Dr. Linda Roland Danil is guest-editing a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal entitled: ‘Law, the Body and Embodiment: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives’ for the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Volume 46(1) 2020. Abstracts are due on March 31, 2019. Here’s the info:
This special issue wishes to foreground the body and embodiment in relation to the law, from both contemporary and historical perspectives. In so doing, this CFP invites contributions that consider the following, but not exclusively: what is the relationship between law and the body, and law and embodiment? How does the law preclude, encourage, marginalize, or stratify particular kinds of embodiment, if at all – and how are particular kinds of embodiment gendered, sexed, classed and/or racialized? What role does culture play in relation to law and the body, and vice-versa? What are the embodied consequences of particular legal decisions, and vice-versa, how might modes of embodied resistance lead to legal change? What are the multiple and varied relationships between the body and the law, and their mutually constitutive, interdependent relationship? How autonomous can we truly be in relation to our bodies, before the law steps in? What effects can the law directly or indirectly cause on the body, and what are the embodied consequences of such decisions/omissions? What theoretical or methodological perspectives can enhance or enrich our understanding of the relationship between law and the body, and law and embodiment?
This CFP therefore invites contributions that relate, but by all means are not limited to:
Organ donation
Human bodily material
Prosthetics
Cosmetic surgery
Gender re-assignment
Human trafficking
Torture
Degenerative diseases
Offences Against the Person
Contact sports
Elective amputation
Corporal punishment
Articles of 8,000 to 10,000 words.
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: 31st of March 2019
Decision of acceptance: by 7 April 2019
Submission of full-length articles: 1st of June 2019
More details are here. For queries or the submission of abstracts, contact Dr. Linda Roland Danil at: lindarolandd@gmail.com
