[ecrea] CFP: Women's Studies in Communication Special Issue, The #MeToo Moment: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist

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Special Issue of Women’s Studies in Communication

The #MeToo Moment: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist

Editors: Kristen Hoerl, Editor of Women’s Studies in Communication, and

Guest Editor: Lisa M. Corrigan (University of Arkansas)

Full Manuscripts due August 1, 2018

At the end of 2017, Time magazine named the #MeToo movement's “Silence 
Breakers” as the Person of the Year, beating out President Trump and a 
slew of political and media personalities. Time praised the women, 
writing: “These silence breakers have started a revolution of refusal, 
gathering strength by the day, and in the past two months alone, their 
collective anger has spurred immediate and shocking results: nearly 
every day.” Recalling the women who shared their stories about sexual 
harassment at work, Molly Redden at the Guardian wrote that the “Silence 
Breakers” were “the vanguard of a global movement by millions of women 
to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse.”

With the #MeToo hashtag propelling thousands of stories on the internet 
and through popular media, and the resignations of prominent figures in 
American civic life including Senator Al Franken and NBC “Today Show” 
co-host Matt Lauer, it was clear that the #MeToo phenomenon had social 
traction as the stories of habitual predators and serial harassers 
circulated in popular culture.

Through inclusion of both invited and solicited manuscripts, this 
Special Issue will foreground interdisciplinary essays that focus on the 
multidimensionality of the #MeToo moment. While we are seek essays that 
address the implications of #MeToo for feminist activism and 
scholarship, we are particularly interested in essays that have 
innovative theoretical perspectives that teach us something unexpected, 
that offer provocation, that take risks, and that invent new ideas.

We believe it is at the foundations of this journal and some strands of 
feminist thinking to confront intersectional oppressions by providing a 
space for the building of collective consciousness, sharp critique, 
dialogue, research, and listening. In addition to work that engages with 
the communication surrounding #MeToo, we are interested in feminist 
scholarship that interrogates the assumptions and investments of 
mainstream media and political discourses about sexual harassment. What 
is the discursive terrain here and what does this terrain exclude? How 
do dominant cultural messages about the silence breakers inadvertently 
or explicitly enable or promote other silences about systemic forms of 
exploitation and abuse in interpersonal, organizational, and/or public life?

Thus, we invite full-length manuscripts that address topics pertaining 
to #MeToo such as:

- Tarana Burke and the provenance of #MeToo;

- Terry Crews, James Van der Beek, Anthony Rapp, and other male victims;

- Hollywood’s perpetuation and responses to sexual harassment;

- Time’s Up campaign;

- The voices lifted up by #MeToo and those that have been erased or 
occluded (including people of color, boys and men, and LGBTQ people);

- Narrative (strategies, successes and limitations);

- Critiques of whiteness and white feminism in #MeToo discourses;

- Expansions or rejections of the very terms “sexual” and “harassment”

- Class and #MeToo celebrity culture;

- Comedy and #MeToo (Louis C.K., Dave Chappelle, Al Franken, Aziz Ansari);

- The history of sexual harassment policy and law;

- Anita Hill’s legacy;

- Disability rights’ intersection with sexual harassment

- Implications for Donald Trump and his response (or lack thereof) to 
#MeToo;

- Partisan responses and electoral politics;

- Digital advocacy and feminism;

- Popular culture, network news, and movement framing/politics;

- Twitter and other forms of social media as avenues for promulgating 
feminist resistance;

- #MeToo and the post-truth turn;

- International responses;

- Apologia in response to sexual harassment revelations;

- Defending the accused;

- Debating sexual consent before and after #MeToo;

- Workplace organization responses to #MeToo and workplace culture;

- Explorations of technologies and their affordances/constraints for and 
against harassment;

- Unraveling of the logics unpinning or enacted by harassers;

- Theoretical arguments giving language to collective experience and/or 
resistance;

- Marxist/socialist insights into the production of harassment;

- Insights from prison activism and other institutional perspectives;

- Scholar-Activist accounts and analyses of changing the status quo;

- Unpacking same-sex patterns and experiences of harassment;

- Broader inquiry into gendered violence across the life-span including 
childhood and the elderly;

- Critiques or affirmations of biological and psychological evolutionary 
rhetorics surrounding harassment

Full manuscripts between 8,000-9,000 words should be submitted to Taylor 
and Francis by August 1 for consideration in this special issue, for an 
anticipated publication in early 2019.

Submission Instructions cane be found here: 
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=UWSC&page=instructions

Please contact Lisa M. Corrigan ((lcorriga /at/ uark.edu) 
<mailto:(lcorriga /at/ uark.edu)>) with questions or pitches.

Women Studies in Communication encourages quantitative, qualitative, and 
critical communication scholarship drawing from a variety of areas 
including but not limited to interpersonal, organizational, performance, 
rhetoric, media, and cultural studies. The editor is committed to 
promoting the best work that falls within these parameters and also to 
encouraging the development of new voices and new projects that 
challenge conventions guiding communication scholarship.

To submit a manuscript, authors should follow the instructions for 
submitting manuscripts on the Taylor and Francis website 
athttp://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=uwsc20&page=instructions#.VrzOG08YNxU. 
Manuscripts may be submitted online through WSIC's ScholarOne Manuscript 
Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wsic 
<https://bumail.butler.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=L_V55pmrT0yGDCWVnpc14T1-k5KNONMIq-DFsjjFg22Uub3sKMYZg03cKv567QmBpB1-sUDp9BA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmc.manuscriptcentral.com%2fwsic>. 


Authors should indicate that they want the manuscript to be considered 
for this Special Issue in the cover letter to the editor and should be 
addressed to both Lisa M. Corrigan and Kristen Hoerl.


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