Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:37:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Feminist Media Studies CFP


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> WOMEN, HIV, GLOBALIZATION, AND MEDIA
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> We are inviting submissions for a special issue of Feminist Media Studies
> on Women, HIV, Globalization, and Media.  This project extends the
> important contribution of feminist media scholars to critical perspectives
> on the AIDS pandemic by bringing together work concerned with the
> structures, inequalities, and geographies of globalization.  We are
> seeking contributions using a range of theoretical, topical, and
> methodological approaches and working from a variety of perspectives on
> local-global relationships.
> 
> Subjects in which we are interested include, but are not limited to:
> 	*Different forms of media and their implication in a variety of
> 	institutional and/or community settings
>
> 	*The relationship between women and gender as analytic categories
>
> 	*The relationship between media, activism, and public policy
>
> 	*Feminist methodological and analytic frames
>
> 	*Comparative approaches examining different national, regional,
> 	and/or cultural contexts
>
> 	*Perspectives on migration, transnationalism, globalization, or
> 	other models for examining women, HIV, and media within and across
> 	national borders 
>
> 	*New technologies and issues of accessibility
>
> 	*NGOs, governments, international health organizations, or other
> 	organizations concerned with AIDS policy
>
> 	*Issues of production, distribution, and reception
> 
> Please send completed papers to the following address by April 16, 2001:
>
> Cindy Patton
> Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
> Emory University
> Atlanta, Georgia  30322 USA.
> 
> For further information or other inquiries, please contact Cindy Patton
> (cpatton-AT-emory.edu) or Meredith Raimondo (MLRaimondo-AT-aol.com ).
> 
> Feminist Media Studies is a major peer-reviewed journal, published by
> Routledge and edited by Lisa McLaughlin (Miami University-Ohio) and
> Cynthia Carter (Cardiff University-Wales). The journal offers a
> transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist
> approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention
> to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and
> economic dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic
> media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. Feminist Media
> Studies brings together scholars and professionals from around the world
> to engage with feminist issues and debates in media and communication. Its
> editorial board and contributors reflect a commitment to the facilitation
> of international dialogue among researchers, through attention to local,
> national and global contexts for critical and empirical feminist media
> inquiry. For more information about Feminist Media Studies, visit
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals.
> 
> 
> -----
> 
> Meredith Raimondo
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Women's Studies
> Barnard College