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> Call for Papers: Journal of International Women's
Studies-- Special
> Issue: Women's Bodies, Gender Analysis, and Feminist

Politics at the
> Fórum Social Mundial
>
> Please submit your contribution to the editors no

later than April
30,
> 2006 following the guidelines posted on the JIWS's

website at
> www.bridgew.edu/JIWS.
>
> Since its inauguration in 2001, the World Social

Forum (WSF) has
gained
> increasing importance as a venue for strengthening

alternatives to
the
> neoliberal agenda for globalization. The WSF has

been described as
both
> a process and an event, following an agreed upon set

of principles in
> its planning and convening in order to foster new

forms of
organization
> and movement building. Nevertheless, this is an

evolving, fluid
> phenomenon as the World Social Forums have given

rise to several
> regional, local and thematic social forums. Many

women and some
> feminists have participated in various ways in these

forums: as
> organizers, workshop presenters, participants and

malcontents.
>
> Along with AWID's triennial global conferences, the

WSF offers
women's
> organizations predictably scheduled opportunities to

network with
> activists from distant locales and other sectors.

However, the
> experiences of women working in this expansive and

sometimes
> overwhelming environment have been uneven and

contradictory, and the
> roles played by gender analysis and feminist

politics often
ambiguous.
>
> For this special issue of the Journal of

International Women's
Studies
> we are seeking contributions in a range of genres

from women who have
> direct experience with organizing or attending one

or more of the
World
> Social Forums or regional/local forums organized

under the auspices
and
> according to the principles of the Fórum Social

Mundial.
>
> Submissions might include theoretical or analytical

essays,
reflective
> narratives, activity reports or evaluations,

manifestos, press
releases,
> posters or other ephemera. JIWS's intention is to

collect materials
> documenting the range of experiences and activities

occurring under
> the tent of the WSF so that feminist practice within

the Social
Forums
> can gain in effectiveness. We also believe it is

important to begin
to
> archive this activism as it happens.
>
> With the tri-partite polycentric forums planned for

Caracas
(Venezuela),
> Bamako (Mali), and Karachi (Pakistan) in January

2006, the first U.S.
> Social Forum scheduled for Atlanta in 2007, the

Social Forum process
> is on the cusp of gaining new visibility in the US,

an arena that has
> been slow to recognize the importance of these

strategic events. It
> therefore, seems a precipitous juncture for

gathering our thoughts
and
> recollections about this evolving phenomenon.
>
> Please submit your contribution to the editors no

later than April
30,
> 2006 following the guidelines posted on the JIWS's

website at
> www.bridgew.edu/JIWS.
>
> From: Laura Roskos (roskos@???) Patricia

Willis
> (pwill06@???) Center for Women's Health

and Human Rights,
> Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA

02108
>
> The Journal of International Women's Studies is an

on-line,
> open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a

forum for
scholars,
> activists, and students to explore the relationship

between feminist
> theory and various forms of organizing. JIWS is

currently indexed
with
> the Library of Congress, the MLA International

Bibliography, The
> International Bibliography of Social Sciences,

Elsevier Bibliographic
> Databases, Ulrich's Periodicals, the Gale Group, and

at
> http://webster.bridgew.edu.
>


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