gender studies and sexuality

Call For Papers - Edited Collection
Down to "The Wire": Urban Decay and American Television

Edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
(University of British Columbia)

Call for Contributions to essay collection: Prescribing Gender in
Medicine and Narrative.

The collection, under contract with an academic press, investigates
gendered perceptions and representations of healers and patients in
fiction, popular literature, poetry, film, television, and visual art.
To round out the collection, we are seeking additional papers on the
following topics:

gender in non-western healing
men’s health issues
reproductive health
gender and healing in medieval culture/narrative
responses to gender in medicine in the visual arts

The deadline for submissions to UNCG's Graduate conference, Writing into
the Profession, has been extended to June 30th.

Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys:
Japanese Boys' Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World

Edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, & Dru Pagliassotti

This one-day conference invites papers from a range of disciplines,
reflecting the scope of contemporary feminist interest in spatial
configurations. The conference will address the issue of “how British
women writers represent space”, considering questions such as, how do
women writers construct literary space? What types of spaces/places are
represented in works by women? How are received notions of space/place
interpreted, accepted, or contested? How do we theorise the textual
spaces in women’s writing?

We welcome papers covering British women’s writing over a period ranging
from the mid-19th century to the present. Topics may include, but are not
limited to: