Deadline– March 31, 2013
Call for papers are invited form writers/Authors for upcoming issue on BUWA: A Journal on African Women’s Experiences. The Journal aims to facilitate dialogue and promote gender justice and equality and justice. BUWA is published by the Women’s Rights Programme in the Open Society Initiative for Southern African (OSISA) based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The intended audience for the journal includes scholars, practitioners and activists in the Southern African region.
The central theme of the issue is Feminist Perspectives on Culture. Submissions for this issue will critically engage with positive and negative aspects of cultural dimensions that influence the lives of women in Africa, and use feminist lenses to analyses and reflect on women’s experiences and understanding of culture.
Specific topics for which writers are invite-
- Feminist perspectives on Islam and culture
- It is more than just a name!: zooming the lens on naming practices
- Is pop culture UnFeminist (music lyrics, music videos, beat and sound)?: “Who runs the world…Girls!” – Beyoncé. Feminist or not?
- Examining cultural constructions of nudity- (how we name our body parts)
- Exploring cultural constructions of menstruation & masturbation: control of women’s bodies
- FGM/Female circumcision/modification
- Notions of beauty and attractiveness-performing the body
- How have fashion and dress shaped women’s identities
- Displaced women relating to new environments and the impact of culture
- New cultural practices with ‘old’ meanings
- Technologies & power dynamics in today’s world
- Customary marriage in matrilineal societies
- Regional analysis of customary and civil laws relating to marriage to understand the impact these laws have on the rights of women within the institution of marriage
- Gendered dynamics of courtship/dating across cultures
- Notions of sex, masculinity and manhood in African cultures
- Culture and men’s (dis) empowerment
- Subversive notions of cultural constructions of masculinity
- The concept of the family as culturally defined
- Women’s narratives of family as depicted through the eyes of ‘powerful’ women and how they exercise their power
Eligibility-
Writers/Authors from Africa are invited to apply for this Journal.
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