[Gesth-l] FW: Call for submissions: Women's Lives-Central and Eastern Europe

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Date:    Mon, 7 May 2007 14:33:01 -0400
From:    Paula Barnes <barnes at MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>Subject: Call for submissions: Women's Lives-Central and Eastern EuropeCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Collected Volume on Women's Lives, Gender Relations and State Policy inCentral andEastern Europe under State SocialismDeadline: June 15, 2007Scholars working on gender and socialism in Central and Eastern Europe are
invitedto submit a 500-word abstract of an essay for a collected volume examiningpost-89approaches to the study, research, and analysis of women's lives andissues ofgender under state socialism.
The wealth of human and archival sources that have become available since thecollapse of communism, combined with the increased use of cultural,social, gender,and oral history in studies of socialism, have provided crucial insight
into genderin socialist societies -- both as it was discursively represented andlived on aneveryday level. This in turn has facilitated a more nuanced and complexunderstanding of women under socialism that challenges the bleak and
homogenizedportraits of women that were produced -- in both feminist and non-feministscholarship--prior to and immediately after 1989.The new scholarship presented in this collected volume will draw on oral and
written, statistical and archival sources that have become available toresearcherssince the dismantling of the Soviet Bloc.  Scholars are invited to addressthematicissues that have been especially fruitful and insightful for understanding
genderroles and relations under socialism as well as broader methodological,theoretical,and historical issues surrounding gender as an analytical category ininvestigationsof socialism.TOPICS
We welcome submissions on a diversity of topics, which might include butare notlimited to the following: the role of socialist women's organizations and thesocialist media in reformulating gender roles and relations and in
politicizingwomen's lives; changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and sexualityundersocialism; women's roles as workers, mothers, and consumers; gender andresistance;feminist discourse in the era of state socialism; the interplay between
officialdiscourses and subjective experiences in shaping gender roles andidentities undersocialism; revisiting feminist debates regarding the "evidence ofexperience" withregard to gender and socialist Eastern Europe;  everyday life as a site of
resistance, negotiation, or complicity; the politics of gender and memoryin thestudy of socialist and post-socialist societies.Additionally, we ask contributors to discuss their methodologies in the
context oftheir departures from pre-1989 scholarship. We also invite scholars fromEasternEurope to address the institutional barriers to conducting anddisseminating genderresearch in their respective countries. Moreover, we are interested in
studies ofthe process and products of major transnational research projects begun inthe1990s, such as the transnational Women's Memories Project coordinated bythe PragueGender Studies Center.
HOW TO APPLYPlease email or fax a 500-word abstract and CV by JUNE 15th to:Jill Massino                                           Shana PennProgram of  Gender Studies                  Center for Jewish Studies
Bowdoin College                                  Graduate Theological UnionBrunwick, Maine                                  Berkeley, CAEmail: jmassino at bowdoin.edu              Email: 
pennskaya at aol.com

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