[ecrea] CFP, Special Edition of Mai: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture – ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’

Second CFP: Special Edition of /Mai: Journal of Feminism and Visual 
Culture/ – ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film 
and TV’

The newly founded feminist and LGBTQIA+ journal /Mai /is seeking 
contributions to its special edition, which revolves around ‘Feminist 
and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’. /Mai /is a 
new journal founded and edited by Anna Backman Rogers (Senior Lecturer 
in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, 
Sweden) and is named after the Swedish feminist filmmaker Mai 
Zetterling. The journal aims to become the basis for an intersectional 
feminist and queer collective of scholars, writers, artists and 
activists. We are hoping for the edition to be published by March 2018, 
and we are also keen on receiving a range of papers, and other 
experimental pieces, which can be defined by contributors. Conventional 
or standard academic papers should be 5,000 – 6,000 words in length, 
although we will consider some shorter pieces of 3,000 words. Other 
pieces, such as interviews for instance, should aim to stick to this 
word limit too (5-6,000 words).

Please also note a couple of things. Firstly, this edition is centred on 
Feminist and Queer perspectives of sexual images and the representation 
of sex acts, not sex in the biological/physiological sense (but papers 
concerned with the relationship between anatomy and sex acts are 
obviously welcomed) . Secondly, for the sake of this edition, 
‘contemporary’ can also be loosely defined by those who submit papers, 
but generally means media texts released in the last ten years.

Papers may centre on:

• How contemporary Film and TV is stylistically or narratively 
representing sex acts.
• What role sex plays within genre or narrative more broadly.
• How different film/TV cultures use or represent sex to tell a story or 
to further character development.
• The political ramifications of screening sex.
• Ethical considerations of screening sex.
• The connection between socio-cultural factors and industrial shifts in 
relation to screening sex.
• Sex acts in relation to masculinity and femininity.
• Audiences and watching sexual images.
• ‘Alternative’ representations of sex in Film and TV and the importance 
of these sexual images.
• ‘Queer Sex’
• BDSM, Kink and ‘Othering’ the sex act.
• Heteronormative, hetero-centric or homonormative representations of sex.
• How the history of sex on-screen has affected present depictions.
• The relationship between pornography and sex in mainstream film/TV.
• The relationship between sex in cinema and sex on TV.

Abstracts should be 200 – 250 words, and should also include a 100 word 
bio. The deadline for abstracts has been extended and is now the 14th 
August 2017, with successful contributors being contacted by 31st August 
2017. A copy of the paper should be sent to the editors by January 15th 
2018, to then be peer-reviewed and edited.
Please email abstracts to: (Connor.Winterton /at/ mail.bcu.ac.uk) (guest 
editor) and please feel free to get in touch with any informal 
enquiries, either to me or Anna Backman Rogers: (Anna.Backman.Rogers /at/ gu.se)


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