Forwarded for info.Relates a proposed special issue of Hypatia 
(http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/ )...
well wishes,
Kate

========

Call For Papers:

For a Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities

Edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry

The recent publication of The Transgender Studies Reader (ed. Susan Stryker and 
Stephen Whittle, New York: Routledge, 2006) marks a watershed in the development 
of trans studies. Arising in the early nineties in close relation to queer 
theory, trans studies is characterized by the coming-to-voice of trans people, 
long the theorized and researched objects of sexology, psychiatry, 
psychoanalysis, and even feminist theory.

Sandy Stone’s groundbreaking “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual 
Manifesto” sought the end of monolithic accounts of trans people (authored by 
non-trans) to reveal a multiplicity of trans narratives told by trans people 
themselves. By recognizing trans people as flesh and blood human beings with 
particular access to experiences of “transness” and transphobic oppression, as 
its starting point, trans studies opens up a way of theorizing 
“transgender”--for trans and non-trans people alike--that ideally resists, 
rather than reinforces, mechanisms of transphobia. This raises important 
questions in feminist theory and politics. How can feminist theory best 
understand transphobia and trans resistance? Where do feminist and trans 
politics meet? Where are the overlaps and gaps, the points of connection and 
disconnection?

Hypatia invites submissions to a special issue on transgender studies and 
feminism, which recognizes the emergence of trans studies.

We welcome articles that investigate the relations between feminism and 
transgender studies. Articles exploring the intersections of multiple 
oppressions are especially welcome, as are submissions that come from 
subject-positions outside the United States (and North America more generally). 
We seek a collection of papers that is international in scope.

We also welcome articles that focus on issues specific to trans studies, trans 
politics, and trans people. This includes (but is hardly limited to) the 
following: medical regulations of trans bodies; transphobic violence; 
transphobia in housing, employment, education, medical treatment, and the like; 
sexual violence against trans people; critiques and concerns about various views 
within trans studies or politics, tensions between queer theory and trans studies.

Submissions need not be limited to the discipline of philosophy; we encourage 
interdisciplinary submissions. Regardless of disciplinary orientation, all 
submissions need to be theoretically sophisticated. Submissions that show a 
sensitivity to the interrelations among theory, politics, and real impacts upon 
flesh and blood human beings are especially welcome.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, prepared for anonymous review, and 
accompanied by an abstract of no more than 75 words. Please provide a cover 
letter identifying your paper as a submission for the special issue “Transgender 
Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities.”

The deadline for submissions is 15 April, 2008. Papers should be submitted by 
electronic attachment in Word to Talia Bettcher at [log in to unmask] 
Submissions should follow Hypatia guidelines (see http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/). 
Please address all correspondence, questions and suggestions to Talia Bettcher 
or Ann Garry at [log in to unmask]

We look forward to hearing from you.