{"id":1457,"date":"2013-05-13T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2013-05-13T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:28:21","slug":"call-for-proposals-for-the-anthology-bronze-womanhood-chicana-feminisms-activism-and-leadership-in-the-chicano-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2013\/05\/13\/call-for-proposals-for-the-anthology-bronze-womanhood-chicana-feminisms-activism-and-leadership-in-the-chicano-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Proposals for the Anthology-  Bronze Womanhood: Chicana Feminisms, Activism, and Leadership  in the Chicano Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Ca<\/b><b>ll for Proposals for the Anthology <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Bronze Womanhood:\u00c2\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Chicana Feminisms, Activism, and Leadership in the Chicano Movement <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Ed<\/i><i>ite<\/i><i>d<\/i><i> <\/i><i>by<\/i><i> <\/i><i>M<\/i><i>ay<\/i><i>lei <\/i><i>B<\/i><i>l<\/i><i>a<\/i><i>ck<\/i><i>w<\/i><i>ell, <\/i><i>M<\/i><i>a<\/i><i>ri<\/i><i>a<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Co<\/i><i>ter<\/i><i>a<\/i><i>, <\/i><i>D<\/i><i>i<\/i><i>onn<\/i><i>e <\/i><i>E<\/i><i>s<\/i><i>p<\/i><i>i<\/i><i>no<\/i><i>z<\/i><i>a<\/i><i>,\u00c2\u00a0 <\/i><i>and<\/i><i> Li<\/i><i>nda<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Ga<\/i><i>rci<\/i><i>a<\/i><i>-\u00c2\u00ad<\/i><i>M<\/i><i>e<\/i><i>rc<\/i><i>han<\/i><i>t<\/i><i> <\/i><\/p>\n<p>We \u00c2\u00a0are \u00c2\u00a0soliciting \u00c2\u00a0new \u00c2\u00a0essays \u00c2\u00a0on \u00c2\u00a0Chicana \u00c2\u00a0feminist \u00c2\u00a0organizing, \u00c2\u00a0activism, \u00c2\u00a0and \u00c2\u00a0leadership \u00c2\u00a0in \u00c2\u00a0the 1960s and 1970s for a co-\u00c2\u00ad\u00e2\u20ac\u0090edited volume, Bronze Womanhood. The volume will feature new scholarly essays on Chicana feminist praxis in its early years, as well as personal essays by some of the women her were active in social justice work during the period covered by the volume. We welcome scholarly essays that address one or more of the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How have Chicana feminists and activists developed their own theories and praxes as a result of their participation in multiple movement spaces, and how has that experience of multiplicity shaped the political subject of Chicana feminism?<\/li>\n<li>How \u00c2\u00a0have \u00c2\u00a0Chicana \u00c2\u00a0feminist \u00c2\u00a0activists \u00c2\u00a0analyzed \u00c2\u00a0their \u00c2\u00a0work \u00c2\u00a0and \u00c2\u00a0its \u00c2\u00a0relationship \u00c2\u00a0to \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Anglo feminism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and\/or other women of color feminisms?<\/li>\n<li>How does new scholarly work and accounts by Chicana feminists revise a well-\u00c2\u00ad\u00e2\u20ac\u0090worn narrative that constructs Chicana feminism as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153growing out of\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Chicano movement or as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153delayed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d form of feminism in the Second Wave? How do these accounts demonstrate\u00c2\u00a0 the\u00c2\u00a0 extent\u00c2\u00a0 to\u00c2\u00a0 which\u00c2\u00a0 the\u00c2\u00a0 movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0 key\u00c2\u00a0 figures\u00c2\u00a0 and\u00c2\u00a0 organizational projects emerged from a variety of precursor contexts and struggles and also link to other movements?<\/li>\n<li>What \u00c2\u00a0are \u00c2\u00a0some \u00c2\u00a0of \u00c2\u00a0the \u00c2\u00a0histories \u00c2\u00a0that \u00c2\u00a0have \u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> \u00c2\u00a0been \u00c2\u00a0told \u00c2\u00a0about \u00c2\u00a0Chicana \u00c2\u00a0feminist organizing and leadership? For example, the history of Chicana lesbians who may not have identified within the construct of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sexuality during that time frame but who nevertheless made their mark as committed activists in the Chicano movement?<\/li>\n<li>While the Houston conference of 1971 is marked as a key moment in the development of early Chicana feminisms during which major conflicts and dialogue emerged, are there other areas in which conflict and collaboration were evident and how did these play out?<\/li>\n<li>How does the gathering of oral histories and archives by a new generation of scholars build upon previous documentation, fill gaps, and also question accepted accounts of organizational experiences, political mobilization, and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collectivities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Among the essays we hope to include in the volume, are pieces on individual Chicana feminists and their bodies of work (writing, art, activism, leadership, performance) perhaps framed as a biographies or political histories; pieces on Chicana archives and the politics of collection, the construction of histories through the archives, and the purpose and need for these recoveries; reflections by key individual Chicana feminists in excerpted memoir form, position papers about their work, critiques of the existing narratives, or new accounts of their work; accounts of Chicana feminist formations and collectivities that have not previously been studied or written about in depth in places such as San Diego, the Bay Area, Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Tucson, Albuquerque, and understudied regional locations such as the Midwest, the South, the East Coast and the Northwest, \u00c2\u00a0as well as work on national organizational efforts such as <i>Comision Femenil<\/i>; explorations of various media and the use of film, theatre, or other formats for re-\u00c2\u00ad\u00e2\u20ac\u0090 presenting Chicana feminist histories; the role of spirituality in the development of Chicana feminist discourse, and, more particularly, the organizing and theoretical work elaborated by Chicanas within institutional religious organizations.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome contributions in various forms; from more traditional scholarly articles, to memoir and personal essays, to document curation and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to be part of this project, please submit an abstract proposal (max. 500 words) stating the tentative title of your article, its main arguments, and an overview of organizations, key figures, and data you will be drawing from.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00c2\u00a0<b>Proposa<\/b><b>ls may be sent via email to<\/b><b> <\/b><a href=\"mailto:bronzewomanhood@gmail.com\"><b><span style=\"display:inline;unicode-bidi:bidi-override;direction:rtl;\" class=\"\">moc.liamg<span style=\"display:none;\">obfsctd-45c2cf<\/span>&#64;doohnamoweznorb<\/span><\/b><\/a><b>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/b><b>Dead<\/b><b>line: <\/b><b>June 15, 2013<\/b><b> <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Proposals for the Anthology Bronze Womanhood:\u00c2\u00a0 Chicana Feminisms, Activism, and Leadership in the Chicano Movement Edited by Maylei Blackwell, Maria Cotera, Dionne Espinoza,\u00c2\u00a0 and Linda Garcia-\u00c2\u00adMerchant We \u00c2\u00a0are \u00c2\u00a0soliciting \u00c2\u00a0new \u00c2\u00a0essays \u00c2\u00a0on \u00c2\u00a0Chicana \u00c2\u00a0feminist \u00c2\u00a0organizing, \u00c2\u00a0activism, \u00c2\u00a0and \u00c2\u00a0leadership \u00c2\u00a0in \u00c2\u00a0the 1960s and 1970s for a co-\u00c2\u00ad\u00e2\u20ac\u0090edited volume, Bronze Womanhood. The volume will feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cfp","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":202,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2008\/11\/15\/espinoza-gives-first-molina-lecture-at-ucsd\/","url_meta":{"origin":1457,"position":0},"title":"Espinoza gives first Molina lecture at UCSD","author":"la Webjefa","date":"November 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The 1st Annual Gracia Molina de Pick Latina Feminism Lecture was presented at UCSD last week.... The lecture presented by Dr. Dionne Espinoza was titled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Out of the Movement Kitchen: Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Activism in Chicano Movement Organizations and the Rise of Chicana Feminisms\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. more here","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Members in the news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Members in the news","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/members-in-the-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":173,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2008\/07\/07\/cfp-latinachicana-mothering-deadline-extended-to-1031\/","url_meta":{"origin":1457,"position":1},"title":"CFP: Latina\/Chicana Mothering &#8211; deadline extended to 10\/31","author":"la Webjefa","date":"July 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Latina\/Chicana Mothering Publication Date: Fall 2010 Editors: Dors\u00c3\u00ada Smith Silva and Janine Santiago We are very excited to edit an interdisciplinary book on mothering in the Latina and Chicana communities.\u00c2\u00a0 We seek papers that examine the narratives,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Publications&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Publications","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/new-publications\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":242,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2009\/04\/12\/teatro-chicana-honored-with-popculture-prize\/","url_meta":{"origin":1457,"position":2},"title":"Teatro Chicana Honored with PopCulture prize","author":"la Webjefa","date":"April 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays Edited by Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nu\u00c3\u00b1ez This collection has been awarded the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies in Popular and American Culture in 2008. This award is given by the Popular\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Congratulations!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Congratulations!","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/congratulations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"teatrochicana","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/malcs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/teatrochicana-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":787,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2011\/09\/28\/review-chicana-power-contested-histories-of-feminism-in-the-chicano-movement\/","url_meta":{"origin":1457,"position":3},"title":"REVIEW:  Chicana Power!  Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement","author":"la Webjefa","date":"September 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Maylei Blackwell, \u00c2\u00a1Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Reviewed by Miroslava Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez-Garc\u00c3\u00ada Until now, no one has published a history of the struggle of Chicanas in the Chicano movement\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe mass political mobilization of Mexican American peoples in the Southwest US\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Publications&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Publications","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/new-publications\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":168,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2008\/06\/15\/job-asst-prof-chicana-chicano-studies-csu-fullerton\/","url_meta":{"origin":1457,"position":4},"title":"JOB: Asst. Prof. Chicana &amp; Chicano Studies, CSU Fullerton","author":"la Webjefa","date":"June 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at CSU-Fullerton has been authorized to conduct a tenure-track search for a new faculty member whose work emphasizes Culture & Literature. We would greatly appreciate your assistance in circulating the link herein and attachment to any and all interested parties. Interested persons can find all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Jobs and fellowships&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Jobs and fellowships","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/jobs-and-fellowships\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1107,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2012\/06\/19\/professor-maria-cotera-chicana-por-mi-raza-online-archive-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":1457,"position":5},"title":"Professor Maria Cotera:  &#8220;Chicana por mi Raza&#8221; online archive project","author":"la Webjefa","date":"June 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Maria Cotera presented a talk earlier this month at Stanford\u00c2\u00a0about her Online Chicana Feminist History Archive Project, created with documentary\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0filmmaker and producer Linda Garcia Merchant, of Voces Primeras.\u00c2\u00a0From the newsletter for the Clayman Center for Gender Research:\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Today we talk about Chicana feminism almost exclusively in the academy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Maria\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General News","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/general-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\"Chicana por mi Raza\" artwork","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/Chicanapormiraza-217x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}