Call for Papers due June 1, 2019
For more than four decades, the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG )has brought together students, scholars, activists, artists, and practitioners interested in gender and language and committed to feminist principles. Masculinities have functioned, over that time, as a consistent object of critique, debate, conversation, and rumination–sometimes marked explicitly as such, but most of the time functioning in the background of analyses that center feminisms, women’s experiences, and critiques of femininities. OSLCG 2019 proposes bringing masculinities into sharp focus as the conference theme–not to displace scholarship about feminisms, women’s lives, and femininities, but to name and interrogate the operation of masculinities at work in the shadows of scholarship and activism around gender. Toxic and hegemonic masculinities lie behind many of the problems commonly addressed in feminist scholarship: gender violence (a physical manifestation of toxic masculinity), reproductive justice (resisting masculinist efforts to control others’ bodies), homophobia and transphobia (expressions of cultural policing of “proper” masculinity), and intersectional critiques that articulate awareness of the interaction of masculinities with other systems of power that produce inequality for people, such as nationality, race, class, physical and mental (dis)ability, religion, size, or economic status.
We welcome submissions of papers, abstracts, panel sessions, roundtable discussions, and performances that address any aspect of communication, language, and gender, and especially those that engage in interrogations of masculinities.
All submissions are due June 1, 2019, with decisions about acceptance expected by August 1, 2019. Submissions can be made at www.osclg.org.
We welcome submissions of papers, abstracts, panel sessions, roundtable discussions, and performances that address any aspect of communication, language, and gender, and especially those that engage in interrogations of masculinities.
All submissions are due June 1, 2019, with decisions about acceptance expected by August 1, 2019. Submissions can be made at www.osclg.org.
The conference will be held on October 17-20, 2019 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Posted: January 22, 2019, 2:08 PM