FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Cooridnator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- CALL FOR PAPERS: WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY 18 November 2000 Institute of Historical Research, London. Gendering the Politics of Everyday Life The organisers of the 2000 annual workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society invite proposals for individual papers under this year's workshop title, Gendering the Politics of Everyday Life. Proposals are welcomed from both new and established researchers. The workshop will focus on the various processes by which power relations are gendered - whether actual power relations between the sexes, or the ways in which gender has been used as a metaphor to understand how power operates in all the areas of everyday life. Possible themes/areas of focus include: * gendering the rent strike/food riot/community action * gendering the co-operative movement/co-operation * reassessing the boundaries of public/private * the implications of everyday economic activity for power relations in households and communities * the distribution of resources within families and communities * the gendering of everyday consumption/shopping * sexual relations and sexuality within families * gendering the occupation and control of everyday spaces * gendering campaigns around housing/local environment/access * gendering intra-community divisions/struggles * gendering education and access to education * resistance to/defence of the gendering of everyday life Please send abstracts to: Karen Hunt, Department of History and Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6LL. Fax: 0161 247 6398 E.mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proposals must be received by 17 March 2000. ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
