The Nordic Network Gender, Body, and Health invites submissions for a peer-reviewed edited volume with the preliminary title Dimensions of Pain.
We welcome proposals for articles, essays, literary and art work approaching issues within the overarching theme of pain from a broad range of disciplines and fields of research. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
- Pain and Bodily Integrity
- Pain and Identity
- Sexualized Pain
- Treatments of Pain
- Psychosomatics of Pain
- Representations and Discourses of Pain
- Stigmatizing Pain and the Pain of Stigmatization
- Healing and Cathartic Forces of Pain
- Expression and Language of Pain
Please send a two page proposal by November 10, 2009 clearly stating form and content of the proposed contribution. Letters of acceptance will be sent out by December 1, 2009 and complete contributions will be due April 30, 2009.
Please submit your proposals and direct any questions you might have to: Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Center for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, lisa.kall#gender.uu.se
The Nordic Network Gender, Body, and Health is based at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. With the aim of achieving productive interdisciplinary work on issues concerning gender, body, and health, the network gathers researchers and practitioners from a number of diverse fields such as medicine, comparative literature, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography, sports- and health sciences, psychiatry, social psychology, and history of science.
Contact
Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Ph.D.
Researcher
Center for Gender Research
Uppsala University
Thunbergsvägen 3H, Box 634
751 26 Uppsala
Sweden
+46-18-4715798
lisa.kall#gender.uu.se
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