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CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Bioethics: at the centre, on the margins Jackie Leach Scully, Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Petya Fitzpatrick (eds) Abstract deadline: !5 January 2005 Twelve years after the founding of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, and 6 years after the groundbreaking publication of Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (Donchin & Purdy 1998) it seems like a good time to take a look at where feminist bioethics finds itself. Some things have changed. In recent years, bioethics as a discipline has become more interested in ³other ways of doing bioethics², and feminist approaches (even if sometimes not acknowledged as such) are more accepted as offering legitimate ethical perspectives and analyses. Meanwhile, groups marginalised for reasons other than gender ethnicity, sexual identity or identification, religious affiliation, disability, nationality, poverty, ³race² are also seeking to bring their voices to the heart of bioethical debate. Following the 5th FAB Congress in Sydney, Australia in November, we invite contributions to a planned collection with this theme. We particularly invite those who presented at FAB in Sydney, or members of FAB who were unable to attend, to submit papers, but will be happy to consider other suitable contributions. Papers can have a theoretical, methodological or empirical focus. Topics addressed might include: - How are feminist contributions framed within mainstream debates? - What happens to feminist bioethics¹ critical edge as it moves towards the centre of bioethical discourse? - Where do those of us engaged in these debates/really want to be in relation to the centre? - Does feminist bioethics have anything to exchange with those on the social or ideological margins? - Can feminist bioethics provide theoretical or methodological means to overcome the exclusion of marginal voices from the central bioethical discourses? - If so, does that compromise its identity as a feminist discipline? How well do feminist approaches deal with these intersecting vulnerabilities? If you have a complete or almost-complete paper, please send it in. Otherwise, we ask for a short abstract (max 250 words) by 15 JANUARY 2005. All contributions will be considered and we will get back to you with a decision by 31 January 2005. Full length papers (max 6000 words) will then be due by 31 March 2005. Abstracts/full papers should be sent to [log in to unmask] by 15 January 2005. Please remove any auto formatting in the file before submission. ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.