[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Women, Dying, and Death (10/13/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

	CFP: Women, Dying, and Death (10/13/06; journal issue)
	
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is seeking submissions for
a special issue focused on women, dying, and death. The Year of Magical
Thinking, Joan Didion's book about what life is like after the death of
both her husband and daughter, was an unexpected best-seller given the
difficult nature of the material. A personal narrative of grief, the
book's success is indicative of both the fascination and the dread of
the processes of death and dying. This special issue will examine the
representations and images of women, dying, and death across cultural,
religious, and artistic boundaries.
	
Topics can include but are not limited to:
	
The female victim/body in horror and noir film
Cultural and religious interpretations of death and dying
The dying woman in literature
Images of the grieving woman in art
Photographing the dead: Postmortem photography and the process of grief
Mourning and motherhood

Women's Studies publishes 8 issues a year, providing a forum for the
presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of
literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics,
anthropology and the sciences. It also publishes poetry, film and book
reviews.

We encourage men and women from all disciplines to submit articles based
in film, television, literature, art, or other media.

For additional submission information, visit our
website:<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00497878.asp>

Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been
published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously
for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts should be typed,
double-spaced, one-sided, and formatted according to MLA guidelines.

Essays should be approximately 25 pages in length. Authors should also
supply a shortened version of the title for a running head, not
exceeding 50 character spaces, an abstract of approximately 100 words,
the author's affiliation and location. Each submitted article must
contain author's mailing address, telephone number, e-mail, and a
stamped self-addressed envelope.

To be included in the first round of reviews for our upcoming issue,
submissions must be received by August 18, 2006.

Send a cover letter, three copies of the manuscript, and a copy on disk
to:
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Sharon Becker, Associate Editor
Claremont Graduate University
Department of English, Blaisdell House
143 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
USA

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