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>From: "guesteditor" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Feminist Mentoring and the Text (5/1/05; journal issue)
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>Call for Papers:
>Women Writers Special Issue Summer 2005
>Lit Candles: Feminist Mentoring and the Text
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>The field of women's studies has devoted increasing attention to the ways
>in which women act as mentors for other women.  Most such scholarship has
>centered either on pedagogical approaches to feminist mentoring in academia
>or on networks of professional support between women.  These two areas of
>inquiry, however, scarcely account for the ways in which women mentor and
>are mentored by other women--especially among "third wave" feminists.  For
>this issue of Women Writers, therefore, we would like to examine the ways in
>which women create mentoring relationships through the creation of and
>attachment to texts. We hope to bring together a collection of pieces that
>will both celebrate and interrogate these relationships.  For a more
>detailed description of the proposal, see:
>http://www.womenwriters.net/summer05/proposal.html
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>Potential areas of inquiry may include (but are not limited to):
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>How is the process of coming to consciousness as a woman--and/or a
>feminist--facilitated by textual mentors? What role do texts and their
>authors play in mentoring women?
>How do portrayals of women's mentoring relationships differ between male
>and female writers?
>What texts in particular have served as mentor-texts for feminist readers?
>Which characters stand out as role models, inviting personal relationships
>with readers?
>How do women's reading groups take on mentoring functions?  How do texts
>facilitate mentoring relationships between individual women readers within
>and outside of academia?
>How does feminist mentoring differ from more traditional female bonds like
>motherhood, sisterhood, or friendship? How do these kinds of relationships
>inform or impact mentoring?  How are they textualized in similar or
>different ways?
>What similarities and differences exist between relationships of inspiration
>(Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, for example) and relationships of
>mentoring?
>Who have been the mentors--real or textual--for women writers? In what
>ways do patron/protÈgÈ relationships act as (or act against) other models
>of mentoring?
>How do race, class, age, or sexual orientation influence mentoring
>relationships? How are these factors mediated by textual mentoring?
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>We also invite original creative works of fiction or poetry taking on any
>aspect of women, mentoring, and texts.  Interviews between women and their
>mentors are also welcome.
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>We especially encourage collaborative or paired submissions by women and
>their mentors.
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>Queries and submissions should be sent to the Guest Editors of this issue,
>April Gentry and Teri Schell, at [log in to unmask] 
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>Submissions are due no later than midnight EST on 1 May 2005.  Please see
>full submission guidelines at http://www.womenwriters.net/contribute.htm.
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>Submissions formatted for the web (.html, hypertext) will be especially
>regarded, but are not required.
>
>Contributions should be submitted to the Guest Editors
>([log in to unmask]) in digital form:
>*text-based contributions should be saved as Microsoft Word documents (.doc
>or .rtf), Word Perfect documents:  (.wpd), or web-ready documents (.html).
>*images should be saved as jpegs (.jpg) or gifs (.gif)
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>For information about submitting material in media formats that are not
>listed above, contact Kim Wells at [log in to unmask]
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>Please consult The MLA Manual of Style for proper manuscript form.  All
>manuscripts or correspondence regarding the submission of manuscripts will
>be directed to the Guest Editor of the issue to which you wish to
>contribute.
>
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>for more information:  http://www.womenwriters.net/editoralboard.html
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