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[little sister]

from Wiebke Kolbe [wiebke.kolbe at geschichte.uni-bielefeld.de]

   Call for Papers

   We plan to prepare an anthology on "Gender comparisons: An
   interdisciplinary perspective", presenting contributions from
scholars
   doing gender research in a genuine comparative and/or transfer
   perspective. The focus of the projects should be the comparison or
   relation of one or several of the Scandinavian countries with one or
   several European countries and/or the United States in the 20th
   century.

   The overall objective of the anthology is to contribute to the
   understanding of the historical development of gender concepts and
   gender structures from a comparative and/or transfer perspective,
   adopting a variety of interdisciplinary approaches.

   We encourage scholars in history, social and political sciences,
   cultural studies or other related fields to submit their proposals,
to

   contribute their results and share the new insights of their original
   work. We especially encourage younger scholars who which to present
   the results of their work to a larger public. We aim at choosing
   contributors from a variety of countries and a variety of
   methodological, theoretical and empirical approaches and results. We
   especially welcome submissions using discourse analytical or
   deconstructionist methods. Articles as well discussing methodological
   questions, for instance on the insights the comparative/transfer
   perspective may offer for an understanding of gender, are very
   welcome.

   The articles ought not to have been published before. The abstract
   written in English should take up no more than one page and provide
an

   outline of the contribution in mind. Please include a short CV, your
   name, affiliation, address, and email address.

   Deadline for submissions is 15 April 2001. The editors plan to have
   decided on the submitted proposals by the end of May 2001. Deadline
   for the submission of the first draft of approximately 12 pages will
   be 1 November 2001.

   The editors have a cooperative working procedure in view. We want to
   offer a scientific network supportive to the researchers, their
   projects and the work on their publications. We also want to offer
the

   opportunity to discuss our work with a larger audience of
   international scholars. Therefore, we expect the contributors to the
   anthology to both attend a research seminar and a conference.

   Given the funding of the seminar and the conference, the editors plan
   the following time schedule. All contributors are expected to attend
a

   research seminar to be held in Denmark 6-9 December 2001 (arrivals on
   the 6th, seminar the 7th and 8th and departures on the morning of the
   9th). The seminar aims at discussing each others¥ articles. Each
   scholar is expected to be the discussant of the work of two fellow
   contributors. The second draft will be due by the end of April 2002.
   The contributors are expected to attend a conference 30 May-2 June
   2002, where the articles are to be discussed for a last time and to
be

   presented to a larger international and interdisciplinary audience.
   The conference too will be held in Denmark. The editors aim at
   finishing the work on the anthology by the end of 2002.

   The editors are Wiebke Kolbe, assistant professor at the University
of

   Bielefeld, Germany and Iris Rittenhofer, research associate professor
   at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

   Please mail your abstract to Wiebke Kolbe, mail:
   wkolbe at geschichte.uni-bielefeld.de both as an attachment (formatted
   as a Word- or rtf-file) and as a mail text.

There must be quite a few current resources out there in the world of
journals and books, but here's a link to an older (brief) analysis that
appeared in a publication of the General Semantics folks.:
http://www.sistahspace.com/nommo/mv13.html

It would be helpful to us all if you let us know what you have been
able to pull together.

Sincerely yours,
Jim

James Vanden Bosch          vand at calvin.edu
Department of English          www.calvin.edu/~vand
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Tel.: (616) 957-6592
Fax: (616) 957-8508

What do FLING members think about the idea of jointly developing
material
for specific topics in a Language and Gender course, which would then be
accessible to the group for their own courses?

That is, do you want to keep course development discussions at the
current
informal "inquiry" level, or take a more organized approach, one which
might even garner some funding, perhaps from a consortium of schools
that
might want to support faculty in such a project?

Alternatively, might this be a type of workshop that IGALA conferences
would be willing to support?  I think there'd be a lot of interest ad
interesting discussion.

Amy Sheldon