Media Feminisms/Feminism’s Media: (Re)Framing Media Feminist Theory
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 851
Special Issue Editors
Interests: media and literary theory; Marxism and deconstruction, the politics of mourning, media ethics, socio-political articulations of feminism, gender performativity, and feminist activism in the digital era
Interests: photography; visual sociology; methods and methodology; mediation of the everyday and migration
Interests: politics of aesthetic forms; the representation of gender and sexuality in film, literature and popular culture; social aspects of non-normative epistemologies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this special edition of the Humanities is to (re)evaluate, (re)articulate and/or (re)introduce broad feminist viewpoints in contemporary media theory—with both ‘media’ and ‘theory’ broadly and interdisciplinary conceptualised.
Whilst the meticulous contemporary work in feminist media studies reflects a wide variety of theoretical viewpoints and makes use of an even wider variety of methodological tools, it is the editors’ view that the compulsory anchoring of contemporary feminist theory to existing socio-economic, political and, most importantly, disciplinary constraints prevents us from freeing up critical work in the field to address the challenges that are yet to come.
Therefore, we invite colleagues working in media, literature, philosophy, politics, history, sociology, gender studies and related fields, to submit imaginative proposals that would articulate broad theoretical positions capable of framing feminism(s) and feminist media theory in the twenty-first century—or, indeed, question the very need for such ‘framing’. We also invite work that produces critical research through practice.
Though we do not wish to limit the scope of contributions, we envision submissions broaching feminism through the following themes:
- Class consciousness
- Representation
- New materialisms
- Policy and/or the political economy of the media
- Aesthetics
- Visualisation
- Mobilities
- Sexuality
- Transnationalism
- Race and/or ethnonationalism
- Age: discrimination and/or intergenerational activism
Abstracts should not exceed 400 words, and they should articulate a clear theoretical framework and proposed bibliography (the latter not included in the abstract word-limit).
Completed contributions should not exceed 10,000 words (including notes and bibliography). For in-text referencing and bibliography please see the journal’s preferred style here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/instructions
Deadlines:
Abstracts: 31 January 2019
Completed essays (those accepted): 30 June 2019
Please email your abstracts to: [email protected]
Dr. Theodore Koulouris
Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco
Dr. Olu Jenzen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Class consciousness
- Representation
- New materialisms
- Policy and/or the political economy of the media
- Aesthetics
- Visualisation
- Mobilities
- Sexuality
- Transnationalism
- Race and/or ethnonationalism
- Age: discrimination and/or intergenerational activism
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