Gender and Nation - Special Issue of Hypatia

Gender and Nation - CFP

Special Issue of Hypatia (43.3), Summer 2028

This special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy invites philosophical engagements of the topic of “Gender and Nation.” The publishers seek contributions that interrogate how nations are imagined, experienced, constituted, and governed through gendered logics that shape various forms of exclusion, political subjectivity, citizenship, and national belonging.

Articles might address, without being limited to, the following questions:

• How are nationalisms and ideas of “the nation” gendered, classed, and racialized (among others)? What mechanisms and structures underlie the intersectional injustices attendant in patriarchal nationalist projects? What types of nationalisms are particularly harmful to marginalized groups?
• What has been the impact and the enduring legacy of Yuval-Davis’ book Gender and Nation? How does her work align or compare with other feminists doing work on ‘gender and the nation’? How has feminist work on gender and nationalisms developed or shifted in the last 30 years? 
• Are certain philosophical frameworks more suitable for theorising the gendered construction of ‘the nation’ than others? How have or might recent developments in feminist thought (e.g. in affect theory, new materialism, and disability studies, including work by Sara Ahmed and Jasbir Puar) come to bear upon feminist theorisations of the nation? 
• How can and do feminists oppose patriarchal nation-building (across diverse social, geographical, and political contexts)? 
• How have feminists engaged with nationalist movements that resist colonial occupation and/or oppressive state policies? 
• How do diasporas, exiles, and stateless communities reconfigure the idea of nationhood?
• Can there be a feminist nationalism? What would this look like?
• What role do the institutions of family, religion, and state play in nationalisms and how are these often understood and imagined in gendered ways? 
• What particular harms and injustices are attributable to patriarchal conceptualisations of the nation and its realisation via gendered policymaking – e.g. what is the relationship between the gendered nation and sexual violence, the denial of reproductive rights, forced institutionalisation, illicit adoption, and criminalization of marginalized gender/sexual identity (among others)? How have feminists sought to redress such harms?
• How do contemporary “anti-gender” movements mobilize nationalism, and how have feminists and queer/trans activists resisted these formations?
• How are nation-building projects reshaped through digital infrastructures—e.g., social media, algorithmic classification, digital citizenship—and how are these inflected by gender?
• How have white nationalist movements co-opted feminist language of “women’s liberation” and “progress” to mark racially marginalized groups, particularly Muslim minority communities, as outsiders to the nation? How has such rhetoric been challenged in feminist scholarship?

Contributors working in and across various relevant disciplines (e.g. philosophy, gender studies, sociology, literature, politics, and disability studies) are invited to address these questions philosophically, and to do so drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks (such as critical race theory, crip theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory).

Deadline for submission: 9th April 2027

You have to submit your original manuscript electronically through the Cambridge University Press online submission and review system ScholarOne. Manuscripts need to be prepared for anonymous review. More information may be found in the Manuscript Preparations Guidelines. 

Submissions must be written in English. Both traditional article submissions (up to 10,000 words long, excluding footnotes and references) and musings (4,000 words including footnotes, but not references) will accepted.

For any questions on this special issue, please contact the guest editors: Clara Fischer (C.Fischer@qub.ac.uk) and Fulden İbrahimhakkıoğlu (fulden@metu.edu.tr).