Thursday, November 10, 2022
CFP Pandemonium -- Reflections on the Status, Health, Precarity and Promise of the Discipline of Feminist Studies
WSQ WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY SPECIAL ISSUE SPRING 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS: PANDEMONIUM
PRIORITY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023
Scholarly articles should be submitted to WSQ.submittable.com.
GUEST EDITORS:
TRACEY JEAN BOISSEAU, Purdue University
ADRIANNA L. ERNSTBERGER, Marian University
This special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly invites reflection on the status, health, precarity, and promise of the discipline of women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies in light of our current state of pandemonium. By “pandemonium,” we point not only to those tragedies, inequalities, and disruptions to the university and higher education stemming directly from the Covid-19 pandemic but also to the crisis-roiled political context fomenting a barrage of assaults on feminist studies as a discipline in the United States and elsewhere that have been accelerating for several years prior to the pandemic and have only intensified since its outbreak.
Submissions should address ways our discipline--its individual practitioners and organizational institutions—have been affected by, or have encountered adversity and experienced struggle in the face of:
- The Global Pandemic and a panoply of consequences flowing from it
- Right-wing (white supremacist, anti-immigrant, anti- queer/trans, misogynist, etc.) movements
- Right-wing corporate media and social media
- Authoritarianism, illiberalism, and threats democratic institutions
- War, invasion, civil strife, and refugeeism
- Neoliberalism, corporatism, and commercialization
- Climate-change disasters, environmental degradation, and climate-change denial
- Impoverishment and the “austerity” measures and policies arising from the above
We are keenly interested in contributions that document and evaluate the ways that our discipline and its practitioners exercise and exhibit resistance, revolutionary praxis, and refusal to the above in the form of:
- Scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative strategizing
- Organizational-, institutional- and alliance-building (both inter- as well as intra-disciplinary)
- Public engagement, political activism, and direct action (both on- and off-campus)
- Escape hatches, off-ramps, and alternative social- cultural protest forms and modalities
We welcome contributions that recognize and share artistic and creative endeavors, performances, and cultural interventions offering insight and inspiration regarding the core themes of this issue.
Especially encouraged to submit are women; people of color; Black; Indigenous; gender-variant, LGBTQIA+; disabled people; and those whose work is located outside the United States or who collaborate cross-nationally.
PRIORITY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023
- Scholarly articles should be submitted to WSQ.submittable.com. Send complete articles, not abstracts. Remove all identifying authorial information from the file uploaded to Submittable. We will give priority consideration to submissions received by March 1, 2023. Scholarly submissions must not exceed 6,000 words (including un-embedded notes and works cited) and must comply with formatting guidelines at https://www.feministpress. org/submission-guidelines. For questions, email the guest issue editors at [email protected].
- Artistic works (whose content relates clearly to the issue theme) such as creative prose (fiction, essay, memoir, and translation submissions between 2,000 and 2,500 words), poetry, and other forms of visual art or documentation of performative artistry should be submitted to WSQ.submittable.com. Before submitting, please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of creative submissions we prefer. Note that creative submissions may be held for six months or longer. We do not accept work that has been previously published. (Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere.) For questions related to creative prose submissions, email [email protected]. For questions related to poetry submissions, email the WSQ’s poetry editor at WSQpoetry@ gmail.com. For questions regarding other forms of artistic or creative work, email the visual arts editor at WSQvisualart@ gmail.com.
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