Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] CFP: Women in Transnational Movements in the
Long 20th Century
> Call for papers: “Women in Transnational Movements in the Long 20th > Century”
> GENESIS, co-edited by Elisabetta Bini and Arnaldo Testi
> The Italian historical journal "Genesis: Rivista della Società
> Italiana delle Storiche" will devote one of its next issues to
> transnational women’s movements in the long 20th Century, from the
> last third of the 19th Century to the present. The issue aims at
> analyzing the transnational dimension in its full, radical meaning.
> We are interested in exploring the specific forms of action,
> discourse and language which were allowed or generated by the “trans/
> national” dimension, as an autonomous terrain of cultural
> production, not as an area of interaction and mediation among pre-
> determined national passions and interests (“inter/national”).
> To the usual suspects -- suffragist and feminist organizations -- we
> add professional and business all-female associations as well as
> “separate” or mixed-gender pacifist groups, benevolent and charity
> societies, “moral” and family reformers, advocates of new
> reproductive politics and policies, gay, lesbian, queer and
> transgender groups.
>
> Questions to be addressed might include:
> - How did the languages of women’s transnational activism change vis-
> a-vis their national activisms? Were there more or less constraints,
> more or less opportunities for freedom and experimentation?
> - How did the cultural and/or racial hegemony of the Northern
> European and English-speaking nations shape the language of the
> early transnational movements? And how did colonial, anti-colonial
> and post-colonial practices impact the scope, direction and internal
> structure of any given movement or organization?
> - How and to what extent did women’s language and practices change
> when the same women happened to work in separate, all-female
> organizations and, at the same or later time, in mixed-gender
> organizations sharing the same purpose? Or when women’s separate
> organizations interacted with international institutions such as the
> League of Nations, the United Nations, or other regional
> organizations?
> - Are the periodization cleavages familiar to historians of
> transnational women’s movements adequate to construct a meaningful
> framework for our understanding of the past? Should we accept such
> cleavages (World War Two, First- and Second-Wave Feminism) or should
> we re-discuss them?
>
> Interested parties should send a 1-page proposal, along with a 2-
> page CV, by June 30, 2009, to Elisabetta Bini
> (elisabetta.bini@???) and Arnaldo Testi (testi@???).
> Successful applicants will be expected to email their articles by
> January 31, 2010.
> The journal will be published in Italian. However, we will accept
> proposals and articles in English and take care of the translation
> (unless the Authors prefer to provide for it themselves).
