This may be of interest to the group Susan -----Original Message----- From: STAEHELI LYNN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11 March 1999 22:05 Subject: call for papers for _Gender, Place and Culture_ >The Personal Is Political Is Professional Is Private: >A Call for Papers > >The slogan "the personal is political" has provided a rallying call for >feminists since the 1960s. Since that time, however, dramatic changes in >societies, feminist scholarship, and feminist praxis have highlighted the >tensions embedded in that phrase. These tensions relate to the >theorization of public and private, questions of whether making all >aspects of the personal political is empowering (or at least for whom and >under what conditions it is empowering), the implications of policitizing >the personal in professional settings, and when the personal is really >private. The complicated meanings of personal and public are highlighted >in Gill Valentine's article " 'Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones': A >Personal Geography of Harassment" in Antipode 30 (4): 305-332. In that >paper, Gill examines her personal experience of harassment in terms of its >meaning for theory, professional relationships, and how one maintains a >reserve of privacy in the public and political world of the academy. > >Gender, Place and Culture wishes to examine the issues that are raised in >this article in a future issue of the journal. From the start of 1999, >Gill Valentine has been one of the editors of Gender, Place and Culture. >This creates some difficulties in relation to 'neutrality' normally >expected of journal editors. However, the Editorial Board feels strongly >that we should not be inhibited by this in relation to a topic of such >great importance to feminist geography and feminism more generally. All >submissions will be handled by Lynn Staeheli in the first instance. The >issue will include a brief discussion of the editorial process. > >Contributions may take the form of main articles (up to 7,000 words) or >shorter items for the Viewpoints section. All essays will be subject to >the normal review process. Depending upon the number and style of >submissions, they will be published either as a theme issue or as a >special section of an issue. Please follow the notes for contributors >published on the inside back cover of Gender, Place and Culture. All >submissions related to this topic should be submitted by 30th November, >1999 to Lynn Staeheli.
