Gender and Health calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color: Race, Gender, and Disability

Abstracts Due: 6/1/13

Manuscripts Due: 10/20/2013

Despite discourse on gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity or gender and disability, there are few studies about the intersections of race, gender and disability from a critical perspective. This issue will focus on articles that analyze these intersections from different disciplinary perspectives. Categories include interrogations into the lives of people of color and white subjects from a critical whiteness perspective; gender as it encompasses interrogations of femininity, masculinity, transgender, or intersex subjectivity and any form of sexual expression and identity and their intersection; and disability to encompass impairment and the socio-cultural aspects that accompany it.

Topics include but not limited to:

Family caregiving or parenting at the intersections of gender/race/disability

Lived experiences of disabled women/people of color

Representations of disability in families of color in films and literature

News and media representations of race, disability and gender/sexuality

Historical analysis that highlights these intersections (e.g., eugenics)

Policy, activism and interventions that empower disabled people of color

Articles connecting disability studies, queer theory and women's studies to critical race theory and critical whiteness studies

Analysis of policies related to education, employment, immigration and incarceration that centers on the intersections of race, gender and ability.

Contact: Guest-Editors Sandy Magana, maganas@uic.edu; Liat Ben Moshe, lbenmosh@uic.edu, University of Wisconsin.

Call for Papers: Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology - Back to Basics

Guest Editor Dr. Virginia Miller and the Editors of AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology extend an invitation to submit original research articles related to sex and gender differences in cardiovascular physiology. Although sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality are recognized in clinical medicine, physiological mechanisms behind these differences have been ignored in basic research. We welcome work from genetic and molecular science to integrative animal and human physiology exploring sex differences in mitochondrial function, energetics, cellular ion regulation, secretory and mechanical processes of endothelial, smooth muscle, myocardium and autonomic and neuronal regulation. Many sex distinctions occur at specific times in the life cycle such as puberty or pregnancy, thus we encourage submissions which address interaction with development and aging. All manuscripts accepted from this Call for Papers will be included in a unique online article collection to further highlight this important topic. The article collection will also include specially commissioned Review articles.

All manuscripts should be submitted online here: http://ajpheart.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex

During the online submission process, under the "Keywords & Special Sections" tab, please use the "Category" drop-down menu and select “Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology- Back to Basics."

Manuscripts will undergo normal peer review as they are received. Accepted manuscripts will be published online as they are accepted. Articles published from this Call for Papers will be highlighted with a special “Call for Papers” banner on the article PDF, as well as included in the Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology- Back to Basics online article collection at time of publication.

Manuscripts can be submitted anytime but must be submitted by September 30, 2013 to be eligible for inclusion in this Call for Papers. If you have any questions please contact Kara Hansell Keehan, Executive Editor, via email at khkeehan@verizon.net.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Clinical Biochemistry: Men’s Health and Laboratory Medicine

Guest Editors: David G. Grenache and Clement K.M. Ho

Submission Deadline for articles: November 1, 2013

Clinical Biochemistry will devote a Special Issue to Men’s Health and Laboratory Medicine to highlight the role of clinical diagnostics in health issues that concern men. Although some may overlap with women’s concerns, others are unique to men’s health problems such as prostate cancer and low testosterone.

For this Special Issue, we invite submissions such as original research papers or review articles on relevant topic areas that may include but are not limited to:

Prostate specific antigen testing

Endocrinology

Bone health

Tumor markers

Male-factor infertility/semen analysis

Traumatic brain injury

X-linked inherited disorders

Infectious diseases

Sexual health

Developmental disorders

Doping for enhanced athletic performance

Selected contributions (review articles or original papers) will be considered for publication in  the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be subjected to initial editorial review to determine whether they meet the scope of the Clinical Biochemistry and are also appropriate for the special issue. Once selected, the contribution will follow the peer revision process of the journal Clinical Biochemistry.

The use of colour is free in your article and Illustrations generally enhance the educational value of your article. The journal will publish a high resolution version of your artwork in the html version of your article. Further, we can inform you that there are no page or figure restrictions – scientific quality and relevance are the main criteria.

Upon publication the corresponding author will receive at no costs a PDF file of the published article via e-mail, as well as a complimentary copy of the issue in which the article appears.

If you are interested in contributing your selected paper to this Special Issue, please send us an e-mail including the tentative title of your contribution and the article type (review article or research paper). Send your reply before June 15, 2013 to:

David G. Grenache and Clement K.M. Ho
david.grenache@path.utah.edu and clement.ho@doctors.org.uk

or to Andy Deelen (a.deelen@elsevier.com)

Further information regarding preparation and submission of the articles will be sent to the authors when the list of authors/topics has been finalized.

Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue of Women and Health: Infectious and Other Disease Morbidity and Health Equity Among Incarcerated Adolescent and Adult Women

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013

You are invited to submit a manuscript for publication consideration in a proposed special issue of Women and Health—a peer reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis.
Description: Women are the fastest growing prison population—surpassing men in prison population growth in the United States. Women at risk for incarceration frequently come from populations with higher rates of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis. In addition, female prisoners are likely to have experienced physical or sexual violence, and two-thirds are mothers of minor children. This call invites papers presenting current research on disparities in infectious diseases or other diseases among incarcerated women, gender-related life concerns (e.g., marriage and partnering, pregnancies, parenting and child custody, homelessness, food insecurity, education, and job status/employment) inside and outside of correctional facilities, contextual and other issues related to becoming a prisoner, and programs and services for women in jails, prisons, and on parole. We hope to capture the most current and relevant work on adolescent and adult women that will serve as a resource for criminal justice agencies, institutions and organizations, law schools, legal services, health professionals serving women prisoners, schools of criminology and public health, other educators, social service agencies, researchers and many others dedicated to providing programs and other services in correctional facilities and beyond.

The following is a list of potential content areas (other topics will be considered also):

1. Sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection and other infectious disease (TB and viral hepatitis) epidemiology, screening and treatment among women in jails and prisons. What other diseases are prevalent among women in correctional settings and what kinds of treatments are available? Which screenings are provided routinely upon intake?

2. Racial/ethnic disparities in infectious diseases among female detainees.

3. Pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, and custody issues for women under correctional supervision.

4. Female victims of physical and sexual violence in jails and prisons.

5. Mental illness and substance abuse among female prisoners.

6. Social Determinants of health for women in jails and prisons, including poverty and lack of educational and economic opportunities.

7. Is health equity for jailed women possible? What constitutes health equity in these settings? Best practices for health equity in jails and prisons.

8. Reentry into society for women and recommendations for reentry. Are plans for follow-up care for women and girls with health concerns implemented? Are best practices for follow-up care available?

9. Gender vulnerability in correctional facilities.

10. Special concerns for transgendered persons.

11. Variation in national and state regulations for women’s health issues (e.g., shackling during pregnancy, availability of HIV medicines, etc.).

12. Impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on health services in correctional settings. Is enrollment into health care a component of release activities?

For further information, contact Tanya Telfair LeBlanc, PhD, Corresponding Guest Editor via e-mail at: tqs3@cdc.gov or via phone at: (404) 639-2976.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Al-Raida on Women's Health in the Arab World

In recent years, women in the Arab world have contended with a tumultuous political and economic times that resulted in revolutions, wars, collapsed economies, and rapidly shifting religious and cultural landscapes. This special issue of Al-Raida on Women's Health in the Arab World calls for papers addressing women's health and experiences of health care in the Arab region. It is especially concerned with women's health in the context of these changing, and increasingly westernized, health systems.

It is the hope of this Special Issue to consider health as a site of contestation where local and global cultural, political, and economic forces compete, and often stand in opposition to women's agency. We are interested in papers that address some of the following questions: how do women reconcile their desires about their fertility with their economic, cultural, and political realities in nations that are experiencing collapsed economies and political conflict? How do women negotiate birthing regimes (traditional versus technocratic) in an increasingly globalized environment? What are the reasons behind the increasing rates of cosmetic surgeries, and how do women negotiate the competing notions of bodily aesthetics and marriage prospects?

In this Special Issue, we hope to provide a forum for researchers to share their knowledge and expertise on women's health in the Arab World from an interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome papers from all disciplines including anthropology, sociology, demography, political science, and economics.

We welcome papers that address the following:

Social construction of illnesses and diseases

Stress and the pharmaceutical industry

Mental Health, depression, and anxiety

Pregnancy, delivery and the medicalization of birth

Demographic shifts and governmental natalist policies

Minority women's health and access to care

Cosmetic surgeries

Female genital cutting/mutilation/circumcision

Health-seeking behavior

Gender inequity and health

Religious interpretations and access to health care

Chronic diseases

Cancer

In addition to academic papers we would also like to include critical pieces, testimonials, personal essays, interviews, short stories, poems, conference reports, and book reviews.

Submitted papers should be prepared in English in MS Word and should adhere to the journal's submission guidelines. Research articles should be between 6000-8000 words, including notes and references. They should be accompanied by an abstract of 200 words and include 5 to 6 keywords. The article must contain a separate title page that should include: the title of the paper; the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s); full contact details of the author(s); and the author's brief biographical statement (up to 40 words). Papers should not have already been published, or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

The editorial committee of Al-Raida will inform the author within 6 to 8 weeks of submission whether or not the article will be sent out for refereeing. A decision about acceptability for publication will usually be taken within 12 weeks of submission to the reviewers. Submitted articles will be sent anonymously to two different reviewers. Acceptance of articles for publication will then be subject to modification as suggested by the reviewers.

Articles submitted for publication should be sent directly to the guest editor Marianne Sarkis at the following address: msarkis@clarku.edu and to the managing editor, Ms. Myriam Sfeir, at myriam.sfeir@lau.edu.lb

For full details kindly visit the following website at http://iwsaw.lau.edu.lb

Deadline for complete manuscripts: May 30, 2013

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Anthropology & Aging Quarterly: The Aging Body

Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2013

This issue will focus on the aging body not only in terms of biophysical processes of maturation, but also in terms of the aging body’s cultural elaboration, its articulations with other “bodies,” such as Lock and Scheper-Hughes’ formulation of the social and political “body,” and the representation and manipulation of the “old body” through images, technologies, rituals, policies, movements and health practices. We are interested not only in articles that challenge notions of the older body as merely frail or decrepit, but also articles that push conceptual and methodological boundaries of “the body” in its social and cultural contexts. As with many accepted theories in anthropology, theories of the body and embodiment are often framed with an implicit body in mind, and while this implicit body has been usefully critiqued from the perspective of gender, queer, and disability studies, anthropologists studying old age and aging are still developing their own distinct voice in this conversation. This issue of AAQ will draw out the diversity of approaches to the aging body, the challenges they bring to anthropological theories of the body, and the unique contributions of the anthropology of aging to this field.

Topics might include:

-- The ways the aging body is (mis)recognized through demographic and statistical discourse
-- The use of the aging body as a form of resistance to the hegemony of youth
-- Aging bodies as erotic bodies
-- Aging bodies as a challenge to notions of biopolitics
-- Depictions of the aging body vs. other bodies in popular media and/or artistic works
-- Cosmetics and pharmaceutical re-shaping of the aging body
-- Caring for the body as caring for the self
-- Bodily adornment and beautification
-- Pain and the body in old age
-- Discourses and institutions that deindividuate or depersonalize the body
-- Body, memory, and aging in place
-- Gender and the aging body

Please contact Jason Danely if you are interested in submitting an article for this issue: jdanely@ric.edu

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Just Food: Bioethics, Gender, and the Ethics of Eating

Vol 8, No. 2: Just Food: Bioethics, gender, and the ethics of eating

The deadline for submission for this issue is April 1, 2014.

Editor: Mary C. Rawlinson

Western ethics rarely makes eating a main theme. Food belongs to the often invisible domain of women’s labor. While obesity, malnourishment, and lack of access to clean water are regularly cited as global factors in mortality and morbidity, bioethics, even feminist bioethics, gives little attention to culinary practices, water rights, or agricultural policy or to their effects on the status of women and the health of communities.

What and how we eat determines not only our health, but also our relation to other animals, the forms of social life, the gender division of labor, and the integrity of the environment. If hunger is the hallmark of poverty, obesity and obesity-related diseases are ironically afflicting the poor at alarming rates. Hunger also attends war, violence, and catastrophic environmental events; thus, thinking ethically about food engages issues of war and peace, as well as calling into question the global dependence on fossil fuels. Food can reflect social inequity or economic independence and social justice. It can preserve cultural integrity or yield to the homogenizing force of global capital. Food encompasses the full range of issues arising at the intersection of health and justice.

The Editorial Office of IJFAB invites submissions for Just Food: bioethics, gender, and the ethics of eating, vol. 8.2. Essays may investigate any aspect of the ethics of eating, particularly as it relates to health and gender.

Women are disproportionately responsible for food around the world, yet they are globally underrepresented in the ownership of property or decisions about land use or in determining environmental or food policy. As the spike in obesity among women and children in “low-income” countries under the shift to global food indicates, women, like other vulnerable and underrepresented populations, are disproportionately affected by the globalization of food, as well as by environmental degradation and climate change.

Research suggests, however, that women are also “key drivers of change,” necessary to improving food production and consumption, as well as environmental health in any community. “If you pull women out, there will be no sustainable development.” (Report of Regional Implementation Meeting for Asia and Pacific Rim, Jakarta, 2007.)

IJFAB 8.2 will investigate the bioethical problems that result from the industrialization and globalization of agriculture, as well as the role of feminist bioethics in reimaging agriculture and our culinary practices to be more life-sustaining and to better promote justice, community health, and agency for each and all. Only very recently have large populations been able to eat without any knowledge of how their food is produced. This issue explores the question of our responsibility for what and how we eat, as well as global responsibilities for hunger and diet-related disease.

Possible areas of research include:

hunger and poverty
hunger and violence
consumption and health
immobility, obesity, and agency
animal rights
environmental ethics
ethics of land and water policies
agricultural policy and economic independence
scale in farming
food security
sustainability
local vs. global food
geopolitics of food
food as commodity
biotechnology
food and labor
eating and culture
the aesthetics of food
food and community.

All papers must be submitted in IJFAB style. Authors who plan to submit are encouraged to contact the Editor ahead of time.

IJFAB also welcomes proposals for future special issues.

Instructions for authors are available at www.ijfab.org. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word, as email attachments to IJFAB@sunysb.edu.

Calls for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Transnational Reproductive Travel

Vol 7, No. 2: Special issue on Transnational Reproductive Travel

The deadline for submission for this issue is June 1, 2013.

Guest Editors: Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie

The transnational fertility industry is a multibillion-dollar global industry that continues to grow exponentially, with few guidelines or regulations. Indeed, it has been suggested that “internationalization has made oversight laughable… regulators are dogs with no teeth” (Carney 2011).

At the heart of this industry are women who sell their ova and gestational services. Typically these women – poor women or immigrant women in low or middle income countries or students in middle and high income countries – have few options to earn the money they need to live and pay their bills. The purchasers are single women or men and heterosexual or homosexual couples who travel abroad to reduce costs, to access better quality care, to access medical resources otherwise not available in their home country, to reduce wait times, to avoid legal prohibitions on particular services or to avoid legal or professional prohibitions on access by particular demographic or social groups.

Arguably, this industry flourishes, in part, by capitalizing on differences in legal regimes, differences in wages and standards of living, and differences in cultural and ethical norms. A feminist perspective calls into question the role of exploitation, coercion, vulnerability, and inequity in transnational reproductive travel (at least as it is currently practiced and is being developed).

The aim of this special issue is to make a positive contribution from an explicitly feminist perspective to the ethical debates surrounding transnational reproductive travel. Contributions analyzing aspects of the debate that, to this point, have received insufficient, if any, attention are particularly welcome.

The Guest Editors invite submissions on any topic related to transnational reproductive travel.

Potential topics for this volume include:

Does transnational reproductive travel increase or threaten women’s autonomy? Does reproductive outsourcing to low and middle income countries benefit women by increasing employment opportunities or further subjugate women who are at increased risk of exploitation and coercion?

How does transnational contract pregnancy increase or cloud our understanding of vulnerability? What is the same and what is different, from a feminist perspective, about the vulnerability of those who purchase gestational services and the women who provide these services?

From a feminist perspective, what rules should govern the import and export of reproductive tissues whether for reproductive or research use?

When the motivation for transnational reproductive travel is to avoid domestic legal or professional ethical constraints, should health care providers in the traveler's home state facilitate transnational travel with a view to promoting access to safe and effective interventions, or should they actively discourage such travel?

Should women be compensated for their reproductive labour? If so, what would be a fair wage for providing eggs or 9 months of gestational services?

National self-sufficiency and the harmonization of laws are two strategies that have been suggested to reduce the need for individuals and couples to travel abroad. How might either of these strategies be evaluated from a feminist perspective?

Authors who plan to submit papers are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors prior to submission.

All papers must be submitted in IJFAB style.