FYI...Stefanie Dear Colleagues: I'm writing you to announce the recent launch of the Global Reproductive Health Forum (GRHF), http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet, and to call for submissions of original research for this Internet project. The current discussions of reproductive health on the internet often fail to encourage original approaches and critical analysis of the ideas of reproduction, gender and rights. The need for innovative work and ideas cannot be overstated. Even more pressing, is the necessity of allowing these ideas a space for representation and distribution on the internet. We seek to encourage the proliferation of critical discussions about reproductive health and gender on the net by providing an electronic forum presenting work from a variety of disciplines and approaches. We are interested in material which uses reproduction as an entry point to the study of social life, and discusses the (re) production of power relations as embodied in the discourses of public health and bio-medicine within a global context. We are particularly interested in analysis which examines the roles of race, class, gender, and ethnicity within reproductive health. To reach this end we are soliciting materials to present via our web project. We are interested in submissions of publications, articles, research, websites, and commentary concerning the following topics: 1) Gender representation in the discourses of reproductive health and/or international "development" 2) Critical discussion of population and family planning projects within the context of "globalization". 3) Emerging Reproductive Technologies (both assisted reproductive technologies and contraceptive technologies) 4) Reproductive Rights 5) Any other work which challenges dominant ideas of reproductive health, including training/teaching materials, and activist materials. We encourage graduate students and non-academic organizations to submit work. Acceptance of work is rolling, and there is no deadline. We prefer full text with full citations, references and a bibliography. Submissions should be no more than 5000 words. Submissions can be in English, Spanish or French. Please include short biographical information with the submission. Your submission will be refereed by our board of academic staff. Submissions can be returned with comments and changes suggested by the editorial board. Please send submissions by email attachment in Microsoft Word. Our email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or you can submit via our website at www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet . If you do not have access to email, you can send the work by snail mail. We require a hard copy of the submission and a copy on diskette ( IBM 3.5"diskettes). Please send submissions to: Department of Population and International Health Harvard School of Public Health 665 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Copyrights remain with the author and full academic credit and citation will go to the author and/or copyright holder of the article. We will gladly link back to organizations, publishers, or authors from the article, simply send the URL with the work. Your input and participation are invaluable to us and we welcome your submissions as well as your comments and ideas about our Internet project. If you would like more information on our project, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We look forward to hearing from you in the near future. -- Ra'eda S. Al-Zu'bi Project Coordinator Global Reproductive Health Forum http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/ Tel: (617) 432-2936 Fax: (617) 566-0365 ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
