Forthcoming in 2006–8: An Article Series on Gender and Change in Central and Eastern Europe
Guest edited by Edith Kuiper, Marianne A. Ferber, and Lisa Giddings

With an article by Heike Trappe and Annemette Sørenson, Feminist Economics will initiate a series of articles on Gender and Change in Central and Eastern Europe, guest edited by Marianne A. Ferber, Lisa Giddings, and Edith Kuiper. This and subsequent articles, to be published over the next few years, will form a part of a larger discussion concerning how the transition processes in this region are altering the economic position of women and families.

Forthcoming in 2008: A Special Issue on AIDS, Sexuality, and Economic Development
Guest edited by Cecilia Conrad and Cheryl R. Doss

In 2004, women and girls for the first time comprised half of the 39.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. The feminization of the AIDS epidemic has been most dramatic in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 60 percent of those infected with HIV are women, and where young women are more than three times as likely to be infected as young men. The interplay of gender and socioeconomic inequality is key to understanding the growing proportion of infected women. While much of the work on the impact of AIDS has focused on children, relatively little research has been done on how this epidemic affects broader economic issues. The special issue seeks to generate a more robust understanding of AIDS, sexuality, and economic development to facilitate more effective responses to the epidemic.

Articles will address such topics as:

• competing identities and the spread, prevention, and impact of HIV/AIDS
• successful treatment and prevention policies and the impact of regional and national policies and small scale, NGO initiatives; the political economy of AIDS response
• the increasing prevalence of HIV infection among young, married women
• unequal access to information about HIV transmission and prevention
• the role of specific economic activities, including mining, trucking, and commercial sex, on HIV transmission patterns within and between countries
• debt, international trade policies, structural adjustment, and the AIDS epidemic
• intellectual property protections, global trade rules, and treatment possibilities for women
• mother-to-child transmission; child- and grandparent-headed households; caring labor
• the capabilities approach and the AIDS epidemic
• past or ongoing epidemics and their interconnection to the AIDS epidemic; emerging epidemics and regional patterns
• masculinity and the transmission of AIDS; the economics of sexual violence and crime

Forthcoming in 2008: A Special Issue on Inequality, Development, and Growth
Guest edited by Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Stephanie Seguino

Along with increasing global economic integration and market liberalization over the last few decades, inter-group inequality has expanded both within and between countries. In a number of developing countries, persistent wage gaps have accompanied rapid growth. In industrial countries, on the other hand, improvement in gender wage gaps is associated with rising class, race, and ethnic inequalities. Although nation-states have attempted to avert rising inequality through a variety of policies (e.g. labor market, social, monetary, fiscal, and industrial policies), market liberalization has impaired the success of these policies in reducing inequality. Feminist literature has established that macroeconomic policies have gendered effects; however, further evidence is necessary to understand the connections between inter-group inequalities related to gender, class, and ethnicity and macroeconomic outcomes, including employment, output, growth, and development. The integration of gender into macroeconomic theory and efforts to develop more gender equitable macroeconomic policy recommendations will require more detailed attention to these critical issues. This special issue will provide a forum for analyzing inequality, redistribution, and growth in developing, industrial, and transitioning countries.

Articles may include:

• The effects of globalization on gender inequality and its linkages to inequalities by class and ethnicity
  
• Mechanisms and state policies that increase inequality (e.g. fiscal conservatism, generation of oversupply of labor, erosion of labor market regulations)
  
• Effects of gender inequality (well-being, income) on macroeconomic outcomes
  
• Effects of macroeconomic policy on unpaid labor
  
• Central banks, monetary policy, and gender
  
• Gender inequality and social exclusion
  
• Measurement of inequality in well-being (e.g. health, education)
  
• Functionings, capabilities, and the quality of life
  
• Redistributive policies, development, and growth
  
• Equal employment opportunity policies, family friendly policies, social safety nets, and macroeconomic policies
  
• Social insurance and gender inequality
  
• Local and global responses to inequality