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<div align="left">Dear Cultural Studies people<br>
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Please distribibute this call for papers to interested colleagues and
students.<br>
<br>
Best wishes<br>
Barbara Baird<br>
<br>
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<i><br>
Call for papers<o p="#DEFAULT"></o></i></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"> <font face="Times"><b><span> </span></b></font><b>THE
CHILD<o p="#DEFAULT"></o></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <font face="Times"><span> </span></font>The
last few years have seen an extraordinary interest in the conditions of
childhood, both present and past. As well as official inquiries and
regular expressions of crisis in the provision of services for children
the discursive figure of 'the child' plays a part across many areas of
public debate. At the same time feminist commentators are observing
that a social policy shift to concern with the child displaces previous
concern with women. Ideas about and practises regarding children are
not, of course, bounded by national borders as trans-national child
adoption, to take but one example, demonstrates. The <font face="Times"><span></span></font><a
href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm"><span>Convention on
the Rights of the Child</span></a> similarly takes a view of children
and their rights beyond national boundaries.<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <font face="Times"><span> </span></font>Contributions
are invited for a special issue of<i> Australian Feminist Studies</i> that
will focus on 'the child'. Papers that attend to the gender, class,
sexual, national and/or raced dimensions of real and imagined children,
contemporary and historical,<b> </b>and those that engage with feminist
theories, from disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives, are
particularly welcome.<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <font face="Times"><span> </span></font>Papers
might address issues such as the cultural and political meanings of
representations of 'the child'; the effects of attempts to govern and
regulate the lives of children; the deployment of ‘children’s rights’;
and v<font face="Times"><span></span></font>isions of, or examples of,
citizenship - economic, social, cultural, sexual -<font face="Times"><span></span></font> for
children.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Papers between 4000 and 8000 words in length are
welcomed.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"> <o p="#DEFAULT"> </o><i>Deadline
15 May 2007</i><br>
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<font face="Times"><span> </span></font>For
more information contact the guest editor, Assoc Prof Barbara Baird,
Women's Studies, Flinders University of SA. Ph 08 8201 2331 (+61 8)
8210 2331. <a href="mailto:Barbara.baird@flinders.edu.au"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">Barbara.baird@flinders.edu.au</a><br>
<br>
For details about how to submit an article to <i>Australian Feminist
Studies</i>
see the website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08164649.asp">http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08164649.asp</a><br>
NB The journal has just changed its referencing to the Chicago style.
Information about submitting an article on the back page of the most
recent issue of the journal.
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