[Discussion] The Journal of Women's History: special issue on domestic violence

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*The Journal of Women's History*

	

	

	

	

The Journal of Women's History is soliciting articles for a special
issue on domestic violence, guest edited by Megan McLaughlin and
Elizabeth Pleck. We seek manuscripts from the broadest possible
chronological, geographical, and methodological range, and from
individuals residing around the world. For the purposes of this issue,
domestic violence is very broadly defined to mean emotional, physical,
and sexual violence occurring within the household, including (but not
limited to) female infanticide, servant abuse, marital rape, etc. The
editors are especially interested in:

    * the relationship of domestic violence to notions of shame and honor
    * the relationship of domestic violence to public and private space
    * changing attributions of the causes of domestic violence
    * changing representations of domestic violence in popular culture,
      in law and religion, in media of any type
    * changing definitions of the boundary between acceptable and
      illegitimate domestic violence
    * the relationship of domestic violence to discourses of power and
      difference
    * community regulation of domestic violence
    * changing understandings of woman as "victim."

The deadline for submissions is *December 1, 2005*. Please send four
one-sided, double-spaced copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000
words, including endnotes and figures) to Journal of Women's History at
the address below. Mark the envelope "Attention: Megan McLaughlin and
Elizabeth Pleck." For more details on our submission policy see our
website.

	Journal of Women's History
c/o Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
309 Gregory Hall, MC-466
810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
U.S.A.
Email: megmclau@uiuc.edu and epleck@uiuc.edu
<mailto:megmclau@uiuc.edu%20and%20epleck@uiuc.edu>
Visit the website at
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/guidelines.html