[ecrea] CFP Gender — Contributions to an Effective Understanding of Changes, Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thematic issue

GENDER— CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN EFFECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF CHANGES

Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies (LJCL)
Nº 5
Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho
University of Aveiro
Portugal
http://estudosculturais.com/revistalusofona/index.php/rlec/index


Submission deadline:  February 16, 2015

Gender relations and the way they are experienced, represented and embodied in practices have undergone radical transformations over the past 20 years, a process whose meanings and social and cultural significance urges a more profound and effective understanding, particularly regarding the dynamics of power and control involved, and with the respect to Portuguese-speaking countries.
Against the backdrop of these reconfigurations and interests, the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, is now accepting submissions for number 5 to be published in July 2015. The journal invites the submission of papers that, from an inter- or trans-disciplinary logic, contribute to a critical discussion of issues related to gender, power, ideology, imagination, identity, subjectivity, discourse and representation in different political and socio-cultural contexts (e.g. media, advertising, film, music, photography, arts, literature, fashion, education, science, health, daily practices).
This fifth issue welcomes both essays and empirically grounded papers. Priority will be given to those papers addressing one of these sub-themes:

- Intersectionality (e.g. ethnicity, class, sexuality, generation, age, nationality, religion)
- Diaspora and transnational migration
- Maternity and choice
- Aging or ageism
- Leisure and idleness
- Invisibility and hyper visibility
- Hybridity and fragmentation of the postcolonial female subject
- Construction of the human-animal boundary
- Bodies, sexualities and desires
- Perfect body (in) perfect
- Human body transformations
- Space and spatiality
- Place, experiences of belonging and sense of community
- Work cultures
- Visual culture and performance
- Celebrities culture
- Normality and deviance
- Poetics and aesthetics of otherness
- Constructions of hierarchies
- Empowerment and control

All submitted papers are graded by two anonymous reviewers, and ranked for academic quality, originality, and relevance to the objectives and thematic scope of this issue.
Articles may be submitted in English or Portuguese until February 15, 2015, on the journal website, according to the following guidelines:
http://estudosculturais.com/revistalusofona/index.php/rlec/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions


Accepted languages:  Portuguese and English
Authors of accepted papers submitted in English must provide a translation to Portuguese by the deadline we inform below. Likewise, authors of accepted papers submitted in Portuguese, must provide an English version. The final decision to accept or reject for publication the revised manuscripts in English or Portuguese is made by the journals editors.


Submission deadline:  February 16, 2015
Notification of acceptance: April 6, 2015
Submission of revised manuscripts: April 30, 2015
Submission of revised manuscripts in English or Portuguese: May 25, 2015.


For further information, please write to:(saravmaia /at/ ua.pt)


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