[ecrea] CFP_Photography and Gender

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Journal “Comunicação e Sociedade”, no 32

Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal

Special Issue:
*Photography and Gender*

Editors: Maria da Luz Correia ((maria.lf.correia /at/ uac.pt) 
<mailto:(maria.lf.correia /at/ uac.pt)>) and Carla Cerqueira 
((carlaprec /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(carlaprec /at/ gmail.com)>)

Languages: bilingual| Portuguese and English*
The generalization of photography between the end of the century XIX and 
the beginning of the XX century was a determining factor for the 
recognition of a collective social iconography. This recognition, which 
was exemplified already in the visionary thinking of philosophers like 
Walter Benjamin or art historians like Aby Warburg, would nevertheless 
be strengthened in the second half of the XX century, due to a renewed 
concern with the asymmetries of the gaze that would cross this prolific 
visual culture: the theory of the panoptic society introduced by Michel 
Foucault in 1975 is particularly illustrative of this. Methodologies 
inserted in post-structuralism, but also in cultural studies, in visual 
culture Studies, in feminist and postcolonial studies are exemplary of 
this paradigm of political questioning and visual criticism. On the 
basis of this assumption, this issue deals specifically with the 
photographic device and gender inequalities, often intertwined with 
other social inequalities, which are affirmed and denied by this and 
through it.

Since John Berger laid the groundwork for a feminist analysis of 
painting and advertising in 1972’s Ways of Seeing, and Laura Mulvey 
coined the term male gaze on the subject of cinema in 1975, Studies that 
focus on gender asymmetries – and the tendentiously stereotyped 
representations associated with women and men – which are often 
confirmed and often challenged by the photographic medium have followed. 
On the one hand, photographic narratives and practices that stabilize 
and/or destabilize these asymmetries have been the object of critical 
photography in its different thematic scopes: family photography, 
documentary photography, scientific photography, police photography, 
erotic photography, photography of modern and contemporary art, 
journalistic photography, advertising photography ... On the other hand, 
studies on women, on gender and feminist studies have sought to analyze 
various types of media and cultural production, where photography also 
appears as a focus for Research, whether as a means of reproducing 
gender asymmetries and the dominant social order, or as a means of 
social resistance. How it is produced, who produces it, what is produced 
and how this production is negotiated between producers, consumers and 
publics are some of the cores of this questioning, which not only cross 
photography and gender, but also interweave cultural and technological 
issues.
The meeting between of photography studies and gender studies has 
already established a vast domain of interdisciplinary study, in which 
recurrent historical episodes and scientific landmarks which are worth 
remembering stand out, like photographs of an album that this thematic 
issue intends to enlarge. The photographic iconography of the 
Salpêtrière Hospital hysteria – psychiatric hospital and asylum 
exclusively for female patients which had, at the end of the XIX 
century, a department exclusively dedicated to photography; the 
representations of the Kodak Girls, introduced in 1893, in the context 
of the Chicago Universal Exposition and the generality of family 
photography; the photographic production of the surrealist avant-garde 
at the beginning of the XX century and its gender policies; the 
photographic production in colonial context and the representations of 
the colonized subject, in the framework of which Le Colonial Harem study 
by Mallek Aloula, published in the 80s, is a historical landmark; war 
photography and its relation to sexual politics, as discussed in 2009 by 
Judith Butler in Frames of War: when is life grievable?; the 
representation of sexual ambiguity by photographers ranging from the 
pioneer Felix Nadar to the more contemporary Diane Arbus; 
photoelicitation and photoessay as visual methods adapted to gender 
studies – these are just some of the examples of recurring encounters 
between photography and gender.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- re-reading history and theory of photography from the perspective of 
gender issues;
- optical devices and pre-photographic apparatus from a gender perspective;
- family photography, albums, collecting and gender issues;
- photography, gender, private and public space;
- photojournalism, collective memory and representations of gender;
- photography and feminist and post-colonial studies;
- photography and intersectional approach;
- police photography and gendered representations;
- photography as a technological and sensory device;
- photography and body representations;
- photographic methodologies and gender studies;
- photography, artistic vanguards, contemporary art and gender approaches;
- feminist studies, cultural productions and the photographic medium;

“Comunicação e Sociedade” [“Communication and Society”] is a double 
blind, peer-reviewed journal (http://revistacomsoc.pt/). 


Editorial rules:
Guidelines for electronic submission of manuscripts can be found, both 
in Portuguese and English, at: 
http://revistacomsoc.pt/index.php/comsoc/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 
<http://revistacomsoc.pt/index.php/comsoc/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2>

Original texts should be sent in Word format to (cecs /at/ ics.uminho.pt) 
<mailto:(cecs /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>. Please copy, in “Cc”, the e-mail of the 
coordinators of this special issue: Maria da Luz Correia 
((maria.lf.correia /at/ uac.pt) <mailto:(maria.lf.correia /at/ uac.pt)>) and Carla 
Cerqueira ((carlaprec3 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(carlaprec3 /at/ gmail.com)>).

*Original texts can be submitted in Portuguese or in English. The 
translation into the other language is the responsibility of the 
author(s). However, the translation of the article can be provided at a 
later stage, after confirmation of acceptance for publication of the 
original manuscript.
In the SUBJECT, please write: Communication and Society Journal - Vol. 32.

Important dates:
Submission deadline: 31st July 2017 Notification of acceptance: 15th 
September 2017 Publication date: December 2017

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