[Discussion] CFP: Fates and Futures of Feminism (10/1/04; journal issue)

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Volume 16, Special Issue: Fates and Futures of Feminism

Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture is
seeking original submissions for an issue dedicated to considering the
current states and stakes of feminism.  Popularly referred to as having
entered its =B3third wave,=B2 feminism has been designated by some as hav=
ing
penetrated the social fabric so entirely as to be ubiquitous, while
others pronounce its status as seriously endangered.  Previously
fundamental theoretical and political distinctions between kinds of
feminisms (socialist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, etc.) are now often
glossed over, and rather than incorporating feminist problematics into
the syllabi of =B3primary=B2 disciplines, feminist theory is often relega=
ted
to specialized courses in women=B9s studies programs=8Bthese for the most
part supplementary, non-degree granting departments within the
university system.

What are we speaking, reading, writing, and teaching today when we
invoke feminism?  What does it mean to call oneself a feminist,
particularly within contemporary academic structures (as well as outside
of them)? What kinds of hybrid feminist practices and methodologies have
evolved from interdisciplinarity, as such? How is feminism pedagogically
reinscribed so that younger scholars recognize its continued relevance?
In what areas does feminism operate without announcing itself as such?
What IS feminism today and how do its present forms and debates both
further and deviate from its already multiplicitous origins?

  Possible topics of investigation include:

* feminism and pedagogy

* feminism and queer theory/studies

* feminism and postcolonial theory

* feminism and ethics

* feminism and popular culture

* feminism and neo-conservatism

* the legacies (and amnesias) of feminism

* feminism and pleasure

* feminism and politics

* feminism and institutions

* feminism and gender studies

* feminism and postmodernism


Submissions, 15-35 pages in length and according to the Chicago Manual
of Style, are due, in hard copy, by October 1, 2004.  Information for
individuals interested in submitting can be found at
http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/CM/call.html

Johanna Burton and David Ball, editors
matrix@princeton.edu


Johanna Burton and David Ball, editors
CRITICAL MATRIX
Program in the Study of Women and Gender
Princeton University
113 Dickinson
Princeton, NJ 08544


CRITICAL MATRIX is a forum for research, criticism, theory and creative
work in feminism and gender studies. Seeking connections among
scholarly, aesthetic and activist approaches to gender, CM brings
together written and visual materials that explore, redefine or reach
across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Today an award-winning,
internationally circulated professional journal, CM was founded by
feminist graduate students in the early 1980s to provide academic
support for exploratory scholarship in Women's Studies and continues to
encourage submission that might encounter resistance or neglect within
established disciplines. We solicit new work by authors at any stage in
their careers, with or without academic affiliation.


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