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Gendering the Trans-Pacific World series
Forthcoming Brill Book Series: Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
Edited by Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Ohio State University
This innovative book series explores the gendered nature of the Pacific World by focusing on three phenomenon: Diaspora, Empire, and Race. It will feature how people have dispersed across the Pacific for trade, labor, migration, cultural exchange, and military engagement. These migrations rarely occur in gendered balanced ways, resulting in “bachelor” societies in the receiving country and “stranded” women in the sending country. At other times, female migrants have been in the forefront of migration. The Pacific has also been the site of multiple empires – Asian, European, and American. These colonial powers were invested in managing the gender and sexual relations among and between “natives” and “colonizers.” Finally, the phenomenon of migration and political expansion coincided with racializing processes that established social hierarchies based on naturalized assumptions of biological difference. Here again, gender was essential to these efforts. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World seeks scholarship that offers original approaches to understanding these complex power relations. It welcomes social and cultural history; biography; as well as interdisciplinary works that examine art, photography, film, and literature.
Manuscripts (preferably in English) should be at least 90,000 words in length (including end notes and works cited). Manuscripts may also include illustrations and other visual material. The editors would be interested to receive proposals for specialist monographs and syntheses, but may also consider multi-authored contributions such as conference proceedings, and thematic issues, and source translations and edited texts.
Contact: Professor Catherine Ceniza Choy, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley,ceniza at berkeley.edu, or Professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Departments of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University, wu.287 at osu.edu
Editorial Board
Denise Cruz, University of Toronto
Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Karen Leong, Arizona State University
Mary Lui, Yale University
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
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To launch the new series, Brill is inviting submissions for an inaugural anthology on the topic of “Gendering the Trans-Pacific World.” Find the call for papers below.
Call for Papers
Anthology: Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
Editors: Catherine Ceniza Choy (University of California, Berkeley) and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Ohio State University)
Choy and Wu, editors of a new book series with Brill, are inviting submissions for an inaugural anthology on the topic of “Gendering the Trans-Pacific World.”   The new book series and proposed anthology seek to make two important intellectual interventions.
First, taking our cue from “Atlantic World” scholarship, we call for a “Pacific World” framework to understand the connections between the lands, people, cultures, and environments that are in and border the Pacific Ocean.
Second, we call for a gendered analysis of the Pacific World. Gender and sexuality have been and continue to be integral aspects of diaspora, militarism, empire, race, and community formation.
“Gendering the Transpacific World” seeks scholarship that offers innovative approaches to understanding these complex trans-Pacific power relations. We invite interdisciplinary scholarship that frames historical and contemporary phenomenon through feminist, critical race, and post-colonial analyses. We welcome social and cultural history; biography; as well as interdisciplinary works that examine art, photography, film, and literature.
Interested authors should submit the following in English to Cathy Choy (ceniza at berkeley.edu) and Judy Wu (wu.287 at icloud.com) by July 15, 2015.
*          a cover page with your name, institution, and email
*          a 500 word abstract
*          an essay of up to 10,000 words with the author’s identification removed (please submit a Microsoft World document, double-spaced and formatted with 1” margins and 12 point font)
*          please use footnotes (see the Chicago Manual of Style) to cite sources
Please contact us with questions or to receive feedback on an abstract before the due date. For more information about the Brill book series, please see: http://www.brill.com/forthcoming-series-gendering-trans-pacific-world
by denton.2 at osu.edu on January 27, 2015
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