Guest Editors: Jean C. Robinson and Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Women's and men's lives are increasingly affected by national and international political and economic decisions. In this special issue of the NWSA Journal, we will explore the ways in which social policies are implicated in gendering lives. We invite contributions that explore the impact and interaction of social policies with gender locally, nationally, and globally. We are looking for submissions that explore the ways in which race, ethnicity, and gender are implicated in social policy. Although the primary focus of this special issue is on research that analyzes broad-based social policies that currently confront health, living conditions, economic development, mobility, and reproduction, we are also interested in research that connects past histories with present-day social dilemmas. We are particularly interested in submissions that are comparative or international in scope.

Suggested topics include:

• International economic organizations and gender at
• local levels
• Provision of and access to health services
• Immigration policies, race and gender
• Migration and women
• Refugee policy and women
• Housing and gender
• Sustainable development and women's work
• Comparative national policies on abortion
• Family policies
• Reproductive technologies and the redefinition of
• parenthood
• Welfare and women
• FGM and international policy
• Feminist policy-making and women's policy agencies
• Incarceration and women
• Rape in war
• Traffic in women
• HIV policy and gender
• Women's NGOs

Submission deadline: Jan 31, 2000