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WE International Magazine
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WE (Women
& Environments) International
Magazine
Call For
Papers
Healthy Communities
Through Women's Eyes
WE (Women &
Environments) International Magazine is interested in exploring the issues of
women and healthy communities. What makes a healthy community for women; how are
women specifically affected how can women contribute.
Healthy or sustainable
communities have been a growing field of study over the last decades. Healthy
communities, a holistic vision, aim to improve the quality of life for all
members and to restore a sense of belonging to people, alienated by growing
economic, social and environmental concerns that by now have reached global
proportions.
WE (Women &
Environments) International Magazine is looking for submissions from
both North, South, aboriginal and minority communities containing and sharing
analyses, theories, cross cultural comparisons, creative initiatives, projects
and processes that address women's concerns/needs in creating healthy
communities.
ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF
GOVERNANCE
What role do and should women play in the contemporary
revival of civil society? What are the possibilities for and obstacles to
women's participation in alternative forms of governance in different political
environments, especially at the local community level? How do women see these
alternatives relate to traditional forms of government?
VIOLENCE, WOMEN AND WAR
Analyses of roots and repercussions of women as victims and tools of war,
torture, violence, alienation, stress and social objects as well as creative
solutions for healing are invited. Communal, public and domestic violence and
institutional discrimination are included.
COMMUNITY PLANNING, DESIGN AND
OPERATION
How might healthy communities function and look from a
feminist perspective? What services - from housing, day care and jobs to
transit and utilities - should be available especially for women and groups who
often cannot access these in the market.
SELF-FULFILMENT, SPIRITUALITY,
ARTS
Self-fulfilment, cultural, artistic and spiritual expression and
overcoming of stereotypes is increasingly seen as important to Healthy
Communities. What is women's contribution, role, access and recognition in
education, the arts, the media, social and spiritual institutions.
HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH
While our concerns about human and ecosystem health increase, the
economy of globalization tends to avoid and delay environmental protection while
capitalizing from ill health. What health issues affect women, what are they
doing about it? For further info, please contact our office, see below.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
Can communities that rely on the global market be healthy?
How have cooperative and other non-capitalist economic experiments of the 20th
century served women. What kinds of strategies will improve the economic welfare
of women in communities around the world? For further info, please contact
our office, see below.
Deadlines
Proposals and
abstracts by January 30, 1999, full manuscripts by April 1,
2000; expected date of publication Summer 2000
Writers Guidelines
Writers may address theory, policy, empirical research, case studies,
current projects, experiments or experiences. Honoraria for articles are
unfortunately not available at this time. Reviews of current books and films
relevant to the theme will be considered. We also encourage poems, and other
artistic expressions of the above concepts. Papers should be Written in
English, accessible to a broad range of readers and not exceed 2000 words.
Shorter pieces are welcome. To save writers unnecessary time and costs, we
prefer receiving an outline or indication of intent before the full manuscript
is submitted preferably on computer disk and accompanied by black and white
photos or sketches. Please contact us for more detailed editorial guidelines.
Mission Statement
WE
(Women & Environments) International is a
unique Canadian magazine which examines
women's multiple relations to their
community environments: natural, physical, built, and social, from feminist
perspectives. Since 1976, WE International has provided a forum for academic
research and theory, professional practice and community experience. The
magazine is owned and published by the WEED (Women and
Environments Education and Development) Foundation, a
registered, non-profit, charitable organization. The Editorial Board volunteer
their collective editing and production of WE
(Women & Environments) International
Magazine as a contribution to feminist social change.
For general enquiries contact:
WE
(Women & Environments) International
Magazine, 517 College St., Suite 233, Toronto, Ont. Canada M6G 4A2, ph:
(416) 928-0880; fax: (416) 928-9640; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; home page:
www.web.net/~weed
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