[ecrea] cfp Female Authorship in Contemporary Documentary Media

*_Female Authorship in Contemporary Documentary Media._*

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In conjunction with women’s increasing claim to equal societal rights
and vocalisation on a global scale, women have also taken centre stage
in the documentation of contemporary issues. Of course, this is not a
new phenomenon per se; in terms of culture and scholarship women have
been seeking to establish myriad voices and perspectives on issues of
gender, politics, history and selfhood throughout the various waves of
feminism. However, increasing globalization, new technologies,
developing education and job opportunities outside of Western Europe and
USA have all had an impact on the way women experience and document
their own lives.

This call for papers asks for contributions to a planned monograph (we
already have interest from a prestigious publisher) and conference on
contemporary issues relating to the expanding horizon and potency of
women’s experience in documentary formats. We seek to explore what
female authorship is from the perspective of multiplicity and cultural
diversity. What are, for instance, the theoretical, political and
aesthetic discourses that contribute to female documentary practices
right now?

Abstracts of 300-500 words should be sent to Dr Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna
Backman Rogers of Gothenburg University, Sweden by 31^st July. Final
articles to be submitted February 1^st 2016.

We especially welcome abstracts from a global or non-European perspective.

Please address e mails to (Boel.Ulfsdotter /at/ gu.se)
<mailto:(Boel.Ulfsdotter /at/ gu.se)> and Dr (Anna.Backman.Rogers /at/ gu.se)
<mailto:(Anna.Backman.Rogers /at/ gu.se)> with the heading Female Authorship
Project.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

·Behind the scenes documentaries on female auteurs

·New perspectives on womanhood

·Female adolescence and the phenomenon of the blog.

·Advertising and visual culture (depilation and menstruation)

·Non-European documentary practices

·Democracy

·Digital technology as a facilitator to activist documentary practice.

·Documentaries on fashion photography

·Re-discovering or repositioning the work of female photographers

·Eating and food.

·Female education

·Women’s rights and documentary practice

·Aging and the media

·Re-framing the female gaze

·The female body and digital technology

·Clothing and Fashion.

·Career

·Emigration

·The cross over from fiction to documentary film formats.



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