[Reader-list] [Announcements] Looking for Submissions - Signs: Gender beyond Sexual Difference

[Monica Narula]

Signs Special Issue: Gender beyond "Sexual Difference": Rethinking 
Feminisms and Visual Culture

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks submissions for 
a special issue titled "Gender beyond 'Sexual Difference': Rethinking 
Feminisms and Visual Culture," slated for publication in spring 2006. 
The editors of this special issue seek manuscripts that offer new 
feminist strategies for examining visual culture, convincing 
critiques of earlier approaches to feminist visual analysis, and/or 
new models of feminist visual theory that accommodate the 
multivalence of women's identities and experiences.

We are interested in essays that revise binary models of sexual 
difference by considering the coextensivity of gender and the myriad 
other aspects of identity (sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc.)
defining contemporary experience.  This special issue of Signs will 
explore the powerful political conflicts that inform the work of 
feminist visual theorists and practitioners today and will place a 
particular emphasis on the burdens and conflicts that fall on those 
whose work is simultaneously feminist, antiracist, queer, 
postcolonial, Marxist, and so on.

This issue will include works that attempt to rethink the nexus of 
feminisms (in the plural) and visual culture beyond the dualisms 
generally posed by "sexual difference" theory, as important as this
theory was in developing critical models for analyzing the 
patriarchal structures of visual representation in Euro-American 
cultures. Located at a moment of intense shifts in conceptions and 
experiences of identity (national, international, class, ethnic, 
racial, sexual, gender, and otherwise), this issue intends to
provide multiple points of view on the intersection of feminism and 
visual culture, to pose new critical models of reading imagery and/or 
interrogating how feminist visual theories and practices from
the so-called fine arts to television, performance art, and the 
Internet might productively negotiate the increasingly complex 
pressures of global capitalism.  Possible topics could include: 
essays analyzing the productive or destructive conflicts between 
specific feminist visual theories and particular queer, antiracist, 
Marxist, postcolonial, and/or other theories of identity; articles 
addressing key feminist works of art (e.g., Adrian Piper's 
performances) through models of analysis acknowledging the 
intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, 
and so on; papers examining visual images or objects
that articulate complex formulations of gendered identity as multiple 
and unfixed; or essays offering new feminist models of visual theory 
that accommodate the interdependence of gender and other aspects of 
identity.

The special issue editors are Amelia Jones (history of art, School of 
Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester) and Jennifer 
Doyle (English, University of California, Riverside).
Please send submissions (three copies) no later than August 1, 2004, 
to Signs, "Rethinking Feminisms and Visual Culture," University of 
California, Los Angeles, 1400H Public Policy Building, Box 957122,
Los Angeles, CA  90095-7122. Please observe the guidelines in the 
most recent issues of the journal or at 
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/instruct.html.

-- 
Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net
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