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Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 8:13 AM Subject: CFP: Women and the Politics of Water -- Call for Submissions: We invite critical and creative submissions from a global cross-section of women writers on the politics of water for a forthcoming special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFjP), published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis. Dr. Nandita Ghosh and Paola Corso will serve as guest editors for this special issue of IFjP. "The Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women's Voices" will combine testimonial accounts, critical essays, short fiction, and poetry on the physical nature of women's struggle over water as a resource and material reality. These struggles often place at risk women's bodies in national, racial, ethnic, and class conflicts. For example, a 2004 Consumers International report notes the following: Poor rural women in developing countries may spend eight hours a day collecting water, carrying up to 20 kilos of water on their heads each journey. One in 10 school-age girls in Africa do not attend school during menstruation or drop out at puberty because of the absence of clean and private sanitation facilities in schools. Every day 6,000 girls and boys die from diseases linked to unsafe water and women are the main caretakers for sick children and adults. A woman in a slum in Kenya pays at least five times more for one liter of water than a woman in the United States. Women activists opposing dam projects in India brave the rising waters in protest. As debates become more acrid in tone in the 21st Century over the role of water in our increasingly fragile environment, such concerns are sure to become more anxiety prone for rural women of the South who often manage water resources for their communities. This special issue is a response to such debates and concerns. All submissions must focus on gender thematics in any discussion concerning the politics of water, but the editors are open to work drawing from various disciplines including water resources social studies, women's studies, cultural studies, literary studies, environmental studies history, mythology, geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, biology, and others. Please see the journal's Notes for Contributors for further details concerning accompanying materials, format, and house style. All submissions must be written in English. Guidelines for critical essays: Essays should not exceed 3,000 words. Submissions should be sent as follows: Dr. Nandita Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Communications, Philosophy, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ 07940 nan_dita@excite.com, nghosh@fdu.edu Guidelines for short fiction, & poetry: Short fiction should not exceed 3000 words. Send 3-5 poems. Submissions should be sent as follows: Paola Corso, 133 8th Avenue #4E, Brooklyn, NY 11215. paola_corso@hotmail.com Guidelines for testimonial accounts: These should not exceed 3000 words. If these are creative in style and content then submit to Paola Corso. If, on the other hand, these are more critical or analytical, please submit to Nandita Ghosh. Nandita Ghosh Assistant Professor of English Department of English, Communication, Philosophy Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison, NJ 07940
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