Chicken lady

Off Our Backs, Dec 1998

call for papers!

this bridge called my back...

The ground breaking anthology of writings by radical women of color, will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2001. Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating seeks essays, poems, personal narratives, or other writings that explore these issues and others related to This Bridge Called My Back. What impact has This Bridge made on individual women, on feminist/womanist theorizing, on the academy, on US feminisms, and on feminist in other countries? Has it changed your life? Abstracts due by February 1,1999. Complete papers by May 31,1999. Send Submissions to: AnaLouise Keating, Language & Literature, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales NM, 88130. For additional information please feel free to contact AnaLouise Keating at analouise. keating@enmu.edu or (505)359-1622.

no place like home: cultural anxiety and martha stewart living

Here's your chance radical readers of oob! The editors of this anthology are looking for written and visual texts that interrogate, critique, celebrate, inquire into, parody, subvert, question, read, analyze, mythologize, interact with, idolize, despise and most of all, give new insight into the Martha Stewart phenomenon. Academic and critical papers should not exceed thirtyfive pages, and should conform to MLA style. For more information you can email Zoe Newman at znewman@oise.utoronto.ca or Kyla Wazana Tompkins at kwazana@leland.stanford.edu. Send completed, visual work, and a personal bio by January 15, 1999 to both of the following: Zoe Newman, Sociology & Equity Studies, OISE/University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ont., M5S 1V6 Canada and Kyla Wazana Tompkins c/o Program in Modern Thought &

Literature, Building 250, Rm 251F, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-2020

bady politics symposium...

April 4-5, 1999 at University of Toledo. This call is for research papers, performances, creative arts, workshop ideas, etc. for an interdisciplinary symposium titled "Body Politics." Proposals should address issues of the body from a feminist and/or gender perspective. The purpose of the symposium is to reflect and contribute literature to the rapid expansion of this topic. Papers written for courses collective exercises, pedagogical approaches, and works-in-progress are welcome. For more information or to participate in the symposium, contact the Women's Studies Program at the University of Toledo at (419) 530-2233 or Renee Herle in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at (419) 530-4061 or rheberl@uoft02.utoledo.edu. Proposals for papers, panels, and performances are due by January 30 and should be sent to: Renee Heberle, PhD Department of Political Science, and Public Administration, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606

Women & society conference.....

To be held June 11-13 at Marist College in Poughkeepsie New York. They are now accepting abstracts, papers, panels, workshops, etc. to be considered for this multi- & interdisciplinary conference that covers all aspects of women & gender undergoing examination in academia For more information contact: Dr. JoAnne Myers at (914) 575-3000 ext 2234 or email JZLY@MaristB .Marist.edu Submit a 250 word abstract or proposal w/ a brief bio by January 18th, 1999 to: Women & Society Conference, Marist College, Poughkeesie, NY 12601