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

[Grace Bota]

Dear Inger,

I want to express my interest in contributing to this publication. I will
submit my abstract as soon as possible.

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Grace Bota
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
LA1 4YT, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 65201 (Ext 55131)
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 843085
email: g.bota at lancaster.ac.uk

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On Wed, 13 August, 2008 10:19 pm, Danijela Majstorovic wrote:
>> 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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