Guest Editors: Celeste E. Orr (celeste.orr@unb.ca) and Casey Burkholder (casey.burkholder@concordia.ca). Outline of Theme To date, there remains no comprehensive intersex studies analysis about joy and happiness. What might intersex studies scholars and activists bring to a feminist conversation about joy? How might anti-interphobic perspectives prompt feminist scholars to rethink happiness? This special issue seeks to … Continue reading CfP on ‘Intersex Joy & Happiness’

Feminist Theory Special Issue - Call for Papers Following the emergence of the #MeToo movement, debates around the expression, representation, and politicization of women’s rage have become more voluble and audible, gaining momentum in diverse academic and cultural contexts. Within this framework, the purpose of this Call For Papers is to reassess and interrogate the … Continue reading ‘Engendering Rage: Mediated Narratives and Cultural Politics’

We support calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.  We condemn the murder, kidnap and harm brought to all civilians, including on the 7th of October 2023.  We support South Africa's case to the ICJ to stop what is effectively a genocide being undertaken by the state of Israel against the Palestinian people. We are … Continue reading Statement of solidarity with Gaza

Barbie Feminist Theory is running a Special Issue on Barbie (2023). We welcome contributions of 3000-8000 words on any aspect of the Barbie film, its wider influences, and its reception. Publication will be in 2024. Articles are due December 1st (submit to feminist-theory@ncl.ac.uk) Intergenerational Feminisms Feminist Theory invites submissions for a special issue on intergenerational feminisms-- the relations, conversations, tensions, connections, questions, and/or impasses across … Continue reading Feminist Theory: Current Call for Papers

In this conversation, Simidele Dosekun & Srila Roy trace the ways that gender and sexuality are both highly local and deeply transnational in the current landscape of neoliberalism. Dosekun’s Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture looks to beauty industry and practices in Lagos to explore the tension between self-construction and media representation in a world of savvy consumption and complex audiences for women’s embodied lives. Roy’s Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in … Continue reading Re-Fashioning Feminist Subjects: Authors’ Conversation

Dr. Grace Tillyard is an ESRC postdoctoral researcher based at Goldsmiths College, London whose work looks at the intersections of reproductive politics and digital technologies/tech-capitalism. Once the initial shock of Roe’s reversal in June 2022 subsided, legal experts began to highlight the ways that the Dobbs decision weakens the Constitutional right to privacy previously codified … Continue reading Abortion, Digital Surveillance and the Problem with Privacy