Lectora calls for contributions for issue 30

Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat has just published a call for papers for its special issue Num. 30, to be published in 2024. The monographic dossier is entitled “Medical Humanities and Gender Perspectives: A Necessary Marriage” and it invites articles that address the intersection between the humanities and biomedical sciences in cultural and textual representations, especially from a gender perspective and its intersections. The dossier seeks to address topics such as the gender differences in the social construction of pathologies and addictions, the pathologisation of emotions and their connection with the category of “Woman”, the gendered component of autopathographies, gendered grief and the patient-doctor relationship through the lens of gender, among others. All in all, the aim of this special issue of LECTORA is to make visible the different ways in which gender asymmetries, together with intersectional aspects such as race, sexuality, and socioeconomic factors, have influenced the supposed objectivity of medical knowledge throughout history, contaminating our contemporary social perception, and lived experience, of illness. To that end, this dossier will showcase the need for a systematic presence of the gender perspective in biomedical research as well as in the cultural representation and social perception of corporeal pathologies and mental-health issues. This dossier will be edited by Luz Mar González-Arias (Universidad de Oviedo). The deadline for submissions for the dossier and varia sections is December 15, 2023. Lectora provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.