Call for Papers: Special issue: Aesthetic interventions to gender-based violence and sexual violence

Call for papers for the European Journal of Women's Studies, posted by SageJournals.

Guest Editors:, Júlia Garraio, and Hülya Adak

Aesthetic interventions – including art, literature and film – have the potential to challenge, renegotiate and reconceptualise understandings of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. This Special Issue seeks to address the critical potential of aesthetics to (re)create the interconnections between gender, violence and sexuality, and to incite feminist + activism and transformation (Altınay and Petö, 2022). The question of who speaks and under which conditions, what is said and how, and who listens, hears and actively engages remains as crucial as ever.

The Special Issue will focus on how artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers have engaged with gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. It will also examine how audiences, activists and the public at large appropriate, interact with and respond to the aesthetics of works and narratives that deal with these forms of violence.

All articles will be subject to the Journal’s customary review process.

Articles should be prepared according to the guidelines for submission on the inside back cover of the print journal or at https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ejw

Articles should be submitted online to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejw by 31 October 2024.