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Contact for Submissions: gadeditor@oxfam.org.uk
Deadline for Outlines - 15 February
2009
CALL
FOR PAPERS - Gender & Development: Ageing and Generations
The
November 2009 issue of the international journal Gender & Development, (published
for Oxfam GB by Routledge/Taylor and Francis) will focus on Ageing, and the
relationship of elderly people to younger generations. It will be
co-edited by Caroline Sweetman of Oxfam GB, and Penny Vera Sanso, of Birkbeck
College, University of London. The issue will look at these issues from a
gender and development perspective, starting by recognising the positive
economic and social contributions made by older women and men to their
families, communities, and wider society. It will feature real-life case
studies showing the current challenges facing older women - and men - in
particular contexts, for example as caregivers for grandchildren, and consider
whether the responses of development policymakers are adequate. The
discrimination faced by many older women, in particular, prevents them from
voicing their opinions and realising their rights. We aim to challenge
development policymakers and practitioners to support the interests and needs
of older people, and consider why the issues critical to elderly women and men
remain 'on the sidelines' of gender and development.
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
anticipate the issue including articles focusing on:
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: 15 February 2009. If we are
able to offer space for your contribution, we will write to you by 25 February,
to say so.
Commissioned
articles will need to be completed for a deadline of 30 April 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
practitioners 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.
Thank
you, and best wishes,
Dr
Caroline Sweetman, Editor, Gender and Development, Oxfam GB
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