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<div class="m_1068464326248306205moz-forward-container"> Below an interesting proposal
from Clare Hemmings<br>
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<p>Dear all</p>
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<p>Apologies for the quick turnaround on abstracts for this, but
do pass on to anyone you think might be interested in
submitting an abstract. <br>
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<p>best wishes</p>
<p>Clare</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria" align="center"> <b><span>Call for Abstracts
(special issue proposal): </span></b><b><span>“Lesbian Theory,
Feminist Politics: Transnational Perspectives”</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Editors: Ilana Eloit (LSE,
Gender Institute) and Clare Hemmings (LSE, Gender
Institute)</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></b><b><span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"> <b><span>Deadline for
submission of abstracts: Monday May 22<sup>nd</sup> 2017</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span>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<span>: What happens when
lesbian haunting is taken seriously as a starting point
in feminist theory and histories of social movements?</span>
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?</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span>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? <span> </span><span>Thus, </span>while
Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott edited the landmark
collection <i>Feminists Theorize the Political</i> 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.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><i><span>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.</span></i></p>
<p style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"> <span lang="EN-US"><br>
We welcome abstracts from a wide range of disciplines. </span><span lang="EN-US">Please send your abstract (and any
preliminary questions) to: </span><u><span lang="EN-US"><a class="m_1068464326248306205moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:i.m.eloit@lse.ac.uk" target="_blank">i.m.eloit@lse.ac.uk</a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222" lang="EN-US"> and </span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:c.hemmings@lse.ac.uk" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">c.hemmings@lse.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> . Abstracts should be up to 250 words long.
Please include your name, title, and any institutional
affiliation. </span></p>
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