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Journal of Women's History 18.3 (2006) 152-153


Announcements

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan solicits writings that explore topics related to scholarship in the field of women's studies and feminist knowledge. PJWS is an interdisciplinary journal that aims at disseminating and sharing women's studies research and feminist scholarship globally. The major objectives of PJWS are to create, strengthen, and disseminate information and knowledge about and for women globally, to establish a network among women, researchers, lobbyists, and policy planners, to act as a catalyst in society at large and to bring about the empowerment of women and hence the transformation of the society, and to critique and reassess the process of gaining and disseminating knowledge.

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies publishes interdisciplinary research in the field of women's studies, conceptual and analytical writings on themes related to women's status and roles, research on curricula, course outlines, reading lists and teaching strategies related to the discipline of women's studies, reviews of books, films, and theatrical performances, reports on national and international conferences, symposia, and workshops on women's studies and feminist pedagogy, and creative work, particularly poems, short stories, and art. PJWS welcomes submissions of autobiographical notes from women who have a story to share with us. Work reports of activists and grass-roots development workers are welcome.

For more information and submission guidelines, please contact Dr. Tahera Aftab, Editor, Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies, email: pjw_stud@hotmail.com or taftab@gettysburg.edu. Address in Pakistan: C 31 Noman Heaven, Block 15, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi, 75290, Pakistan.

The Journal of Women's History is inaugurating a new special section of the journal that will be devoted to the practice of women's history. We are interested in short individual pieces (1,000–2,000 words), as well as full roundtable forums of four to five contributors (5,000–10,000 words total) that explore cutting edge questions in history practice—from the archive to personal narrative work, from grant-writing and publishing to teaching, from activism and community service to campus and department politics. We would like to assemble a range of perspectives from across the globe. If you have ideas about future history practice sections (either individual or roundtable), please contact the editors at womenshistory@uiuc.edu or write to Editors, Journal of Women's History, The University of Illinois, 810 South Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA. [End Page 152]

The Journal of Women's History will regularly feature "The Book Forum," a new special section of short essays (1,000–1,500 words) that will engage a major scholarly monograph or collection in the field of women's and/or gender history. We will invite reviewers who work outside the temporal or spatial frames of the book in question to assess its importance—in terms of methodological innovation, theoretical significance and empirical discovery—to their own fields of research and teaching. We plan to spotlight books that have had a significant impact on women's history within the past decade, as well as new titles whose thematic concerns, method, and theoretical groundwork speak to a broad and diverse women's history audience. If you have suggestions of titles or are interested in participating in a Book Forum, please email the Journal's book review editor, Marilyn Booth, at womenshistory@uiuc.edu.

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