[Discussion] CFP: Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies (no deadline noted; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

The Association of Middle East Women=92s Studies announces a new journal,
JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women=92s Studies). JMEWS seeks to advance
the fields of Middle East Women=92s Studies, gender studies, and Middle
East Studies through interdisciplinary contributions in the social
sciences and humanities. Located at the cutting edge of the new
scholarship in Middle East Women=92s Studies, JMEWS encourages research
using innovative theoretical, epistemological, and methodological
approaches.

The journal reflects the explosion of knowledge being produced about
Middle Eastern women and gender over the past quarter century.  The
Middle East has seen a proliferation of women=92s studies programs and
research centers, where Middle Eastern scholars are producing rich and
critical studies informed by feminist theory and new analytical tools
such as oral histories, multi-sited ethnography, and collaborative
women-centered research. In North America and Europe, women=92s studies
programs are internationalizing their scholarship and methods, thereby
expanding and deepening knowledge about the Middle East through
interdisciplinary gender analysis and feminist insights, including the
critique of patriarchy and power relations.

We are currently planning our second and third issues, which will be
published in 2005.  We invite original scholarship, including research
informed by transnational feminist studies, cultural studies,
postcolonial studies in both the humanities and social sciences, science
and technology studies, masculinity studies, and emergent forms of
historiography and ethnography. We hope to publish work from multiple
disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, ranging from
macroeconomics to ethnomusicology; submissions in the humanities are
especially encouraged at this time. Scholars from disciplines outside
these domains, such as public health, social work, public policy,
architecture and urban planning, are also encouraged to submit work of
potential interest to JMEWS readers.  JMEWS will provide a forum in
which area-specific questions can be discussed and debated among authors
from the global North and South, through peer-reviewed scholarly
articles, book and film reviews, and other forms of brief communication.

The editors are Marcia C. Inhorn, Director of the Center for Middle
Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, and
Mary N. Layoun, Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of
Wisconsin. For submission guidelines or any other information, please
write visit http://iupjournals.org/jmews/



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