Call for Abstracts for a collection of essays on Writing and Speaking the Body: Rhetorical and Feminist Studies of Reproductive Technologies Deadline: January 22, 1996 This collection of essays will address the rhetorical construction of women's bodies and women's reproductive functions. The essays will focus on particular cases (historical or current) or theoretical overviews in which the connection between language and science or technology illuminates the attitudes, values, and goals of reproductive science and technology. Three academic presses have expressed a strong interest in the collection. We invite scholars and researchers using a variety of methodologies to submit abstracts. However, we would like the proposed essays to approach the question of science/technology and women's bodies, particularly reproductive functions, from the "lens" of language and rhetoric. We imagine, therefore, that interested authors will look at texts (for example, medical texts, scientific articles, and transcripts from public hearings), specific wording or language choices (for example, metaphors, definitions, and rules and regulations), rhetorical strategies (for example, persuasive choices, establishment of credibility, and identification with discourse communities), or rhetorical situations (for example, competing values, development of genres, and intersections of knowledge, power, and discourse). This collection was inspired by the Gender, Women, and Science Question conference at the University of Minnesota in May 1995 and will contain a preface by the conference organizers, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen Longino. Scholars and researchers, including conference participants, are invited to submit an abstract for a proposed paper to be included in the collection. The sponsoring body for the collection is the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. The editorial collective for the collection consists of Clare Gravon (Administrator in Center for Advanced Feminist Studies and the Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute); Laura Gurak (Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric); Mary Lay (Professor, Department of Rhetoric, and Director, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies); and Cynthia Mynnti (Co-Director, Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute) from the University of Minnesota. Interested authors should submit a two-to-three-page abstract and a 100-200-word biographical sketch by January 22, 1996 to: Editorial Collective--Writing and Speaking the Body Center for Advanced Feminist Studies University of Minnesota 496 Ford Hall 224 Church Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455-0110 FAX: 612-624-3573 Internet: [log in to unmask] Submissions may be made via FAX, US mail, or the internet. Electronic files should be in ASCII or RTF format only; if you wish to send a compressed file, binhex is the only compression format we can accommodate. Authors will be invited to submit papers based on successful abstracts. Papers will be due in early summer 1996, with revisions submitted in fall 1996. Please address any specific questions to Mary Lay, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the address above, or call 612-624-9809, or communicate via internet to [log in to unmask]