Deadline: 15 July 2015
The Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme (CWS/cf) is calling papers Women’s Human Rights. The main focus is on feminist women’s human rights theory and activism as a cessionary framework for movement-building and social change.
Topics include:
- Feminist understandings of Women’s Human Rights
- Significance, meaning, tensions of WHR framework in legal, policy, activist practice
- History and Development of international WHR movement: Women’s organizing around the 1990s WHR conferences, with an emphasis on women in the Majority World
- Women’s human rights and movement-building;
- CEDAW and civil society movements: Shadow Reports, Optional Protocol; education and activism
- CEDAW as a living document: WHR theory in action- jurisprudence, general recommendations, reporting process
- UN Mechanisms and Feminist Activism, including Special Rapporteurs, Working Groups, CSW and others
- Beijing +20 and beyond
- Protecting and sustaining WHR framework in neo-conservative global climate
- Intersectional and/or thematic WHR Perspectives and Analyses–including but not limited to:
- Cross/inter-cultural understandings of WHR;
- Women and dis/Ability;
- Indigenous women’s human rights;
- LBT women’s human rights/SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights) rights;
- Rural women’s human rights;
- Migrant women’s human rights;
- Trafficking, sex industry, and women’s human rights;
- Race and gender;
- Ageism and WHR;
- Neo/colonialism and WHR;
- Capitalism/ corporations and WHR
- Poverty and women’s human rights;
- Violence and women’s human rights
- Peace and women’s human rights
- Religion / spirituality and WHR;
- Land and water and WHR
- Health, environment and WHR;
- WHR & Food Sovereignty;
- GMOs and WHR
- WHR and the Rights of Mother Earth
- Rights of women’s human rights defenders;
- Fundamentalisms and WHR;
- Reproductive justice and WHR;
- Cultural rights & WHR;
- Self-care and WHR;
- Embodiment and WHR;
- Women’s human rights as a visionary framework;
- “Development” and WHR;
- Post-2015 development agenda;
- WHR education and training;
- WHR, diversity and solidarity.
Submission Guidelines
- Articles must be no more than 12-14 typed, double spaced, 8 1/2″ x 11″ pages, including references and end notes. Please refer to the MLA Handbook for our house style.
- Include a short (50 word) abstract of the article.
- Include a short (30 word) biographical note on the author.
- Include the title and the author’s name.
- Include full return mailing address as well as phone number, fax number if available and an email address. If address changes, please let know immediately.
- Number each page.
- Send two copies of the manuscript. Please include a stamped, self-addressed 9″ by 12″ envelope.
- Please save your article in word and include a copy of the file on a disk with your submission. Articles sent as email attachments are also acceptable.
- Attach any graphics or photos that would add visual interest to the manuscript. Please ensure that these materials are packaged carefully to prevent bending or damage in the mail. These materials will be returned upon publication.
- If the article is being submitted to other journals or magazines, please indicate this in the cover letter, and notify immediately if the article is being considered for publication elsewhere.
Eligibility Criteria
Essays, research reports, true stories, alternative forms of narration, poetry, drawings, and other art works that illuminate above issues are invited.
How to Apply
Articles should be typed, double-spaced, and a maximum of 16 pages long (4000 words). A short (50-word) abstract of the article and a brief biographical note must accompany each submission. Please send a hard copy of your manuscript as well as emailing a copy.
For more information, visit CWS/cf.
