----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS p l e a s e p o s t QUEER ACTS Edited by Jose Munoz and Amanda Barrett Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Issue 15 We seek contributions for "Queer Acts," a forthcoming issue of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, which will expand and complicate the relation between queer theory and performance. Following recent queer work, this issue will explore the notion of the act as a critical paradigm. Given the discursive momentum behind the word "queer" toward a white/male/middle class alignment, there is a particularly urgent need to discuss the stakes in the terminolgy debate across identifications including woman, feminist, lesbian, and lesbian of color. Possible areas of inquiry include: performance and performativity; theater, theatricality, and popular culture (including film and television); "liveness" and queer performance; queer ethnography, ethnomusicology, and architecture; performance and cultural production during the HIV/AIDS pandemic; theories of relationality and anti-relationality; activism as political performance; queer pedagogy; lesbian and gay performance historiography; transgendered identity and performance. We welcome work on popular culture, politics, theater, music, dance, visual arts, film, video, and other representational practices, and especially encourage work from/on diasporic performance, non-U.S. cultures and intersections between racial and sexual minorities. We encourage experimental critical writing that challenges traditional genres and scholarly conventions. Articles should be 15-25 pages, double spaced; reviews should be 3-5 pages. Please call for submission guidelines. Submission deadline: February 28, 1995. Send inquiries and manuscripts to: June Reich, Managing Editor, Issue 15: "Queer Acts," Women & Performance, Department of Performance Studies, 6th Floor, N.Y.U., 721 Broadway, New York NY 10003. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: (212) 998-1631. Fax: (212) 995-4060.