Call for
Manuscripts
Girls in the World: A Global
Anthology
Edited
by Jennifer Hillman Helgren and Colleen A.
Vasconcellos
Abstract
Deadline: February 28, 2006
We
invite proposals for manuscripts to be included in a collection of essays on the
history of girlhood in international and transnational contexts. The
purpose is to understand the centrality of girlhood in shaping women’s lives and
to study through a comparative framework how age and gender, along with a
multitude of other identities, mold and influence women’s experiences.
Essays will contribute to developing cross-national
perspectives and methodologies in the history of gender, children, and
youth. Moreover, we feel that given current trends toward globalization,
it is imperative that scholars address ordinary individuals’ relationships to
war, migration, economic markets, and institutions. Girlhood is defined
broadly, and we welcome analysis of the category of girlhood itself.
Manuscripts examining girls’ experiences in Africa, Latin America, Australia,
and Canada are especially welcome.
While essays may cover a range of topics, regions, and
time periods, we are interested in research that addresses one or more of the
following questions:
-
How have international developments, such as
migrations, wars, globalization, labor, economic markets, and international
diplomacy, influenced girls’ lives, cultures and/or identities? -
What have been girls’ roles in creating communities and
shaping cultures internationally, nationally, and locally? -
To what extent have girls operated as global actors and
agents? -
What roles have girls played, both symbolically and
actively, in global political arenas? -
When are girls’ cultures subcultures of dominant
national cultures and when do they cross (and even challenge) national
boundaries? -
How have girls’ cultures been constituted through their
responses to cultural, institutional, and familial expectations? -
How do girls’ educational, health, legal rights,
material culture, and play vary across time and place? - How do images of and for girls in literature, art, and
photography vary across time and place?
Individual manuscript proposals should
include :
*a 250-word abstract and title
*author contact information
*your curriculum vitae
Please note how your work will contribute to
cross-national perspectives
The
submission deadline is February 28, 2006. Please email your proposals
directly to Jennifer Helgren at jennifer.helgren@cgu.edu and Colleen Vasconcellos at colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu.
Completed manuscripts will be due in the summer of
2006. If you have any questions or comments, please contact either
editor:
Dr.
Helgren
P:
(510) 521-8790
Dr.
Vasconcellos
P: (678) 839-6032
Dr. Jennifer Hillman
Helgren
Ph.D. Claremont, currently a lecturer in Women’s Studies at San
Francisco
State University and in History at California State University East
Bay
Dr. Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Ph.D. Florida International
University, currently a Visiting Assistant
Professor of History at the
University of West Georgia
We are also both members of the Society for
the History of Children and
Youth, and the volume will definitely be
affiliated with this organization
as well.
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