Calls for Submission

CFP: Critical Insights: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, the most-taught text across disciplines according to the MLA, will soon celebrate its 40th anniversary of publication. Over these forty years it has received much critical attention, as well some rather virulent attacks. This volume will reconsider past readings of The Woman Warrior while offering fresh scholarship geared toward […]

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CFP for Panel proposal: Economic Structures and Women’s Investments

Two scholars working on the late medieval Europe are seeking additional papers for a panel proposal to the 2017 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.  The panel engages debates about women’s investments in the economies of the preindustrial world.  In almost all these economies, there were patriarchal legal and social limitations on women’s inheritance

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CFP: Women’s Movements, Power, and the State

Call for Papers: Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society: Women’s Movements, Power, and the State Guest editor Susanne Kranz invites papers that examine the role of women’s movements and their association with the state and other power structures. The editors encourage interdisciplinary approaches that deal with issues of equality, gendered

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CFP for Volume on Teaching Fashion Studies

 In recent years, courses and course units about fashion studies have become common at many colleges and universities. Fashion studies is a core part of curricula in the disciplines of American Studies, Business, Communication, History, Media Studies, Public History, Sociology, Visual Arts, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Despite the rise and expansion of courses and course

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CFP: “Being Human in the Workplace,” Seventh Annual Mid-America Humanities Conference for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research

The Humanities Program at the University of Kansas invites proposals from undergraduate and graduate students for the Seventh Annual Mid-America Humanities Conference, “Being Human in the Workplace,” to be held on March 31 and April 1, 2016. This year’s theme explores what it means to be human in the workplace, and the organizers invite participants

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