Advancing Women in Leadership, the first on-line professional, refereed journal for women in leadership, announces a call for papers for a special issue focusing on women's leadership for social justice. Sharon Shockley Lee and Kelly McKerrow will serve as guest editors for this special issue, Advancing Social Justice: Women's Work.

Leaders for social justice seek to change political, economic and social structures that privilege some and disadvantage others. They challenge unequal power relationships based on gender, social class, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, language, and other systems of oppression.

As women achieve positions of influence and participate in policy decisions, they have opportunities to open up access to knowledge, opportunities and resources to those with less power. Women from all levels of the social hierarchy, not just those with official status positions, have a role in social justice leadership. As social justice leaders, women work to alter the undemocratic culture and structure of institutions and society, improving the lives of those who have been marginalized or oppressed.

Theory, practice, advocacy and action to counter injustice have emerged from civil rights, feminist, postmodern, critical, multicultural, queer, postcolonial, and other movements. Grounded in these movements, social justice leaders strive for critique rather than conformity, compassion rather than competition, democracy rather than bureaucracy, polyphony rather than silencing, inclusion rather than exclusion, liberation rather than domination, action for change rather than inaction that preserves inequity.

Submissions to this special issue on Advancing Social Justice: Women's Work
should address these and other related questions:

What are the experiences of women as social justice leaders?
What ethics, values, orientations, and experiences of women enable/constrain social justice leadership?
What are the everyday and/or extraordinary actions of women that advance the cause of social justice?
How do women engage others in creating the kind of world they want to live in?
What type of advocacy and action work when women advance social justice?
What theoretical models best explain what women do to advance social justice?

Manuscripts for this special issue must be received by January 1, 2004. Questions regarding this special issue, Advancing Social Justice: Women's Work, should be addressed to:

Sharon Shockley Lee
Southern Illinois University
618-650-3953
shalee@siue.edu

Kelly McKerrow
Edwardsville Southern Illinois University
616-536-4434
mckerrow@siu.edu

Manuscripts should meet the following requirements:

1. All articles should follow The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) Fifth Edition format. If an individual is from a country other than the United States and is unfamiliar with this publication style, the editors will assist the author in formatting the manuscript in APA style if the manuscript is accepted for publication. (There are some internet web sites dealing with APA that may be helpful.) Because html formatting is slightly different from that of regular paper publishing, the APA style will be followed as closely as possible. Indentions, spacing, and footnoting may vary in this journal.

2. Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, titled, and should be no more than a total of 30 pages in length. Do not put any identifiction of the author(s) within the text of the manuscript. Pertinent photographs, charts, or graphs need to accompany the manuscript.

3. Manuscripts submitted should be previously unpublished and not under consideration by another publication.

4. A cover page needs to be included containg such itmes as the title of the manuscript, all authors and thier complete contact information such as address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail addresses. Give a brief biography of each author stating affiliation, position, degree received, etc.

5. Submit manuscript either by e-mail or through the postal service. Please indicate that your manuscript should be reviewed for this special edition of the AWL Journal.

E-mail to the Editors at: edu_bid@shsu.edu

Postal Mail - If mailed through the postal service, the author must submit three hard copies of the manuscript along with it saved on a disk. The document must be saved as a Word Document or as an RTF file.

Dr. Genevieve Brown/Dr. Beverly J. Irby, Editors
Advancing Women in Leadership On-line Journal
Sam Houston State University
P.O. Box 2119
Huntsville, Texas 77341-2119

Telephone: 936-294-1147
Fax: 936-294-3886

Manuscript Deadline: January 1, 2004