The Journal of Research on Women and Gender is a peer-reviewed electronic journal offered free annually over the World Wide Web. The journal welcomes manuscripts based on original work of scholars that documents women’s experiences and analyzes the significance of gender. It is an inter-disciplinary entity that reflects qualitative research, quantitative research, pedagogical works and creative projects.

Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2009

Scheduled date for first publication: March 1, 2010

Submission Guidelines

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October 19-21, the Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, InterGender, offers a Ph.D.-course, Intersectionality – paradigms and challenges.

The course takes up models and paradigms in gender studies which are recently subsumed under the heading “intersectionality”. There are, however, longstanding traditions of feminist and gender studies as well as – among others – feminist and black political activism which have developed concepts in order to analyse multiple oppressions, complex discriminations, privileges and interdependent domination-relations. Some of them have been adapted and/or re/configured in recent models of intersectionality. The course aims at a critical re-evaluation of this theoretical and methodological development in gender studies, in relation to the students’ own projects.

• Venue: Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Teachers: Prof. Antje Hornscheidt, PhD Renita Sörensdotter Continue reading →

The 4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies – Gender, Nature and Culture
20-22 May 2010, University of Helsinki, Finland
The 4th Christina conference explores the complex connections among gender, nature and culture. Recent research has increasingly viewed nature and culture as inherently entangled and inseparable, suggesting that nature is often understood through discourses of gender and, conversely, that gender is made sense of through historically contingent assumptions about nature. Building on this growing body of scholarship, the conference asks how this mutual intertwining of nature, culture and gender has been theorized, represented and experienced in the past as well as the present. The conference aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines. The conference is organized by the research project “Representing and Sensing Nature, Landscape and Gender” (Academy of Finland) and Gender Studies, University of Helsinki.
The conference has three thematic foci: Continue reading →

Women’s History Network Conference: Women’s Life and Leisure in the Twentieth Century

To be held at the Stoke on Trent Campus of Staffordshire University, Saturday 21 November 2009.

Papers are invited on all aspects of women’s lives and leisure in the twentieth century including:

• sport
• drama
• media
• domestic
• and working life.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to Dr. Maggie Andrews via email m.r.andrews#staffs.ac.uk by 10 July 2009.

Gender & Development

The March 2010 issue of the international journal Gender & Development will focus on Water. It will be co-edited by Caroline Sweetman of Oxfam GB, and Tina Wallace, of International Gender Studies, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. The journal has a wide audience of development policymakers, practitioners, researchers and activists, and uses simple clear English to support them in their work. For more information about the journal including full guidelines for contributors, please visit www.genderanddevelopment.org
Water is, literally, the source of life. Growing inequality and competition over dwindling supplies as a result of climate change and other forces risk turning water into ‚the new oil‘. 2010 is the midway point of the International Water for Life Decade (2005-2015) Development planners often see water as a ‚technical issue‘, and the social, cultural and gender relations that surround water are overlooked. This affects public health, family welfare and the rights of women. The world currently faces Continue reading →