[Gesth-l] Fwd: Call for papers "Lesbian Theory, Feminist Politics: Transnational Perspectives”"

[Borgos Anna]

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From: Agata Stasińska <astasinska at psych.pan.pl>
Date: 2017-04-22 17:56 GMT+02:00
Subject: Call for papers "Lesbian Theory, Feminist Politics: Transnational
Perspectives”"
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Below an interesting proposal from Clare Hemmings

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Temat: [CRITSEX] Call for papers
Data: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 15:32:40 +0000
Nadawca: Hemmings,C <C.Hemmings at LSE.AC.UK> <C.Hemmings at LSE.AC.UK>
Odpowiedź-Do: Hemmings,C <C.Hemmings at LSE.AC.UK> <C.Hemmings at LSE.AC.UK>
Adresat: CRITSEX at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Dear all

Apologies for the quick turnaround on abstracts for this, but do pass on to
anyone you think might be interested in submitting an abstract.

best wishes

Clare


*Call for Abstracts (special issue proposal): **“Lesbian Theory, Feminist
Politics: Transnational Perspectives”*


*Editors: Ilana Eloit (LSE, Gender Institute) and Clare Hemmings (LSE,
Gender Institute)*


This is a call for abstracts for a journal special issue on the above
theme. We are negotiating with a feminist journal currently, and will take
this forward once we have a full set of abstracts for consideration.
Provisional publication date is December 2019; first drafts of papers will
be due in Spring 2018.


*Deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday May 22nd 2017*

Our aim for this special issue proposal is to explore the importance of
rethinking feminist politics and feminist theory from a lesbian
perspective. While lesbian politics and experiences are often erased or
euphemized in the history of feminism, we argue that this absence can be
considered an instance of feminist “haunting,” which Avery Gordon has
characterized as the “something-to-be-done”: an unresolved feminist
contradiction which has not only impacted the way feminist theory is framed
but also how feminist stories have been and are being told. However, as
Gordon has noted, “the ghost demands your attention” (Gordon 2011, p. 3).
We will be asking in this special issue: What happens when lesbian haunting
is taken seriously as a starting point in feminist theory and histories of
social movements? What changes (or stays the same) when we foreground
lesbian theories within variously located histories of feminism, and what
changes (or remains) within lesbian theory as well when we de-centre its
Anglophone canon? What challenges does the (re)centring of lesbian
traditions propose to the histories we tell, our canons of thought, or the
dominance of certain theoretical strands, as well as what we think of as
feminism?


When Monique Wittig, one of the founders of the French Women’s liberation
movement, wrote in 1980 that lesbians were not women, she provided a
dramatic counter-response to second-wave feminism’s approach to lesbianism
according to which “feminism [was] the theory and lesbianism the practice”
(Atkinson in Richardson 1998, p. 282). Indeed, Wittig’s intellectual
gesture disrupted such a feminist ordering of things by elevating
lesbianism to the status of feminism’s theory. Despite this, while
feminism’s roots in women’s social movements of the 1970s are consistently
returned to in accounts of the past, there is no such parallel emphasis for
lesbian theory. How did lesbians’ experiences in women’s movements produce
a new lesbian standpoint, and what is the political and social history of
lesbian theory?  Thus, while Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott edited the
landmark collection *Feminists Theorize the Political* in 1992, this
special issue proposal asks instead what happens to the intellectual,
social and political history of feminism when it is examined from the
standpoint of lesbian politics and when lesbianism becomes feminism’s
theory rather than its practice.



*We invite contributions that foreground the significance of starting from
lesbian politics and/or theory in relationship to any strands of feminist
or queer theory, local or transnational, with a view to telling different
stories or elaborating new modes of articulation.*


We welcome abstracts from a wide range of disciplines. Please send your
abstract (and any preliminary questions) to: *i.m.eloit at lse.ac.uk
<i.m.eloit at lse.ac.uk>* and c.hemmings at lse.ac.uk . Abstracts should be up to
250 words long. Please include your name, title, and any institutional
affiliation.



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