1st Global Conference: Femininity and Masculinity

1st Global Conference
Femininity and Masculinity
16 to 18 May 2011
Warsaw, Poland

Call for Papers
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of
academic study on the issues of gender in its
social and cultural contexts. Since its
emergence from feminism, gender studies has
become one of the most deliberated disciplines.
The following project aims at an interdisciplinary
exchange of ideas and perspectives on the issues
of femininity and masculinity in the 21st century.
It invites ground-breaking research on a plethora
of topics connected with gender, to propose an
interdisciplinary view of the frontiers and to
stake out new territories in the study of
femininity and masculinity.

Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed
panels are invited on issues related to any of the
following themes:

1. Representations of Femininity and Masculinity
~ Femininity and masculinity in history and the
history of gender
~ The representation of gender in culture, art,
film, literature
~ The representation of gender in popular culture
and media
~ Gender in the relation to politics, law and
social studies

2. Gender Borders and Transgressions
~ Performativity of gender
~ Androgyny
~ Transgender issues
~ The body and its transgressions

3. New Directions in Femininity and Masculinity
Studies
~ New perspectives in masculinity and boyhood studies
~ Men in feminism
~ Third wave feminism, womanism
~ Lesbian feminism
~ Eco-feminism
~ Cyberfeminism
~ Individual feminism
~ Feminist disability studies

4. Global and Regional Perspectives on Gender
~ Gender and race
~ Gender and nationality
~ Gender and (post)colonialism
~ Case studies of gender issues in
local/regional/national perspectives
~ Global masculinity/ femininity

5. Gender in Relationships
~ Motherhood/fatherhood
~ Gender and family
~ Matriarchy/ patriarchy
~ Sororophobia and matrophobia
~ Misogyny and misandry
~ Female genealogy
~ Gender and maturity

6. Gender in Experience
~ gender in visual and performance arts
~ gender in advertisement
~ gender mainstreaming
~ gender in psychotherapy
~ gender equality education
~ gender in religion
~ gender and NGOs

Papers will also be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 26th November 2010. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper
should be submitted by Friday 1st April 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs.
Abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this
order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract
E-mails should be entitled: FM Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:
Barbara Braid (Conference Leader)
English Department,
University of Szczecin,
Szczecin, Poland
E-mail: [email protected]

Malwina Degórska
English Department
University of Szczecin
Szczecin, Poland
E-mail: [email protected]

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
E-mail: [email protected]

The conference is part of the At the Interface
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting. All
papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/call-for-papers/