Call for Papers 20 / 2025
Issue no. 20 (34) / 2025
What Gender Mainstreaming Has to Offer Research
(The benefits and pitfalls of gender mainstreaming in research)
July 31st, 2025: Submission deadline
December, 2025: Publication date
Submission to: contact@analize-journal.ro
Overview:
From the classic binary definition of gender to the much more nuanced ones which approach gender as embodied, as a performance, a structure, a multidimensional process, a spectrum, concepts and theories in the area of Gender Studies/Feminist Studies evolved rapidly and consistently in the last decades.
Gender is seen today as a key analytical category of analysis not only a descriptive and explanatory variable in social and political science research. Integrating gender sensitivity and gender awareness within interdisciplinary research, paying attention to gender aspects in all stages of a research (gender mainstreaming research) is considered by many a key component of research excellence.
Nevertheless, in the current conservative global and local environments, more than ever, strengthen and improve the quality and visibility of the research in the area of Gender Studies/Feminist Studies should be an academic responsibility.
How academics (and specially the new generations of young academics) approach the gender mainstreaming desiderate in their researches? What are their experiences in gendering their researches? What strategies did they choose? What areas of research are they focusing on? If and how paying attention to gender aspects (at epistemological and methodological level) has improved or/and complicated their research process? What lesson are learned?
For this issue of AnaLize Journal we provide an academic open space mainly for MA, PhD and postgraduates students to propose fresh, innovative gender mainstreamed articles based on their research interests coming from various fields (sociology, psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, history, political science, geography, architecture, music, arts, etc.). We invite authors to critically reflect on the benefits and pitfalls resulting in the process of gender mainstreaming the researches.
Doing gender sensitive research (gender mainstreaming research) is useful in order to better grasp the dynamics of the social worlds we study and live in. We hope this special issue will bring some solid and valid arguments for such a bold statement (in our existing political environment), bringing also to front stage the voices of young academic researches in the area.
Suggested starting point literature:
- Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology, Leslie Salzinger1, and Tara Gonsalves, Annual Review of Sociology Volume 50, 2024, https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-031021-040911
- Verloo, Mieke. (2016). Mainstreaming gender equality in Europe: A critical frame analysis. The Greek Review of Social Research. 117. 11-34. 10.12681/grsr.9555.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285165624_Mainstreaming_gender_equality_in_Europe_A_critical_frame_analysis
- Sylvia Walby, Gender Mainstreaming: Productive Tensions in Theory and Practice, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 12, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pages 321–343, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxi018
https://academic.oup.com/sp/article-abstract/12/3/321/1679224?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit your original research papers, reviews, or perspectives to the special issue on Illiberalism, Gender, and Urban Planning through the Analize Journal’s online submission system. Manuscripts should adhere to the journal’s formatting guidelines, which can be found on our website.
All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process to ensure the quality and rigour of accepted papers.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: July 31st
Peer Review Process: September 2025
Expected Publication Date: December 2025
Submission to: contact@analize-journal.ro;
Editors: Laura Grünberg, Diana Elena Neaga, Valentin Quintus Nicolescu
Guest editor: Raluca Molea
Contact Information:
For inquiries or further information, please contact us at contact@analize-journal.ro
Issue coordinators: Professor Laura Grünberg and PhD candidate Raluca Molea, Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest