CfP: Women, Gender & Research - #MeToo Discrimination & Backlash
This call intends to address sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and backlash against any form of feminist knowledge production which can address these challenges.
We intend to put focus on this clash between major progress in dissemination of feminist agendas about sexual harassment, sexism, and gender discrimination to the broader public, and the wave of rightwing backlash against feminist research and knowledge production.
In other words, we pose the question: What types and/or degrees of resistance/backlash are researchers exposed to when they explore highly controversial topics of sexual harassment, sexism, and overt/explicit gender discrimination? What happens when feminist knowledge production meets a patriarchal organization or society? How do ideals of cis- and heteronormativity, whiteness, and nationalism intersect and play out in the face of the #MeToo movement and other forms of feminist knowledge production? How is anti-feminism articulated in politics, media and academia?
Deadline for abstract: October 15th, 2019.