Journal of Women’s History Roundtable Forum – Edited by Dana Rabin – Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA

• How can legal sources give evidence of women’s lives, experiences, and voices?
• How do these sources represent, clarify, and obscure gender roles?
• How do students negotiate and interact with these sources and what sorts of teachable moments do they stage in the classroom?
• What challenges do legal sources present for teaching women’s and gender history and how can one avoid misperceptions and misunderstandings?

We seek essays (1000 words) that engage the problems and opportunities presented by legal sources in the undergraduate classroom. We are especially keen to receive submissions from scholars teaching outside of Western Europe and the United States, and from scholars working outside the western legal tradition. Continue reading →

Gendered Perspectives on International Development, Publication Series, Michigan State University
Gendered Perspectives on International Development (GPID) publishes scholarly work on global social, political, and economic change and its gendered effects in the Global South. GPID cross-cuts disciplines, bringing together research, critical analyses, and proposals for change.
Our previous series, MSU WID Working Papers (1981-2008) was among the first scholarly publications dedicated to promoting research on the links between international development and women and gender issues. Gendered Perspectives on International Development recognizes diverse processes of international development and globalization, and new directions in scholarship on gender relations. The goals of GPID are:

1. to promote research that contributes to gendered analysis of social change;
2. to highlight the effects of international development policy and globalization on gender roles and gender relations; and
3. to encourage new approaches to international development policy and programming. Continue reading →

Transnational Feminisms: Revisioning Politics and Practice beyond Borders, Inanna Publications, March 2010
The publication, ‚Transnational Feminisms: Revisioning Politics and Practice beyond Borders‘, is designed as a graduate students‘ initiative, where researchers, writers and students of women/gender and multidisciplinary studies from diverse localities are invited to exchange views and thoughts on the question of how we enrich and transform our feminist theorizations and methods that go beyond West-centric paradigm.The purpose of this journal is to contribute to York University’s 50th anniversary and history of commitment to international and interdisciplinary nature of academic community building, by creating dialogues among feminist scholars from diverse cultural and social backgrounds.We aim to create a space for dialogue about the links and tensions between transnational feminist theory and analysis, research, political change and social justice work.
How and why have feminists taken up the ‘transnational’?
Transnational feminist analysis has developed through continuous attempts to articulate a feminist framework Continue reading →