The working group on Feminism and Taxation (‘FemTax’) invites proposals for papers, panels, and roundtable discussions on key issues of women, sex/gender, tax laws, and fiscal policy in a special program to be held on June 4, 2012, at the Jointly-Sponsored International meeting of the Law and Society Association:

This pre-conference is being organized for the purpose of accelerating interdisciplinary and/or transnational analysis of how tax, fiscal, and other economic policies affect women as compared with men. Proposals on any aspect of formal tax law, social benefit program funding, distributional effects of fiscal and economic policies, or gender budgeting are invited.

This workshop invites experts in gender studies, social and public policy, tax law, economics, accounting, development studies, and political science to address fiscal measures from gender perspectives, and/or to discuss methodological, theoretical, comparative, or empirical approaches that are useful in gender analysis. This pre-conference will be held on June 4, 2012, the day before the formal commencement of the Joint Law and Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawai’i.

If you are interested in presenting work at this event, please email your proposal to either Åsa Gunnarsson or Kathleen Lahey. Proposals can be submitted any time until approximately Dec. 15, 2011, and your participation will be confirmed in early January 2012.

(Hat Tip: Francine Lipman.)