Call for submissions for Genre, an International Journal of Literature and the Arts at California State University, Long Beach, for an issue on Women, Sexuality and Early Modern Studies. We welcome submissions of papers on a full range of topics addressing writings by and about women and the feminine in the medieval and renaissance periods, including interchanges between East and West. Papers can be devoted (but not limited) to: medieval and early modern female authors and/or figures, depictions of the feminine in medieval and renaissance European and/or Arabic literature, contemporary invocations of medieval femininity, women and hagiography, religious education and women, women and the arts, women in courtly poetry, in sufi literature, or in medieval Islam; feminist women in the Thousand and One Nights, mothers, daughters, and matriarchy. Papers with comparative topics and methodologies are especially welcome. All papers should follow the MLA Modern Language Association of America style with parenthetical sources and a works cited but without footnotes or end notes and be no longer than 5000 words. Deadline of receipt of papers is 1 May 2007. Send papers (and inquiries) to