[Commpsych] FW: Call For Papers - 'YOUNG FEMINISTS' - Feminism & Psychology, Special Feature

[Lauren Breen]

Another call for papers that is of interest.

Kind regards,
Lauren


From: Chamberlain, Kerry [mailto:K.Chamberlain at massey.ac.nz]
Sent: Sunday, 14 October 2012 4:41 AM
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Subject: Call For Papers - 'YOUNG FEMINISTS' - Feminism & Psychology, Special Feature


From: Nicola Gavey <n.gavey at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:n.gavey at auckland.ac.nz>>
CALL FOR PAPERS
Feminism & Psychology Special Feature

'Young feminists'
Edited by Rachel Liebert, Lucy Thompson, & Virginia Braun
In recent years it has become customary with/in the neoliberal press and academy to prod and probe feminism for signs of life - either to resuscitate or re-brand, or announce a sorry demise. 'Young women' in particular are depicted as simultaneously too dead, alive, under false consciousness, pomo babbling, apathetic, aggressive, oppressed, oppressive, under-sexed, over-sexed by feminists and non-feminists alike. These categorical, conflicting representations threaten to homogenize, bleach and deflate the presence, necessity and potential of young people doing feminisms. Feminisms that, apparently, are now suddenly on the rise: the press and academy are most recently enthralled with 'young women's (re)engagement with feminism'.
We are concerned that this most recent installment may also be/come contaminated by problematic representations. Thus, compelled in part by our own involvement as 'young feminists' in historical and emerging movements of anti-neoliberal protest, scholarship and revolution, disgust at the ongoing ease of violences against marginalized genders, and desire for a space that witnesses how feminisms are taken up in the global South as well as (or perhaps in spite of) the global North, we would like to build a transnational collection of reflexive pieces that documents how diverse feminisms are being - and could be - done by young people across the globe given contemporary conditions of repression and resistance.
 We are calling for short contributions (1000-2000 words) from 'young feminists' that create conversations around the following sorts of questions, and then some:

*         How does 'young women's (re)engagement with feminism' speak with/in current-day cultural and political conditions?

*         What are the complexities, politics and possibilities of contemporary feminisms?

*         How do these feminisms speak to/of 'past' feminist movements?

*         How do (or can, or should) we enact, refuse and/or imagine transnational feminisms?

*         What exactly is a 'young feminist', anyway?


We are particularly interested in bringing together pieces from young people who are doing feminisms at, on, or, across borders of disability, nation, race, class, gender, sex and/or sexuality, in academia and/or in activism, and at scales ranging from the intra-psychic to the global. Together we hope this eclectic collection will interrupt any circulation of flat representations about the who, what, where, when, why, and how of 'young women's (re)engagement with feminism'.

Submissions should be emailed to Rachel Liebert, rliebert at gc.cuny.edu<mailto:rliebert at gc.cuny.edu>. All contributions have to be subject to the usual peer-review process; this will be done with sensitivity to, and defiance against, the potential for Western gatekeeping. For informal discussion of contributions please contact us at rliebert at gc.cuny.edu<mailto:rliebert at gc.cuny.edu>, lucy.thompson at mmu.ac.uk<mailto:lucy.thompson at mmu.ac.uk>, or v.braun at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:v.braun at auckland.ac.nz>.

Closing date for submissions: March 1st, 2013


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