answer: GALA, Call for contributions to a gender issues volume-Living with Patriarchy - Discursive Constructions of Gendered SubjectsAcross Cultures

Sat Aug 16 13:23:47 UTC 2008

Dear Sir/Madam,

 I'm writing to confirm that I'm very interested in contributing to the 
volume combining gender problems and critical discourse analysis.
In a few days I will send the abstract.
Best Regards,
Dina Maria Martins Ferreira
Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
email: dinaferreira at terra.com.br

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "karolina Sznycer" <karam11 at WP.PL>
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 5:33 AM
Subject: [GALA-L] Odp: [GALA-L] Call for contributions to a gender issues 
volume-Living with Patriarchy - Discursive Constructions of Gendered 
SubjectsAcross Cultures

> Dnia 13-08-2008 o godz. 23:19 Danijela Majstorovic napisał(a):
>> > 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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>> >
> 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
>
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