[Discussion] UPDATE: Feminist Aging (1/15/05; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Book reviews, film reviews, and cover art are also being solicited.
Original CFP below.

National Women's Studies Association Journal (NWSA Journal)
Special Issue on Aging, Ageism, and Old Age, Spring 2006

Feminist theorists of old age, such as Baba Copper, Barbara Macdonald,
Cynthia Rich, and Margaret Cruikshank, have charged that women's studies
and the feminist movement have, in large part, ignored the issue of
aging. In a field in which so many other aspects of body-based identity
are recognized, debated, de- and re-constructed, and challenged, the
subject of old age remains relatively unexamined and untheorized -
nearly taboo.

Editors are looking for papers that address a range of questions,
including (but not limited to), the following. What is stopping women's
studies scholars from realizing age as another category of Othering? How
can scholars address this topic in their writing? How might
intergenerational dialogues reduce ageism? What are useful ways of
bringing issues of aging into the classroom? Old, older, aging, aged,
chronologically gifted, mature, ripened, advanced, senior, gray, golden,
retiree, elder, wise one, fogy, crone, geezer: how does our vocabulary
interact with and inform our constructions of aging identity? How do
constructions of old age affect politics and public policy? Does age
interact with gender and sex? How do social constructions of age differ
from scientific ones? How much does old age have in common with other
identity categories, and how is it different? How does age intersect
with other embodied or social categories? NWSA Journal welcomes feminist
analyses and theorizations of visual, sociological, philosophical,
linguistic, scientific, historical, economic, psychological, biological,
activist, literary, and other representations of old age.

Journal information and submission guidelines available at
www.nwsaj.engl.iastate.edu. Send completed articles by January 15, 2005,
to Leni Marshall via email (mars0264@umn.edu) or surface mail
(Department of English, University of Minnesota, 207 Lind Hall, 207
Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455).


Leni Marshall
Department of English
University of Minnesota
207 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
mars0264@umn.edu



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