We welcome calls for papers for related seminars and conferences, forthcoming edited books and special issues of journals in the field of Women and Politics.

If you have any such announcements to share with members they should be sent to Pippa Norris, ideally as an electronic email attachment.

This  meeting will be a preparatory forum for the UN Beijing +5 Review and will specifically focus on women in power and decision-making, one of the critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action.

The Forum will be an unprecedented gathering of women, from Presidents and Prime Ministers to grassroots political leaders. Participants will examine the impact of women's political leadership on public policy, political processes, and governing institutions since women won the right to vote and hold public office.  They will also agree on the most strategic actions to transform politics and make it more hospitable to women's full and equal participation.

President Corazon C. Aquino, the first and only woman president of the Philippines, who led the restoration of democracy in her country after decades of authoritarian rule, is the Forum Patron.

To learn more about the Global Forum, including the program (plenary sessions, workshops and panels), the names of the organizers, the participants, and how to register or organize a panel or workshop, please visit our web site:  www.women-lead.org

To enhance sharing of experiences and expertise, participants are encouraged to organize workshops and panels on various topics of interest, among which are campaign financing, creating a women's vote, managing cities: some effective tools, negotiation skills, message development, practical uses of information technology for politicians, dealing with guns, goons and gold, the impact of affirmative action measures, partnership with men, recruiting women to run for public office,  anti-corruption strategies, business leaders influencing public policy, young women's political agenda, and indigenous women setting their own agenda.

5th December 1999

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED COLLECTION ON WOMEN'S COMMUNITY ACTIVISM

Title: Women's Community Activism and Globalization: Linking the Local and
Global for Social Change

Editors: Nancy Naples, University of California--Irvine and Manisha K.Desai, Hobarth and William Smith College

This collection seeks to make visible the links between women's
community-based organizing and global political and economic forces.  We
wish to identify original studies and first person accounts of women's
community organizing that are explicitly or self-consciously dealing with
global processes affecting the lives of women and their communities in
rural and urban locations around the world.  We are interested in
submissions that will highlight the links between local organizing
efforts, social movements, international politics, and global economic
restructuring.  Areas of special interest include environmental activism,
struggles against violence against women, labor organizing, economic
development, indigenous rights' activism among other community-based
political activism.  We welcome submissions from community activists as
well as academics and development workers.

TO PROPOSE OR SUBMIT A PAPER: Send the title of your paper, your name,
full address, email and phone number, an abstract of approximately 300
words, and a copy of the paper (if available) to:

Nancy A. Naples
Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California  92697
949-824-5749 (office phone)
949-824-4717 (fax)

Please feel free to contact me for more information.

Deadline for proposals:                August 15, 1999.
Deadline for completed papers:    December 31, 1999.
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