Feminist Law Professors

From the FLP mailbox:

Call for Papers Announcement

AALS Section on Women in Legal Education

“Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation”

 2013 AALS Annual Meeting

January 4-7, 2013

New Orleans, Louisiana

The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, with paper presentations on the topic of Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation.  We have the below committed moderator and speakers, and are seeking paper submissions to fill the fifth speaker slot.  The papers will be published as a Symposium in the Iowa Journal of Gender, Race & Justice.

Moderator: Professor Cheryl Wade

Protection for Children in Club Sports (Professor Ellen Bublick)

Theories to Holding Insurance Companies Liable for Third Party Exploitation (Dean Jay Mootz)

Employer Liability for Family Responsibilities Discrimination    (Professor Joan Williams)

Finding Institutional Tort Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation        (Professor Deleso A. Alford)

Submissions should be of scholarship relating to the topic of Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation, but they can be on any dimension or strand of the general topic.  There is a maximum 25,000 word limit (inclusive of footnotes) for the submission. People submitting papers for consideration must be willing to have the paper published as part of the symposium, if the author is selected as the fifth speaker for the panel. Each professor may submit only one paper for consideration.

Papers will be reviewed anonymously. The manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information. The manuscript itself, including title page and footnotes, must not contain any references that identify the author or the author’s school. The submitting author is responsible for taking any steps necessary to redact self-identifying text or footnotes.

To be considered, papers must be submitted electronically to Professor Kirsten Davis, Stetson University College  of Law, kkdavis@law.stetson.edu.  The deadline for submission is Wednesday, August 1, 2012. The author of the selected paper will be notified by October 1, 2012.  The Call for Paper participant will be responsible for paying his or her own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.

Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. Foreign, visiting (and not full-time on a different faculty), and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.

Papers will be selected after review by an ad hoc committee composed of Section Executive Committee members.

Any inquiries about the Call for Papers should be submitted to:  Professor Kirsten Davis, Stetson University College of Law, kkdavis@law.stetson.edu , or 727-562-7877.

-Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP:

Feminists Interrogate States of Emergency

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of FeministFormations, 2013, 25(2)

This special issue will take up the concept of “states of emergency” as an object of feminist analysis.  We seek essays that will interrogate the ways in which a “state of emergency,” whether it be about economic scarcity, morality under siege, sexual violence or national security, is politically constructed and (re)produced through myriad technologies of power.  How do political actors define a moment as a state of emergency in order to mobilize publics, re-define citizenship, or deploy political machinery?  At the same time, we invite scholarship that names states of emergency made invisible by existing public discourse. In addition to essays that analyze the role and power of difference in framing narratives of emergency, we invite papers that question what can “count” as a state of emergency.  For example, how can the racialized, sexualized and gendered exigencies of the everyday be seen as constitutive of affected “states”? How are so-called “natural disasters” of environmental calamity or contamination dependent on variable distinctions between “natural” and “unnatural”?

We seek papers that interrogate “states of emergency” in relation to gender, sexuality and race on topics such as war, institutions, law, literature, popular culture, “natural disasters,” state and intimate violence, citizenship, immigration, environment, population, health, and economic instabilities.  We welcome contributions with U.S., global and transnational foci.

The special issue will focus on the following themes and questions but is not restricted to them:

*  How are “states of emergency” produced, claimed and deployed?  What are the institutional (e.g., government, media, religion) and/or informal (e.g., local networks) mechanisms that create /construct or facilitate a “state of emergency”?

*  How and why are certain events framed as “natural disasters”?  Why are certain experiences with environmental disasters represented as “natural” and what division between “nature” and “human” is required?  How do the global and transnational operate within these constructs of “natural” and in locating disaster?

*  What does it mean to approach disaster relief from an intersectional perspective?  What lessons have we learned frompost-disaster relief efforts in the United States, such as after Hurricane Katrina and 9/11?  How do such efforts operate at an international level, as with the UN in the post-Rwandan genocide projects?

*  How are discourses about environmental states of emergency (such as with populations, environmental contamination and global warming) deployed and informed by understandings of gender, race and sexuality and other naturalized categorizes such as “health” and “safety”?

*  How have the issues of immigration and economic recession been crafted as “states of emergency” in the United States and/or in other countries?  What political projects have they served?  What counts as a “state of emergency?”

*  How does the state produce narratives about states of emergency—stranger abduction, morality under siege, economic scarcity or debt, sexual violence—in ways that are shaped by gendered, sexualized and racialized discourse?

*  How do feminist understandings of affective “states” alter the framework of “states of emergency”?  What cultural or emotional terrains do we traverse when we include such understandings of “states of emergency?”

*  How do representations—fiction, memoir, film, art, television, online sites—address states of emergency? How can representations reinforce or resist dominant narratives about women/subjects in crisis?

Manuscripts will be subject to blind review and must adhere to the publishing guidelines of the Feminist Formations journal, found here.

Please contact any one of the co-editors with questions:

Jill Bystydzienski, The Ohio State University bystydzienski.1@osu.edu<mailto:bystydzienski.1@osu.edu>

Jennifer Suchland, The Ohio State University suchland.15@osu.edu<mailto:suchland.15@osu.edu>

Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St. Louis rwanzo@wustl.edu<mailto:rwanzo@wustl.edu>

Submission Process:  Fullpapers should be sent to Jill Bystydzienski by August 1, 2012.

-Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP:

Special Issue on New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies
August 15, 2013 submission deadline

Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations, and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.

Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist
philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:

• -Disability and Phenomenology
• -Disability and epistemologies of ignorance
• -Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality
• -Disability, national identity, and nationalism
• -Disability and/as “assemblage”
• -Disability and the question of “the animal”
• -Disability and posthumanism
• -Disability, ethics, and politics
• -Disability and globalization
• -Access, accommodation, quality of life
• -Bodies and borders
• -Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness
• -Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology
• -Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
• -The relationship between impairment and disability identity
• -Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure
• -Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex
• -Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of understandings of time and space
• -Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
• -Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature
• -Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic, environmental, social, and political justice
• -The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability
• -Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia’s submission guidelines here.

Please submit your paper to manuscript central (Wiley-Blackwell) website here.

When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.

-Bridget Crawford