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AnnounÂœments A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Women's History: WOMEN AND FUNDAMENTALISM: PERSPECTIVES ON THE NEW RELIGIOUS POLITICS The Journal of Women's History is soliciting essays for a special issue on women and the politics of reUgion. We are particularly interested in contributions on both current and past reUgious/ political movements that are often called "fundamentalist." Nikki R. Keddie and Jasamin RostamKolayi will serve as guest editors, and the issue will appear early in 1999. We are specifically seeking works that shed light on the rise of movements with conservative gender positions within diverse reUgious traditions such as Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Many of these movements have strong appeal to women. We especially encourage articles that provide historical perspective on the rise of contemporary religiopolitical movements; compare two or more such movements; or analyze women and religious politics in the past. The deadline for submissions is September 1,1997. Send 4 copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to Fundamentalism Issue, Journal of Women's History , c/o Department of History, Ohio State University, 230 W. 17th Avenue , Columbus, OH 43210. For more details on submission poUcy, emaU jwh@osu.edu or see the Notice to Contributors page in any issue of the Journal of Women's History. The Women's History Faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, invites proposals to re-examine existing paradigms and explore emerging ones in the field at a conference to be held in New York City, Friday and Saturday, October 7-8, 1998. To ensure a wide array of current scholarship, established scholars are urged to apply in pairs with a graduate student or recent Ph.D. Graduate students and junior faculty are encouraged to apply individually U necessary. Instead of panels where papers are read and critiqued, the format will be working seminars where the presenters discuss new issues and methodologies which have arisen in women's history in the 1990s. The focus wiU be on recent scholarship and how it has changed previous conceptions or given rise to new concerns . We are especially interested m approaches which question accepted temporal and national historical divisions. Proposals should be sent to the Ph.D. Program in History, City University of New York Graduate Center, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y 10036, Att'n Professor Bonnie S. Anderson by June, 1997. ...