication in EAA are evaluated by qualified referees.


We are in the process of developing a special section in the spring 2008 issue entitled, "Marriage and Family in Asia." In this special section, it is hoped that articles will be published where authors develop manuscripts that will enable teachers and students to both better understand marriage and family practices in Asia, and more intelligently reflect on the role of these institutions in their own societies. We hope this section will be useful for instructors in all the social sciences. The deadline for initial receipt of manuscripts for this special section is December 20, 2007. Prospective authors should consult the EAA guidelines, available on the Web site under my signature, before submitting a manuscript for the Marriage and Family Special Section.

We are also seeking reviews for a non-thematic expanded media section that also will be published in the spring 2008 issue of EAA. This section is sponsored by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS). Reviews may address the use of feature films, documentaries, CD-ROMs, podcasts, and Web sites in teaching about Asia, with an emphasis upon classroom use. Tanya Lee, Program Director of AEMS, will be editing this section. Before beginning a review, potential authors should check with both Tanya and me to ensure that we do not already plan to publish an existing review of the same material in EAA or the AEMS newsletter.


Media Special Section reviews should run approximately 500 words (two double-spaced manuscript pages); essays should run about 1,000 words (four double-spaced manuscript pages). Prospective authors are encouraged to read our guidelines that are available at the Web site in my signature below. Interested potential contributors are welcome to email me about possible
manuscript topics.


Cordially,

Lucien Ellington
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Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423)425-2118, Fax (423)425-5441
email: l-ellington@comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org/

CFP: 2008 Thinking Gender Conference Call for Papers (29 Oct; 1 Feb; UCLA)

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
In Conjunction With
USC Center for Feminist Research


Announce
18th Annual Thinking Gender
Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. We especially welcome feminist research on women of color, the pre-modern, queerness, and the sciences.

For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (1 page maximum). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions.

Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html.


Deadline for Submissions: Monday, October 29, 2007, by midnight.

We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline.

Please send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu


Conference date and location:

Friday, February 1, 2008
UCLA FACULTY CENTER

CFP: Asian Women (journal issue; 30 Sept., other deadlines )

Call for Papers
Asian Women
2007 Winter Issue, 2008 Spring Issue



Asian Women seeks submissions for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights, eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men's studies and other relevant themes in gender studies, slated for publication in 2007 issues. Asian Women is accepting submissions for 2007 Winter issue with a special theme of War, Women, and Military, and Women in Conflicts and for 2008 Spring and Summer issue with a theme of Gender issues in international migration.
Please visit http://asianfem.sookmyung.ac.kr/issue/k_issue.htm?type=b for more specific information about submission.

Asian Women, an interdisciplinary journal covering various Women's Studies, Men's Studies and Gender Studies themes, hopes to share intelligent original papers as well as case studies with you. Also, any contributions of theoretical papers, regional reports, or case studies based on feminist studies and Asian studies will be welcomed. The editors welcome submissions that are based on either collaborative or independent scholarship. They also receive submissions from a wide variety of Asia and other countries. Contributors need to send their manuscripts to the Research Institute of Asian Women any time. However, for the prompt evaluation procedure and publication for 2007 Summer issue, contributors should send their manuscripts by 30th of March 2007; for 2007 Fall issue, by 30th of June 2007; for 2007 Winter issue, by 30th of September 2007. For more information, contact the Managing Editor, Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung Women's University, 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, Korea 140-742 or e-mail her at asianfem@sm.ac.kr.

Subscriptions: Individuals may subscribe at one-year rate of $80, single issue at $20. The regular institution rate is $120 per year, single issue $30. Annual Student rate is $60 per year (with photocopy of validated student ID). Check or money order should be made payable to the Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung Women's University, 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, 140-742, Korea. You can call, fax or email to order subscription: Telephone: (82-2)710-9177 or 9082; Fax: (82-2)710-9006; E-mail: asianfem@sm.ac.kr.

CFP: Ninth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History (6-8 Mar.; 1 Nov.; UIUC)

Last year EALC had more grad students presenting at this conference than any other department! Let's do it again. This is a great chance to get experience presenting at a conference as long as you can put a historical spin on your work--even if you aren't technically doing "history." And they welcome individual proposals so there's no need to put together a panel. Don't miss this chance.

The Ninth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 6-8 , 2008; Submission Deadline: November 1, 2007

The Executive Committee of the Ninth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 6-8, 2008. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.

This year's theme, "Contentious Voices," incorporates a variety of trends shaping the field of women's and gender history. We welcome paper or panel submissions that analyze the state of the field, particularly those that problematize it or suggest new avenues of inquiry. We are especially interested in papers that engage with the intersections between women's and gender history and sexuality studies, and address such themes as race, religion, dissent, discipline and embodiment from a range of methodological vantage points, including queer theory, black feminist thought, transnational/post-colonial thought, the social sciences and humanities. We also are interested in assembling a geographically and temporally diverse body of papers; exciting proposals could focus on, but would not be limited to, topics ranging from queer temporalities and identities, to gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages or Non-West, as well as gendered analyzed through South-South comparisons.

For this year's Symposium, we are delighted to announce two plenary speakers who engage many of these themes in their work:

Saidiya Hartman (Professor of African American and American Literature - Columbia University)
Sara Ahmed (Professor in Race and Cultural Studies - Goldsmiths, University of London)
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume.

We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters' proposals and the availability of funds.

All submissions must be received by November 1, 2007. To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format (preferred method), please send five (5) copies of a 250-word abstract AND a one-page curriculum vitae for EACH paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to:

Programming Committee
Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC 466
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801

To submit a paper or panel by email, please send ONLY ONE attachment in Word format containing all abstracts and curriculum vitae. The subject line of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee" and should be sent gendersymp@gmail.com. We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs, Carmen Thompson or Jacob Baum at gendersymp@gmail.com.

CFP: Nat'l Women's Studies Assoc. 2008 Meeting (1 Nov; 18-22 June; Cincinati)

This is just an initial announcement to get the ball rolling. I went to NWSA last month and it was definitely worth going. Cinicinati is very drivable from here. Not a lot of East Asia papers but that's all the more reason to go and present. --james


Resisting Hegemonies:
Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire

Race and sexuality and their interconnections have been matters of high politics and struggle in both Cincinnati and the National Women's Studies Association and constitute central categories of analysis in intersectional and transnational feminist inquiry.

The emphasis on race and sexual politics in this conference theme is dedicated to the ongoing process of undoing the long history of racism and homophobia in Cincinnati, NWSA, and beyond. Black feminist thought and sexuality/queer studies constitute important foci in this context.

Start preparing your NWSA 2008 conference proposal now. The complete Call for Proposals will be available in early August.

Proposal submission will be available September 1st, 2007.
Deadline to submit: November 1, 2007.

Patricia Hill Collins will serve as the keynote speaker.
Patricia Hill Collins is a social theorist whose research, scholarship and activism have examined intersecting power relations of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation.

Her award-winning publications include the Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Routledge, 2004), which received the American Sociological Association's 2007 Distinguished Publication Award.

Click here for more details.

CFP: GENDER ACROSS BORDERS III: RESEARCH TRANSFORMATIONS (31 Aug; 4-5 April; Buffalo, NY)

Friday & Saturday, April 4-5, 2008
Institute for Research & Education on Women and Gender
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

The Gender Across Borders III: Research Transformations committee
seeks panel proposals for an interdisciplinary conference highlighting
national and international trends in scholarship on gender and women.
Researchers are invited to consider "transformation" as a metaphor for
a number of scientific, social, cultural, religious, or physical
phenomena. Gender Across Borders III will use "transformation" as a
prism to reflect on the literal or metaphorical conditions of
existence, difference, permanence, and possibility. Although this
call is for panel proposals, individual papers or posters that
consider gender or transformation are also welcome (see below).
Topics on the conference theme could include:

TRANS
Border-crossing (in politics; as metaphor); conversion experiences;
diaspora; experimental film; healing; human sexuality; identity
politics; (im)migration culture and reform; international law; labor
relations; language acquisition; library studies and technology;
management; medical ethics, nursing and/or patient care; othering (in
philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, etc.); pedagogy; performance
art; queerness; radical cultural practices and politics
(transgression); religious studies; research-community collaborations;
research on relations/relationships (in management, politics,
psychology, etc); the sublime/transcendence; transgender politics;
visual culture and the image; women's histories; work-life issues

FORMATIONS
Architecture; art history; cancer research; classics; cultural
studies; economies (of finance, of labor); education; environmental
studies; epidemiology; feminisms; "the formative years" (childhood and
adolescence); genetic research; geology; hegemony; historicizing
research in any field; ideologies; illness; innovations in a
particular discipline; investigations of genre and form; linguistics;
nation formation; palimpsests; the persistence of gender; regional
studies; social movement theory; sociology and anthropology;
traditions and revisions; women's health; working-class studies;
working in male-dominated fields

ADDITIONAL PANELS
-- Individual papers: Researchers wishing to submit individual papers
on "transformation" or on gender and women may do so at any time.
-- Emerging Women Scientists and Engineers: Researchers whose work does
not explicitly discuss gender are welcomed and encouraged to present
their current research in format most appropriate to their work: panel
discussion, power-point presentations and/or poster display.
-- "Work Life" Forums: balancing research, community, family, health,
and sanity.

POSTERS
In addition to panel and paper proposals, we welcome proposals of
poster displays from all disciplines. Poster-prizes will be awarded
to outstanding poster displays in the exhibit accompanying the
symposium.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts, not to exceed 300 words, should be included in the body of
an email sent to Susannah Bartlow or submitted online at
www.genderbuffalo.org. Please include a short bio of 200 words with
your abstract.

Deadline for Abstracts of Panel Proposals: August 31, 2007
Deadline for Abstracts of Individual Papers: January 10, 2008
Deadline for Posters: February 15, 2008

Information about past and current IREWG activities is available at
http://www.genderbuffalo.org.

CFP: Asian Women (journal issue; two deadines: 30 June; 30 Sept)

Asian Women seeks submissions for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights, eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men's studies and other relevant themes in gender studies, slated for publication in 2007 issues. Asian Women is accepting submissions for 2007 Fall issue with a special theme of Gender and Diaspora, and for 2007 Winter issue with a theme of War, Women, and Military, and Women in Conflicts.
Please visit http://asianfem.sookmyung.ac.kr/issue/k_issue.htm?type=b for more specific information about submission.

Asian Women, an interdisciplinary journal covering various Women's Studies, Men's Studies and Gender Studies themes, hopes to share intelligent original papers as well as case studies with you. Also, any contributions of theoretical papers, regional reports, or case studies based on feminist studies and Asian studies will be welcomed. The editors welcome submissions that are based on either collaborative or independent scholarship. They also receive submissions from a wide variety of Asia and other countries. Contributors need to send their manuscripts to the Research Institute of Asian Women any time. However, for the prompt evaluation procedure and publication for 2007 Summer issue, contributors should send their manuscripts by 30th of March 2007; for 2007 Fall issue, by 30th of June 2007; for 2007 Winter issue, by 30th of September 2007. For more information, contact the Managing Editor, Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung Women's University, 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, Korea 140-742 or e-mail her at asianfem@sm.ac.kr.

Subscriptions: Individuals may subscribe at one-year rate of $80, single issue at $20. The regular institution rate is $120 per year, single issue $30. Annual Student rate is $60 per year (with photocopy of validated student ID). Check or money order should be made payable to the Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung Women's University, 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, 140-742, Korea. You can call, fax or email to order subscription: Telephone: (82-2)710-9177 or 9082; Fax: (82-2)710-9006; E-mail: asianfem@sm.ac.kr.

@UIUC: Women Out/In Japan: Photos from the 9 April Performance

Here are some pics from the performance on Monday for those of you who made it and those who weren't able to. It was quite the experience and led to a great discussion afterward.

CFP: Book Reviews--Postmodern Culture (e-journal; no deadline noted)

Note: There are a few Asia-related books on the list as well as books related to some interests of those in EALC. The CFP doesn't say but it's very possible that the journal will be able to send a review copy--write and ask. Assuming you're qualified to review a given title, book reviews can be a great way to get free books!


The online journal Postmodern Culture solicits reviews for the following books. We also welcome proposals for reviews on any aspect of postmodern culture and theory. Please send either reviews of 2000-3500 words or proposals for a review, along with a short professional bio, to: Ellen McCallum, Reviews Editor, PMC, email: emc@msu.edu. Word attachment files are best.


Anderson, Perry. Extra Time: World Politics Since 1989. Verso, December 2006.

Armstrong, Nancy How Novels Think. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Becker, Ron. Gay TV and Straight America. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Birchall, Claire. Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to
Gossip. Berg, 2006.

Bloom, Lisa. Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American
Feminist Art. Routledge Press, 2006.

Butler, Judith. Giving an Account of Oneself. Fordham UP 2005.

Camus, Albert and Levi Valensi, Jacqueline. Camus at "Combat".
Princeton University Press, 2006.

Cixous, Helen. Reveries of the Wild Woman. Northwester University Press, 2006.

Coles, Nicholas, and Zandy, Janet. Working-Class Literature of the
United States. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Collins, Alan. Cities of Pleasure: Sex and the Urban Socialscape.
Routledge Press, 2006.

Collins, Lisa Gail, and Crawford, Margo Natalie. New Thoughts on the
Black Arts Movement. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Collins, Patricia Hill. From Black Power to Hip Hop. Temple
University Press, 2006.

Conboy, Martin. Tabloid Britain; Constructing a Community Through
Language. Routledge, 2006.

Derrida, Jacques. Sovereignties in Question. Fordham UP, 2005.

Easterling, Keller. Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its
Political Masquerades. MIT Press, 2005.

Funkhouser, C.T. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms
1059-1995. U Alabama P, 2006.

Gass, William H. A Temple of Texts. Alfred A Knopf: Random House Press, 2006.

Geis, Deborah, ed. Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's
"Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust. U Alabama P, 2006.

Gillespie, Joanie Farley and Jayne Gackenach, eds. Cyber Rules: What
you Really Need to Know about the Internet: the Essential Guide for
Clinicians, Educators, and Parents. WW Norton, 2007.

Gordon, W. Terrance. Marshall McLuhan. Gingko Press, 2006.

Gray, Jonathan. Watching with the Simpsons. Routledge Press, 2006.

Hawkesworth, Mary E. Feminist Inquiry. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Horsfield, Kate, and Hilderbrand, Lucas. Feedback. Temple University
Press, 2006

Jantzen, Grace M. Forever Fluid : A Reading of Luce Irigaray's
Elemental Passions. Manchester University Press, 2006.

Katrak, Ketu H. Politics of the Female Body. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Kristeva, Julie. Murder in Byzantium. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Kritzman, Lawrence D. The Columbia History of Twentieth Century
French Thought. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin, Gamber, John Blair, and Sohn, Stephen Hong.
Transnational Asian American Literature. Temple University Press,
2006.

MacDonald, Scott. Art in Cinema. Temple University Press, 2006.

Maingard, Jacqueline. South African National Cinema. Routledge Press, 2006.

Marchetti, Gina. From Tian'anmen to Times Square. Temple University
Press, 2006.

McGann, Jerome. The Point is to Change it: Poetry and Criticism in
the Continuing Present. U Alabama P, 2006.

Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental
Aesthetics. Harvard UP, 2007.

Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Ground of the Image. Fordham UP 2005.

Nunes, Mark. Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. U Minnesota P, 2006.

Pettman, Dominic. Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for
the Information Age. Fordham UP, 2006.

Petrescu, Doina. Altering Feminine Practices. Routledge, 2006.

Robinson, Hilary. Reading Art, Reading Irigaray. I. B. Tauris Press, 2006.

Roeper, Richard. Schlock Value. Hyperion Press, February 2006.

Said, Edward W. On Late Style. Pantheon Press, 2006.

Sleigh, Tom. Interview with a Ghost. Graywolf Press, 2006.

Spivak, Gaytri Chakravorty. Other Asias. Blackwell Publishers Press, 2006.

Stam, Robert. Francois Truffaut and Friends. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Stewart, Charles, ed. Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory.
Left Coast Press, 2007.

Sussman, Henry. The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy,
Religion. Fordham UP, 2006.

Tabbi, Joseph and Rone Shavers, eds. Paper Empire: William Gaddis
and the World System. U Alabama P, 2006.

VanBuskirk, Jim, and Shank, Will. Celluloid San Francisco. Chicago
Review Press, 2006.

Weber, Samuel. Targets of Opportunity. Fordham UP, 2005.

White, Edmund. My Lives. Ecco Press, 2006.

Wright, Melissa. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global
Capitalism. Routledge, 2006.

Wyschogrod, Edith. Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives,
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Xie, Yu, and Shauman, Kimberlee A. Women in Science. Harvard
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