Call for contributions to a gender issues volume- Living with Patriarchy - Discursive Constructions of Gendered Subjects Across Cultures

[Danijela Majstorovic]

> Dear potential contributor
>
> As an outcome of the 2008 CADAAD conference, a number of articles dealing 
> with critical analyses of discourses and gender were presented. Meanwhile, 
> on the initiative of Dr. Danijela Majstorovic, Banjaluka University and 
> Chris Hart, Hertfordshire University, we have approached John Benjamins 
> Publishing Company to inquire about their interest in publishing a volume 
> with contributions on gender issues. The preliminary working title 
> proposed to Benjamins was/is:
>
> Living with Patriarchy - Discursive Constructions of Gendered Subjects 
> across Cultures
>
> The response from Benjamins was positive, and the series editors of 
> 'Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture' are now looking 
> forward to a book proposal from us. We therefore invite you to express 
> your interest in submitting an article to be considered for inclusion in 
> the book proposal we (the universities of Aalborg and Banjaluka) are going 
> to prepare. If you are interested in contributing towards the volume, 
> please reply to this email as soon as possible, confirming your interest, 
> and please also submit a title and an abstract for your paper to
>
> inglas at hum.aau.dk and danijela at blic.net no later than 8 September 2008.
>
> The book proposal will be based on your abstracts, and provided the 
> proposal is accepted by the publisher, your manuscripts should reach us by 
> 15 January 2009.(But more about that later)
>
> The purpose of the volume would be to have a range of papers with a 
> discourse analytic focus (analyses of media texts, focus group or 
> interview transcripts from parliamentary debates, work situations, 
> everyday situations, etc...), empirically grounded, contextualized and 
> dealing with different aspects of discourses constructing gendered 
> subjects on the continuum between patriarchy on one end and 
> equality/emancipatory potentials on the other, seeing that the take on 
> gender issues seems to vary across cultures. In the conference at 
> Hertfordshire University, we realized different contexts and became aware 
> that variation in knowledge allows for differences in the perception and 
> the study of gendered subjects; this is why we are proposing a volume with 
> an international focus where these specific positions of gendered subjects 
> can be located and critically analyzed. We hope that different discourses, 
> contexts, multidisciplinarity and multimethodness will help create a 
> compilation of articles that can:
>
> a. help gain a better understanding of the role of discourses, gender and 
> societal differences in the world
> b. bring forth new forms of non-hierarchical knowledge and interaction
> c. be used for language/discourse and gender/postcoloniality classes
> d. and  be a great teaching aid in terms of theory and research 
> methodology.
>
> We look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best wishes
> Inger lassen and Danijela Majstorovic
>
>
> -- 
> Inger Lassen, Professor mso, ph.d.
> Aalborg University
> Department of Language and Culture
> Kroghstraede 3
> DK-9220  Aalborg
> Denmark
>
> Telephone: +45 99409178
> Private:   +45 98811128
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