Call for Papers

UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces

Thinking Gender 2011
21st Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student  
research on women, gender and sexuality across all disciplines and  
historical periods.  We invite submissions for individual papers or  
pre-constituted panels. This year, we especially welcome papers  
addressing women, gender and sexuality in relation to:

· Food (sustainability, food justice, marketing, disordered eating,  
food preparation)
· Money (the economy, microfinance, entrepreneurship, consumerism, the  
global marketplace, business practices)
· The Academy (innovative research methodologies, human subjects,  
power relations, epistemologies, the Archive)
· Invented Pathologies (menopause, PMS, female sexual dysfunction, the  
medicalization of sex).

For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 words), a CV (2  
pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (3-5 sources).  For panels,  
please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to  
the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please  
see the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html 
.

Send submissions to: [log in to unmask]	

Deadline for Submissions: October 22, 2010, by midnight

Conference is Friday, February 11, 2011, at the UCLA Faculty Center.

Event is free and open to the public, but there will be a $25  
registration fee for presenters, to cover the cost of conference  
materials and lunch at the Faculty Center.

Parking is reserved at UCLA, Lot #2 for $10

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Box 957222 / Public Policy 1400H
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
http://www.csw.ucla.edu