FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking papers for a special issue on Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work to be guest edited by Paula England and Julie A. Nelson. We believe that fundamentally new ways of thinking are necessitated, once we move out of the old dualistic view that women, love, altruism, and the family are radically separate and opposite from men, self-interested rationality, work, and market exchange. We invite contributions from all disciplinary backgrounds, including linguistics, theology, and the social sciences as well as philosophy, which examine conceptual issues. Papers may include empirical findings or public policy debates, but all should be focused on conceptual or theoretical issues. All papers should deal in some way with both love and work. Among the topics contributors might address are the following (provided to give an idea of the type of topics we are interested in, not to limit contributions to this particular list): 1. Nursing, the teaching of children and the care of the young, old, or sick were traditionally female, and low- or unpaid, activities. How do we adequately understand such "caring labor," when it involves dimensions of both personal connection and monetary exchange? 2. Freud said the purpose of psychoanalysis was to make people able "to love and work." What, if anything, is the connection? 3. Religious traditions have sometimes conceptualized work in terms of love or compassion, for example in the Buddhist concept of "right livelihood" or the Christian notion of "a calling." How do feminist philosophical analyses understand these? 4. Is wage labor within capitalist systems inherently alienating, as some Marxist theories would suggest? Does is make a difference if emotion-laden labor, and especially traditionally female "caring" labor, is organized by capitalist firms, non-profit firms, state entities, or private (e.g., marital) agreements? 5. Is the rhetoric we use in discussing issues of love and work sufficient to the task? For example, can we clearly distinguish "work" from "non-work," and "altruism" from "self-interest," or do new vocabularies need to be invented? 6. Sex work and "surrogate motherhood" are particularly complicated--and gendered--situations in which the issues love and work come to the fore. Do these activities "commodify" something that would be better left unmarketed? More generally, what boundaries should we put around what should and should not be commodified? 7. How does it matter who we love, and what we work for? That is, what are the ethical and perhaps teleological implications of taking a feminist approach to the questions of interconnections between love and work? 8. Emotions are sometimes thought of as being the motivating force behind actions. But what about the reverse? Can our activities as workers change our emotional make-up? Do the concrete conditions of our work create specific abilities or opportunities for feeling? 9. Do new conceptions about the relationship between love and work change the way we think about human interactions with the natural environment? Or about our conceptions of mastery and control? Or about creativity and spontaneity? Or about leisure and retirement? All papers should be submitted in quadruplicate to the Hypatia editorial office at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201, and identified as submissions for the Love and Work issue. Contributors are to follow the Hypatia style guidelines as found at the Hypatia web site: www.is.csupomona.edu/~ljshrage/hypatia/index.htm. Submissions must be received by September 1, 2000. All papers will be peer reviewed. You may contact the editors at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss ideas prior to submission. ------- 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 ************************************
