Semi-Annual Newsletter Issue #93/94 1999 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois August 6-10, 1999 Caucus Events: Business Meeting! Saturday, August 7, 1999 8:30 p.m. - 10:15 p.m. See the final ASA Program Schedule or the SLGBTC table for location. Joint SLGBTC/Sexualities Section Reception Sunday, August 8, 1999 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. See page 3 for details. Community Activist Panel Monday, August 9, 1999 6:30 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. See the final ASA Program Schedule or the SLGBTC table for location. Sessions Of Interest Sexualities at Century's End Session Number 319-Monday, August 9, 8:30 a.m. (Session co-sponsored by SLGBTC and the ASA Section of the Sociology of Sexualities) Organizer: Joshua Gamson, Yale University Panel: Tomas Almaguer, University of Michigan Ken Plummer, University of Essex Pepper Schwartz, U. of Washington Verta Taylor, Ohio State University Gender/Sex/Sexuality: Connections, Tensions, and Contradictions Session Number 150-Saturday, August 7, 10:30 a.m. (Session co-sponsored by the ASA Sections on the Sociology of Sexualities and the Sociology of Gender) Organizers: Jodi O'Brien, Seattle U. Presider: Jodi O'Brien "Pleasure's Intimate Fabric: Working-Class Women's Everyday Negotiation of Passion in Manhattan, 1900-1920" Val-Marie Johnson, New School for Social Research. "Sexual Scripts, Masculine Tensions, and HIV Among Gay Youth" Matt Mutchler, UCSB. "Turnabout: Drag Queens and the Masculine Embodiment of the Feminine" Steven P. Schact, SUNY-Plattsburgh. "Dancing on Shaky Ground: The Power-Laden Interactions between Erotic Dancers and Their Customers" Sine Anahita, Iowa State University. "Genders of Desire: Gendering Sex Acts in Lesbian Sexuality" Cheryl L. Cole, University of Illinois. Gay and Lesbian Studies Session Number 280-Sunday, August 8, 2:30 p.m. Organizer: Stephen O. Murray, El Instituto Obregón, San Francisco Presider: TBA "Bisexuals at Midlife" Martin S. Weinberg, Indiana U.-Bloomington; Colin J. Williams, Indiana U.-Indianapolis; Douglas W. Pryor, Towson University. "Age Preferences Among Gay and Bisexual Men" Barry D. Adam, U. of Windsor; Alan Sears, U. of Windsor; E. Glenn Schellenberg, U. of Toronto. "Generation X Lesbians: Identity, Politics and Community" Christina Perez, Loyola University, Chicago. "Race and the Construction of Same-Gender Sexual Markets in Four Chicago Neighborhoods" Stephen Ellingson, Park Ridge Center; Kirby Schroeder, U. of Chicago. "Attitudes of Gay Students Toward Other Minorities" Gidi Rubinstein, Netany Acad. College, Tel Aviv. "The Gay Cousin: Learning to Accept Gay Rights" Rhoda E. Howard, McMaster U. Rethinking 'Straight': Contesting and Constructing Heterosexualities Session Number 445-Monday, August 9, 4:30 p.m. (Session sponsored by the ASA Section on the Sociology of Sexualities) Organizers: Don Barrett, CSUSM and Kristin Esterberg, UM-Lowell Presider: Rebecca Plante, UNH "Compulsory Heterosexuality and 'Orgasm Inadequacy': A Short History of the Problematic Nature of Female (Hetero)Sexual Desire" Julia A. Ericksen, Temple University. "Level, Plumb and Straight: The Construction and Enactment of Masculinities in the Building Trades" Kris Papp, U. of Wisconsin-Madison. "Just Add Penis and Stir: The Cookbook Approach to Gender Identity" Carol S. Lindquist, SUNY-Stony Brook. "Queer Theory Rocks a Gender Analysis: The Social Organization of Sexual Desire and Gender Resistance in a Rock Music Subculture" Mimi Schippers, Albion College. About SLGBTC The Sociologists' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Caucus is organized to: _ Encourage unprejudiced sociological research on lesbians and gay men and their social institutions, _ Provide a forum for current research, teaching methods and materials, and professional issues relevant to homosexuality, _ Monitor anti-gay ideologies in the distribution of sociological knowledge, and investigate practices oppressive to lesbians and gay men, _ Oppose discrimination against gay and lesbian sociologists in employment, promotion, tenure, and research situations, _ Maintain a social support network among its members. For more information, contact: SLGBTC P.O. Box 2133 Saint Cloud, Minnesota 56302-2133 Subscriptions: $7.50 student, $20 regular ...or visit SLGBTC's web page: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/orgs/slgc/SLGC.html SLGBTC Officers: Treasurer/Secretary: Tracy E. Ore President: Christopher Carrington Program Chairs: Kevin Henson and Arthur Redman Newsletter Submissions: Tracy E. Ore, Editor Department of Human Relations & Multicultural Ed. Saint Cloud State University 720 Fourth Avenue South B118 Education Building Saint Cloud, Minnesota 56301 tore@stcloudstate.edu 320.654.5570 Deadline for Fall/Winter Issue: November 1, 1999 JOINT SLGBTC/ SEXUALITIES SECTION RECEPTION Sunday, August 8, 1999 This year's reception will be held at the residence of Art Redman (SLGBTC member and program Co-Chair). Light appetizers and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be available. There will also be available a list of restaurants in the area for those who would like to end the evening over a meal. The reception is located in the Ravenswood area of Chicago, midway between Lakeview (more commonly known as Boystown) and Andersonville (Chicago's main lesbian neighborhood). It is easily accessible from public transportation; cab rides cost approx. $8 one way from downtown. Directions to the Reception: By public transit: From downtown catch the Red Line train (Howard-Dan Ryan) north to the Belmont station. At Belmont, transfer to the northbound Brown Line train (don't try to catch the Brown Line downtown on Sunday evenings; it doesn't go to the loop). Take the Brown Line to the Damen Ave. station. Exit the station, turn left, and walk one block to Wilson Ave. (by the Ravenswood Hospital). Turn left onto Wilson Ave. and walk three blocks to 1816 W. Wilson. By automobile: Take Lake Shore Dr. north to Wilson Ave. exit. Turn left, proceed approx. one and a half miles to 1816 W. Wilson Ave. (For those comfortable with Chicago geography; Montrose runs parallel to Wilson, two blocks south. It also has a Lake Shore Dr. exit. Taking Montrose west to Ravenswood, then Ravenswood north to Wilson, is a much quicker route due to fewer stoplights and stop signs.) MEMBER NEWS Manuel Fernandez-Alemany (Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology, University of Southern California) has been awarded a Rockefeller fellowship for the year 1999-2000 to conduct postdoctoral work with his project "Creating dialogues: conversations and ruptures between normative identities and alternative behaviors in the bisexual male, Latin America" at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego. At its April meeting in Portland, the 1999-2000 Pacific Sociological Assoc. Council approved the appointment of Peter M. Nardi, Sociology, Pitzer College, as the Editor-Designate of Sociological Perspectives. In June, the editorial office will move to Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Nardi will officially take over the editorship on January 1, 2000. His appointment is for a three year term. It can be extended for another two or three years pending Council approval. Member Publications THE GLOBAL EMERGENCE OF GAY AND LESBIAN POLITICS Edited by Barry Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Andre Krouwel (Temple University Press) Since the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, gay and lesbian political activism has grown from small outposts in a few major cities to a worldwide mobilization. The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics brings together for the first time discussions of the mature movements of the European Union, North America, and Australia, and new and emerging movements in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia and Africa. Rich in the details of gay and lesbian cultural and political life across the globe, this collection examines the social and political conditions that have shaped each of these new social movements and offers a telling story of the people who have fought for their right to love and live with the persons of their choice. Contributors: Barry Adam, Dennis Altman, Stephen Brown, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Steven Epstein, Olivier Fillieule, James N Green, Andre Krouwel, Ricardo Llamas, Scott Long, Wim Lunsing, Mai Palmberg, Ken Plummer, Judith Schuyf, Fefa Vila, Geoffrey Woolcock. For more information: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/ 1392_reg.htm GAY MEN'S FRIENDSHIPS: INVINCIBLE COMMUNITIES Peter M. Nardi (University of Chicago Press) Based on surveys and interviews of 200 gay men, Nardi's new study presents a book-length examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Announcements/Call For Papers TALKING GENDER & SEXUALITY 5-6 November 1999 Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Last Call For Papers General Information In the 1990s there has been much debate about the best way to approach the study of language and gender. The traditional divisions between the deficit, the cultural difference and the dominance models have been disputed. One consequence is that the profound theoretical challenge to how we understand and account for gender - as a dynamic, performative engagement which is never complete - matches with the rich set of tools that have been developed for analysing the complexities of everyday language use, agency and identity in talk-in-interaction. Also, a new domain has opened up that is ripe for study: the relationship of sexuality to social interaction and language use. Recent edited book collections such as 'Language and Masculinity', 'Language and Desire', 'Queerly Phrased', 'Language & Gender', 'Rethinking Language and Gender Research', 'Feminism and Discourse', and 'Gender Articulated' suggest a flourishing research enterprise, but one which has yet to be fully explored. Attendees of the symposium are invited to present parallel session papers, to organise panel sessions or to conduct workshops on the theory and/or practice of analysing verbal and non-verbal social interaction in a diversity of settings in which participants constitute themselves as gendered and sexed persons or communities. Presentations of research on the following settings are welcome: everyday conversation, institutional talk, talk in the media, computer-mediated communication, and dialogue in popular culture, fiction and written texts. We desire to achieve a relaxed forum for discussion and debate, so accepted presentations will be grouped into thematic sections under the guidance of a section chair and/or discussant. Presenters will be allotted 20 minutes plus 20 minutes for discussion. Abstracts of max. 300 words in English should be sent with your full contact details by August 5th, 1999 to Paul McIlvenny (see the address below). Electronic submissions are welcome. The language of the symposium is English. Please redistribute this call for papers to interested parties. Abstract submission deadline: 5th August 1999 See the following web site for more details: http://www.sprog.auc.dk/~paul/conf99/ Plenary Speakers: Marjorie H. Goodwin, UCLA "Morality and Exclusion in Girls' Social Organization." Celia Kitzinger, Loughborough University "Feminism and Conversation Analysis." Don Kulick, Stockholm University To Be Announced For further information, and to register, please see the symposium web site http://www.sprog.auc.dk/~paul/conf99/ or contact: Paul McIlvenny (paul@sprog.auc.dk) Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies Kroghstraede 3 Aalborg University DK-9220 Aalborg DENMARK Tel: +45 9635 9169 Fax: +45 9815 7887 OVERCOMING BOUNDARIES: ETHNICITY, GENDER AND SEXUALITY Thamyris' Special 2000 Issue Thamyris wants to devote its spring 2000-issue to an exploration and comparison of ethnic, gendered and sexual cultures, communities, identities, knowledges and arts. Although in many publications lip service is paid to the co-construction of the three themes, the similarities and differences between same-sexual, ethnic and gendered experiences in culture, society and academia are seldomly systematically investigated or discussed. On the threshold of the 21st century, the insight that all of our lives are multidimensional, informed by these three axes of social differentiation, gives particular urgency to the project of thinking these dimensions simultaneously and comparatively. Thamyris focuses on ethnicity, gender and sexuality to give visibility to the variety of human identities, interests and desires, and to speak about power, oppression and resistance. In the vision of the editors each of the three concepts covers both the marked and the unmarked categories within its purview. Thus, ethnicity refers not only to non-white positionalities in a Caucasian context, but expressly concerns itself with various constructions of whiteness. Likewise, gender is about the construction of both women and men, while sexuality addresses homo- and heterosexualities. We want to highlight and problematize the ways in which ethnic, gendered and sexual categories can be used to marginalize people, but can also be seen as empowering categories on which communities and coalitions are built. The articles we are looking for focus on at least the comparison of two of the mentioned aspects, or on groups and subjects that combine several threads. The perspective may be theoretical, epistemological, political, historical, sociological, literary. The topics of articles may be concrete social or educational movements or projects, specific case-studies (e.g. concerning identity or community formation where boundaries are tested and perhaps overcome), a novel that discusses limits and crossings, epistemological and conceptual issues, political mobilization, and also antagonisms between groups. It has, for instance, been observed that those marginalized in one way will often marginalize those marked in other ways. Many cultures indulge in the adoration of mothers, but also in the vilification of "sluts" or other independent women. And while same-sex contacts may be available to men in some of these cultures, little respect is given to those men who take on gay identities. White gay men in various Western European countries target Moroccan youth for their alleged anti-homosexual aggression. Dominant versions of feminism have been confronted with great difficulties in overcoming ethnic and heterosexual boundaries. How does the hegemonic reinsert itself in what is oppositional? How do we proceed in a world that produces ever more social, sexual, gendered and ethnic differentiations? What is the influence of class on various configurations? How will we be able to create societies that offer easier access to education, economic resources, cultural products, political participation, various positions for everybody? Deadline for submission: December 21, 1999 Scheduled date of publication: June 2000 Articles, requests, proposals, or abstracts should be sent to the issue editors: c/o Gert Hekma, Dept. of Sociology Amsterdam University Oude Hoogstraat 24, 1012 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands emails: hekma@pscw.uva.nl and ihoving@hovi.demon.nl An Instruction to Contributors and information about the journal are available on request: from: The editors of Thamyris c/o Nanny de Vries Najade Press P.O. Box 75933, 1070 AX Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fax: +31-20-679 8874 e-mail: thamyris@wxs.nl or najade@wxs.nl FEMINIST PHILOSOPHIES OF LOVE AND WORK Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Hypatia is seeking papers for a special issue on Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work to be guest edited by Paula England and Julie A. Nelson. We believe that fundamentally new ways of thinking are necessitated, once we move out of the old dualistic view that women, love, altruism, and the family are radically separate and opposite from men, self-interested rationality, work, and market exchange. We invite contributions from all disciplinary backgrounds, including linguistics, theology, and the social sciences as well as philosophy, which examine conceptual issues. Papers may include empirical findings or public policy debates, but all should be focused on conceptual or theoretical issues. Among the topics contributors might address are the following (provided to give an idea of the type of topics we are interested in, not to limit contributions to this particular list): 1. Nursing, the teaching of children and the care of the young, old, or sick were traditionally female, and low- or unpaid, activities. How do we adequately understand such "caring labor," when it involves dimensions of both personal connection and monetary exchange? 2. Freud said the purpose of psychoanalysis was to make people able "to love and work." What, if anything, is the connection? 3. Religious traditions have sometimes conceptualized work in terms of love or compassion, for example in the Buddhist concept of "right livelihood" or the Christian notion of "a calling." How do feminist philosophical analyses understand these? 4. Is wage labor within capitalist systems inherently alienating, as some Marxist theories would suggest? Does it make a difference if emotion-laden labor, and especially traditionally female "caring" labor, is organized by capitalist firms, non-profit firms, state entities, or private (e.g., marital) agreements? 5. Is the rhetoric we use in discussing issues of love and work sufficient to the task? For example, can we clearly distinguish "work" from "non-work," and "altruism" from "self-interest," or do new vocabularies need to be invented? 6. Sex work and "surrogate motherhood" are particularly complicated--and gendered--situations in which the issues love and work come to the fore. Do these activities "commodify" something that would be better left unmarketed? More generally, what boundaries should we put around what should and should not be commodified? 7. How does it matter who we love, and what we work for? That is, what are the ethical and perhaps teleological implications of taking a feminist approach to the questions of interconnections between love and work? 8. Emotions are sometimes thought of as being the motivating force behind actions. But what about the reverse? Can our activities as workers change our emotional make-up? Do the concrete conditions of our work create specific abilities or opportunities for feeling? 9. Do new conceptions about the relationship between love and work change the way we think about human interactions with the natural environment? Or about our conceptions of mastery and control? Or about creativity and spontaneity? Or about leisure and retirement? All papers should be submitted in quadruplicate to the Hypatia editorial office at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201, and identified as submissions for the Love and Work issue. Contributors are to follow the Hypatia style guidelines as found at the Hypatia web site: http://www.is.csupomona.edu/~ljshrage/hypatia/index.htm Deadline for submission: September 1, 2000. All papers will be peer reviewed. To discuss ideas prior to submission you may contact the editors at: pengland@postoffice.pop.upenn.edu POLITICS, RIGHTS, AND REPRESENTATION: GENDER, RACIAL, AND SEXUAL EQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, AND SOUTH AFRICA Conference Announcement An International Conference organized by the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from the Provost's Office, the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project of the CGS, Center for Race, Politics, and Culture and the Chicago Group on Modern France. Dates: October 14th-17th, 1999. This conference will address the efficacy of electoral and non-electoral politics for achieving justice for women, sexual minorities, and racially marked groups. Democratic nation states in the late twentieth century all claim to offer equal access to political representation to all citizens, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, class, or religion. All adults can vote and all adults can run for elective office. Empirical investigation reveals, however, that, despite the principle of equal political opportunity, certain groups are radically under-represented in legislative bodies. Women, while composing over half the population, have no more than a token presence in most national assemblies. There are also few racial minorities and gay men and lesbians in governing bodies. In parallel, perhaps, members of these groups often seem to have distinctive voting behavior. F eminist political theorists have long debated-on an abstract plane-the problems and possibilities posed by the democratic traditions born in Western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for women's political participation. Theorists preoccupied with questions of racial justice have discussed the implications of slavery and emancipation, on the one hand, and colonialism and post-colonial social and political relations, on the other, for the inclusion of people of color as full citizens. Finally, the question of the access of gay men and lesbian women to elective office and their political rights have come to center-stage in many nation-states in the last thirty years. This conference will address the theoretical, empirical, and strategic issues raised by this simultaneity of equal opportunity and unequal practice for these three groups as well as question the relation between political equality and social justice. Equally central will be an assessment of the effectiveness of different forms of political engagement for bringing about social justice. To this end, the conference will be doubly comparative. It will compare the inclusions, exclusions and demands of these three different groups in three democratic regimes-the United States, South Africa, and France-of the late twentieth century. We have selected these three polities because their conceptualizations of the relation between the individual and the state and their histories and practices of gender, racial, and sexual equity, inclusion, and exclusion differ and coincide in and important and illuminating ways. We will open with a pair of sessions discussing the meaning of representation and of political interest groups or constituencies. Who defines which "groups" are entitled to representation? In what context are constituencies defined by gender, sexuality, or race? How are the rights of individuals and collectivities defined constitutionally in different democratic regimes? What shaped those constitutions? What would it mean to have a political system actually based on individual rather than collective representation? The next sessions will focus on political process. One will address the tactics used by groups who find access to political office difficult. How do they define effective strategies for electing politicians who will represent their interests-electoral reform, grassroots mobilization, non-governmental organizations, media pressure? A second will analyze how under-represented groups behave politically-do they use their right to vote more or less than those more central to political power? Do they have a distinctive voting pattern? When elected to political office, do they behave differently than those in the majority? The third panel will evaluate the impact of activism, NGOs, the courts, and international organizations for social change at the national level. The conference will end with a discussion of how change beneficial to marginalized groups actually happens. Does having elected representatives matter? If so, how? If not, are the courts, grassroots politics, international organizations, or media pressure more effective strategies for change? Confirmed participants in the conference to date: Mary Becker, Jacqueline Bhabha, Wendy Brown, Barbara Burrell, Cathy Cohen, Georgia Durst-Lahti, Susan Gal, Francoise Gaspard, Linda Kerber, Sabine Lang, Martha Nssbaum, Barbara Ransby, Chris Riddiough, Elaine Salo, Joan Scott, Lynn Sanders, Gay Seidman, Amy Dru Stanley, Cass Sunstein, For a more detailed description of the conference please see our web site: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cgs/ THE RHETORIC(S) OF MASCULINITY Seville, 2nd-4th March, 2000 Call For Papers Within feminist criticism the "masculine" has begun to lose its universal and aprioristic status to be assumed as a social construction. After some decades of prolific research on gender, basically focused upon the analysis of female images, we are witnessing a growing concern about different cultural manifestations of male subjectivity. It is precisely within the field of representation that we would like to redefine those patterns of identity/identification that, so far--being the "unmarked" terms--have hardly been discussed from a critical perspective. Papers on any of the following topics will be welcomed: * Masculinity and ethnicity. * Masculinity and violence. * Masculinity and transvestitism. * Masculinity and homosexuality. * Masculinity and psychoanalysis. * Masculinity and legal discourse. * Masculinity and artistic representation. * Masculinity and political models. * Masculinity and the media. * Masculinity and parenthood. * The male body. Deadline for submission: September 27th, 1999. Proposals (500-words abstract in either English or Spanish) should be sent to: Carolina Sanchez-Palencia (csanchez@siff.us.es) Juan Carlos Hidalgo (jhidalgo@siff.us.es) Departamento de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana Universidad de Sevilla C/. Palos de la Frontera, s/n E-41004 Sevilla Fax: 954551552 MEDIA HISTORY-SPECIAL ISSUE: WOMEN'S MAGAZINES Call For Papers Media History, an international, interdisciplinary peer-review journal that addresses media and society from the fifteenth century to the present, invites submissions for a Special Issue on Women's Magazines. Articles may be somewhat lengthier than is typical, falling somewhere in the range of 5-8000 words in length. However, shorter articles that are positively reviewed may, with the approval of the author(s), be placed in future editions of the journal. Submissions for the Special Issue may address any aspect of any kind of periodical(s) for women. We are particularly interested in having a range of material, which reflects the multidimensional nature of the magazine form as well as the journal's international perspective and chronological span. As always, illustrations may be included in articles (but please note that authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate permissions, if necessary). Deadline for submission: November, 1999. Submissions or any questions may be directed to: Amy Aronson, Ph.D. U.S. Editor Media History 487 13th Street Brooklyn, New York 11215 email: AmyAronson@aol.com SIGNS SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBALIZATION AND GENDER Call For Papers Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks submissions for a special issue on "Globalization and Gender," slated for publication in Summer 2001. For this special issue, we will focus on feminist critiques of the prevailing ways in which globalization has been conceptualized. Since traditional scholarship on globalization has ignored gender issues, feminist approaches provide new insights into the reconfiguration of the state, transnational economies, and cultural formations. Whether these changes are due to what David Harvey has termed "time-space compression" or to the movements and flows of finance capital, goods, or labor, feminist scholarship and pedagogy are vital to understanding global processes and movements in a transnational moment. For example, feminist approaches to globalization might address: the emergence of women as a new labor force; the rise of feminized service industries in many parts of the world; the centrality of consumption practices; the emergence of gendered social movements in relation to sexuality, religion, and ethnicity; the gendering of ecological activism; the practices of global media empires; the nature of feminist politics in a world of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and transnational coalitions; and the relationship of women and gender to new technologies of communication. This special issue seeks submissions that address such topics as the relationship between gender and globalization, feminist critiques and understandings of globalization, earlier forms of globalization in comparison and connection to contemporary processes, the gendered dimensions of new forms of global information and finance systems, the transnationalization of identity politics based on gender and sexuality, the globalization of race and multiculturalism, global and transnational women's and gender-related NGOs, and new forms of internationalism and nationalism. Above all, rather than analyses that simply add women or gender to the study of globalization, we seek essays that situate and historicize feminist knowledges as formative and integral to a variety of global movements. We encourage the submission of essays that address pedagogical practice as well as research and we are especially interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. The special issues editors are Amrita Basu (political science, Amherst College), Inderpal Grewal (women studies, San Francisco State University), Caren Kaplan (women's studies, University of California, Berkeley), and Liisa Malkki (anthropology, University of California, Irvine). Deadline for submission: October 31, 1999. Please submit articles (five copies) to: Signs, Globalization and Gender Box 354345 C14 Padelford Hall University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-4345. Please observe the guidelines in the Notice to Contributors printed in the most recent issue of the journal. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES Call For Papers The Journal of International Women's Studies is a new on-line publication of the Susan B. Anthony Women's Center at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. The journal is being initiated to provide a forum for researchers, activists and students to discuss the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, and invites submissions in the form of scholarly articles, student papers, and literary pieces. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; "western feminisms" and "third world feminisms" professionals and students; men and women. Toward this end, the editors encourage responses to previous submissions in forthcoming editions, facilitated by the journal's on-line format. The journal will be published twice a year, beginning in October 1999. To submit a manuscript by mail, contact:: Dr. Diana Fox/ Director Susan B. Anthony Women's Center Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 375 Church St. North Adams, MA 01247 To submit via e-mail also contact Diana Fox at: womenctr@mcla.mass.edu Submissions should be kept under 15 pages, double spaced. Use endnotes rather than footnotes and include a references cited page for scholarly pieces. For further information, please call Diana Fox at 413-662-5181. The journal will be available in October through the Mass. College web address: mcla.mass.edu WOMEN'S COMMUNITY ACTIVISM AND GLOBALIZATION: LINKING THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Call For Papers This special edited collection seeks to make visible the links between women's community-based organizing and global political and economic forces. We wish to identify original studies and first person accounts of women's community organizing that are explicitly or self-consciously dealing with global processes affecting the lives of women and their communities in rural and urban locations around the world. We are interested in submissions that will highlight the links between local organizing efforts, social movements, international politics, and global economic restructuring. Areas of special interest include environmental activism, struggles against violence against women, labor organizing, economic development, indigenous rights' activism among other community-based political activism. We welcome submissions from community activists as well as academics and development workers. Editors: Nancy Naples, UC-Irvine Manisha K. Desai, Hobarth and William Smith College To Propose or Submit a Paper Send the title of your paper, your name, full address, email and phone number, an abstract of approximately 300 words, and a copy of the paper (if available) to: Nancy A. Naples Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies University of California, Irvine Irvine, California 92697 949-824-5749 (office phone) 949-824-4717 (fax) Deadline for proposals: August 15, 1999. Deadline for completed papers: December 31, 1999. FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GENDER: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, COMMUNICATION Call For Papers General Information A conference hosted by the Moscow State Linguistic University to be held in Moscow November 25-26, 1999. Proposed topics for the conference include: * Gender as a sociocultural phenomenon; * Text and discourse: gender analysis; * Translation in gender research; * Gender as biosocial phenomenon: a psycho-linguistic approach. The host committee will be happy to consider your applications and presentation abstracts on other Gender Linguistics topical issues. Conference participation format * Workshop report - 15 Min * Poster presentation - 15 Min * Conference participation The working languages of the conference are Russian and English (simultaneous interpretation is provided). Arrangements will be made to set up other languages working groups within workshops. Presentation abstracts will be published in the language of the original. The registration fee is 300 roubles. Speakers are exempt from the fee. For further procedure information visit us at: http://www.gendermglu.da.ru Accommodation in MSLU Residence Hall at 6/2 Komsomlsky prospekt, Moscow will be provided. Hotel reservation is also available at your request. Date of arrival: 24 November 1999 You are kindly requested to submit your applications and presentation abstracts both on a floppy disc (Word 6.0/95 or RFT) and a printout, one page 1.5 spaced. Deadline for submission: September 25, 1999. Free publication of presentation abstracts will be provided. Please e-mail your applications and presentation abstracts to: gender.mglu@gmx.net. Tel./fax: (095) 246-2807 Attn: Alexander N. Naberezhnov For more information contact: Dr. Alla V. Kirilina The First International Conference Gender: Language, Culture, Communication host committee 38 Ostozhenka Moscow 119837, Russia http://www.gendermglu.da.ru gender.mglu@gmx.net GENDERING ETHICS/ THE ETHICS OF GENDER An International Interdisciplinary Conference Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies University Of Leeds 23 - 25 June 2000 Call For Papers Recent years have seen a growing interest in issues of ethics within feminist scholarship. As faith in the grand narratives and political projects of modernity has faltered, there has been a turn towards situated, contingent ethical frameworks. Both the philosophical basis and the political contours of these emerging frameworks are the subject of intense debate among feminists. Developments in science and technology raise new ethical dilemmas, and the demands of subaltern groups disturb old moral certainties. Across a wide range of disciplines questions of ethics are taking centre stage. This conference will be the first major international, interdisciplinary feminist conference in the United Kingdom to address these issues. Keynote Speakers include: Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University (USA); Cynthia Cockburn, City University (UK); Lynette Hunter, University of Leeds (UK); Grace Jantzen, University of Manchester (UK); Sabina Lovibond, University of Oxford (UK); Lois McNay, University of Oxford (UK); Selma Sevenhuijsen (University of Utrecht, Netherlands); Joan Tront Hunter College, CUNY (USA); Nira Yuval-Davis, University of Greenwich (UK). We welcome short papers for parallel sessions on a range of themes including: Gender and moral subjectivity; the ethics of science and technology; bodily integrity; the new ethics of the public sphere; religious traditions and gender ethics; social policies and normative frameworks; intimate ethics; gender, reason and rationality; representation and ethics; violence, war and ethics; human rights, universalism and particularism; agency, autonomy and ethics; the ethics of sex; gender, nature and animals; feminist ethical histories - abolitionism, peace, prostitution, sexual violence; the ethics of the market; postmodernism, ethics and politics; the ethics of ace and space; ethics and the politics of difference; alternative moral communities - historical, fictional, utopian. Send 200 word abstracts by 1 February 2000 to: Sasha Roseneil and Linda Hogan Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT UK Email: gender-studies@leeds.ac.uk For more information, visit our website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gender-studies Resources Note: The following web addresses were accurate and active as of 7-26-99. If you have any difficulties with any of these please contact the editor of this newsletter at tore@stcloudstate.edu. The Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies: http://web.gsuc.cuny.edu/clags/ The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.merit.edu/ Feminist Theory Website: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/ Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network: http://www.glstn.org/ E-Directory of Lesbigay Scholars: http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/lbg_edir.html Progressive Sociologists Network: http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/ The Queer Studies List:: http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/QueerInfo/qstudy.htm Re/Productions--An On-Line Journal: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/SAsia/repro2/issue2.htm Research Resources for the Social Sciences: http://www.socsciresearch.com/ Sexual Orientation Resource Database http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/Specific/Sexual_Orientation / ASA Sociology of Sexualities Section: http://www.asanet.org/Sections/sexualit.htm Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States: http://www.siecus.org/ The Society for the Study of Social Problems: http://itc.utk.edu/sssp/default.html The Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/ssss/ Yahoo's Sociology Page: http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Sociology/ Socioweb: http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/ Women's Studies Database: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ National Women's Studies Association: http://www.nwsa.org/ Semi-Annual SLGBTC Newsletter/Spring-Summer 1999 page 1 Semi-Annual SLGBTC Newsletter/Spring-Summer 1999 page 10 Semi-Annual SLGBTC Newsletter/Spring-Summer 1999 page 11