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Women's autobiographical writings and correspondence
Journal: Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
Deadline for submitting full papers: September 15, 2011
Description of the Journal
Aspasia is an international peer-reviewed yearbook that brings out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender history focused on – and produced in – Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. This region includes such countries as Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. In these countries the field of women's and gender history has developed unevenly and has remained only marginally represented in the "international" canon. Through its contributions, Aspasia transforms "European women's history" into more than Western European women's history, as is still often the case, and expands the comparative angle of research on women and gender to all parts of Europe.
Eligible topics for the Journal
In the past two decades, many societies in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe have experienced an increase in the writing, publication, and scholarly analysis of autobiographical works by women, but these works have not been available to a broad international audience.
- Volume 7 of Aspasia will focus on the autobiographical writings of women in CESEE, including their diaries, memoirs and correspondence. We seek original research based on such sources, analyzed in the context of the social, political and cultural histories of the region. We particularly encourage reflection on methodological and comparative issues. What barriers and incentives have women faced in recording their stories? How have these changed over time? Which women were able to write such texts, and how or where have their texts or correspondence been preserved? How have political realities affected the shape and reliability of women's self- representations? How do women's autobiographical writings compare across cultures, across time, and across different historical contexts?
Guidelines for submission
Submissions of up to 8,000 words (including notes) can be sent to Melissa Feinberg (Acting Editor-in-Chief for Aspasia 7) at mfeinberg@history.rutgers.edu or to Francisca de Haan at dehaanf@ceu.hu
Publisher
Information & contacts
Francisca de Haan
Melissa Feinberg
Aspasia
e-mail: mfeinberg@history.rutgers.edu
e-mail: dehaanf@ceu.hu
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