[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Power Feminism (8/15/07; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue - Women's Studies in Communication
"Power Feminism: Exploring Agency, Oppression and Victimage"

Guest Editors: Cindy L. Griffin and Karma R. Chávez

"Power feminism," also known as "anti-victim," "neo," "post,"
"dissident,"  or "post-ideological" feminism, is a position that
contends that women need to stop focusing on oppression and start
enacting their own power. In recent years, "power feminism," originally
coined by Naomi Wolf in her book Fire with Fire, has gained credence
among academic and non-academic feminists alike. No doubt many feminist
teachers also encounter students who hold this position in their
classrooms. At recent conferences, feminists in communication studies
have readily engaged with the politics of power feminism. Since there
are few written academic resources that articulate the issues at stake
in the power feminism debate, this special issue seeks to offer a forum
to more formally engage these important topics, specifically, the
following types of questions: how is agency theorized within power
feminist epistemology? How might this be productive and/or problematic?
What is the form of power advocated by power feminists? What do power
feminists have to say about gender and sexism? What fruitful critiques
do power feminists have to offer to other types of feminists? What are
the impacts of power feminism on feminism in communication? What are the
different ways power feminism manifests in the classroom and what are
appropriate feminist pedagogical responses? How does power feminism
translate to politics in globalization?

To solicit an array of responses-from shorter and more self-reflexive to
longer and more traditionally academic-we welcome 15-35 page essays.
Essays may address a variety of topics and positions as they relate to
power feminism including but not limited to agency, power, oppression,
third wave feminism, pedagogy and globalization from a multitude of
theoretical and methodological positions.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  August 15, 2007

Papers should be formatted according to the 15th edition of the Chicago
Manual of Style. No material identifying the author(s) should be
anywhere in the text of the paper, but please include a detachable cover
page with contact information. **Papers should not be under review or
published elsewhere.
Four (4) copies should be submitted to:

Karma R. Chávez
Guest Editor, Women's Studies in Communication
Arizona State University
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Box 871205
Tempe, AZ. 85287-1205

Questions should be directed to Karma Chávez at karma.chavez at asu.edu.




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