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Aspasia: International Yearbook for Women's and Gender History of Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe
Aspasia is a new, international peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender history focusing on and produced in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe. Each volume of Aspasia consist of articles, a Forum and book reviews.
Volume 1 (to be released in early 2007) focuses on Women's Movements and Feminisms; its Forum asks: "Is Communist Feminism a Contradictio in Terminis?" Volume 2 (2008) is dedicated to Women Writers and Intellectuals.
The Aspasia editors are Francisca de Haan (Central European University, Budapest), Maria Bucur (Indiana University) and Krassimira Daskalova (St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia). For more information see www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/asp or write to Dehaanf@ceu.hu or Mbucur@indiana.edu.
The Journal of Women's History now features a special section 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.
The Journal of Women's History regularly features "The Book Forum," a special section of short essays (1,000-1,500 words) that 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 [End Page 256] 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.
