CFP for Special Issue on War and Sexual Violence

Special Issue of *Women and Performance*

*The Performance of Mass Rape: War, Trauma, and Limit Phenomena

*Guest Editor:  Sel J. Hwahng

From World War II to the present, the vast majority of armed conflicts have been fought in  developing countries.  For instance, according to Christian Scherrer, of 150 conflicts since World War II, 130 have been fought in developing countries.  During the period from 1985 to 1996, the proportion of armed conflicts in Latin America remained constant, those in Asia and Europe declined, and the proportion of conflicts in Africa greatly increased.  And currently 44% of armed conflicts occur in Africa.  Women and children are often disproportionately affected by armed conflict and mass rape is often systematically used as a weapon of war.

To consider mass rape systems in the context of "performance", however, may give one pause.  Yet human rights discourse often refers to "actors", i.e. participants, in crises or emergencies within specific situated "theaters", i.e. places of enactment of significant events or actions.  And according to Norma Field, "limit phenomena" are catastrophes situated at the limits of comprehension, yet they demonstrate the urgency of confronting reality.

This special issue will therefore interrogate how mass rape systems from World War II to the present have been executed, acknowledged, and addressed through actors performing within theaters of particular armed conflicts, genocides, massacres, and complex emergencies.  Mass rape systems from World War II to the present in regions such as Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe during armed conflict will be examined.  Traumatic effects of mass rape systems in both individuals and groups will also be interrogated. How can focused attention on these limit phenomena also reveal new insights on gender, race, ethnicity, political economy, social formations, and human agency?

Mass rape systems during armed conflict may include but are not limited to the following:  Pacific War/World War II (including the Japanese military sex slavery system and the Rape of Nanjing); Bangladesh War of Liberation; Vietnam War; Colombian Armed Conflict; Guatemalan Civil War; Balkan Conflicts (including Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo); Angolan Civil War; Mozambican Civil War; Salvadoran Civil War; Myanmar (formerly Burma) Civil War; Liberian Civil Wars; Rwandan genocide; Sudanese Civil Wars and Darfur conflict; Congo Wars and Civil War (Democratic Republic of Congo); Ugandan Armed Conflict; and Sierra Leone Civil War.

This special issue will address some of these questions:
-What are the ritualized aspects and practices of mass rape systems?
-How do mass rape systems perform gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationalism, and religion?
-How do colonial, postcolonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War geopolitical dynamics inform and shape actors within mass rape systems situated in particular theaters of armed conflict?
-How does the act of repeatedly bearing witness to mass rape render such atrocities representable or unrepresentable, intelligible or unintelligible?
-How do trauma, terror, and disconnection perform in mass rape systems?
-How are responses to mass rape systems performed and/or ritualized?
-How are the representations of mass rape systems performed in various geopolitical locations, including the U.S.?
-How can the investigation of performative aspects of mass rape systems reveal new insights and applications for the prevention of and intervention in such atrocities?
-How can the investigation of performative aspects of mass rape systems reveal new insights and applications for the treatment of trauma from such atrocities?

Topics may include but are not limited to the following:
--Child Soldiers—Female and/or Male (including human trafficking; rape as initiation into military service; coerced sexual slavery as military duty; and militarized youth cultures)
--Traumatic Effects (including physical and reproductive injuries from rape and torture; physical and sexual mutilations; social disintegration; PTSD such as terror, hyperarousal, intrusion, constriction, and disconnection; silencing; historical trauma; and secondary trauma or injury)
--Ethnocultural Gender/Sex Systems (including gender and sexual identifications and practices before, during, and after armed conflicts; and new gender, sexual, and/or kinship formations arising from mass rape trauma)
--Religion (including religion as justification for rape; mass rape across religious differences; mass rape within same religious affiliation; Christianization and Islamization of genocide, massacres, and mass rape; and syncretic religious formations in mass rape systems)
--Drug Use (including coerced substance use as contraception; and voluntary or coerced substance use to facilitate mass rape and sexual exploitation)
--HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Sexual and Reproductive Health (including HIV/STIs used as weapons of war; HIV/STI seroprevalence of women and children after armed conflict; HIV/STI seroprevalence of child soldiers; forced pregnancies; forced contraception; forced abortions; and sexual traumas such as vaginal fistulae and prolapsed uteri)
--Weapons (including arms trafficking of light weapons; transnational profiteering; Cold War geopolitical nation-state maneuvers; colonial capital accumulation; and postcolonial and post-Cold War crises of failed and unraveling states)
--Propaganda (including entrenchment of racial, ethnic, or religious identifications and differences; and gender disparagement and objectification)
--Documentation of Atrocities and Violence (including journalism; interviews; testimonies; case studies; online and print publishing; and research methodologies)
--Interpretation of Atrocities and Violence (including interpretive performance, theater, film, video, websites, and fiction; memoirs; and reflections by humanitarian workers)
--Demobilization, Demilitarization, Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Destigmatization of Mass Rape Survivors and Actors (including psychosocial, biomedical, and indigenous healing modalities; and capacity building, best practices, and strategies employed by indigenous and transnational NGOs)
-- Justice Systems and Grassroots Organizing (including local, national, and international legal claims and actions; indigenous and transnational women's groups and organizing; and alternative social formations and peer networks among survivors)
--Comparative analyses between mass rape systems are especially welcome

Submission Guidelines
Please submit manuscripts electronically as email attachments in Microsoft Word.  All emails should be addressed to Sel J. Hwahng at hwahng@ndri.organd Jeanne Vaccaro at jeanne@womenandperformance.org.  Please write "Women and Performance: Special Issue" in subject line.  Essays should be double-spaced, with 1-inch margins; articles should not exceed 10,000 words. Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. All manuscripts should be submitted with a 500 word abstract. Submissions due no later than December 15, 2007.

Call for Submissions: Growing Up Filipino

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

This is a call for submissions of short stories for an anthology tentatively titled, GROWING UP FILIPINO II - Stories for Young Adults. The book will be edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard and will be published by both Anvil and PALH. Contributors will receive copies of the book as compensation for the use of their work.

The manuscript should be approximately 8-10 pages long, typed, double-spaced (approximately 1,800-2,300 words). This should be emailed to CBrainard@aol.com . You may also send it by air mail to:

Cecilia Brainard
c/o PALH
PO Box 5099
Santa Monica , CA 90409
USA

This book project is a follow-up of an earlier short story collection entitled Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults (published by PALH 2002, and Anvil). The following review describes the 2002 collection:

>From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-These 29 short stories offer a highly textured portrait of Filipino youth and an excellent sampling of creative writing. Thematically arranged, most of the pieces have been written since the turn of the 21st century. Each story is introduced by a thumbnail sketch of the author and a paragraph or two about some element of Filipino culture or history that is relevant to the story. Authors include those born and continuing to live in the Philippines, emigres, and American-born Filipinos. Tough but relevant topics addressed include a gay youth's affection for his supportive mother, the role of religious didacticism in the formation of a childhood perception, consumer culture as it is experienced by modern teens in Manila, and coping with bullies of all ages and stations in life. The high caliber and broad but wholly accessible range of this collection, however, makes this title a solid purchase for multiple reasons.

The 29 stories in the 2002 edition of Growing Up Filipino were written before 9/11 ( September 11, 2001). The editor would now like to collect a second volume that continues to address the young adult audience. The stories in the collection will still be about the Filipino experience in the Philippines or any part of the world. But in this second volume, the editor is seeing contemporary stories, or post 9/11 stories. The editor is seeking the best stories about growing up Filipino. The editor is not looking for stories written by young adults, but about Filipino young adults. The editor envisions the stories dealing with relationships, family, falling in love perhaps, and other issues that the young adults deal with. Character-driven stories are encouraged. Those interested in submitting are encouraged to read the first volume of Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults, to get an idea of the kind of stories the editor is looking for.

Deadline for submission is September 30, 2007. Early submissions are welcome. Please send your bio (approx. 150 words) in people-friendly narrative form.

ABOUT THE EDITOR : Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the author/editor of over a dozen books. She has a website at www.ceciliabrainard.com and a blog at cbrainard.blogspot.com

CFP: TRANS-

WSQ:  Women's Studies Quarterly

Call for papers: TRANS-

Trans: -gender, -national, -racial, -generational, -genic,, -species. The list could (and does) go on. This special issue of WSQ invites feminist work that explores categorical crossings, leakages, and slips of all sorts, around and through the concept "trans-." While it centrally addresses the challenges presented to traditional feminist scholarship by the transgender movement of the past few decades, it aims to take feminist scholarship in an even more expansive direction by recasting trans- as a more general conceptual operation, and by articulating the interrelatedness and mutual inextricability of various "trans-" phenomena.

This WSQ special issue invites work that situates "trans-" in dialogues beyond those bounded by the politics of identity. The meaning of "transgender" itself has shifted tremendously since the word first began appearing in cross-dresser community publications in late 1960s. By the 1990s, a burgeoning body of trans-historical and cross-cultural literary, documentary, performance, political and anthropological work had developed into the new field of transgender studies (see for example, Currah, Juang and Minter 2006; Stryker and Whittle 2006). This new field linked insights and analyses drawn from the experience or study of transgender phenomena with the central
disciplinary concerns of contemporary humanities and social science research, but our goal with this special issue is to promote cutting-edge feminist work that builds on existing scholarship to articulate new generational and analytical perspectives.

A fundamental assumption of this special issue is that "trans-" can best be understood (can perhaps only be understood) as mutually co-constituitive sets of embodied material practices.  These practices traffic themselves across porous, shifting, and diffuse borders between states and territories, citizens and aliens, representational and abstract, the real and the imaginary, men and women, the clinical and non-clinical, the normal and the pathological, the rational and irrational, human and non-human, the young and the old, living and dead, academic and activist-or that call those very divisions into question. Neither -gender, nor any of the other suffixes of trans-, can be understood in isolation.

While we certainly wish to engage with theoretical scholarship, germinal analyses of policy will also find a home in this special issue. In addition, in keeping with the established format of WSQ and the methodological conventions of feminist scholarship, we also welcome first person narratives, provocations, poetry, and fiction as a means to explore, interpret, and re-consider "trans-." Regardless of methodology or discipline, however, we encourage work that understands the representations and meanings of identities, bodies, movements, and anatomies to accrue particular weights and valences depending on the cultural moments in which they are produced and circulated.  The lines implied by the very concept of "trans-" are moving targets, simultaneously composed of multiple determinants.

Some of the critical operations of trans- that we wish this issue to explore include-
-Original, grounded, empirical analyses of historical or contemporary social formations of trans- embodiments.
-Challenges to biological sexual dimorphism via new reproductive technologies and body modification practices.
-Literary, cultural, film and media criticism on and about trans-representation and performance.
-Feminist analyses of geopolitical and temporal locations and boundary-crossings, including work on individual embodiment as a geopolitical temporality.
-Theoretical and substantive analysis of migration, diaspora, borders, and surveillance as they relate to bodily normativity.
-The increasingly blurred distinctions of human/non-human boundaries, particularly as they relate to emerging biomedical and communicational technologies.
-Emotion Studies, including the "movement" of feelings as depicted or analyzed in phenomenological philosophy, art, poetry, and/or autoethnography.
-Work that examines how the legal, administrative, and bureaucratic processes of sovereign power make trans- bodies live, or let them die Work that rearticulates trans- identities in ways that circumvent  the impasses of identity politics

We invite abstracts from all disciplinary and artistic homes including but not limited to: critical theories of race/gender/sexuality, biomedical fields, literary studies, technology and science studies, legal studies, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities generally.

If submitting academic work, please send abstracts by October 1, 2007 to the guest editors at WSQTransIssue@gmail.com.  If accepted, full papers will be due by January 2, 2008.  Poetry submission should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com, by January 2, 2008. Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's Fiction/Nonfiction editor Kamy Wicoff, at kwicoff@yahoo.com, by January 2, 2008. All art submissions should be sent on CD or floppy disk in a high-resolution (300 dpi or more) JPEG or TIFF image to the following addresses:

Paisley Currah
Department of Political Science
Brooklyn College, CUNY
2900 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11210
pcurrah@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Lisa Jean Moore
Purchase College
SS 1010
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Lisa-jean.moore@purchase.edu

Susan Stryker
Women's Studies Department
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive,
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S
susanstryker@yahoo.com

CFP: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is inviting submissions for its forthcoming issues. We encourage contributions from both Taiwan and international communities addressing our special topics; articles on other aspects of literature and culture are also welcome. If your manuscript is intended as a special topic submission, please so indicate. All correspondence should be addressed to Editor, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, 162 Hoping East Road, Section 1, Taipei 106, Taiwan. [e-mail: concentric.lit @deps.ntnu.edu.tw]

Forthcoming Special Topics
Vol. 34 No. 1: "Water" (March 2008)
Guest Editor: Scott Slovic
University of Nevada, Reno
Deadline for Submissions: October 20, 2007

Water is necessary for life; likewise, the motif of water has nourished countless works of literature. The properties of water make it an excellent literary device: Water ebbs and flows, enabling an endless circulation. It can carry a vessel, or take the shape of any vessel that holds it. It occurs in various forms-vapor, rain, snow, ice-and differing intensities, from the gentle drizzle, the thunder storm to the devastating tsunami. Water has the power to give life and take it away: it quenches people's thirst and nourishes crops, yet it also floods fields and farms and homes. It is baptism and balm from Heaven; water is also the form divine retribution took to wipe Noah's contemporaries from the earth. As a major literary motif, water brings succor to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, serves as a testing ground in Melville's Moby-Dick, and opens a path to spiritual healing in Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf both use water as symbol of rebirth and a pathway to creativity-but also as the site of a deadly finale, both for Chopin's protagonist in The Awakening and for Woolf herself. In recent decades, water has emerged as an important metaphor for theoretical discourses, including those of diaspora, migrations, globalization, and eco- criticism. As water is shapeless and yet able to take any shape, possibilities for investigations into the literary and cultural uses of water are fluid and multiple. The editors welcome explorations of the topic from a broad range of viewpoints.

Vol. 34 No. 2: Asia and the Other
a special issue in conjunction with the international conference on "Asia and the Other"

Date of Publication: September 2008
Deadline for Submissions: April 25, 2008

The year 1984 witnessed the taking place of a pioneering conference entitled "Europe and Its Others." With the publication of Edward W. Said's Orientalism only a few years apart, the conference organized by the University of Essex engaged in discussions heralded in Said's monumental work and presented some of the most groundbreaking writings in the then emerging field of "postcolonial theory," with the participation of numerous thought-provoking scholars, Said himself included. Now, two decades later, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies invites proposals for a special issue on "Asia and the Other," in conjunction with the international conference on the same topic, organized by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, to solicit input on Asia's positioning in light of the question of the other.

Presenting a similar-sounding theme with slight revision to the Essex conference, we would like to examine whether or not the idiom of the self/other demarcation is still relevant in the context of Asia. If yes, relevant in what ways? Is the present-day Asia still imagined in the same fashion as the Orient once was? Does the rising economic force of Asia grant Asian countries the "Occidentalist" optics through which they represent their others as Orientalists did them? Without fixed conceptual presumptions, "Asia and the Other" is interested not only in Asia's relations with "its" others, but also in Asia's relations with "the Other/other" as an ethical, political, epistemo- logical, or ontological problematic. "Asia and the Other" seeks to revisit issues taken up by earlier postcolonialist theorists with a different geo- political focus; reexamine and update theoretical apparatuses often adopted in the discussions of the self/other issue, employing the realities of Asia, past and present, as examples; and stimulate conversations regarding the tensions or mutual productivity in cross-cultural, cross-national encounters.

We welcome proposals from various disciplines, including (but not limited to) anthropology, art history and theory, cultural studies, film and media studies, gender studies, geography, history, linguistics, literary studies, performance studies, philosophy, political science, religion studies, and sociology. We are particularly interested in submissions that not only provide historically- grounded reflections, but also boldly reassess predominant theoretical concerns in their specific fields.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

1. Manuscripts should be submitted in English. Please send the manuscript, an abstract, a list of keywords, and a vita as Word-attachments to concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw. Alternatively, please mail us two hard copies and an IBM-compatible diskette copy. Concentric will acknowledge receipt of the submission but will not return it after review.
2. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Except for footnotes in single space, manuscripts must be double-spaced, typeset in 12-point Times New Roman.
3. To facilitate the Journal's anonymous refereeing process, there must be no indication of personal identity or institutional affiliation in the manuscript proper. The name and institution of the author should appear on a separate title page or in the vita. The author may cite his/her previous works, but only in the third person.
4. The Journal will not consider for publication manuscripts being simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
5. If the paper has been published or submitted elsewhere in a language other than English, please make available two copies of the non-English version. Concentric may not consider submissions already available in other languages.
6. One copy of the Journal and fifteen off-prints of the article will be provided to the author(s) on publication.
7. It is the Journal's policy to require assignment of copyrights form by all authors.

CFP: Asian American Law Journal

The Asian American Law Journal (formerly the Asian Law Journal) at the University of California – Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) is pleased to invite article and essay submissions for our 15th volume.

As one of only two Asian Pacific American law journals in the nation, we are committed to providing a forum for scholars, practitioners, and students to address legal and policy issues relevant to the APA community. We are dedicated to continuing our pursuit of excellent, applicable scholarship to foster awareness and increase dialogue both within and beyond the legal community. Our recent name change reaffirms our commitment to addressing issues of concern for Asians in the Americas, and we would request that you send articles on international issues only insofar as such issues affect APA communities in the Americas.

Although not limited to the following topics, we are particularly looking for pieces that address:
1. The connections between the Third World Liberation Front strikes at SF State and Berkeley and present-day struggles
2. Legal issues concerning Southeast Asian Americans and South Asian Americans
3. Pacific Islander legal issues
4. Immigration reform
5. Models of social change
6. Affirmative action as it affects APAs

All other articles and essays on APA legal and policy issues are also welcome!

If you are interested in contributing to the 15th volume of AALJ or the special affirmative action issue, please send us your submission(s) early. Articles will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis until Saturday, September 1, 2007. Final publication is scheduled for May 2008.

Articles or essays submitted should meet the following requirements:
1. The piece must be sent in Microsoft Word format, as an e-mail attachment, to the following address: aalj.submissions@gmail.com
2. Footnotes must be within the text (i.e. incorporated at the end of each page).
3. Footnotes should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.).
4. Please include an abstract and your resume/CV along with your submission.

If you have any questions or would like more information about the submission process, please do not hesitate to email AALJ's Submissions Editor, Jane Ho at aalj.submissions@gmail.com. For more information, please visit our website (http://www.boalt.org/ALJ/submit.html).

Circle of Asian American Literary Studies -- Special Issue Journal Call for Papers in MELUS

Alien/Asian: Imagining the Racialized Future

This special issue of MELUS invites original article-length submissions (6,000-10,000 words, MLA format) addressing the racialization of the Alien/Asian subject in works of science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, or other such similarly aligned textual genres. The so-called "Asian" has been the site of multiple anxieties that have marked this subject as the inscrutable immigrant alien (Immigration Act of 1924), the subhuman monster (as embodied by the evil machinations of Fu Manchu), or the eerily agreeable "model minority." This special issue seeks innovative, dynamic readings on the perennial "alienness" of the Asian that draws inspiration from these historical developments and stereotypes which now cast the Asian as cyborg, robot, alien species, perhaps inhabiting a post-apocalyptic world in which race takes on complicated new formations and intersectionalities.

We broadly define Asian/American narratives and texts. Papers will dialogue with each other through broad theoretical, thematic and analytical methodologies including but not limited to "post" critiques ( e.g. postmodernism and posthuman), hybridity and contact zones, allegories of empire and colonialism, cell and tissue theory, materialist approaches that consider scientific studies, new media studies and hypertext, just to name a few. Articles might examine the configuration of dystopic and fantastic futures in texts such as Cynthia Kadohata's In the Heart of the Valley of Love , Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Sesshu Foster's Atomik Aztex, Alejandro Morales's Rag Doll Plagues, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child, Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl, Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Vandana Singh's and Yoon Ha Lee's short fiction, the work of Lawrence Yep, Tess Gerritsen's Gravity, Minsoo Kang's Of Tales and Enigmas, the vampire fictions of Cecilia Tan, among many others. Not to be overlooked, we hope to solicit articles that address experimental, avant-garde poetic works that interrogate the Alien/Asian in relation to science, technology, and/or the future such as Cathy Park Hong's Dance Dance Revolution, Brian Kim Stefans's Before Starting Over, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Four Year Old Girl, and Shanxing Wang's Mad Science in Imperial China. In addition, articles might examine Greg Pak's screenplay and adapted movie Robot Stories, which uses an almost entirely Asian cast to play overtly with categories of humanity and machinery, while leaving loudly unspoken the representation of race. Alternately, submissions might compare Asian American textual productions with the rich implications of Grace Park's "colorblind" casting as the humanoid Lt. Sharon Valerii, a Cylon in the current Sci-Fi original series, Battlestar Galactica, or other recent casting choices in LOST and Heroes, television shows which continue to draw on the "Asian" as a participant in a science fictional world in which Americans are black, white, and Latino but never Asian.

Is the literal dehumanization of the Asian Other in actual effect dehumanizing, and/or perhaps (paradoxically) metaphorically enabling? What kinds of permutations to the interracial romance, discourses of hybridity and "hapa" identity emerge from these conceits? Do speculative futures suggest a post-race politic that destabilizes and challenges the grounds of Asian/American Studies?

Please e-mail articles as anonymous word attachments with an accompanying abbreviated 1 page c.v. to Stephen Hong Sohn at Stephen.H.Sohn@gmail.com by September 30, 2007. Any queries may be forwarded to the same e-mail address.

Call for Submissions: LGBTQ of color

CALL FOR PAPERS: EXAMINING THE LIVES OF GLBTQ OF COLOR

A special issue devoted to the above topic in:
The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services: Issues in Practice, Policy & Research

In recent decades, queer scholarship and scholarship on race have begun to examine what it means to be raced and/or sexed in the U.S. Yet despite this movement, both Queer Studies and Ethnic Studies have often overlooked the existence of gay men and women of color.

This special issue is an attempt to add to the scholarship about lesbians and gay men of color; where lesbians and gay men of color find a “home” and what kind of home they find, what needs are specific to those who are both “raced” and “sexualized” and what are the factors that need to be addressed when working with people marginalized both along racial and sexual lines.

Accordingly, the guest editor of the journal invites manuscripts that address issues relevant to GLBTQ persons of color. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Domestic violence against/amongst lesbians and gays of color.
2. HIV/AIDS prevention with gays and lesbians of color.
3. Disability, sexuality, and race.
4. Class issues for lesbians and gays of color.
5. Racism in the gay community.
6. Homophobia in racial/ethnic communities.
7. Negotiating lesbian and gay identities with racial identities.

Manuscripts should be one or more of the following types: empirical (quantitative and qualitative) conceptual, addressing theoretical model development or research methodology needs, strategies, or innovations; reviews of empirically-based knowledge, or theoretical pieces. Exceptional personal essays will also be considered. Papers that explore the experiences of two or more racial groups are especially welcome.

The references and format of the manuscript should follow the style of the American Psychological Association and include an abstract of less than 100 words. Authors should submit three hard copies as well as an electronic copy (either on disc or through e-mail as a word document). Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers and returned with comments. Deadline for submission is July 31, 2007 with a planned publication in 2008.

Submissions should be sent to:
Chong-suk Han, Guest Editor
Department of Sociology
Temple University
713 Gladfelter Hall
1115 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Early submissions are encouraged and appreciated. Inquiries for the special issue should be directed to the guest editor at chan@temple.edu or cwhan@u.washington.edu. (215) 204-7751.

Further information about the journal may be obtained at www.haworthpress.com or contacting
the editor Michael Sullivan, Ph.D. at msulliv3@utk.edu or (901) 448-4475