Revista de GEMELA

GEMELA has the unique mission of promoting interdisciplinary scholarship focused on women’s cultural production from the medieval, early modern, and colonial Hispanic world. As the organization has evolved, we have broadened our scope of inquiry from an initial focus on literary writings to a broader approach that incorporates humanities, fine arts, and the social sciences and a trans-Atlantic, interdisciplinary focus on women and gender in the Hispanic world. We seek to publish studies that address gender in the pre-eighteenth century Hispanic world, and encourage interdisciplinary and comparative submissions.

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Call for Papers: Inaugural Issue, Summer 2009
Embodying Women’s Culture: The Hispanic Atlantic, 1500-1800

The focus of this issue springs from the theme of GEMELA's fall 2008 conference, and reflects increasing scholarly attention to transatlantic studies and continuing interest in feminist body studies. The body, the senses, and material culture mediated women’s place in Hispanic social contexts, but they also call attention to women’s agency: self-fashioning, speech, writing, listening, and visual perception. We expect to use the Atlantic as a complex space of analysis; proposals are encouraged to move beyond the national as a critical category and to explore women’s writings and cultural productions from an intercultural, comparative perspective. Emphasis could include the points of intersection between Atlantic cultures and such processes as creolisation, hybridity, and translation. Suggested topics, all of which refer to women’s writings and cultural productions in the early modern and colonial period, include (but are not limited to):

Essays in English and Spanish will be accepted. Articles should be approximately 17-22 pages in length (no more than 8,500 words), double spaced, Times New Roman 12-1", in MLA style with endnotes, and in Word format. Please attach a separate cover sheet with the title, author’s name, affiliation, and e-mail address; no identification should be included in the body of the article itself, as the reviews will be anonymous.

Deadline for submitting essays: November 1. Contributors must be members of GEMELA at the time of submission; instructions for joining may be found in this page.

Please submit articles to both: Stacey Schlau (sschlau@wcupa.edu) and Emilie Bergmann (elb@berkeley.edu)