WUNRN
Call for Papers – 2013
Al-Raida: Women and Public
Health in the Arab World
It
is the hope of this Special Issue to consider health as a site of contestation
where local and global cultural, political, and economic forces compete, and
often stand in opposition to women’s agency. We are interested in papers that
address some of the following questions: how do women reconcile their desires
about their fertility with their economic, cultural, and political realities in
nations that are experiencing collapsed economies and political conflict? How
do women negotiate birthing regimes (traditional versus technocratic) in
anincreasingly globalized environment? What are the reasons behind the
increasing rates of cosmetic surgeries, and how do women negotiate the
competing notions of bodily aesthetics and marriage prospects?
In
this Special Issue, we hope to provide a forum for researchers to share their
knowledge and expertise on women’s health in the Arab World from an
interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome papers from all disciplines including
anthropology, sociology, demography, political science, and economics.
We
welcome papers that address the following:
·
Social
construction of illnesses and diseases
·
Stress
and the pharmaceutical industry
·
Mental
Health, depression, and anxiety
·
Pregnancy,
delivery and the medicalization of birth
·
Demographic
shifts and governmental natalist policies
·
Minority
women’s health and access to care
·
Cosmetic
surgeries
·
Female
genital cutting/mutilation/circumcision
·
Health-seeking
behavior
·
Gender
inequity and health
·
Religious
interpretations and access to health care
·
Chronic
diseases
·
Cancer
In
addition to academic papers we would also like to include critical pieces, testimonials, personal
essays, interviews, short stories, poems, conference reports, and book
reviews.
Submitted papers should be prepared in
English in MS Word and should adhere to the journal’s submission guidelines.
Research articles should be between 6000-8000 words, including notes and
references. They should be accompanied by an abstract of 200 words and include
5 to 6 keywords. The article must contain a separate title page that
shouldinclude: the title of the paper; the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the
author(s); full contact details of the author(s); and the author's brief
biographical statement (up to 40 words). Papers should not have already been
published, or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.
The editorial committee of Al-Raida will inform the author within 6
to 8 weeks of submission whether or not the article will be sent out for
refereeing. A decision about acceptability for publication will usually be
taken within 12 weeks of submission to the reviewers. Submitted articles will
be sent anonymously to two different reviewers. Acceptance of articles for
publication will then be subject to modification as suggested by the reviewers.
Articles
submitted for publication should be sent directly to the
Guest Editor Marianne Sarkis: msarkis@clarku.edu, and
to the Managing Editor, Myriam Sfeir, myriam.sfeir@lau.edu.lb
For full details kindly visit the
following website at http://iwsaw.lau.edu.lb
Deadline
for complete manuscripts: April 1, 2013