Call for Papers - NeMLA 2022 WGSC Panel
Title: Exploring Plurality: Queering Feminism(s), Neoliberalism, and the Commodification of Intersectionality
Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Description:
Queering feminism(s) provides a framework for reconceptualizing plurality, analyzing neoliberalism, and dismantling byproducts of colonialist structures. This session seeks contributions that engage with the commodification of feminisms and intersectionality, as well as transnational feminist methods and theory as interventions in white hegemonic systems.
Feminism does not exist in singularity, and its plurality centers disenfranchised narratives and perspectives. Due to the interwoven structural oppressions based on the social construct of identities, intersectionality’s formation provides a foundation and praxis to theorize and contribute to the dismantling of systemic oppressions. The whitening of intersectionality participates in commodification (Bilge 2015), in stark opposition to its original intentionality (Crenshaw 1991), and calls into question the plurality of feminism as if a hegemonic conceptualization of ‘feminism’ would be preferred, enhanced, or (en)forced. In various societal contexts, the rise of neoliberalism (a byproduct of colonialism and imperialism) has led to a superficial adaptation or co-optation of feminist ideals (McRobbie 2009).
This session seeks contributions that engage with the commodification of feminisms and transnational feminist methods and its interventions in white hegemonic systems. We are interested in identifying ways that feminism(s) have been appropriated to construct binaries that restrict the development of feminist thought, art, and organizing. Further, we are interested in literary texts including, but not limited to, various forms of literature, film, and new/social media, that participate in queering feminism(s). As a Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus-sponsored roundtable session, we invite papers that broadly engage with topics that participate in the queering of feminism(s) to analyze the commodification of intersectionality within a neoliberal context.
Papers may discuss the following questions:
1) What is the relationship between the commodification of intersectionality and neoliberalism within feminism(s)?
2) How has the queering of feminism(s) participated in resisting commodification?
3) How can literary texts contribute to dismantling binaries?
Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.
Please submit your proposal, along with a brief bio (excluded from the 300-word count) by September 30, 2021, here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19371.
Panel Presentation Session #: 19371
NeMLA's 53rd Convention in Baltimore, Maryland
March 10-13, 2022
Chairs: Sharmeen Jariullah & Rikki Willingham of Gray Matters the Blog.
Sharmeen Jariullah - sjariullah@gmail.com, sjariullah@twu.edu
Rikki Willingham - rwillingham@twu.edu
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