[ecrea] CFP: An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies: Conflicts and Connectivities

Call For Papers

An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies: Conflicts and Connectivities

A special issue of Feminist Media Studies

Edited by Jessalynn Keller, Jo Littler and Alison Winch

This special 15th anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies will 
explore the interconnections between different generations of women and 
girls in the contemporary media landscape, building upon several 
successful roundtables we convened around this topic in London in autumn 
2014.
While feminism has become increasingly visible within western popular 
media cultures over the past few years, little scholarly attention has 
been paid to the ways in which age and generation shape mediated 
conversations about feminist politics globally. This collection will 
address this oversight, aiming to problematize dominant media 
representations of intergenerational “catfights” and feminist 
“bickering,” while simultaneously interrogating the ways in which 
mediated conflicts and connectivities shape the potential to work 
together to enact feminist social change.

We ask: What kind of shared conversations do women have across age 
groups and how do these circulate in media cultures? How can 
intergenerational alliances be built while still remaining sensitive to 
differences of experience? How are feminist connections being formed via 
digital media technologies and platforms? How do new forms of mediated 
activism over sexual violence, queerness, racism, and social 
reproduction relate to those of their predecessors?  How is feminist 
conflict mediated and how might it operate productively? How do 
particular issues such as “sexualisation” become indicative of 
intergenerational conflict?

Considering these questions in relation to the growth of feminist media 
studies over the past fifteen years, this issue will simultaneously 
foreground how feminist media studies can contribute, and how it has 
contributed, to an understanding of such intergenerationality. How do 
different generations of feminist media scholars talk to each other? 
What impediments arise in these conversations? How do geographical and 
cultural locations impact these conversations? How do we theorize these 
generational divides and dialogues? Does an effective intergenerational 
feminist media studies exist, or do we need to invent or extend it?

Possible paper themes might include, but are not restricted to:

• the mediation of age and ageing
• feminist alliances within austerity and neoliberalism
• feminist ‘waves’ in transnational contexts
• intergenerational activism challenging global power inequalities
• the mediation of feminist conflict and crisis
• intersections of ‘race’, class, sexuality and generation
• generational politics within digital media cultures and practices
• queering feminist media studies
• the legacies of feminist anti-racism
• boys and men as feminist allies
• feminist girls


*Please send 300-500 word abstracts and a 50-word bio by 15th February 
2015 to Jessalynn Keller ((j.keller /at/ mdx.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(j.keller /at/ mdx.ac.uk)>), Alison Winch ((a.winch /at/ mdx.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.winch /at/ mdx.ac.uk)>) and Jo Littler ((jo.littler.1 /at/ city.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(jo.littler.1 /at/ city.ac.uk)>). *

Final papers will be no more than 8,000 words and will be due 1st 
September 2015. Information about Feminist Media Studies can be found here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfms20/current#.VGIbEYdJM7A