FEMININITY 2011 - 1st Global Conference: Femininity and Masculinity

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Deadline: January 30, 2011 | Date: May 16, 2011-May 18, 2011

Venue/Country: Warsaw, Poland

Updated: 2011-04-27 21:49:54 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Femininity and Masculinity

16 to 18 May 2011

Warsaw, Poland

Call for Papers

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of

academic study on the issues of gender in its

social and cultural contexts. Since its

emergence from feminism, gender studies has

become one of the most deliberated disciplines.

The following project aims at an interdisciplinary

exchange of ideas and perspectives on the issues

of femininity and masculinity in the 21st century.

It invites ground-breaking research on a plethora

of topics connected with gender, to propose an

interdisciplinary view of the frontiers and to

stake out new territories in the study of

femininity and masculinity.

Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed

panels are invited on issues related to any of the

following themes:

1. Representations of Femininity and Masculinity

~ Femininity and masculinity in history and the

history of gender

~ The representation of gender in culture, art,

film, literature

~ The representation of gender in popular culture

and media

~ Gender in the relation to politics, law and

social studies

2. Gender Borders and Transgressions

~ Performativity of gender

~ Androgyny

~ Transgender issues

~ The body and its transgressions

3. New Directions in Femininity and Masculinity

Studies

~ New perspectives in masculinity and boyhood studies

~ Men in feminism

~ Third wave feminism, womanism

~ Lesbian feminism

~ Eco-feminism

~ Cyberfeminism

~ Individual feminism

~ Feminist disability studies

4. Global and Regional Perspectives on Gender

~ Gender and race

~ Gender and nationality

~ Gender and (post)colonialism

~ Case studies of gender issues in

local/regional/national perspectives

~ Global masculinity/ femininity

5. Gender in Relationships

~ Motherhood/fatherhood

~ Gender and family

~ Matriarchy/ patriarchy

~ Sororophobia and matrophobia

~ Misogyny and misandry

~ Female genealogy

~ Gender and maturity

6. Gender in Experience

~ gender in visual and performance arts

~ gender in advertisement

~ gender mainstreaming

~ gender in psychotherapy

~ gender equality education

~ gender in religion

~ gender and NGOs

Papers will also be considered on any related

theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by

Friday 26th November 2010. If an abstract is

accepted for the conference, a full draft paper

should be submitted by Friday 1st April 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted

simultaneously to both Organising Chairs.

Abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF

formats with the following information and in this

order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)

title of abstract, e) body of abstract

E-mails should be entitled: FM Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain

from using footnotes and any special formatting,

characters or emphasis (such as bold,

italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and

answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do

not receive a reply from us in a week you

should assume we did not receive your proposal; it

might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to

look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

Barbara Braid (Conference Leader)

English Department,

University of Szczecin,

Szczecin, Poland

E-mail: barbara.braidgmail.com

Malwina DegÃ?rska

English Department

University of Szczecin

Szczecin, Poland

E-mail: mdegorskagmail.com

Rob Fisher

Network Founder and Network Leader,

Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

E-mail: fminter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface

programme of research projects. It aims to bring

together people from different areas and

interests to share ideas and explore various

discussions which are innovative and exciting. All

papers accepted for and presented at the

conference will be eligible for publication in an

ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for

publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

For further details about the project please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/

For further details about the conference please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/call-for-papers/