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
Information on public transportation to UCLA:
http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/1004432
 
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Box 957222 / Public Policy 1400H
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
310-825-0590 € http://www.csw.ucla.edu