From: Mary Keller <m.l.keller-AT-stir.ac.uk>
Subject: rec's for journals that cover po-co issues
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:48:12 +0100 


Dear list members,

I have recently become the library representative in my department and have
ordered an examination of the journals we buy with the intent to re-shape
the gender and color of our department's research base.  We are a religious
studies department, but unlike most religious studies departments we did not
grow out of a seminary.  OUr approach to religions is historical,
cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary (cultural studies, philosophy,
environment, psychology, and a general acceptance that post-colonial
imperatives influence our research).  Can members of this list please
recommend e-journals and journals that  most effectively contribute
womanist/feminist/third-world voices for interdisciplinary scholarship?  I
appreciate any references.  At this point our department's only "women's
studies" journal is the Feminist Journal of Religious Studies.  We have a
specialist in Islam and in Buddhism, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy,
Psychology, and Post-colonial biblical studies, if I might call it that.
I'd like to make suggestions that might intersect with their fields as well.

Cheers,

Mary Keller
University of STirling

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> Subject: 	Call for submissions for re/productions
> 
> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
> Deadline: August 30, 1998 
> 
> RE/PRODUCTIONS
> re/productions is an on-line journal dedicated to disseminating work by
> scholars, activists, and organizations exploring discourses of
> reproductive health and rights in South Asia. The journal focuses on
> expanding understandings of 'health' and making connections with people
> and issues outside the traditional scope of public health and
> reproductive rights in the region. 
> 
>         Reproductive Health and Rights, in the context of South Asia, is
> a contested terrain. After the UN World Conference of Population and
> Development at Cairo, in 1994, reproductive health was placed on the
> policy agenda of governments' in the region. This led to large scale
> funding by international donors for reproductive health projects, and
> also to larger government projects. At the same time, health activists
> mobilized to challenge the implications of many of these new policies
> for women in the region.  
> 
>         The new government policies incorporated concepts of
> women-centered, target free approaches while still working from older
> models of population control which reduced reproductive health to
> concerns surrounding fertility and safe motherhood.  The question of
> choice also became a focal point of contestation for governments,
> donors, and activists alike.  For many activists, "choice" was seen to
> be a concept imported from western feminist movements, one that rested
> on ideas of autonomous individuals free to exercise control and make
> decisions over their lives.  Many felt that such an approach failed to
> consider larger social systems in which South Asian women are embedded
> including corporate and state interests in the issues. 
> 
>         There were individuals and groups within the women's movement
> and the medical field, however, who also chose to appropriate
> "reproductive health" as a term to mean a more holistic approach to
> women's health and wellbeing. 
> 
>         Presently, there have been few spaces to analyze the discourses
> that have come out of "reproductive health and rights" within the
> region. 
> 
>         Re/productions provides that space to explore and analyze the
> discourses as they have taken shape in South Asia. The journal will
> serve as a forum to bring together work from many different disciplines,
> reflecting the heterogeneous nature of both the issues and the region.
>  
> We will focus on these issues:
> 1) History of reproductive health and rights movements within South Asia
> 2) The impact of donor funding on reproductive health policies
> 3) Social movements that have grown up around  health in the
> sub-continent 
> 4) Theoretical analyses of the concept of "choice" 
> 5) The rise of the NGO regime and the commodification of health services 
> 6) The development of new reproductive health technologies 
>         and their ethical implications 
> 7) Alternative approaches to the body and health
> 8) Critiques of population control policies  
> 9) Social construction of diseases like STDs and HIV/AIDS
> 10) The politics of sexualities
> 11) History of contraceptive use and abuse
> 12) The role of corporations and pharmaceutical companies in
> reproductive health
>  
> Major features of re/productions:
> 1. The Body: This section features articles and essays that reflect new
> critical directions in thinking about reproductive health. Innovative
> research, analyses, commentaries and new conceptual models will be
> considered. 
> 2. Best of the Contemporary Presses: In this section, we reprint
> selected work from academic and small  presses. 
> 3. Watches: We have three Watches that keep track of new and old debates
> and developments in population, reproductive technologies and the law. 
> Population Watch, Reproductive Technologies Watch and Legal Watch  will
> feature excerpts from World Bank and government policy reports, 
> legislation, funding trends, court cases, billboards and advertisements
> in the mass media, reviews of Web sites etc.  
> 4. Young scholars section: This section features select work from young
> scholars working in South Asia.  
> 5. Reviews: Reviews will be concise ones of new and old works, esp.
> works coming out of small presses.
> 6. Letters to the editor: Questions can be raised and debates continued
> in this section.
> 
> 
> SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
>         We are always open to submissions that expand understandings of
> 'health' and make connections with people and issues outside the
> traditional scope of public health in South Asia. Occasionally, we
> solicit submissions on specific themes.
>                         
>         We require full text with full citations, references and a
> bibliography. The maximum word limit is 5000 words, but  we encourage
> concise works.
> 
>         Please include short biographical  information with the
> submission.Your submission will be refereed by our board of academics
> and activists working in the region. Submissions can be returned with
> comments and changes suggested by the editorial board. 
>                         
> Please send submissions by email. Our email address is:
> harvard-AT-mos.com.np
> Please make sure to also cut and paste your submission into the body of
> the email, along with an attachment of Word 6. 
> 
> If you do not have access to email, you can send it by snail mail. We
> require a diskette ( IBM 3.5"diskettes) and three hard copies. 
> Please send submissions to: 
> Sushma Joshi, PO Box 140, Kathmandu, Nepal
> 
> Copyrights remain with the author. However, you will have to sign a
> release form giving permission to Harvard University to publish on the
> Internet.
> 
>