Women's Studies Quarterly

Witness
Volume 36, Numbers 1&2

2008 Edition

Feminism was born of acts of witness, from Jeanne d'Arc to Mary Wollstonecraft to the Guerilla Girls. Witness exposes inequalities of power and how the act of witnessing has enabled women to reconceive themselves and challenge their societies.

Activisms
Volume 35, Numbers 3&4

2007 Edition

Scholars, writers, and artists explore the struggles of women and men, individually and collectively, for social justice and gender equity. Contributors include: Janet L. Finn, Ovadia Vargas, Fiona Kirkwood, Susan Hanson, and Piya Chatterjee.

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Since 1972 WSQ has been an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. Its interdisciplinary special issues focus on such topics as Activisms, The Sexual Body, Envy, The Global and the Intimate, Witness, and in forthcoming issues Trans-, Technologies, and Mother combining psychoanalytic, legal, queer, cultural, technological, and historical work to present the most exciting new scholarship on ideas that engage popular and academic readers alike.

WSQ offers an innovative range of genres. Along with scholarship from multiple disciplines, it showcases fiction and creative nonfiction, poetry, and the visual arts. "Alerts and Provocations" informs readers about immediate political crises affecting women. "Classics Revisited" rereads a major text of women's studies, with a response by the original author. Book reviews inform readers about recent work in the field.

WSQ is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published in June and December. The new general editors are Victoria Pitts-Taylor and Talia Schaffer at the Graduate Center, CUNY. They are replacing Cindi Katz and Nancy K. Miller, under whose leadership WSQ won the CELJ 2007 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. To submit material to WSQ, please see current Calls for Materials. To ask about book reviews or any other aspect of WSQ, contact the general editors using the links above.

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CALL FOR MATERIALS

Call for Papers: MOTHER
Guest Editors: Nicole Cooley and Pamela Stone

We have entered a motherhood moment--from celebrity mom baby-bump sightings to recent televised debates between "stay at home moms" and "working moms," from “welfare mothers” to “Alpha moms,” images of motherhood are circulating in our culture as never before.

Motherhood demands a new look. As women push motherhood later and later, as a larger share forego it entirely, and as mothering itself takes up a smaller fraction of women's lives, why is the fascination with all things “mother” at an all-time high? What does it mean to be a mother when motherhood is increasingly decoupled from biology? At a time when women's reproductive rights are vulnerable and the pro-choice movement on the defensive, why is so much of the discussion about mothering framed in the rhetoric of choice and agency? As the majority of mothers pursue both family and paid employment, the “cultural contradictions” of intensive mothering that sociologist Sharon Hays first identified over a decade ago do indeed seem, to paraphrase writer/journalist Judith Warner, an ever more “[im]perfect madness.”

This WSQ special issue invites feminist work that speaks to our current historical moment in an effort to try to begin to construct a comprehensive and critical overview of mothers, mothering, and motherhood. We welcome academic papers from a variety of perspectives in all disciplines, from theory, qualitative research, and empirical studies to literary studies. We would also be interested in memoir and first-person essays, fiction, poetry, art, and writing which blurs boundaries and crosses genres in its exploration of mothering.

Topics to be explored include:

• Discourses around motherhood and how they are shaped by race, ethnicity, immigrant status and sexuality
• Mothers in the workplace: The price of motherhood, “mommy tracking” and “maternal wall,” “opting out”
• The “mommy wars”: Stay-at-home moms vs. working moms
• The paid and unpaid work of mothering and caregiving; the “second shift”
• Motherhood, loss and grief: Infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and infant and child death
• Motherhood and disability/special needs
• Intensive mothering: Ideologies and practices around co-sleeping, breastfeeding, homeschooling and unschooling, toilet-training, tutoring
• Mothers as consumers: The marketing of motherhood
• Pregnancy: The medicalization of and birthing practices, representations of the mother’s body, assisted reproductive technologies (ART), surrogacy, abortion and reproductive choice
• New models of motherhood: LGBT moms, young moms, single mothers, stepmothers and blended families
• Men as moms: Stay-at-home dads, coparenting, single fathers
• Immigration and motherhood; global labor chains
• Childcare and domestic labor: Practices, issues and politics
• Motherhood and ecofeminism, explorations of “mother nature”
• Mommy lit as its own brand of chick-lit and the new “dad” books
• Mothers and digital media: The role of mommy blogs, list-servs, message boards and social networking sites
• Adoption: Transnational and domestic, transracial
• Motherhood and public policy: From debates about FMLA to activist groups such as MomsRising
• Mothering older children, mothering adult children, grandmothering
• Motherhood and Third Wave Feminism
• The experiences of women who choose not to mother
• Mothering in comparative, global and transnational contexts

If submitting academic work, please send abstracts by September 30, 2008 to the guest editors Pamela Stone and Nicole Cooley at: WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com. If accepted:
Full papers should be no longer than 22 pages, and will be due by January 1, 2009.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com, by January 1, 2009.

Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor, Susan Daitch, at sdaitch@hunter.cuny.edu by January 1, 2009.

Art submissions should be sent to WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com by January 1, 2009. Please keep in mind that after art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be sent to the journal’s managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS

PREVIOUS CALL: TECHNOLOGIES
Guest Editors: Karen Throsby and Sarah Hodges

As forms of knowledge, as practices, and as artefacts, technologies have reshaped, and continue to reshape, the ways we think, write, create, and perceive the self, the body and the community. This special issue of WSQ invites feminist work that considers the concept of technology, conceived broadly, and explores the multiple technologies—whether high-tech or low-tech, futuristic, contemporary, or historical—that are influencing us.

In keeping with the established format of inter- and trans-disciplinary aims of WSQ, we welcome academic papers as well as first-person narratives, poetry, fiction, and art as a means of considering technologies. We are also interested in work that creatively uses as well as considers both new and familiar forms of technology, and we are actively exploring the possibility of mounting special websites or other interactive internet technologies to accommodate unusual formats.

Some of the topics we would like this issue to explore include:

Digital technologies and writing and media in the digital age

Medical technologies, biotechnologies, and biocapital

Cyborgian and posthuman subjectivities/future

Visual culture/ technology and popular culture/ virtual realities

Educational reform and digital pedagogy

Online community-building and activism

New forms of information dissemination

Authorial property and plagiarism

Global capital and technology

Literary access and historical information

New museums

New issues in the sciences

Everyday technologies

Technology and work

The non-use / refusal of technologies

Sport and leisure

We invite abstracts from all disciplinary and artistic homes including but not limited to media studies, history of science, literature and the humanities, biomedical fields, legal studies, art history, the social sciences, cultural studies, and pedagogy.

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FORMATTING
Papers should be submitted in standard formatting (12 point font, Times New Roman, double spaced, standard margins).

Do not use bold, lines, designs, capitalization, or any other type of formatting apart from standard formatting in your essay. Please underline anything that you would like italicized in your manuscript. Manuscripts must be saved in Microsoft Word. We cannot accept any other formats.

ARTICLES
Articles should be no longer than 22 pages (which should include un-embedded footnotes). If you wish to submit an article longer than 22 pages, you should confer with the guest editors. Images, tables, or graphs should each be estimated to be half a page each although they should not be embedded in the manuscript. (See the section Images, Tables, and Graphs below.)

BOOK REVIEWS
Book reviews should be submitted in standard formatting (12 point font, Times New Roman, double spaced, standard margins). Book reviews should not exceed 1,000 words per book reviewed. For example, if an author is to review three books, the total review should not exceed 3,000 words. If you wish to submit a book review exceeding 1,000 words per book, please consult the guest editors.

BIOGRAPHY
Please include a brief (3-5 sentence) biography with your manuscript. The biography should be located after the text of your manuscript but before your notes and works cited. All authors, poets, translators, and visual artists who submit pieces to the journal should include a biography.

REFERENCES
WSQ follows the author-date style of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. All in-text references should appear as follows: (Gibson, Law, and McKay 2001). Or, if you include a page number, then : (Gibson, Law, and Mckay 2001, 45). Or, if there is no author, then your in-text citation would be ("short title" year, page number), and all material cited should be included at the end under "Works Cited." WSQ does NOT use reference lists.

DO NOT use the "footnote" function in Word to create endnotes, but type them as regular text at the end of your manuscript. Use bracketed numbers (for example <2> would indicate reference number 2 in text ). At the end of the manuscript, type out your notes using simple numbers with periods-for example, 2. for note number 2. Endnotes should be reserved for substantive commentary rather than used for citation.

DO NOT cite page references as footnotes. Also, DO NOT include bibliographic information in notes.

You, the author, are responsible for submitting your piece in accordance with this method of citation. Examples for how you should submit works cited follow:

Folbre, Nancy. 2001. The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values. New York: The New Press.

Gibson, Katherine, Lisa Law, and Deirdre McKay. 2001. "Beyond Heroes and Victims: Filipina Contract Migrants, Economic Activism, and Class Transformation." International Feminist Journal of Politics 3(3):365-85.

[Note: There should be no space between issue, volume, and page number]

Salamon, Julie. 2003. "Professor's Rebellion: Teaching Western Books in Iran, and in U.S., Too." New York Times, March 24, E3.

Spivak, Gayatri. C. 1988. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. C. Nelson. A. L. Grossberg. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

United Nations. 1994. Final Report of the United Nations Commission of Experts. http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/comexpert/ANX/VI-01.htm#I.C.

IMAGES, TABLES, AND GRAPHS
If figures or images are to be included, the author should clearly mark the place of insertion in the text, and attach all visual materials separately, labeled accordingly. Images should be at least 300 dpi (high-resolution) with a width of 4.25 inches in order to be printed clearly in the journal. All images must be in black and white. Captions should be listed on a separate sheet and included at the time of submission. Images and captions must accompany final manuscript. When counting the length of your manuscript, each image or figure should be an estimated half a page.

PERMISSIONS AND FAIR USE
You are responsible for obtaining permission to use any quoted material that appears in your submission that exceeds fair use standards. Please check with your editor at the Press if you have any questions about fair use.

Permission to reprint copyrighted poems or lyrics that exceed two lines in length must be secured by the author. WSQ staff urges you, the contributor, to begin this typically drawn-out process immediately upon acceptance of your piece for publication.

COPYEDITING
Your manuscript will be copyedited after you submit your final version. The copyediting will be forwarded to you for your review with instructions from your editor.

BOARD MEMBERS

GENERAL EDITORS
Victoria Pitts-Taylor Talia Schaffer	Associate Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Associate Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
EDITORIAL BOARD
Meena Alexander Emily Apter Rachel M. Brownstein Shirley Carrie Sarah Chinn Patricia Clough Alyson Cole Nicole Cooley Paisley Currah Robin Rogers-Dillon Hester Eisenstein Shelly Eversley Sujatha Fernandes Sharon Marcus Licia Fiol-Matta Elaine Freedgood Edvige Giunta Terri Gordon Dagmar Herzog Anne Humpherys Grace Mitchell Karmen MacKendrick Lisa Jean Moore Cheryl Mwaria Premilla Nadasen Lorie Novak Jackie Orr Kathleen Ossip Rupal Oza Joe Rollins Caroline Rupprecht Haydee Salmun Mira Schor Ida Susser Aoibheann Sweeney Karen Winkle	The Graduate Center, City University of New York New York University Brooklyn College, City University of New York Queens College, City University of New York Hunter College, City University of New York The Graduate Center, City University of New York Queens College, City University of New York Queens College, City University of New York Brooklyn College, City University of New York Queens College, City University of New York The Graduate Center, City University of New York Baruch College, City University of New York Queens College, City University of New York Columbia University Lehman College, City University of New York New York University New Jersey City University The New School The Graduate Center, City University of New York The Graduate Center, City University of New York College of Staten Island, City University of New York Le Moyne College State University of New York, Purchase Hofstra University Queens College, City University of New York New York University Syracuse University The New School, New York Hunter College, City University of New York Queens College City University of New York Queens College, City University of New York Hunter College, City University of New York Parsons The New School For Design The Graduate Center, City University of New York The Graduate Center, City University of New York Barnard College
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Diane Hope Nancy Porter Janet Zandy	Rochester Institute of Technology Portland State University Rochester Institute of Technology

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