[ecrea] Australian Feminist Studies - call for papers

>Call for papers
>
>THE CHILD
>
>The last few years have seen an extraordinary interest in the 
>conditions of childhood, both present and past. As well as official 
>inquiries and regular expressions of crisis in the provision of 
>services for children the discursive figure of 'the child' plays a 
>part across many areas of public debate. At the same time feminist 
>commentators are observing that a social policy shift to concern 
>with the child displaces previous concern with women. Ideas about 
>and practises regarding children are not, of course, bounded by 
>national borders as trans-national child adoption, to take but one 
>example, demonstrates. The 
><http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm>Convention on the 
>Rights of the Child similarly takes a view of children and their 
>rights beyond national boundaries.
>
>Contributions are invited for a special issue of Australian Feminist 
>Studies that will focus on 'the child'. Papers that attend to the 
>gender, class, sexual, national and/or raced dimensions of real and 
>imagined children, contemporary and historical, and those that 
>engage with feminist theories, from disciplinary or 
>interdisciplinary perspectives, are particularly welcome.
>
>Papers might address issues such as the cultural and political 
>meanings of representations of 'the child'; the effects of attempts 
>to govern and regulate the lives of children; the deployment of 
>'children's rights'; and visions of, or examples of, citizenship - 
>economic, social, cultural, sexual - for children.
>
>Papers between 4000 and 8000 words in length are welcomed.
>
>  Deadline 15 May 2007
>For more information contact the guest editor, Assoc Prof Barbara 
>Baird, Women's Studies, Flinders University of SA. Ph 08 8201 2331 
>(+61 8) 8210 2331. 
><mailto:(Barbara.baird /at/ flinders.edu.au)>(Barbara.baird /at/ flinders.edu.au)
>
>For details about how to submit an article to Australian Feminist 
>Studies see the website: 
><http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08164649.asp>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08164649.asp
>NB The journal has just changed its referencing to the Chicago 
>style. Information about submitting an article on the back page of 
>the most recent issue of the journal.
>--

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