....I wanted to do was ask you to circulate the following call for papers
to CSE, if that's possible. Thanks.
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>SPECIAL ISSUE of SCIENCE & SOCIETY on MARXIST-FEMINIST THOUGHT TODAY
>Editors: Martha Gimenez and Lise Vogel
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>As capitalism strengthens its worldwide domination, the resulting burdens
>fall increasingly on those in the poorest sectors of the rural and urban
>populations and of the masses displaced by armed conflicts and natural
>disasters. Growing numbers of men find themselves downsized, unemployed,
>in prison, or forced to migrate. Regardless of marital status, income
>level, or prior occupational experience, women are increasingly in charge
>of supporting themselves, their families, and future generations. The
>proportion of households that are female-headed has been moving up since
>the 1970s, particularly in areas of the world affected by neoliberal
>economic policies. While spared from the devastation inflicted in the
>third world, the developed countries have seen similar increases in
>female-headed households. In the U.S., for example, households composed of
>married couples with children are only 24 percent of all households. In
>short, women workers, peasants, and migrants not only increasingly bear all
>responsibility for economic provision, care of household members, and the
>never-ending tasks of daily life, they also make up the majority of the
>world's working classes.
>
>How can we understand the contradictions and possibilities of these
>shifts? It has become commonplace for progressives to argue that in our
>presumably post-capitalist times Marx's work no longer pertains. For
>feminists, the rejection of Marxism builds on the outcomes of a 1970s
>discussion of the relation of Marxism and feminism. Although most
>feminists concluded Marxism to be irrelevant, a large minority retained a
>certain interest in Marxist analysis by adopting "dual systems" theories,
>which represent women as shackled to both patriarchy and capitalism. And a
>handful of scholars, male as well as female, have persisted in a commitment
>to finding ways to make Marxism feminist and feminism Marxist.
>
>Readers of SCIENCE & SOCIETY are not likely, of course, to have given up on
>Marxism. But they may not be aware of the past three decades' extensive
>Marxist-feminist discussions, much less of current trends in
>Marxist-feminist thought and analysis. It is time for all of us to
>reappraise Marx's work, the Marxist heritage, and Marxist-feminist theory
>in an effort to understand, in all their complexity, the manifold ways in
>which capitalism affects the lives of women and men everywhere.
>
>To this end, SCIENCE & SOCIETY is planning a special issue on
>"Marxist-Feminist Thought Today." We encourage prospective authors to
>explore both concrete issues, amenable to the use of empirical research
>findings, and theoretical questions having to do with poststructuralist,
>postmodern and postfeminist challenges to Marxism and to
>Marxist-feminism. Possible topics could include: unionization among women
>workers; the relationship between changes in men's opportunity structures
>and women's rising levels of labor force participation and economic
>responsibility; the effects of recent welfare reforms; the decline of the
>male-breadwinner family unit; rethinking race, gender, and identity
>politics; Marxist-feminism, materialist-feminism, and other puzzles; Black
>feminism and Marxist-feminist thought; etc. In all cases, we ask authors
>to explain how they view their framework to be Marxist as well as
>feminist. We especially welcome manuscripts and proposals from younger
>scholars.
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>The coordinating editors for the issue are Editorial Board member Lise
>Vogel (Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648;
>[log in to unmask]; 718-499-4952) and Guest Editor Martha E. Gimenez
>(Department of Sociology, Campus Box 327, University of Colorado at
>Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309; [log in to unmask]). Copies of proposals,
>abstracts, manuscripts, and other correspondence should go to both Vogel
>and Gimenez. The deadline for manuscripts is September 2002 and the issue
>is projected for publication in 2003.
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>________________________________________
>Lise Vogel
>355 Fourteenth Street
>Brooklyn, NY 11215
>718/499-4952
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>"It bothers me when young people don't think they can
>change the world. I've always thought that is what
>being young is about."
> --Anne Braden, age 75, activist and journalist
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