[ecrea] Call for Papers -- Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader

*Call for Papers

Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader*

While information needs and behavior have become a central research 
concern in library and information studies, the particularities of 
gender and sexuality have yet to be centered in the field. Bringing 
queer and feminist theories into conversation with current LIS research, 
Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader addresses this gap, gathering 
existing research along with new scholarship on the intersection of 
gender and sexuality and information use. Contributors address a range 
of concerns, including paradigms of information needs and behavior 
research, methodological challenges, and current approaches to assessing 
and meeting LGBTQ and women's information needs. Responding to emergent 
critiques of positivism and behaviorism in LIS scholarship, this 
collection also seeks to trouble what we think we mean when we talk 
about gender and sex, as well as "information" and "behavior," as 
settled, stable constructs.

*Critical and Interdisciplinary Focus*

Current work in disciplines as diverse as legal theory, literary 
criticism, design, anthropology, and technology studies exercise a 
profound impact on LIS research. At the same time, the somewhat nebulous 
sub-disciplines within our field, such as information seeking behavior, 
information structures, archival studies, museology, information 
retrieval, and information policy, have been connected by researchers in 
new and innovative ways. LIS scholarship has also sought in recent years 
to challenge traditional approaches and suggest new directions for 
research into the purposes, practices, phenomenon, and organization of 
information. This reader serves as a comprehensive multidisciplinary 
anthology where different epistemologies and methodologies meet. It 
offers a timely and reasoned contribution to feminist and queer LIS 
research and promotes perspectives that can serve the cause of social 
justice.

*Possible topics*

Manuscripts can cover a range of topics, both professional and 
theoretical. The editors strongly encourage submissions concerning the 
intersection of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, religion, and 
socio-economics. Possible topics include but are not limited to the 
following: cataloging and classification, assessing user needs, 
information behavior, alternative social science methods, records 
management, preservation, documentation, oral history, collection 
development, curatorship, digital libraries and archives, Internet 
studies, human-computer interaction, sexual health, sex positive 
perspectives, activist or oppositional new media, informatics, queer or 
feminist zines, web design and digital aesthetics, computer coding, 
digital humanities, censorship and intellectual freedom, information 
technology policy, children and young adult services, international and 
comparative LIS issues, grant writing, administration and management, 
and history of the book and publishing.

*Submission Guidelines*

The editors encourage practitioners, activists, and both established and 
emerging scholars to submit manuscripts by September 1, 2011. 
Manuscripts should rage from 5,000-8,000 words and use the Chicago 
Manual of Style (Chicago University Press, 2010). Manuscripts should be 
submitted electronically in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) to 
(pkeilty /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(pkeilty /at/ gmail.com)>.

*About the editors*

Rebecca Dean is a PhD candidate in Information Studies and Patrick 
Keilty, PhD, is Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies, 
University of California, Los Angeles.

*Contact*

UCLA Department of Information Studies
GSE&IS Building, Box 951520
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
Phone: (310) 825-8799 <tel:%28310%29%20825-8799>

Dean's email: becdean[at]gmail[dot]com
Keilty's email: pkeilty[at]gmail[dot]com

http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/fliers/gender_reader.pdf