Call for Papers Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism: An Anthology Deadline: June 15, 2002 Essays from any discipline that examine issues of gender or sexuality as pertinent to environmental justice concerns and/or movements. While race and class are regularly addressed in environmental justice studies, the predominance of women, particularly women of color, in grass-roots environmental justice movements also raises significant questions about the relationship of gender and sexuality to environmental justice concerns and activism. This book will focus on such intersections from a range of perspectives. Possible topics and approaches: - Analysis of representations of environmental justice/gender/sexuality issues in literature, film, visual or performance arts - Interviews with women organizers/activists that raise issues of gender and/or cross-cultural analysis of gender and activism - Statements from women environmental justice organizers/activists - Reinterpretations of feminist activism/community activism in light of environmental justice issues and contexts - Analysis of women's health issues, family health issues, and/or social health issues as environmental justice concerns - Body as environment: Analysis of sexuality issues such as birth control, abortion, sterilization, heterosexism as environmental justice issues - Toxic environments/toxic ideologies/racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism/hate crimes as an environmental justice issue - Effects of globalization on women as an environmental justice issue These are only suggestions and we are open to a wide range of approaches/topics. We are particularly interested in essays that move outside of U.S. perspectives. Please send inquiries or 500-word abstracts and one-page vita by June 15 to: Rachel Stein 1035 Balltown Rd. Niskayuna, NY 12309 or via email: nrstein@aol.com Rachel Stein directs the Women's and Multicultural Studies programs at Siena College. She is co-editor of The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics and Pedagogy and author of Shifting the Ground: American Women Writers' Revisions of Nature, Gender and Race. Dusty Fancher Transportation and Land Use Policy Specialist Michigan Environmental Council phone 517-487-9539 fax 517-487-9541
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