[ecrea] CFP: Emergent Feminisms and the Challenge to Postfeminist Media Culture

Call for Chapters: Emergent Feminisms and the Challenge to Postfeminist
Media Culture


We are inviting abstract submissions for a proposed anthology edited by
Jessalynn Keller (Middlesex University, London) and Maureen Ryan (DePaul
University, Chicago).


Over the past decade, feminist media scholars have described popular
media culture as dominated by a “postfeminist sensibility” (Gill 2007),
characterized by a disavowal of feminist politics (McRobbie 2009) and
the dominance of neoliberal discourses that promote individualism,
success in the capitalist marketplace, and heterosexual romance to women
and girls. According to this scholarship, postfeminism is pervasive and
far-reaching, ranging from “chick flicks” (McRobbie 2009) and makeover
television (Weber 2009) to celebrity brands (Winch 2013) and self-made
YouTube personalities (Banet-Weiser 2012). However, over the past
several years feminist politics have become increasingly prevalent in
both activist and commercial media, complicating the logic that feminism
is in retreat. What does this “feminist zeitgeist” (Valenti 2014)
suggest about the relationship between femininity, feminism and
contemporary media culture? Which feminisms attain mediated visibility
and which remain marginalized? And how might media texts function as a
useful lens to better understand emerging feminisms?


Guided by these questions, we seek chapters for an edited collection
that historicize, interrogate, and/or problematize postfeminism as the
dominant framework with which to understand gender politics within our
current media culture. In particular, we are interested in work that
attempts to suggest new modes of feminist media analysis at both the
theoretical and empirical levels that allow us to better understand the
visibility and circulation of feminist politics within media culture today.


Chapters may address the following topics:
* Representations of feminisms across media
* Global/regional feminist media practices, especially from Africa/Asia/
and Global South nations
* Feminism, capitalism, neoliberalism and media industries
* Historicizing feminism and postfeminism in texts and practices of
earlier feminist moments
* Digital feminisms, including campaigns such as ‪#‎YesAllWomen‬
<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/yesallwomen?source=feed_text&story_id=10153193224506357> 
and
‪#‎SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen‬
<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/solidarityisforwhitewomen?source=feed_text&story_id=10153193224506357>
* Mediated responses to rape culture and other feminist issues
* Feminist celebrities and celebrity media cultures
* The production of feminist connectivities and solidarities through media
* Feminism in irony, disavowal, and/or other negative affects


Please submit a 500-word abstract, a list of 5 references, and a brief
bio to Jessalynn Keller ((j.keller /at/ mdx.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.keller /at/ mdx.ac.uk)>)
and Maureen Ryan ((maureenryan /at/ u.northwestern.edu)
<mailto:(maureenryan /at/ u.northwestern.edu)>) by July 3, 2015. Successful
submissions will be notified by the end of July.

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