[wapadc] Fwd: Call for papers on women, marginalization, and vulnerability. GENUS thematic issue

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From: Barbara Knox-Seith <bknoxseith@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:58 PM
Subject: Fwd: Call for papers on women, marginalization, and vulnerability. GENUS thematic issue
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This call for papers might be of interest to some WAPA members.

Barbara

Call for papers on women, marginalization, and vulnerability

GENUS thematic issue

 "Everyone has the right to life,

liberty and security of person"

(Art.3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Physical and psychological violence, sexual abuse, acid burning, genital mutilation, femicide, human trafficking, slavery. These and many others are the risks faced every day around the world by millions of women of all ages, social classes, and cultures.

Violence against women is the consequence of inequalities in the power distribution between men and women within society, both past and present, which if not properly and promptly tackled will remain a cause of future death among women.

Worldwide, women aged between 15 and 44 years are as likely to die or to be disabled by violence as by cancer and much more likely to lose their life due to violence than to the combination of traffic accidents and malaria. In high, middle, and low income countries, between 15-71% of women reported being sexually assaulted by a partner during their life, and between 0.3-11.5% by a stranger; around 20% of those have been victims while still children. Moreover, today one hundred and forty million women experience and live with the consequences of genital mutilation, which dramatically affects their overall psychological and physical health in those cases in which it does not kill them. Furthermore, almost 12 million women are the victims of forced labour, of which more than a third are victims of sexual exploitation and of this almost a million are young girls.

The verbal, psychological, and physical violence women are exposed to throughout their lifetime is contrary to their right to live a life free of harm and of fear of being harmed from any known or unknown person as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art.3).

The aim of this thematic volume of Genus "When gender is a matter of life or death" is to further understand the causes and consequences of women and girls' physical and psychological vulnerability around the world.

We therefore invite authors to submit papers that may help understanding such aspects of our societies. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Contributions addressing the health consequences of women's vulnerability and marginalization. In particular: health risks associated with sexual violence, sexual trafficking, and genital mutilation.
• Analysis looking at the consequences of violence on women's mental health.
• Contributions pointing to the economic dimension of women's vulnerability.
• Studies looking at temporal-spatial aspect of any dimensions of vulnerability.  
• Contributions describing the association between migration and exposure to violence.
• Studies able to disentangle the effects of war and conflicts on female lifecourse.

Given the complexity of the topic, multidisciplinary approaches are welcomed and encouraged. Contributions should include novel elements when compared to previously acquired knowledge.

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been published previously nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All manuscripts submitted to this thematic volume of Genus must follow the submission guidelines available at: http://scistat.cilea.it/index.php/genus/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

Deadline for submission: 30 November 2013

Submissions:
Submissions to Genus are made using Genus online system (http://scistat.cilea.it/index.php/genus/index) adding the following note: "Paper submitted for the special Thematic volume When gender is a matter of life or death".

Contacts: For any additional query please contact Dr Mariachiara Di Cesare (Imperial College London) m.di-cesare@imperial.ac.uk 

Mariachiara Di Cesare (Thematic Issue - Guest editor)

Graziella Caselli and Viviana Egidi (Genus editors)

Claudia Gras and Giuseppe Gesano (Genus executive editors)

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