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[07.03.2008]
Call for Papers: Women and Agriculture
The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Women and Agriculture
Submission deadline: May 1, 2008
For this special issue we invite international, transnational, and comparative studies that engage theoretical and historical analyses of women and agriculture; and analyses of racial, ethnic, and gendered dimensions of agriculture. We seek manuscripts on women and sustainable agriculture, on women in leadership and decision-making positions, and in feminist science studies pertaining to women's knowledge and changing agricultural practices.
Carolyn Sachs, Professor of Rural Sociology and Women's Studies, Penn State University, United States, and Margaret Alston, Professor of Social Work and Human Services and Director of the Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Australia, will serve as guest editors of the special issue on women and agriculture.
For details, see:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/signs/call.html
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The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship
Submission deadline: September 20, 2008
Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars and is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international competition.
Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select the winner.
The prizewinning paper will be published in Signs, and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible publication in Signs.
Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (less than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that falls within the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.
For details, see: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/signs/stimpson.html
Fonte: University of Chicago
Autor: Equipe Anis
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