Aspasia: new journal of women's/gender history

> Dear colleagues, I am very excited to send you the following announcement,
> which I hope you will circulate widely to all who might be interested:
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> Aspasia.
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> International Yearbook for Women's and Gender History of Central, Eastern
> and South Eastern Europe
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> We are pleased to introduce Aspasia, a refereed international yearbook for
> Women's and Gender History of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
> Aspasia will be published by Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, starting
> in 2006.
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> Its editors are Francisca de Haan (Central European University, Budapest),
> Maria Bucur (Indiana University) and Krassimira Daskalova (St. Kliment
> Ohridski University of Sofia). The editorial board consists of Gisela
> Bock, Elena Gapova, Jasmina Lukic, Natalia Pushkareva, Bonnie Smith,
> Natalie Zemon Davis and Anna Zarnowska.
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> Call for papers:
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> The first issue of Aspasia will be devoted to the theme of Women's
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> Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
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> While there is an increasing interest in this important topic, with some
> exceptions (e.g. Russia) relatively little has been published in English
> about the history of women's movements or feminisms in the region on the
> basis of primary research. Moreover, there is hardly any international
> comparative research on this topic, either within the region or between
> countries of our region and other places. Among the questions that we hope
> the authors will pursue are the following:
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> - Did feminism have a history of its own in Central, Eastern, and South
> Eastern Europe?
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> - What was the role of nationalism and of religion in inducing or
> hindering the development of women's movements?
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> - What was the relationship between feminism and socialism; feminism and
> anarchism; feminism and right-wing nationalism in the interwar period; and
> between feminism and liberalism in the context of the region?
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> - Within which political cultures did women's movements and /or feminisms
> develop? - What aspirations did feminists in the region have? What did
> their feminist utopias look like?
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> - What role did ethnic, class, and other differences among women play in
> women's activism?
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> - How important were international connections and forms of cooperation,
> either within the region (the Little Entente of Women) or broader (the
> ICW, IWSA/IAW, WILPF, international socialist women's networks, other
> international feminist networks)? Which factors made these forms of
> international cooperation possible or problematic?
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> - Were there significant similarities and or differences with women's
> movements and feminisms in other parts of the world?
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> - For the more recent periods we are also interested in historical
> analyses based on oral history material.
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> Articles using multi- and interdisciplinary approaches are most welcome,
> but they should have a historical dimension or use historical modes of
> analysis. We also look for articles dealing with contemporary/recent
> history. While submissions with a strong empirical focus would be welcome,
> we would look for articles written within an explicit theoretical
> framework and/or engaging with theoretical problems.
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> Length of manuscripts: 8000 words maximally, not including the endnotes.
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> For the Berghahn House Style Sheet American English please visit their
> website at www.berghahnbooks.com <http://www.berghahnbooks.com/> and then
> click on "info for authors". This is the direct link:
> www.berghahnbooks.com/index.php?pg=author_info
> <http://www.berghahnbooks.com/index.php?pg=author_info>
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> The deadline for submitting the articles is: April 15, 2005.
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> Please send your manuscript as a Word attachment to Francisca de Haan at
> dehaanf@ceu.hu.or Maria Bucur at mbucur@indiana.edu.