[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Not Your Mother's Feminism (1/15/07; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Not Your Mother's Feminism

   Seeking contributors for a collection on feminist generations,
tentatively entitled, “Not Your Mother’s Feminism.” I am specifically
interested in hearing from those women who feel under represented within
the struggle(s) for definitional control over the terms of feminist
debate taking place in both academic and popular discourse. Contributors
will likely be women who are too young to be Second Wave, too old to be
Third Wave, and perhaps too theoretically (and academically) oriented to
feel entirely “post-feminist.”

               The collection will aim for an audience both academic and
popular and will explore how generational representations of
feminism/feminists in both venues have influenced—enhanced? augmented?
ruined?—discussions of the women’s movement. For example, Third Wave
feminists often argue that the work of the Second Wave is done and that
women’s sexuality is the natural next ideological frontier. Such
pronouncements have given rise to sub-categories of feminist
scholarship/ideology labeled, for example, “sex-positive,” “girlie-,”
and “lipstick”-feminism. This collection will consider the implications
of generational developments like these and ask, among other questions,
whether an evolution into sexual politics constitutes an historical or
generational inevitability.

   The collection will also consider other questions, like:
   Are there women trained in feminism as yet unheard from?
   Where are the scholars/activists who do not fit the historical
parentheses between First and Second, or Second and Third and who do not
appear in—or trace their political roots to—collections like to be real,
Listen Up!, Manifesta, or Catching a Wave? And what does their feminism
look like?
   Must feminism embrace the generational metaphor?
   Has the metaphor served a purpose, perhaps momentarily, and run its
course?
   How might we explain the changes, developments in feminist thinking
without notions of historical linearity and generational conflict?

               Of course, this list is representative, not proscriptive.
The editor seeks essays addressing these and any other questions
concerning contemporary feminist politics and the manner(s) in which the
movement and its terms are defined.

   Seeking abstracts by 15 January; will request complete essays at
later date.
   Please send abstracts through email: bean at marshall.edu, or through
regular mail: Kellie Bean, English Department, One John Marshall Way,
Huntington, WV, 25755. Feel free to email inquiries.


“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I
only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments
that differentiate me from a doormat.”

                                    Rebecca West
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