A return to the feminisms of the 1970s is one of the most salient dimensions of feminist studies to emerge over the last decade. This proposed volume seeks essays that reflect on this return — evident not only in academia, but in emergent activist feminisms of the 21st century — and speculate on what it could mean for the futures of feminist scholarship, politics, and cultural production.
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We are primarily interested in three modes of analysis: those that create a retrospective account
of this recent return, and analyze, in the words of Clare Hemmings, the “feminist stories” that constitute it; those that continue the work of (re)discovering and revealing the neglected historical dimensions and cultural productions of the feminist 1970s; and those that focus on contemporary texts and events that cite the discernible styles, image repertoires, or structure of feelings of the 1970s. InterventionsWe seek essays that explore the return to the 1970s in relationship to neoliberalism
and the exploitation that is its premise, engine, and consequence. We also invite essays that explore the concepts of temporality at work in this return, as well as scholarship that continues the work of displacing the Euro-American axis of the feminist 1970s and works to highlight, in the words of Marsha Meskimmon, its “global dynamics” and produce cartographies “able to explore differences and nuances.” We are also keen to include work that focuses on the vital role audiovisual culture—popular media, print culture; gallery, street, and commercial art; radio, television, and film; and performance art—has played in this return to feminism. |
Collectively, the essays in this anthology should cultivate an expansive definition of both
feminism and of the 1970s. We are interested in work that draws from the theories, subjects, and methodologies that have emerged since the decade came to a close—theories of affect, queer sexuality, and transnationalism are just three examples—and brings them bear on the return to the feminist 1970s in unpredictable ways. |