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MISTICA: Call for Papers: Women and Digital Divide

From: Yacine Khelladi ([email protected])
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 17:44:28 AST

Gender Technology and Development wrote:
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS - WOMEN AND DIGITAL DIVIDE
>
> Gender, Technology and Development seeks contributions
> to a special issue on 'Women and Digital Divide'
> scheduled for publication in Winter 2001. For this
> special issue, we will focus on feminist analysis of
> the prevailing ways in which ICTs have been
> conceptualized and implemented and how they have
> affected gender relations.
>
> This issue will look at the emergence of professional
> Asian women as the preferred labor force in high-tech
> industries, the transformation of culturally
> entrenched gender roles and relations and the
> North-South distribution of power through new
> communication and information technologies.
>
> The special issue seeks essays that explore (1)
> women's role in ICTs through an analysis of gender
> relations and women's position in the infotech
> economy; (2) the role of IT-enabled services in
> influencing/changing the lives of women; and (3)
> women's economic, political and social decision-making
> powers in the new knowledge society.
>
> Reports on women's communities in cyberspace and the
> innovative use of technologies to transform gender
> relations are welcome. Research papers that critically
> examine cyberfeminism in Asian societies or the use of
> Internet to perpetuate stereotyped images of women are
> particularly invited.
>
> Please send three copies of the submission by March
> 31, 2001 to the Editors, Gender, Technology and
> Development, Gender and Development Studies, Asian
> Institute of Technology, PO Box 4, Klong Luang,
> Pathumthani 12120, Thailand. Email:
> [email protected].
>
> The manuscript should be double-spaced and printed on
> one side of the paper. The title page should contain
> the name(s) and affiliations of the author(s), their
> present mailing address(es) and an abstract of not
> more than 250 words. For further details, please
> consult the instructions for authors printed on the
> back inside cover of the journal.

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