CALL FOR PAPERS
CAPITALISM AND/OR PATRIARCHY?
Conference in Gender Studies
Organized
by the Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University
International
June 22-24, 2006. Vilnius, Lithuania
Centre
for Gender Studies, European Humanities University-International is pleased to
announce call for papers for the “Capitalism and/or Patriarchy?” gender studies
conference. The Centre has concentrated on research into post-Soviet gender
issues since 1997 and has offered a master’s degree in gender studies since
2000. After EHU in For
more information about the Centre for Gender Studies, please, go to:
< www.gender-ehu.org For information on
EHU-International programs and activities, see: http://ehu-international.org
CAPITALISM AND/OR PATRIARCHY? The
demise of state socialism, some scholars maintain, resulted in the
reconfiguration of gender relations and the rise of a systemic privilege of men
over women in countries in transition. Other theorists argue that the most
important event of the late 20th century was the disintegration of
the Some
theories interpret the emergence of post-Soviet “masculine privilege” as
patriarchal renaissance. According to another point of view, men and women are
equally marginalized by capitalism: it is class, not gender, that matters. There
is also a tradition of rethinking capitalism as just a form (or a reincarnation)
of patriarchy.
Conference
organizers are hoping for an interdisciplinary academic
debate of the interception of (post-Soviet) capitalism and patriarchy within the
following topical areas.
1.
Gender
and post-Soviet social stratification
2.
Gender and post-Soviet nations
3. Gender
and social movements/collective actions 4. Capitalism,
lifestyles and cultural practices Conference languages are the regional lingua franca of Russian
and English.
Proposals
for individual papers or complete panels can be sent to gender@ehu-international.org Please include your contact information,
brief CV and paper description of up to 250 words. The deadline is
For
further inquiries please e-mail to: Elena Gapova
<e.gapova@worldnet.att.net>
Class
and gender stratification in post-Soviet societies. The new rich and the new
poor. Unpaid women’s work and global capitalism. Men at the margins of «new
economy”. Market and the welfare state.
The
ultimate connection between constructions of and ideas about gender relations
and post-Soviet nation-building. The fraternity of the nation and
construction
of patriotic manhood. Gender and citizenship.
Nationalism
and motherhood. Women, the invention of tradition,
and cultural
reproduction of the nation. Sexuality, demography, and
nationalism. Global religions, gender and nation-building.
Gender
and the problem of a political subject. Whom do women in political parties and
decision- making bodies represent? “Women’s issues” as a political issue.
Women’s
movement and the reasons for its weakness: structural or cultural? Is a common
ideology for postcommunist women’s groups possible?
Rethinking
gender in postcommunism by post-Soviet and Western scholars.
Anthropological
dimension of transition. Transformation of daily life: class and gender
differences in lifestyles. Post-Soviet consumption practices. Sexuality as
a commodity. Gender, mass media and popular culture.