Call for Papers
Women in Political Studies (WIPS)
Interdisciplinary Conference
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Papers are welcome from all graduate students and scholars from a
variety of disciplines, such as political science, women’s studies,
philosophy, liberal studies, history, anthropology,
sociology and psychology.
The New School University
65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Friday, March 8, 2002
Please send a 100-word abstract no later than Monday, February 11, 2002 to Claudia Leeb at
LeebC01@newschool.edu.You can mail your abstract to Claudia Leeb c/o Department of Political Science, New
School University, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10003. Please include your name, e-mail, and university
affiliation plus phone number.
Fields of interest include:
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1.Politics of Class, Gender, Race and Sexuality
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2.Theories of Culture, Difference, Identity and Recognition
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3.Historical and Comparative Approaches
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4.Human Rights and Women’s Rights in the International Arena
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5.Social Movements and Activism
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6.Gender and Development
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7.Feminist Economics
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8.Feminist Psychoanalysis and Feminist Political Theory
This is not an exclusive list; those interested in proposing other topics are encouraged to do so.