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

[Karolina Sznycer]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm writing to confirm that I'm immensely interested in contributing to
the volume combining gender problems and critical discourse analysis.

Yours faithfully,
Karolina Sznycer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danijela Majstorovic" <danijela at BLIC.NET>
To: <GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:19 PM
Subject: [GALA-L] Call for contributions to a gender issues volume- Living 
with Patriarchy - Discursive Constructions of Gendered Subjects Across 
Cultures


>> 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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