Papers registered and presented during the 2nd Global Conference on Women’s Studies will have the opportunity to be considered for publication in the following journals and open access books:
Deadline: 26 August 2021
The Journal of International Women’s Studies
ISSN: 1539-8706
Journal Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/
The Journal is indexed with the MLA International Bibliography, The International Bibliography of Social Sciences, EBSCO, Elsevier Bibliographic Databases, Ulrich’s Periodicals, the Gale Group, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ProQuest Bibliographical References and SCOPUS.
Scopus index link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/145252
Publication processes: 4-6 weeks
Publication fee: Free
- Abstracts and key words should be included in the same file as the article. Abstracts should be 300-350 words in length. Authors should include one key word or phrase about their research methodology.
- The maximum length of any contribution should be 7,500 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography.
- Contributions should be double-spaced, including all notes and references. Page numbers should be placed in the upper-right corner, paragraphs should be indented, and all illustrations and tables should be labeled and captioned accurately. Use Times New Roman, 12-point font, left-justified text, and bold-faced headings. Follow APA or MLA citation styles, or a style appropriate to your discipline.
- In the interests of blind peer review, only the title of the paper should appear on the first page. Authors should include their name and affiliation and any acknowledgements on a separate page.
- A brief biographical note of not more than 80 words about each author should be supplied on a separate page including your email address if you wish readers to reach out to you.
- Contributors should bear in mind the international nature of the journal’s audience. Footnote explanations are necessary for all political & geographic references, popular culture references, as well as academic references. Please do not assume that scholars who are famous in one country bear similar prestige elsewhere.
- Submission of work to this journal will be taken to imply that it presents work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. On acceptance of work, the authors agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to JIWS.
- Permission to extensively quote from or reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the authors before submission and any acknowledgements should be included in the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgements section at the beginning of the paper. Where photographs or figures are reproduced, acknowledgement of source and copyright should be given in the caption.
- All JIWS submissions go through a blind, peer review process. Please note that we will return articles that need extensive English language editing, do not conform to submission guidelines regarding formatting, and demonstrate a lack of professionalism with respect to quality of presentation—spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.
Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences
ISSN: 2538-919X
Journal Link: https://dpublication.com/journal/jarss
Publication Processes: 6-8 weeks
Publication fee: Free
JARSS is indexed/abstract with the following databases: Index Copernicus, DRJI, ResearchBib, Scientific Indexing Services, Scientific Indexing Services, Scilit, CiteFactor, WCOSJ, and Google Scholar. JARSS has linked its papers to references by DOIs assigned by Crossref.
Manuscripts should be organized as follows:
- Title page: List title, authors, and affiliations as first page of manuscript
- Abstract: an abstract should summarize the key points of the manuscript in 150 to 250 words. An abstract is a short summary of a larger work for the purpose of condensing the argument, conclusions, and/or results into a paragraph. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.
- Manuscript should follow the style detailed in the APA publication manual.
- Introduction
- Materials and Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions (optional)
- Acknowledgments (if applicable)
- References: This journal uses “APA” Reference style. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the references section.
- Supporting information captions (if applicable)
Figure captions are inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which the figure is cited.
Tables are inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which they are cited.
European Journal of Behavioral Sciences
ISSN: 2538-807X
Journal Link: https://dpublication.com/journal/ejbs
Publication Processes: 6-8 weeks
Publication fee: Free
EJBS is indexed/abstract with the following databases: Index Copernicus, DRJI, ResearchBib, Scientific Indexing Services, Scientific Indexing Services, Scilit, CiteFactor, WCOSJ, and Google Scholar. EJBS has linked its papers to references by DOIs assigned by Crossref.
Manuscripts should be organized as follows:
- Title page: List title, authors, and affiliations as first page of manuscript
- Abstract: an abstract should summarize the key points of the manuscript in 150 to 250 words. An abstract is a short summary of a larger work for the purpose of condensing the argument, conclusions, and/or results into a paragraph. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.
- Manuscript should follow the style detailed in the APA publication manual.
- Introduction
- Materials and Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions (optional)
- Acknowledgments (if applicable)
- References: This journal uses “APA” Reference style. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the references section.
- Supporting information captions (if applicable)
Figure captions are inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which the figure is cited.
Tables are inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which they are cited.
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
Print ISSN: 1464-9373
Online ISSN: 1469-8447
Journal Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/riac20/current
Abstracted/ Indexed in: Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Communication and Mass Media Complete; Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences; Current Contents/Arts & Humanities; Electronic Collections Online; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC; R I L M Abstracts of Music Literature; SCOPUS; Social Sciences Citation Index; Sociological Abstracts; and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Scopus index link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/4800156106
Publication fee: Free
All manuscripts should be submitted directly to the journal.
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Word Limits
Please include a word count for your paper.
A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 10000 words, inclusive of the abstract.
Style Guidelines
Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.
Any spelling style is acceptable so long as it is consistent within the manuscript.
Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Formatting and Templates
Papers may be submitted in Word format. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).
Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.
References
Please use this reference guide when preparing your paper.
An EndNote output style is also available to assist you.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
Gender & Society
ISSN: 0891-2432
Online ISSN: 1552-3977
Journal Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gas
Gender & Society is abstracted and indexed in over 50 databases including Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Scopus index link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/14925
Publication fee: Free
Acceptance Rate: less than 10%
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc. Submitting authors are required to set up an online account on the SageTrack system powered by ScholarOne.
Format
Papers should be approximately 9,000 words, including an abstract (150-200 words), notes, and references. All tables, figures, and appendices must be submitted separately from the paper, and should be submitted together in one supplemental file. Authors should consult the Chicago Manual of Style, Style B, for citations and references, or refer to the Gender & Society style manual, available here. Authors should not number the pages; the online system will number the pages.
Blind Review Process
The review process for manuscripts submitted to Gender & Society is anonymous; please remove all material from the manuscript that identifies you. Your submission should be blinded, meaning there is no clear way for reviewers to identify you as the author. All references to your own work should be cited in the third person. Please do not make references to your own work unless they are absolutely necessary; for example, if the reviewer would be able to identify you if a citation was omitted. A reference to any previous work should read: “As Collins (2014) has found…” and NOT like: “As I previously demonstrated… (Collins 2014).” Only include acknowledgements on a separate title page, not on the manuscript document.
Book available for Chapter submission
Following a publication Partnership with Proud Pen- open access books publisher- chapter publication opportunities will be offered free of charge. Please note that the OPEN ACCESS CHAPTER Publication Fee with Proud Pen is £450, however for those who apply for chapter contribution via this publication opportunity, the chapter publication fee will be waived.
Prepare your accepted conference submission according to the Book Chapter Template and submit it via the submission form. Your chapter submission will be reviewed by book editor for compliance with the quality and scope requirements of the Open Access Book.
Call for a Book Chapter
Editor : Dr. Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Research group Dedal-Lit University of Lleida Catalonia, Spain
About The Book
For the past three decades, debates and reflections upon aging and old age have gained unprecedented attention in the field of humanities and cultural studies, finally giving rise to the academic discipline of cultural gerontology. The increase of longevity and the rapid growth of the aging populations in Western societies have contributed to bringing the discourses of aging to the arena of academic discussion from multiple perspectives within the arts. The analysis of manifold cultural manifestations often underlines a historical ambivalent interpretation of old age, which echoes Cicero’s axiom in De Senectute (45 a.C.), as he asserts that “everyone hopes to reach old age, but when it comes, most of us complain about it.” From classical times, old age has often been defined through stereotypes that still pervade contemporary cultural manifestations, such as Aristophanes’s conception of old age as a second childhood, which gave way to the literary trope of the puer senex or the aged child and, subsequently, to Renaissance artistic depictions of ascending and descending staircases representing different life stages, which were known as Lebenstreppen and associated childhood and old age as demeaning stages of life in comparison with adulthood. In contemporary times, stereotypical perceptions of old age as a second childhood are revisited and revealed in their complexity, as is the case with Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (1922), in which life stages are blended and subverted, and the traditional dichotomy between the mind and the body with regard to aging is reconsidered with ambiguous results.
In his study of symbolic images of the aged, Herbert Covey (1991) gives evidence of the proliferation of ambivalent portrayals of male and female aging throughout history, which acquire either positive or negative connotations and conform to a formulaic and even stereotypical representation of old age. Aged men were often depicted by means of archetypes, such as either the old fool, represented by King Lear in Shakespeare’s eponymous tragedy, or the sage, personified by Merlin as the old wizard in the legend of King Arthur. Similarly, aged women were assigned either the archetype of the lustful old widow, as is the case with the Wife of Bath in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, or the role of the compassionate fairy in folktales, represented by the fairy godmother in Charles Perrault’s Cinderella. Aged characters were thus depicted through either sentimentalised characterisations or descriptions that highlighted their role as social authorities, thus underpinning portrayals of the elderly as either dependent subjects often associated with illness and even death or as aging subjects endowed with wealth and social status who were perceived as preying on the youth. Social concerns and anxieties about aging and old age gradually emerged in classic Victorian gothic narratives, such as Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which brought into dialogue disquieting discourses of aging which remained latent in the late nineteenth-century.
With the advent of gender studies, critics such as Simone de Beauvoir in The Coming of Age (1970) contended how the aged self is mostly perceived by others and turns into an alienated part of ourselves, and Susan Sontag (1972) brought attention to the double standard of aging operating in contemporary society which considers that women age earlier than men. Studies focusing on the concept of late style, such as Ann Wyatt-Brown’s seminal volume (1993), also discuss how some artists and writers began their career in their later years or changed their approach to art significantly upon their aging years, thus exploring old age as a fruitful stage of unprecedented creativity. Painters like Claude Monet, composers such as Giuseppe Verdi, and writers ranging from Toni Morrison to Marcel Proust or J.R.R. Tolkien started their artistic career when they were well over their forties and extended it until their later years. Nevertheless, from a sociological perspective, Margaret Morganroth Gullette (1997) has brought attention to the decline narrative that has dominated most Western thinking about old age and, by resorting to psychoanalytic theories, but also moving away from them, Kathleen Woodward (1999) has pleaded for the need to praise the figure of the older woman in Freudian generational models, as well as that of the aged self in Lacanian theories of the mirror stage of age.
Owing to the proliferation of aging studies and cultural gerontology, the discourses of aging have gained much interest from contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives within the humanities. Well into the twenty-first century, this edited collection seeks to re-examine historical portrayals of aging and old age, and analyse their contemporary depictions from different disciplines in the arts, which underline traditional and even stereotypical representations, but which also depart from them, thus producing myriad and complex, but also enriching and thought-provoking, portrayals and discussions of aging through a multifaceted approach.
To that purpose, areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- cinematic and theatrical representations of age: the aging actress and the performativity of age.
- gender and aging: aged femininities, aged masculinities, queer aging.
- studies of late style in the works of writers, artists, musicians.
- theoretical and philosophical reflections about age and old age from classical to contemporary exponents.
- analysis of the discourse of aging and aged characters in short fiction, novels, plays, poems.
- conflict and understanding across generations in different cultures and countries.
- the disruption of stereotypes of gender and age in different genres, such as detective fiction (the case of Miss Marple, Father Brown, etc.).
- anxieties about age and old age as the abject in gothic fiction and fantasy.
- the portrayal of the elderly in folktales and fairy tales.
- Neo-Victorian novels that revisit Victorian conceptions of age and old age.
- representations of old age in popular fiction: television series, cartoons, graphic novels.
- the discourse of aging and old age in music, and iconic singers and musicians.
- aging and old age in cyber worlds, virtual reality, and digital literature.
- eroticism and old age: the portrayal of sexuality and the aging body in fiction.
- the conception of fiction as therapeutic in illness and later years of life.
- evolving portraits of the aging body in the arts: the past and the present.
- the roles of aging male heroes in contemporary adventure fiction.
- the aged and ecocriticism.
- the perpetuation of stereotypes of aging and old age in popular culture.
- subversion and defiance of the dictates of aging in different textualities: (not) acting your age