FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >Dear Colleague: > >Please find attached the Call for Papers for the upcoming special issue >of _Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society_ on Feminisms and >Youth Cultures. > >If you would like more information, please forward your mailing address >to me at: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and I will put you on our mailing >list. > > >Sincerely, >Gitana Garofalo >Program Assistant, SIGNS >_________________________________________________________________________ > >***PLEASE POST/ANNOUNCE*** > > >Call for Papers >SIGNS Special Issue: Feminisms and Youth Cultures > >What is the relationship between feminism and the popular culture >being produced and negotiated by youth in various national contexts? What >can we learn about the shifting meanings of feminism by examining youth >culture(s)? The virtual invisibility of the voices and concerns of >adolescents and young adults in academic and popular debates is striking >when contrasted with the hypervisibility of youth in transnational popular >cultural production (comics, zines, music videos, films). The lack of >attention given to challenges facing youth and the agency of young people, >whether or not they self-identify as feminists, is the impetus for this >special issue. An expansive discussion of youth culture would include an >examination of young people and their cultural productions from a wide >range of racial, ethnic, and national origins. Discussions of youth >culture could include but are not limited to those who occupy such >positions as immigrant, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered, >entrepreneurs/self-employed, impoverished, sex workers, religious >minority, physically challenged, and homeless. > >SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY seeks submissions for a >special issue on Feminisms and Youth Cultures slated for publication >in spring 1998. For the purpose of this special issue, "youth" indicates >persons ages thirteen to thirty, in contemporary or historical cultures. >The editors welcome submissions that are (1) based on independent or >collaborative research conducted by, about, and/or within youth >communities, and (2) textual analyses (widely defined) of popular culture >produced by youth. This special issue might include articles that address >such relevant youth-culture topics as the incorporation/reinscription/ >resistance of/to dominant ideologies and institutions; varying meanings >and functions of feminisms; expressions of consciousness inflected by >race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality, and religious training in >popular culture; strategies employed to transform traditional >organizations; issues of health/health care; and sexual autonomy and >sexuality. > >The special issue editors will include Professors France Winddance Twine >(University of Washington), Angela McRobbie (University of Loughborough, >UK), Kum-Kum Bhavnani (University of California at Santa Barbara) and >Kathryn R. Kent (Arizona State University). Please submit articles (five >copies) no later than January 31, 1997, to SIGNS, Feminisms and Youth >Cultures, Box 354345, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4345. >Please observe the guidelines in the "Notice to Contributors" printed in >the most recent issue of the journal. The call for papers is also >available in Spanish and French. > ************************************ Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************
