Journal of the History of Biology - Call for Papers for Topical Collection: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Biology

Collection Editor:  Don Opitz

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Journal of the History of Biology invites submissions for its topical collection on “Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Biology.” This collection will advance scholarship on women’s contributions to, and their historical status in, the biological sciences; shifting understandings of gender and sexuality as informed by biological studies; the impact of critical studies on biological thought; the politics of gender in biology; and related themes. Articles accepted for this collection will provide novel analyses that advance scholarship in this broad, interdisciplinary field.

We welcome contributions that engage new and emerging approaches in the historiography of gender analysis. Submissions may, for example, engage literary criticism, spatial analyses, critical race studies, queer theory, feminist studies, philosophy of science, and yet further methodologies. Scholarship that explores this collection’s theme in geographical contexts outside of Europe and the United States are particularly encouraged. Also of interest are understudied areas of biology, for example in the agricultural and horticultural sciences, biology education, biochemistry, biotechnology, and biomedicine; or interdisciplinary studies such as biology and art, biology and literature, and so on.

Although we highly value original empirical studies, grounded in theory, historiography, and innovative methodology, we also welcome review essays that challenge received historiographical perspectives or bring to the attention of the journal’s readership new, significant scholarship in disciplines closely related to the history of biology, including but not limited to anthropology, social studies of science, history of medicine, women’s history, and LGBTQ studies.