FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY ON WOMEN AND DISABILITY edited by Eva Kittay, Anita Silvers, and Susan Wendell Because their difference from other women is inescapable and often cannot be disregarded or concealed, the existence of women with disabilities tests both the inclusiveness and the power of feminist theory. With respect to inclusiveness, disability challenges feminist thinkers to consider the extent to which their views impose the "normal" woman as a standard. With respect to the power of feminist theory, disability invites feminist thinkers to explore the extent to which their liberatory approaches apply to women who are marginalized for corporeal or cognitive differences, but ones that are not primarily gendered or racialized. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy invites submissions for an issue of original essays exploring how feminist theory is expanded, inflected and/or enriched by responding to the facts of personal experiences and public encounters with disability. We will seek to balance contributions with implications for methodology and contributions with consequences for policy. We are also concerned to obtain contributions from women beyond North America, from women with a range of experiences of disability, and from women who are just initiating their careers. Among the questions that essays in this issue might address are: 1. How might feminist theorizing about the body change if it centered, or at least integrated, the perspectives of women with disabilities? 2. What are the implications for a feminist ethics of care of the following caregiving situations: Both the caregiver and the receiver of care are competent adults? One or both persons experience partial, intermittent or deteriorating competence? One person's disability is entirely incapacitating? 3. How might feminist bioethics develop analyses of prenatal testing and abortion, assisted dying, and health care that value and protect the lives of people with disabilities? 4. How does our thinking about disability transform when we adopt feminist standpoints? 5. Are all feminist values liberating for women with disabilities? Are any feminist values marginalizing for women with disabilities? 6. Does the development of feminist theorizing about the language of sex and gender illuminate the debates about the terminology of disability? 7. How do gender and disability interact with race, ethnicity, age, sexual identity and religion to construct social identity? to oppress? to privilege? 8. Is social policy better able to meet the challenge of disability when it is informed by feminist ethical, social and/or political theory? All papers should be submitted in quintuplet (5 copies) and identified as submissions for the special issue on Women and Disabilities. The paper submission deadline is August 1, 2000. Contributors are to follow the Hypatia style guidelines as found at the Hypatia web site: www.is.csupomona.edu/~ljshrage/hypatia/index.htm. Send contributions to: Hypatia, Center for the Study of Women in Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201. Please provide a cover letter identifying your manuscript as a submission for the special issue. ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
