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@???, 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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