CFP: Menstruation Research 2009

On the heels of our recent conference in Spokane, Elizabeth Kissling, Chris Bobel, Ingrid Johnston-Robledo and Peggy Stubbs have secured two journals interested in publishing menstrual cycle research. While we hope many of the wonderful papers presented in June will be submitted for consideration, we want to extend this call to all members of the Society. We realize that not everyone could attend and know that many of you are working on exciting studies.

Liz and Chris will be guest editors for a special issue of Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal and are targeting a July 2010 deadline for a Fall 2010 issue.

Ingrid and Peggy will be guest editors for a special issue of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. The publication date for this journal has not yet been finalized. Sex Roles is interested in announcing the CFP to a broader audience and we think that this will be good outreach to menstrual cycle researchers who are not (yet!) members of SMCR. In addition, the editor, Irene Frieze, has asked us to develop a theme for this special issue.

As you recall our conference theme was “Menstrual Moments: Media Messages About Menstruation,” and those of you who were able to attend will remember that there were many interesting presentations from communications scholars as well as media artists in addition to both clinical and psychological research reports.

If you are interested in having your work considered for publication in these special issues please do the following:

No later than October 20, 2009, please send to Elizabeth Kissling (ekissling@ewu.edu) AND Ingrid Johnston-Robledo (Ingrid.Johnston-Robledo@fredonia.edu) a 300-word abstract describing your work. In this abstract, please briefly describe the theoretical context that frames your paper, the research methods employed, and the key arguments that emerge from your findings.

Potential contributors to Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal should submit abstracts of work pertaining to the socio-cultural dimensions and/or representation (broadly conceived) of any aspect of the menstrual cycle. We welcome submissions grounded in any discipline as well as those which take an inter or transdisciplinary approach.

Potential contributors to Sex Roles should submit papers that inform the general theme of the social positioning of menstruation as a stigma/pathology/marker of women’s “lower” status. A reminder: Sex Roles is primarily a journal that publishes psychological research, but does welcome both qualitative and quantitative research reports.

We realize that there may be some overlap in terms of content, but hope that you will have confidence in our ability to guide the submissions to the most appropriate journal for consideration.

As has been our process in the past, we will no doubt call on members to help in the peer review process in addition to reviewers selected by the journal editors.

We look forward to hearing from you by October 20! Completed papers will be due January 15, 2010.