[Discussion] CfP: Women's Studies Quarterly: The Global and the Intimate

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Call for papers for a special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly: The =
Global and the Intimate=20

In Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf responds to a letter from a man =
requesting money for the antiwar effort by writing that it "will be our =
ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions forget the =
private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget =
the public world.  Both houses will be ruined, the public and the =
private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably =
connected ."  The phenomenon of war, Woolf argues, is profoundly =
intertwined with the politics of the domestic sphere; and we fail to =
connect them at our peril.  To disrupt traditional hierarchies of space, =
to forge productive dislocations, to reconfigure conventions of scale: =
these are the goals that continue to underwrite feminist investigations =
of the relationship between the personal and the political, and the =
public and the private.  This issue of WSQ extends the feminist =
tradition by forging another such pairing for our time: the global and =
the intimate.

The domain of intimacy is that of the private sphere, of the interior, =
of mental life; of individuals and the bonds between them; of touching, =
feeling, and reacting; of the local, the idiosyncratic, and the =
personal. How do intimate structures inhere in the global, too often =
imagined as undifferentiated, impersonal and diffuse space?  How do we =
connect the intimate with the global, and what do such connections =
reveal about the ways in which we order our worlds?

Grand narratives of globalization have frequently adopted a =
gender-neutral (and implicitly masculine) stance, while women typically =
are represented as pure victims of globalization, either coerced to =
migrate or limited to the local scale, mired in their bodies and =
familial relations.  We seek to push past this dichotomy and, by doing =
so, to locate agency for women and to understand how deeply global =
forces penetrate the intimate spaces of our psyches and bodies.

We envision a vast range of topics fitting comfortably and provocatively =
under our rubric of the intimate and the global. To name but a few: the =
ways that the internet and surveillance technologies enter the privacy =
of our homes, the workings of micro-finance through household economic =
portfolios; postcolonial mixtures of the indigenous and the =
cosmopolitan; home design and decoration as postcolonial pedagogy; the =
global politics of memoir;
the intimacy of collaboration across transnational spaces.

We invite written and visual materials that span the global and the =
intimate, and suggest the creative ways that feminists approach =
relations of politics, economies and cultures. We encourage contributors =
to bridge  divides across material and symbolic spaces; the social =
sciences and humanities; academic disciplines; aesthetics and politics; =
theoretical and activist work; academic and policy discourses.

Please submit abstracts by June 15th, 2005 to guest editors Geraldine =
Pratt (gpratt@geog.ubc.ca) and Victoria Rosner (vpr@tamu.edu). Full =
papers will be due by August 15th, 2005.
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<DIV align=3Djustify><FONT face=3DSylfaen><STRONG>Call for papers for a =
special=20
issue of Women's Studies Quarterly: The Global and the Intimate=20
<BR></STRONG><BR>In Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf responds to a letter =
from a=20
man&nbsp;requesting money for the antiwar effort by writing that it =
"will be our=20
ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions forget the =
private=20
figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the =
public=20
world.&nbsp; Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the =

material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected ."&nbsp; =
The=20
phenomenon of war, Woolf argues, is profoundly intertwined with the =
politics of=20
the domestic sphere; and we fail to connect them at our peril.&nbsp; To =
disrupt=20
traditional hierarchies of space, to forge productive dislocations, to=20
reconfigure conventions of scale: these are the goals that continue to=20
underwrite feminist investigations of the relationship between the =
personal and=20
the political, and the public and the private.&nbsp; This issue of WSQ =
extends=20
the feminist tradition by forging another such pairing for our time: the =
global=20
and the intimate.<BR><BR>The domain of intimacy is that of the private =
sphere,=20
of the interior, of mental life; of individuals and the bonds between =
them; of=20
touching, feeling, and reacting; of the local, the idiosyncratic, and =
the=20
personal. How do intimate structures inhere in the global, too often =
imagined as=20
undifferentiated, impersonal and diffuse space?&nbsp; How do we connect =
the=20
intimate with the global, and what do such connections reveal about the =
ways in=20
which we order our worlds?<BR><BR>Grand narratives of globalization have =

frequently adopted a gender-neutral (and implicitly masculine) stance, =
while=20
women typically are represented as pure victims of globalization, either =
coerced=20
to migrate or limited to the local scale, mired in their bodies and =
familial=20
relations.&nbsp; We seek to push past this dichotomy and, by doing so, =
to locate=20
agency for women and to understand how deeply global forces penetrate =
the=20
intimate spaces of our psyches and bodies.<BR><BR>We envision a vast =
range of=20
topics fitting comfortably and provocatively under our rubric of the =
intimate=20
and the global.&nbsp;To name but a few: the ways that the internet and=20
surveillance technologies enter the privacy of our homes, the workings =
of=20
micro-finance through household economic portfolios; postcolonial =
mixtures of=20
the indigenous and the cosmopolitan; home design and decoration as =
postcolonial=20
pedagogy; the global politics of memoir;<BR>the intimacy of =
collaboration across=20
transnational spaces.<BR><BR>We invite written and visual materials that =
span=20
the global and the intimate, and suggest the creative ways that =
feminists=20
approach relations of politics, economies and cultures. We encourage=20
contributors to bridge&nbsp; divides across material and symbolic =
spaces; the=20
social sciences and humanities; academic disciplines; aesthetics and =
politics;=20
theoretical and activist work; academic and policy =
discourses.<BR><BR>Please=20
submit abstracts by June 15th, 2005 to guest editors Geraldine Pratt=20
(gpratt@geog.ubc.ca) and Victoria Rosner (vpr@tamu.edu).&nbsp;Full =
papers will=20
be due by August 15th, 2005.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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