Identity, Migration and Women's Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression

Call for Papers

Possible key themes for the Conference could be:

• Borderlands, identity, liminality/marginality, race and gender.
• Intersectionality of gender, globalization and borders.
• The body as a site of boundaries and contestation.
• Gender and trans(nationalism).
• Sex, work and trafficking across borders.
• Migrant sex work.
• The representation of women's bodies in colonial times.
• Prostitution in the colonies.
• The female body as object of violence and discrimination.
• Diaspora literacy and African diaspora.
• Fighting stereotypes about women's representations.
• Women as colonial and postcolonial subjects from issues concerning identity.
• Cultural and literary representations of women's contributions to the construction of knowledge.
• Migration and alienation.
• Double jeopardy of race and gender
• Women's search for spiritual wholeness and spiritual and physical healing
• Madness as a result of / and escape from women's oppression and trauma
• Women and interculturality
• Women and hip-hop culture
• Women, popular culture and the global communication circuit

Proposals of 300 words, and brief CV including your affiliation and contact details must be sent to the organizers: