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Feminist Economics
Call for Papers
A SPECIAL ISSUE ON GENDER, China,
and the WORld Trade Organization
Guest Editors
Günseli Berik, Xiao-Yuan Dong, Gale Summerfield
Feminist Economics invites submissions of papers,
short discussions,
and book reviews for a special issue on "Gender,
China, and the World
Trade Organization" to be published in 2007. We
encourage scholars in all
disciplines to consider submitting abstracts for
papers on the gender
implications of China's entry into the WTO. The
deadline for submission
of abstracts is October 1, 2004. Late abstracts
submissions may be
considered at the discretion of the coeditors. If the
editors accept an
abstract, the completed manuscript will be due by
February 1, 2005.
China's accession to the WTO at the end of 2001 is
having far-reaching
effects on people and institutions in China and on the
country's
trading partners around the world. This special issue
seeks to identify the
gendered implications within China of the policy
changes ushered in by
this momentous event. An integral part of this
assessment will be to
develop an understanding of the pre-accession picture
by examining the
effects of two decades of economic reforms on the
well-being and agency of
Chinese women and men. These reforms have
fundamentally transformed the
organization of agricultural production and marketing,
increased
foreign direct investment, and brought tremendous
growth in manufacturing and
exports. At the same time, serious gender, class,
ethnic, and regional
disparities have also emerged. Many scholars believe
that entering the
WTO will exacerbate these inequalities. The changes
are likely to
create greater wealth for some, but poor women and men
who are unable to
move out of uncompetitive areas of agricultural
production and certain
occupations may be especially disadvantaged.
The special issue aims to examine the trends in
disparities in wages,
employment, self-employment, health, and education,
and women's legal
rights and agency within the context of these major
economic shifts. Of
special interest will be the likely socio-economic
impacts of China's
entry into the WTO on men and women in agriculture and
industry, on
regional disparities, and on the relationships between
the rural and urban
sectors. The accession generates new economic
opportunities and
challenges for women, and the effects of these changes
on women's relative
well-being, differentiated by ethnic identity, class,
and region, will also
be a central focus.
Possible topics include:
· Employment changes in township and village
enterprises (TVEs),
state-owned enterprises, joint ventures and
foreign-owned firms, and
labor-force shifts from agricultural to
nonagricultural work and from
formal to informal employment;
· International trade and special economic
zones;
· Household responsibility system, land rights,
and agricultural
labor;
· Rural-urban migration;
· Reproductive rights, One-Child Policy, and
the population sex
ratio;
· Health services and insurance, health
outcomes;
· Educational services and outcomes;
· Labor rights;
· Women's decision-making ability and status in
the household;
· Poverty and household inequality;
· Social policy.
Please direct queries and abstracts of proposed papers
to the guest
editors: Günseli Berik (berik@???),
Xiao-Yuan Dong
(x.dong@???), and Gale Summerfield
(summrfld@???
<
mailto:XXXX@XXXX.XXX> ).
Final papers (after approval of abstracts) should be
submitted to
Feminist Economics according to the procedures given
on the journal's
website at
www.feministeconomics.org
<
http://www.feministeconomics.org/> .
Please check for the most recent information since
submission procedures
are changing. Questions about these procedures may be
sent to the
editor, Diana Strassmann, at
feministeconomics@???, +1.713.348.4083
(phone), or +1.713.348.5495 (fax).
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