Memory and Women’s Studies: Between Trauma and Positivity
A special issue of Histories (ISSN 2409-9252). This special issue belongs to the section "Gendered History".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 2209
Special Issue Editors
Interests: trauma studies; monologic versus polyphonic; dialogic constructions of memory
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Interests: US women's history
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the upcoming Special Issue Memory and Women’s Studies: Between Trauma and Positivity. The Guest Editors Irene Mizrahi (Boston College) and Claire Sorin (Aix Marseille University, LERMA, Aix-en-Provence) welcome humanities and social sciences articles focusing on how memory and trauma studies have reshaped and been reshaped by women’s and feminist history and by cultural studies since the 1990s. Countless research topics fit within the scope of this Special Issue, such as critical overviews of the recent scholarship examining the interactions between memory, trauma, and women’s studies; papers examining the relationship between individual and collective gendered memory; the cultural, social, political and historical valances of portrayals of traumatic experiences produced by women; the dynamic interplay between past and present in local, national, and transnational contexts, and in processes of reparation, reconciliation, or inspiration; debates concerning public places, monuments, and statues as representations of women’s or feminist collective memory; the dynamics of remembering and forgetting and how this dynamic informs issues of power and hegemony as well as women’s history and feminist history; monologic versus polyphonic and dialogic constructions of memory and the importance of distinguishing between them; new media and its challenges for individual and collective memory. This Special Issue welcomes English-language articles considering a variety of transnational contexts.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Submissions will be peer reviewed and published following “The MDPI Editorial Process”. Guest Editors will conduct the editorial process via the MDPI online Submission System (SuSy), and will accept or reject submissions, ask the authors for revision, or ask for an additional reviewer to read the paper after the peer-review process.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Literature.
Dr. Irene Mizrahi
Dr. Claire Sorin
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- trauma studies
- feminism
- gendered individual/collective memory
- processes of repara-tion/reconciliation/inspiration
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