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oob is currently seeking articles on:

Women and Happiness

Deadline: Early 2007: Call or email for more details.

For our special issue on Feminism and Happiness, we are looking for manuscripts of 500 to 2,000 words.

Here are some aspects of the issue you might want to consider:

* What would happiness look like in a feminist world?
* What about being a feminist makes you happy? What about being a feminist makes you less happy?
* How can we incorporate a feminist model for happiness into our feminist theory and practice?
* How does feminism strive to make the world and people happier?
* What does it mean to be happy? What is the difference between happiness and short-term pleasure? What kinds of happiness are there?
* Is happiness an important goal of feminists? Should it be?
* What do women in particular need to be happy?
* How do you combine a need for personal well-being with a political awareness of injustice all over the world? If you are happy, is it just because you are not paying attention?
* How is feminism and feminist theory used in ways that diminish women being happy?
* Has happiness been overlooked by feminists and if so, why?
* What aspects of patriarchy are most destructive of women’s happiness?
* Would having a national happiness index, and related policies aimed at
increasing happiness, benefit women? (Several nations are working on such an index.)
* How would Women’s Studies change if women’s happiness became a central
concern?
* If you have ever been on antidepressants, what was your experience?
Are women too frequently prescribed antidepressants? Do antidepressants
make women happy?
* Do some pleasures have a “kickback,” and actually end up making us less
happy?
* What is the relationship of women’s happiness to: spirituality, food/diet, being in a community of women, meaningful work or lack of, age, culture,marriage/singlehood, motherhood…

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Women and Media

Deadline: Mid 2007. Call or email for further details.

For a special issue on Women and the Media, off our backs is seeking manuscripts that address these and other related topics:

-How the corporate structure of media determines messages about women
-Women as consumers of media—how women read or interpret popular media
-Feminist narratives imbedded in popular media
-Critique of the portrayal of women in particular shows/books/films/genres
-Women as creators of media and as part of the media business
-The differences between the portrayals of women in various forms of media
-The underrepresentation of specific groups of women, e.g., older women, or lesbians
-The hyper-sexualization of women in popular media
-The media’s beauty backlash against women
-Greater access to media at a younger age and its effect on girls
-Gendered media (chick flicks vs action films)
-Feminist alternatives to mainstream media
-The media as a mirror/filter for current cultural and political views of women
-The role of the visual in women’s interaction with media
-The media literacy movement