Call for Papers – Review of Gender Studies 2025, Submission Deadline- 19 January 2025

Call for Papers – Review of Gender Studies 2025, Submission Deadline- 19 January 2025

The Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) invites articles for the Review of Gender Studies (RGS) issue to be published on 26 April 2025, which can offer theoretical, empirical, and/or comparative insights on the theme of Care Labour: Feminist Interpretations and Analyses. The RGS succeeds the Review of Women’s Studies and seeks to broaden the scope of the review issue for a more comprehensive critique of the intersectional patriarchy. The issue will include submissions to this call as well as solicited articles.

Submission Guidelines:

1. Scope of submission—Original and unpublished papers related to the main theme. Authors are requested to send finished papers and not abstracts.
2. Length—Between 4,000 and 6,000 words (inclusive of an abstract and references in EPW style, available at https://www.epw.in/style-sheet.html).
3. Eligibility—Research scholars, academics, policymakers, and researchers (independent or affiliated) working on a paper that concerns the RGS theme.
4. Theme—The gendered work continuum is intricate and interconnected, and contains various interlinked forms of paid, underpaid, and unpaid labour. Its inherent complexity encompasses all activities that are not only income-earning, income-augmenting, and income-substituting, but are additionally integrated with the morphology of production, re-production, and reproduction.

In this context, deeply gendered and limited definitions of ‘work’ have been questioned by feminist scholarship—with the conceptualisation of unpaid and care labour being foundational to these critiques, especially in the context of the low participation of women in the labour force, accompanied simultaneously with a rise in the share and numbers of unpaid family helpers. Analyses of the causes and implications of such indicators—including but not limited to socio-economic, political, and historical—are crucial to unpacking the deeply intertwined nature of unpaid and care labour with intersectional patriarchy. RGS 2025 hopes to deepen and expand the understanding of unpaid and care labour and trace these various dimensions along with addressing debates between differing perspectives. The submissions can be on the following sub-themes, but not necessarily restricted to these:

Sub-themes:

1.  The role of institutions and structures in shaping the unpaid and care economy.
2. The impact of political institutions, legislations, and movements on unpaid and care work in private and public domains.

iii.  Shifts in feminist discourses, interpretations, reimaginations, and critiques of unpaid and care labour.

1. Extra-economic and non-economic drivers of the gendered labour continuum.
2. Historical, psychological, and literary studies on care labour and intersectionality.

Procedure for Submission:

1. Please mention your full name, institutional affiliation, contact details, acknowledgements, and other relevant details on the cover page.
2. All entries must be accompanied by an undertaking that the article has not been submitted to any other journal for publication in any other form.
3. Send your papers by 19 January 2025 to [email protected] as a Microsoft Word document with the email subject being “RGS 2025: Submission”. Tables and figures, if any, must be editable and attached separately as a Microsoft Excel file.

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