Message-ID: <35ABA869.45A46FE3@hsph.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:50:18 -0400
From: Orit Halpern <ohalpern@hsph.harvard.edu>
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To: marxist feminist <m-fem@csf.colorado.edu>,
        PROGRESSIVE POPULATION NETWORK <ppn@csf.colorado.edu>,
        Repro-Hlth-L <repro-hlth-l@info.usaid.gov>
CC: "Ra'eda al'Zubi" <ralzubi@hsph.harvard.edu>,
        lisa Mccarthy <lmccarth@hsph.harvard.edu>
Subject: Call for Submissions to Reproductive Health and Gender Forum
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Dear Colleagues:


I'm writing you to announce the recent launch of the Global Reproductive
Health Forum (GRHF),
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet, and to call for
submissions of original research for this Internet project.

The current discussions of reproductive health on the internet often
fail to encourage original approaches and critical analysis of the ideas
of reproduction, gender and rights. The need for innovative work and
ideas cannot be overstated. Even more pressing, is the necessity of
allowing these ideas a space for representation and distribution on the
internet.

We seek to encourage the proliferation of critical discussions about
reproductive health and gender on the net by providing an electronic
forum presenting work from a variety of disciplines and approaches.  We
are interested in material which uses reproduction as an entry point to
the study of social life, and discusses the (re) production of power
relations as embodied in the discourses of  public health and
bio-medicine within a global context. We are particularly interested in
analysis which examines the roles of race, class, gender, and ethnicity
within reproductive health.

To reach this end we are soliciting materials to present via our web
project.  We are interested in submissions of publications, articles,
research, websites, and commentary concerning the following topics:

1) Gender representation in the discourses of reproductive health and/or
international “development”

2) Critical discussion of population and family planning projects within
the context of “globalization”.

3) Emerging Reproductive Technologies (both assisted reproductive
technologies and contraceptive technologies)

4) Reproductive Rights

5) Any other work which challenges dominant ideas of reproductive
health, including training/teaching materials, and activist materials.

We encourage graduate students and non-academic organizations to submit
work. Acceptance of work is rolling, and there is no deadline.

We prefer full text with full citations, references and a bibliography.
Submissions should be no more than 5000 words.  Please include short
biographical information with the submission.

Your submission will be refereed by our board of academic staff.
Submissions can be returned with comments and changes suggested by the
editorial board.

Please send submissions by email attachment in Microsoft Word. Our email
address is: grhf@hsph.harvard.edu or you can submit via our website at
www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet .

If you do not have access to email, you can send the work by snail mail.
We require a hard copy of the submission and a copy on diskette ( IBM
3.5”diskettes).
Please send submissions to:

Ra’eda Al-Zubi
Global Reproductive Health Forum
Department of Population and International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115

Copyrights remain with the author and full academic credit and citation
will go to the author and/or copyright holder of the article. We will
gladly link back to organizations, publishers, or authors from the
article, simply send the URL with the work.

Your input and participation are invaluable to us and we  welcome your
submissions as well as your comments and ideas about our Internet
project.

If you would like more information on our project, please contact us at:

grhf@hsph.harvard.edu
We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Sincerely,
Orit Halpern
Project Manager
Global Reproductive Health Forum
Harvard School of Public Health
Tel: (617)432-2936
Fax: (617)566-0365
E-mail: ohalpern@hsph.harvard.edu