(Note: scope includes how dress and appearance codes disparately affect transgender or gender-nonconforming persons, gays, and lesbians.)
Dress and Appearance Codes, the Workplace and the Law: Special Issue Call For Papers From Equality, Diversity And Inclusion Journal
Guest editors:
Todd Brower
Professor of Law
Western State University College of Law
1111 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92831
USA
tbrower@wsulaw.edu
Jackie Jones
Senior Lecturer in Law
Bristol Law School, UWE
UK
Jackie.jones@uwe.ac.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) journal is pleased to announce a special issue focused on ‘dress and appearance codes, the workplace and law’. The special issue will examine different types of employer regulation and imposition of workplace codes, guidelines and norms for employee dress and appearance. The special issue aims to offer a range of legal, cultural, ideological and practical perspectives on issues of gender and gender-identity, sexual orientation, religion, and cultural and social diversity implicated by these workplace regulations. In addition, the special issue seeks to set these dress and appearance codes in their legal and wider societal contexts within organizations and legal institutions.
AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
Appearance and dress are vehicles for self-expression in the workplace (Bartlett, 1994). They communicate and provide insight into a person’s gender-identity, sexual orientation, race or culture, religion, politics or views on piercings, tattoos, or even taste in music (Clarke and Turner, 2007; Carbado, et al., 2007; Kirkland, 2003; Shadid and van Koningsveld, 2005; Wintemute, 1997). As traditional, societal workplace dress norms become less rigid, employers’ control of workplace appearance may increasingly be used to serve a variety of other management purposes: in an era of high unemployment, employers may use dress and appearance codes to advance an agenda of more control over workers, to burnish an employer’s image, or to create a public identity or corporate ‘brand’ (Leidner, 1993; Skidmore, 1999). This creates an atmosphere where difference in appearance is not merely frowned upon but subject to sanctions.
This special issue calls for papers on this broadly defined theme. Papers on any of these or associated topics are welcome, particularly relating to some aspect of law. For example, an exposition of caselaw, a comparison of legal regulations, or an empirical case study in this area in any part of the world; the effect of the recession on dress and appearance codes; how dress and appearance codes disparately affect women, men, transgender or gender-nonconforming persons, gays, lesbians, religious minorities, and with body modification like tattoos or piercings, perhaps also age and social class – from those who do not intend to make a statement about those categories in the workplace to those who do.
The editors invite both theoretical, empirical, and legal research papers for the special issue. While there is no preference for any specific research paradigm, innovative research methodologies adopted to collect and analyze the data and cases are welcomed. Authors are encouraged to engage their work in recent debates and research on this topic.
This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be blind reviewed in the normal way. Submission will be taken to imply that a paper contains original work that has not previously been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should follow the journal’s regular guidelines, as published in every issue of the journal. Papers should be no longer than 7000 words including references.
SCHEDULE
• 1st February 2011: Call for papers issued
• 1st August 2011: Submission of full papers
• 1st December 2011: Editorial decision
• 2012: Anticipated publication of the special issue
Prospective contributors are welcome to liaise with the guest editors before the submission date to discuss the suitability of their work for this publication.
Please note that the submissions should be made through the Manuscript Central. Papers to be considered for this special issue should be submitted online via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/edi (selecting "Special Issue Paper" (Dress and Appearance Codes, the Workplace, and Law) as the Manuscript Type).
More information here.
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