Showing posts with label journal of gender race and justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journal of gender race and justice. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Call for Submissions - Iowa Law's Journal of Gender, Race & Justice

The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice is seeking innovative scholarship for Volume 16. The Journal is dedicated to the living discussion of feminist inquiry and critical race analysis in legal scholarship. We explore how people are classified, stratified, ignored and singled out under the law because of race, sex, gender, economic class, ability, sexual identity and the multitude of labels applied to us. The Journal would like to invite legal authors of all perspectives to submit proposals for articles to fill Volume 16 of our publication.

For more information about the Journal please see: http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/jgrj.

Please send article or proposal submissions, along with your curriculum vitae to Whitney Smith at whitney-e-smith@uiowa.edu

The deadline for submission of proposals is January 30, 2012.

The University of Iowa College of Law's Journal of Gender, Race and Justice's mission statement reads in part as follows:

"The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice is not for the weak of heart or the timid in spirit. Feminist inquiry and critical race analysis are the touchstones of our endeavor. Our building blocks are new forms of analysis that reach beyond traditional conceptions of legal thought. We challenge our writers, our readers, and ourselves to question who we are and how the law defines us. We strive to be a transformative experience. In a spirit of openness, we explore how we are classified, stratified, ignored and singled out under the law because of our race, sex, gender economic class, ability, sexual identity and the multitude of labels applied to us. Identity is a matrix of experiences; when the law fails to recognize any one facet of our identity, both the law and the person lose invaluable dimension. Our challenge is to examine how we negotiate our identities, how the legal system negotiates them for us and how these negotiations affect our ability to attain justice."

Friday, October 29, 2010

War On . . . Symposium

The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice is now calling for papers for its 15th anniversary symposium.

The symposium, "War on: The Fallout of Declaring War on Social Issues," will explore the consequences of declaring war on society's problems.

From the War on Poverty, to the War on Crime, to the Ward on Drugs and Terror, by utilizing the "War On" rhetoric, policy and lawmakers unite the public against a common enemy and authorize themselves to act more aggressively against a group of people. The Journal of Gender, Race and Justice symposium will examine who gets swept into this class of enemies and how the practice of declaring wars on social issues affects marginalized communities.

Please see the call for papers for submission instructions. Paper proposals must be submitted by November 15th, 2010.