[NIS_GS:] Feminist Economics paper call: A Special Issue on AIDS, Sexuality, and Economic Development

FEMINIST ECONOMICS
CALL FOR PAPERS

A SPECIAL ISSUE ON
AIDS, SEXUALITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Guest Editors
Cecilia Conrad and Cheryl R. Doss

Feminist Economics invites submissions of papers and short discussions
for a special issue on "AIDS, Sexuality, and Economic Development." We
encourage scholars in all disciplines as well those involved in NGO and
governmental work to submit abstracts by March 1, 2006. If the abstract
is accepted, the completed manuscript will be due on October 15, 2006.

In 2004, women and girls for the first time comprised half of the 39.4
million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. The feminization of the
AIDS epidemic has been most dramatic in sub-Saharan Africa, where
nearly 60 percent of those infected with HIV are women, and where young women are more than three times as likely to be infected as young men. The
interplay of gender and socioeconomic inequality is key to understanding the
growing proportion of infected women. While much of the work on the impact of AIDS has focused on children, relatively little research has been done on
how this epidemic affects broader economic issues. The special issue will
seek to generate a more robust understanding of AIDS, sexuality, and
economic development to facilitate more effective responses to the epidemic. The papers must explicitly consider gender issues, but do not have to focus
on women. Possible topics include:

* Successful treatment and prevention policies and the impact of
regional and national policies and small-scale, NGO initiatives; the political
economy of AIDS response
*The increasing prevalence of HIV infection among young, married women
* Unequal access to information about HIV transmission and prevention
* The role of specific economic activities, including mining, trucking, and commercial sex, on HIV transmission patterns within and between countries
* Debt, international trade policies, structural adjustment, and the AIDS epidemic
* Intellectual property protections, global trade rules, and treatment
possibilities for women
* Intersection of ethnicity, race, caste, class, and gender and the
spread, prevention, and impact of HIV/AIDS
* Mother-to-child transmission; child- and grandparent-headed
households;
caring labor
* Reproductive rights, sexuality, and HIV prevention
* The capabilities approach and the AIDS epidemic
* Past or ongoing epidemics, and their interconnection to the AIDS
epidemic; emerging epidemics and regional patterns
* Masculinity and the transmission of AIDS; the economics of sexual
violence and crime

Please direct queries and abstracts to Guest Editors Cecilia Conrad
(cconrad@pomona.edu) or Cheryl Doss (cheryl.doss@yale.edu). Final
papers
(after approval of abstracts) should be submitted to Feminist Economics
through the submissions website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec).
Questions about these procedures may be sent to
feministeconomics@rice.edu, +1.713.348.4083 (phone), or +1.713.348.5495
(fax).
____________________________________________________________
Diana Strassmann
Professor of the Practice, Rice University
Senior Research Fellow and MS - 9
Editor, Feminist Economics 6100 Main St.
dls@rice.edu P.O. Box 1892
(713) 348-4660 office Houston, TX 77251-1892
(713) 348-5495 Fax USA
www.feministeconomics.org

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