<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Submission deadline: March 1, 2012</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">scholars and is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">the winner. The prizewinning paper will be published in Signs, and the</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted for</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">publication in Signs.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (less</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">falls within the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">For details, see: </font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/signs/stimpson.html">http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/signs/stimpson.html</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 30, 25); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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