Call for Submissions: Feminism in Action - December 31, 2024
Feminism in Action:
Creativity, Critique, Sisterhood/Solidarity:
Learning, Legacy and Vision
Due Date for first draft submission and consideration Dec 31, 2024
This special double issue of Canadian Woman Studies’ (CWS/cf) will focus on feminist theory and practice locally, nationally and internationally through reflection on movement progress and problems over time and the visionary movement-building and social change needed now and into the future.
Contributions are welcome from all political generations, perspectives and communities on current feminist practice, debate, challenges and triumphs as well as the historical trajectory of the women’s movement and possibilities for the future in all issue areas.
In the 1960s and 70s, the Second Wave of the women’s movement emerged in a period of enormous social contestation and possibility. Peace movements, anti-nuclear movements, national liberation and civil rights struggles offered hope of a better world to come. Inspired by struggles for peace and liberation that did not include their own emancipation or recognition, women in these movements and in workplaces, neighbourhoods and homes in all communities organized around the world to find their varying voices and priorities and collectively affirm their values and their own worth, and to change the world! Canadian Woman Studies (CWS/cf) was born into that exhilarating period of radical struggle and progressive change.
Since 1971 the journal has reflected women’s issues and supported feminist struggles and achievements. In the last few decades this has been in the face of deepening crises and rising backlash. Currently we are facing unprecedented and deepening inequality; unchecked climate chaos; intensifying plunder of Indigenous and common lands; growing economic, religious and ethnic fundamentalisms, racism and misogyny; the spread of autocracy and war, even genocide; and resulting social disintegration, population displacement and vulnerability (See past journal issues https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/issue/archive .)
Today, we can more clearly recognize the patriarchal neo-liberal negation of all of life that is shaping these changes and is at the core of gender, class and race oppression. It is clearer as well, that feminist and maternal Indigenous life-affirming values are essential in all these struggles to resist and transform this deadly system.
Canadian Woman Studies (CWS/cf) is one of the longest-lasting feminist journals in Canada today, acting as an important vehicle for social change and empowering feminist voices. With this issue we are recognizing the 44 year legacy of the journal and honouring the memory of late editor-in-chief Luciana Ricciutelli.
SUBMISSIONS
Research and reflections are invited on personal experience, collective initiatives, projects, events, crises and issues in local communities as well as national, regional and international contexts including government and non-government conferences, conflicts, campaigns, meetings and events.
Essays, research reports, analyses, interviews, reflections, true stories, historical and current documents and statements, alternative forms of narration, poetry, drawings, photographs and other art work are welcome.
Guidelines
Articles should be typed, double-spaced, and a maximum of 12 pages long (3000 words). A short (50 word) abstract of the article and a brief biographical note must accompany each submission. We give preference to previously unpublished material. If possible, please submit graphics or photographs to accompany your article. Please note CWS/cf reserves the right to edit manuscripts with respect to length and clarity, and in conformity with our house style.
Due date for first draft submisions and consideration is December 31st, 2024!!
E-MAIL OR CALL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO INDICATE YOUR INTEREST OR INTENTION TO SUBMIT
PLEASE INCLUDE ‘VISIONARY FEMINISM’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF E-MAILS
Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme
210 Founders, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
cwscf@yorku.ca; phone 1-416-736-5764
