[ecrea] Feminism and Food Media cfp

Feminism and Food Media cfp for Feminist Media Studies, Commentary and 
Criticism Essays

Food media have become exponentially popular throughout the 21^st 
century, with growth in the production and consumption of digital ‘food 
porn,’ cookbooks and content in the food blog- and vlogospheres. Across 
these diverse formats, food media have long been recognized as artifacts 
that reference culturally- and historically-specific ideals of gender at 
the same time that they offer instructional food pedagogies. For 
instance, scholars have pointed out the links between food preparation 
rituals and the performance of gender from the hypermasculinization of 
barbeque to the feminized daintiness of baking desserts, and from ideas 
about the gendered organization of food labor to the embodied pleasures 
of food porn.

While feminist scholars have been ambivalent in their interpretations of 
how such food media and foodwork impacts feminism, historically food 
media have provided one of the few avenues for women’s media production 
to be considered authoritative and have been formative in disseminating 
feminist politics. Due to the simultaneously mundane and omniscient 
qualities of food, it has the potential to be deployed as a political 
tool in subversive and specific ways. Additionally, due to the rich 
gender, racial and class information encoded within mediated foods, they 
are important objects for interrogating ideas about identity, place and 
community.

This guest edited issue of Commentary and Criticism seeks to highlight 
the diverse ways in which food media intersects with feminist politics, 
with particular attention to the use of food media as a response to the 
contemporary media and political landscape. Ideas for essay topics might 
include (but are not limited to):

§the growth of user-generated food media and examples of their 
orientation towards diverse feminist and food aims

§the interplay of authenticity, gender and race in ‘immigrant’ food and 
discussions of cultural appropriation

§relationships between gender, place and food media

§the rise of the ‘crunchy mama’ and the (classed, racialized) moral 
panic surrounding certain foods

§discourses of orthorexia and healthism, and their invocation of 
gendered ideas surrounding appetites and bodies

§farmer’s markets and fights over access to and equality within these spaces

§the market for ethical food choices and their mediations in ways that 
implicate gender, class and race

§embodied and technological histories of food cultures

§the cult of amateurism in food media - in response to the celebrity 
chef phenomenon of early lifestyle media – and its implications for 
gendered labor.

We are particularly interested in submissions from beyond North America 
and the UK.**

The Commentary and Criticism section of /Feminist Media Studies/ aims to 
publish brief (~1000 words), timely responses to current issues in 
feminist media culture, for an international readership. Submissions may 
pose a provocation, describe work in progress, or propose areas for 
future study. We will also consider book and event reviews, as well as 
contributions that depart from traditional academic formats. We 
encourage all submissions to strategically mobilize critique to also 
offer a productive contribution to both feminist politics and media 
studies. Submissions must go beyond mere description in order to be 
considered for publication in Commentary and Criticism.

Please submit full contributions by *5 March 2018*, via email to Dr. 
Tisha Dejmanee ((t.dejmanee /at/ cmich.edu) <mailto:(t.dejmanee /at/ cmich.edu)>). 
Questions and expressions of interest can also be addressed to Dr. 
Dejmanee in advance of the deadline.

Email submissions directly to Dr. Dejmanee, as submissions for 
Commentary and Criticism will not be correctly processed if submitted 
through the main /Feminist Media Studies/ site.

Please be sure to follow the /Feminist Media Studies/ style guide, which 
can be found at the following link: 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1468-0777&linktype=44

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