Society for Women in Philosophy. For information on SWIP membership, which includes receiving program announcements, the national SWIP newsletter, and a discount subscription to Hypatia contact:

Eastern SWIP: Linda Damico, Department of Philosophy, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA 30061.

Midwest SWIP: Carol Mickett, English & Philosophy Department, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO 64093.

Pacific SWIP: Dianne Romain, Department of Philosophy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928.

Midwest SWIP's Fall, 1993 meeting will be held at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH on October 1–3, 1993.

Eastern SWIP and the Women's Studies Program of the University of Pittsburgh are sponsoring a Conference on Feminist Ethics and Social Policy at the University of Pittsburgh, November 5–7, 1993. For information write to Iris Young, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

Call for Papers: Society and Nature: The International Journal of Political Ecology is seeking articles from a feminist perspective that analyze and critique socioeconomic conditions and their interrelationship with nature in order to develop alternative visions for an ecological society. Forthcoming issues (and submission deadlines): Green Economics (Dec. 1, 1993), Science and Technology (March 1, 1994). We are also very interested in book reviews. For further information and writers'guidelines contact: Society and Nature 1449 W Littleton Blvd. #200, Littleton, CO 80120–2127.

Call for Papers in Feminist Jurisprudence. The Spring, 1995 APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law and the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy will be a joint effort on the subject of feminist jurisprudence which, like feminist philosophy of science, challenges us to reflect upon the theoretical foundations of our discipline. Feminist legal philosophy begins with an examination of how the law regulates women, their work, their reproductive functions, their social and sexual activity, their economic independence. Drawn to such controversial topics as discrimination, sexual harassment, reproductive rights and pornography, we are forced to explore more deeply such issues as the nature and justification of law, judicial reasoning, the meaning of equality, justice and the practice of law. We welcome the analysis of case histories in the broad context of jurisprudential discussion. We are looking for essays of no longer than ten pages that clarify issues, make new connections, review literature, or provide curricular suggestions on the subject of feminist jurisprudence. Essays should be submitted in triplicate with the author's name on the title page only. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 1994. Send manuscripts to Hilde Hein, Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610 or to Rex Martin, 6810 W. 66th Terrace, Overland Park, KS 66202.

Call for Papers: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks submissions for a special issue on feminist theory and practice, tentatively slated for publication in summer 1996.

In this, the last special issue that will originate at the University of Minnesota, we will return to our initial editorial promise (Signs 16, no. 3 [Spring 1991]) to make close connections between feminist theory and feminist practice outside as well as inside of the academy. Given that the roots and inspiration for contemporary feminist scholarship emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from the political movements of women organizing on behalf of women's issues—in the home, in the state, in colleges and universities, in our social and religious communities—feminists were determined from the outset to have our scholarship bring women into academic discourse. Within this context, we tried to join theory and practice. We learned about the organization and operation of institutionalized sexism (as we had learned about institutionalized racism) in the course of our daily lives as academics who were trying to create a new kind of scholarship, one that put gender at the center of analysis, that was concerned with issues of social equality and social justice, and that recognized and engaged with the politics of scholarship. Through this effort, a new kind of knowledge was born: women's studies, feminist scholarship, gender studies. Combined with other streams and intellectual developments of the time (postmodernism, deconstructionism, psychoanalysis, marxism/socialism, and cultural materialism, among others), a new kind of intellectual vitality was created. But not all feminists of the “second wave” were academics. Many were struggling to pursue goals and to establish practices that were also guided by feminist principles and feminist intent, but within surroundings quite different from the academy. In hospitals and schools, in battered women's shelters and abortion clinics, in factories and trade unions, women were constructing practices that were guided by feminist consciousness and feminist goals. And it is these practices, outside the academy just as importantly as inside it, that have constructed our theories. It is this connection of theory and practice that is the subject for this special issue. The special issue editors will include the editors of Signs, University of Minnesota professors Ruth-Ellen Joeres, Department of German, and Barbara Laslett, Department of Sociology, and others to be announced in the Summer 1993 issue of Signs.

Please submit articles (in triplicate) no later than September 1, 1994, to Signs, 495 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Please observe guidelines in the “Notice to Contributors” printed in any issue of the journal published since Autumn 1992. For further information about this special issue, contact Joeres or Laslett at Signs, telephone 612–625–1813.

Call for Papers —Rereading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein. I am seeking papers on Wittgenstein for a volume in a Penn State Press series edited by Nancy Tuana. I am interested not only in critical discussions of Wittgenstein's work, from a diverse range of feminist and allied liberatory perspectives, but also in essays that take up questions about Wittgenstein's place in academic philosophy, including his influence on the search for a voice or an appropriate method or style or way of thinking out a philosophy—especially for those who find themselves on the margins. I welcome papers from a range of philosophical as well as interdisciplinary approaches and in a range of styles, from traditionally scholarly to personal. Deadline for manuscripts is August 31, 1994. Send inquiries, proposals, papers, and suggestions to: Naomi Scheman, Department of Philosophy, 355 Ford Hall, University of Minnesota, 224 Church St. S. E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. (From mid-August 1993 to mid-May 1994: The Society for the Humanities, A.D. White House, Cornell University, 27 East Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14853–1101).

Call for Papers on Foucault written from a feminist perspective for a volume, Rereading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Foucault, to be published in the Penn State Press series, Rereading the Canon, edited by Nancy Tuana. The volume will reflect the broad range of feminist approaches to Foucault's work. Papers that address the following questions would be especially welcome: Why has Foucault's work generated so much controversy among feminists? Is a Foucauldian feminism possible, or impossible? Is Foucault's theory of the subject compatible with feminism? Does Foucault's methodology preclude a feminist politics ? Deadline for manuscript submission is August 31,1994. Send inquiries, proposals, or papers to: Susan Hekman, Department of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019–0539.

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