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CALL FOR PAPERS - Gender &
Development: What's New for Women in the World of Work?
The July 2009 issue of the international journal Gender & Development, (published for Oxfam GB by Routledge/Taylor and Francis) will focus on Work.
Commissioning Deadline: 14 October 2008. Details follow.
The issue will look at Work from a feminist perspective,
aiming to identify the ways in which development research, advocacy, policy and
practice can support individuals, households and communities in developing
countries to make sense of changes in the work opportunities open to them, to
weather crisis and to forge a decent, dignified living.
Contributions are invited from development
researchers and workers who have experience to share with their peers, and with policymakers and
decision-makers in development agencies and governments.
We'd anticipate the issue including
articles focusing on:
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Women's rights at work
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Working for oneself -
including micro-enterprise and self-employment
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What counts as work?
Including patchworks of income generation
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Feminisation of the labour
market - what are the implications for women, men and gender relations?
•
New forms of work -
technologies, services
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(Re) valuing traditional
forms of work - handicrafts; traditional healing etc
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Organising women workers:
what are the challenges?
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The threat from
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Agro-industries
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The new 'green' turn in
policy and its impact on women's work - substituting their labour for high-tech
labour-saving devices
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How should development
projects and programmes be adapted and designed to respond?
If you would like to write on any of the above, or have
other ideas about articles we should commission, please send a paragraph
outlining your proposed idea to gadeditor@oxfam.org.uk,
as soon as possible, and before the commissioning deadline: 14 October 2008.
If we are able to offer space for your contribution, we will write to you by 21
October, to say so.
Commissioned articles will need to be completed for a
deadline of 14 January 2009.
G&D particularly welcomes
contributions from first-time writers and I will provide the necessary support
for you to share your development experience and expertise through the journal.
G&D provides a forum for development policymakers,
practitioners and researchers, and feminist activists to share insights,
analyses and concepts that promote and support dignified, decent and
sustainable development, founded on equality between women and men. We aim to meet the needs of development
policymakers and practioners for information which enables them to 'do gender'
in their work. Published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis for Oxfam GB, the
journal has become essential reading for all concerned with gender-fair
development. We are currently read in over 90 countries.
Please note G&D has an editorial policy of publishing in
clear, jargon-free English, in order to be of use to the widest possible
readership. Practitioners and activists, as well as researchers, are invited to
write for us, and editorial support is available for all writers who would like
it.
For more information about the journal including full
guidelines for contributors, please visit www.genderanddevelopment.org
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Dr Caroline Sweetman, Editor, Gender and Development,
Oxfam GB
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