NEW JOURNAL: BOYHOOD STUDIES - CALL FOR PAPERS
February 2006 http://www.boyhoodstudies.com

We are writing as preparations for launching a new peer-reviewed
journal, BOYHOOD STUDIES, are being completed. This is, in effect, a
call for papers for the journal.

The journal will offer an interdisciplinary platform for the study of
boys' lives. The scholarly study of boys and boyhood has matured
considerably in recent years, most notably at the intersection of
masculinity studies and childhood/youth studies. The subject, politics
and cultures of "the boy" amount to large subdomains of gender and
life phase studies. However, the multiplexity of boys' lived
experiences seems to resist any disciplinary confinement. Hence we
welcome critical discussions ranging through the humanities,
anthropology, history, bioethics, and the psychological and social
sciences. The journal has an explicit international focus, and we
especially welcome contributions from outside the Euro-American field.

Our website was launched this month: http://www.boyhoodstudies.com.
The site reproduces this Call for Paper, and includes a more detailed
introduction to the field, a large "core bibliography" on
boys/boyhood, a list of 32 Editorial Board Members, as well as a key
to our journal's proposed primary title, THYMOS.

We hope you will be interested in contributing to the inaugural (or
later) issue with a text already completed or one "about to be born".
Proposals should include a working title, a brief prospectus or
abstract, academic or other formal affiliations, and full contact
details. Final manuscripts will have to be written in English.
Abstracts and proposals, and any inquiries, should be send to the
Managing Editor: [log in to unmask] (that's:
diederikjanssen[at]gmail[dot]com ).

Proposals and manuscripts received before May 1, 2006 will be
considered for the inaugural issue; those received later than that
will be considered for subsequent issues.

Please spread the word & apologies for cross-posting.

Cordially,

Miles Groth, PhD, General Editor (Wagner College, New York)
Diederik Janssen, MD, Managing Editor (Independent scholar, The Netherlands)