Ilana Mountian, Marco Aurelio Maximo Prado, Jemma Tosh and Suryia Nayak, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Manchester Metropolitan University and UK and Salford University, UK (Web)

Abstract: 15.04.2012

This special issue aims at the discussion of key issues on contemporary themes on gender and sexuality, looking at the intersections between queer studies and feminist research, theory and activism.

We would like to invite scholars and activists to submit their papers on gender studies considering queer studies and feminist research. We are expecting theoretical and methodological discussions and further developments in the area, as well as activist inputs within this debate. Key areas of the debate we are looking are listed below:

• Intersectionality between gender, sex, class and race, and other hierarchical categories, such as age, religion, education, disability; Homophobia and heteronormativity/heterosexism Continue reading →

Ort: Universität Hamburg
Datum: 06.-08.07.2012
Abstract: 15.04.2012, CfP als PDF

Ziel der Tagung ist eine zeitgeschichtlich nahe und interdisziplinäre Diskussion der Frage nach politischer und gesellschaftlicher Partizipation von Frauen in muslimischen Gesellschaften vor, während und nach dem Arabischen Frühling, sowie der Bedeutung von Geschlechterkonstruktionen in einer Gesellschaft im Wandel. Gibt es eine Veränderung in den patriarchal geprägten Gesellschaften hinsichtlich Geschlechterpolitiken? Inwieweit werden Geschlechterverhältnisse neu verhandelt? Wie ist die aktuelle Situation von Frauen in den instabilen Gesellschaften? Kommt es zu einem Erstarken des Feminismus oder eher einer islamistisch-konservativen Entwicklung? Welche Rolle spielen und spielten Frauen in der Politik muslimischer Gesellschaften? Welche Verknüpfungen gibt es zwischen Islam, Feminismus und Revolution? Welche Rolle spielt Männlichkeit in der arabischen Revolution? Continue reading →

Genesis – Journal of the Società Italiana delle Storiche (SIS – Italian Association of Women Historians) (Web), Editors Lucia Sorbera and Leila el-Houssi

Abstract: 15.04.2012

Flows between the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea unveil a crossroad of diverse cultural, social, and religious experiences. Continuous conversations between neighboring regions facilitated the interplay between assimilation and reshaping of ideas, displaying a reality of turmoil and permanent evolution. In this sense, the Mediterranean appears as a lively workshop, where feminism is continuously reshaped by a plurality of cultures. Studies by Margot Badran on Egypt (1995), Mounira Charrad (2001) and Zakia Daoud (1993) on Maghreb, Julie Peteet on Palestine (1991), amongst many others, contributed to the de-construction of an alleged homogeneity within the “Arab-Islamic” world, highlighting the interplay between politics and gender. As these authors demonstrated, different political agendas have produced different outcomes.

Meanwhile, the need to transcend national borders and to re-write the history of feminists movements is part of the contemporary historical thought, as it is discussed by Leila Rupp (1997), Edith Saurer, Margareth Lanzinger, Elysabeth Frysak (2006) Continue reading →

Cahiers d’histoire du mouvement ouvrier, Editors: Nelly Valsangiacomo et Carole Villiger

Deadline: 31.03.2012, CfP als PDF

Si depuis quelques années l’histoire des femmes a connu un important développement de travaux relevant tant de la macrohistoire que de la microhistoire ainsi qu’un renouvellement de perspective avec les approches de genre, de nombreux champs restent néanmoins dans l’ombre. L’intére?t pour les questions genrées à la fin des années 1970 a notamment coi?ncidé avec le déclin de celui des classes. Toutefois, dès la fin des années 1990, les études en sciences sociales et humaines ont croisé différents types de rapports sociaux dans leurs approches. C’est dans ce sillage, que l’intére?t pour les classes sociales renai?t de ses cendres. Cet outil d’analyse n’est plus envisagé seulement dans une perspective marxiste mais en conjonction avec d’autres rapports de pouvoir. Continue reading →

Editors: Dr. Elora Halim Chowdhury (Univ. of Massachussetts Boston) and Dr. Liz Philipose (California State Univ. Long Beach)

Deadline: 30.03.2012

This volume examines the role of friendship between women as a resource for transnational collaborations, and the often conflictual contexts in which they emerge. We take our cue from literary scholar Leela Gandhi, (Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), who describes friendship as a collaboration between the “most unlikely of associates” within a 19th century colonial context. Minor yet significant, these relationships offer an alternative reading of the colonial encounter. Similarly, we argue that in the current neocolonial imperial context, where global divides are at once intractable yet more diffuse, the idea of dissident cross-cultural friendship might provide a transformative vision of transnational solidarity and praxis. In other words, this work is guided by the question, do unlikely alliances among associates of oppressor and oppressed communities–trump, or are trumped by, other kinds of allegiances individuals might have, to family, community, or nation, in the pursuit of social justice. Continue reading →