Hello All; This seems like an excellent opportunity to explore the topics using an ecofeminist framework. Is anyone doing something in this area? We'd love to hear more from you, if you're willing. Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- PLEASE SEND INQUIRIES TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THE ADDRESS IN THE HEADER. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights > at Columbia University in New York City > > The Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights > invites applications from scholars, advocates, and activists conducting > innovative interdisciplinary work on the intersecting themes of > sexuality, gender, health and human rights in U.S. and international > contexts. > > The Program provides a supportive intellectual location to further the > sometimes separate conversations that have occurred within studies of > sexuality, gender, health, and human rights. Despite new efforts to > integrate human rights frameworks into feminist agendas and to frame > health as a human right, the relationship of innovative scholarship and > activism about sexuality to health and human rights remains to be > explored. During their residencies, fellows will examine the challenges > posed by integrating sexuality, gender, health and human rights in > theory, research, and advocacy. Our focus is on examining and expanding > traditional definitions and boundaries, while acknowledging conditions > of inequality, marginality, and post coloniality. > > Each year, the Program will award residential fellowships of varying > lengths (for one year, one term, and shorter residencies from 2 6 > months). Fellows will participate in interdisciplinary forums and > seminars which bring together scholars, researchers, and advocates. > Fellows will receive a stipend, access to libraries, computer > facilities, office space and equipment, as well as health insurance. > Applicants should have the Ph.D. or an equivalent level of professional > achievement, experience, and publication at time of application. > > The Program is located at Columbia University, in the Division of > Sociomedical Sciences at the School of Public Health, which sponsors > interdisciplinary scholarship that crosses traditional boundaries of > health, humanities, and the social sciences, while incorporating > questions of advocacy and activism. > > Application deadline: February 15, 1998 > > For further information and application materials, contact: > Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights > Division of Sociomedical Sciences > Columbia University School of Public Health > 600 West 168 Street - 7th floor > New York, N.Y. 10032 > Tel: 212 305 5656 Fax: 212 305 0315 > E mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gender > ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
