[ecrea] cfp Book Menstruation Now

CALL FOR PAPERS

                                                     Demeter Press

                      Is seeking submissions for an edited collection
entitled:

                                           Menstruation Now

                                           Editor: Berkeley Kaite

                       Deadline for Abstracts: August 1st, 2016

Menstruation and menstrual blood go beyond the brute particulars of
biology and are discursively constructed by all facets of culture.
Menstruation enters the domain of language, taboo and censorship, from
advertisements that offer “power over periods” to Republican candidate
Donald Trump’s comment about a moderator, regarding her pointed question
to him about his comments on women: “you could see there was blood
coming out of eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”  Adrienne Rich
wrote that menstrual taboos are “powers only half-understood” (Of Woman
Born, 1976) and Elizabeth Grosz illuminates the philosophical dimensions
of this and notes the association of femininity with uncontrollable
leakiness reinforces a tenacious binary of the solid over fluidity
(Volatile Bodies, 1994). And while Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949 that
during menstruation “woman feels her body as an obscure, alien thing”
(The Second Sex),  today there are several commercially available
products – sponges, diva cups – which invite a more nuanced relationship
with one’s blood and menstrual cycle. Menstruation is only a feminine
thing but is not just one thing. Its discursive construction ensures
that it belongs to, among others, patriarchal culture and feminism.

The purpose of this collection is: to bring together discussions of the
many and diverse ways in which menstruation has been appropriated by
culture but also gives rise to new ways of imagining what it can signify
and also what it can mean for girls and women who bleed.

                                                       Topics may
include (but are not limited to):

Metaphors of blood; menstruation and birth control; femininity and
fluidity; femininity as interiority; menstruation in advertising;
menstruation in film; menstruation in fiction; menstruation in memoir;
menstruation in poetry; menstruation and girlhood; menstruation in
religion; philosophy and menstruation; menstruation in cross-cultural
perspective; menstruation in non-Western cultures; menstrual rituals;
menstruation and sexuality; menstruation and maternity/post-maternity;
menstruation and medicine; menstruation and illness; menstruation and
exercise/sport; menstruation and menopause; menstruation and consumer
products; menstruation and diet; menstruation and fashion; menstruation
and language/metaphor; menstruation and feminist theory; menstruation in
art; menstruation and alternative practices/consumption; menstruation
and education; menstruation and transgenderism; menstruation and
men/masculinity.

                                                           Submissions
Guidelines:

Please send abstracts of approximately 300  words together with a short
bio to Berkeley Kaite, McGill University, Department of English:
((Berkeley.kaite /at/ mcgill.ca) <mailto:(Berkeley.kaite /at/ mcgill.ca)>)  by
August  1,  2016.

                      Accepted papers of 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages
including references and endnotes) will be due March 1st, 2017.
Contributors will be responsible  for  ensuring  that manuscripts
adhere  to  MLA  style.


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