[Commlist] CFP Feminist Theory Special Issue: ‘Engendering Rage: Mediated Narratives and Cultural Politics’

Call for Papers: FEMINIST THEORY journal
Special Issue: ‘Engendering Rage: Mediated Narratives and Cultural Politics’

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https://feministtheoryjournal.com/2024/02/15/engendering-rage-mediated-narratives-and-cultural-politics/ 
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Following the emergence of the #MeToo movement, debates around the 
expression, representation, and politicization of women’s rage have 
become more voluble and audible, gaining momentum in diverse academic 
and cultural contexts. Within this framework, the purpose of this Call 
For Papers is to reassess and interrogate the increasingly heated 
discussions about the significance of gendered rage in the contemporary 
moment.

Indeed, over the past five years we have experienced: unprecedented 
COVID-19 lockdowns, which, for many women, meant being trapped in 
precarious domestic situations (and/or a return to traditional gendered 
divisions of labour within the home); the U.S. Supreme Court’s 
overturning of Roe v. Wade (thus reversing the constitutional right to 
an abortion); the strengthening of extreme right and ultra-nationalist 
politics in conjunction with the exacerbation of misogyny and the 
violent targeting of trans and gender non-conforming people; and ever 
more extreme weather events due to the climate emergency in which women 
have been disproportionately impacted. Simultaneously, we have witnessed 
the emergence of the so-called ‘bitch era’ on platforms like TikTok, 
where high profile women are publicly embracing their anger as a way of 
reclaiming agency and challenging ‘toxic masculinity’. The recent uproar 
around Jennifer Hermoso’s case across social media is yet another 
example of the growing ‘publicness’ and intensity of women’s rage.

  It is in this context that Feminist Theory invites papers on 
‘Engendering Rage: Mediated Narratives and Cultural Politics’. This CFP 
is associated with  the project ‘The mediatization of women’s rage: 
frames of intelligibility and communicative strategies of politicizing 
transformation’ (PID2020-113054GB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry 
of Science and Innovation. We aim to deepen our understanding of the 
political and cultural significance and/or effect of women’s rage in the 
current conjuncture by examining its production, deflection, 
celebration, co-optation, delegitimization, fetishization, and/or other 
political and cultural processes involved in its appearance and 
animating force. We encourage submissions that critically engage with 
the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other identity 
markers in the portrayal, production and reception of gendered and 
engendering rage. We understand the term “women” to be inclusive and 
expansive.

The Guest Editors look forward to receiving innovative and 
thought-provoking contributions that respond, but are not limited to, 
the following themes:

·        Mediated/Mediating Rage: How women’s rage is represented and 
portrayed across different media, and the diverse forms of cultural and 
political work such rage carries out or attempts to carry out.

·        Intersectionality and Rage: Exploration of how race, class, 
gender identity, geo-political contexts and other intersecting factors 
influence the narratives, cultural politics and/or political economy of 
gendered rage.

·        Digital Activism: Investigations into the role of digital media 
platforms in amplifying and mobilizing women’s rage as a form of 
resistance and activism (or, alternatively, in diffusing and deflecting 
the political force of rage).

·        Feminist Critiques and internal debates: Critical examinations 
of feminist responses to representations of women’s rage, including 
internal debates, challenges, and alternative narratives.

Important Submission Dates:
-Abstracts (250-300 words): due by April 15th 2024, with decisions by 
May 15th, 2024.
-Article Submission (8000 words, inclusive of references and notes): due 
by September 15th, 2024.

This Special Issue is slated to be published in April 2025. All 
submissions will undergo a blind review process. Please submit all 
abstracts to Catherine Rottenberg ((C.Rottenberg /at/ gold.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(C.Rottenberg /at/ gold.ac.uk)>), Goldsmiths University (UK).
For inquiries or more information, please contact either of the 
guest editors: Catherine Rottenberg ((C.Rottenberg /at/ gold.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(C.Rottenberg /at/ gold.ac.uk)>), Goldsmiths University (UK); 
María-José Gámez-Fuentes ((gamezf /at/ uji.es) 
<mailto:(gamezf /at/ uji.es)>), Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, Spain).

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