Journal Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research (Gender, rovne príležitosti, výzkum) (Web), guest editors: Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova and Katerina Kolarova
Final deadline for applications is November 30, 2014
The CfP invites submissions for a special issue examining concepts and theories of the body, embodiment, bodymind and corporeality within feminist theory and research practice. Given the close relations between the development of feminist thought, gender concepts, and theorisations of the body, this special issue wishes to offer a space for reflection on the current state of the field. Inquiries into the ways in which bodies are classified, disciplined, normalized, deployed by biopolitical technologies, as well as the ways in which bodies become utilised in expressions of (conditioned) agency have been essential to the development of thinking about gender and gender order. Thus, the history of thinking gender coalesces with the history of thinking about body and materiality. Continue reading