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*Gender & the Politics of Shame*

Volume 33, Issue 3, 2018

Guest Editor: Clara Fischer

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks contributions for a special
issue on “Gender and the Politics of Shame.” Significant advances in recent
years in the development of shame theory make this issue especially
timely.  The issue will evince   unprecedented feminist scholarly interest
in affect and the politics of emotion. Shame has been theorized as a
particularly gendered emotion, given women’s frequent inability to act as
authors of shaming narratives in patriarchal societies. This special issue
on the gendered politics of shame interrogates the relationship between
gender, shame, and power. It examines how the politics of shame comes to be
enacted against a variety of normatively transgressive bodies and
subjectivities, and how shame informs the construction, inter alia, of
gendered, racialized, and classed Others. Inversely, “Gender and the
Politics of Shame” asks how Others respond to their construction as
shameful. How have feminists subverted shaming narratives, or indeed,
performed a politics of shame in the service of liberatory projects?

Just as shame itself is often contested as either a negative or productive
experience, so the politics of shame may invoke a diversity of
conceptualizations that conflict with each other. “Gender and the Politics
of Shame” invites such competing and varied theorizations, and asks
feminist scholars from philosophy, other disciplines, and those doing
interdisciplinary work, to present new and promising ways of thinking about
the gendered politics of shame. Contributions from disability studies,
critical race theory, queer studies, transnational and postcolonial
feminism are particularly welcomed. Articles may cover the following
themes:

-          Shame and theories of emotion/affect: how can the recent “turn
to affect” help us to reconceptualize or advance theorizations of shame?
What contribution have canonical expositions of shame made to feminist
scholarship and how might these relate to contemporary critical thought on
the gendered politics of shame? Which theoretical models of shame are most
convincing and conducive to feminist political projects?
-          Shame and subjectivity: what is the relationship between shame
and subjectivity? Is shame necessarily debilitating or is it an emotion
that contributes productively to human and/or animal development?
-          Shame and related emotions (disgust, embarrassment, guilt,
pride): what is the relationship between shame and other emotions/affects,
particularly the self-conscious emotions? How can we distinguish between
closely related feeling-states such as guilt and shame or disgust and
shame? How is shame best understood ontologically?
-          Body shame and disability: how are certain bodies constructed as
shameful? How do norms of (gendered) embodiment and ablebodiedness inform
the politics of shame? How have critical disability theorists
conceptualized shame?
-          Racialized shame: how is the politics of shame racialized? Which
racist and gendered tropes does the politics of shame engage? How has
racialized shaming underpinned and sustained colonial and imperialist
systems?
-          Queer shame: what is the relationship between heteronormativity
and shame? What role have heteronormative state policies and cultural
sanctions played in the performance of the politics of shame? How have
queer theorists advanced theorizations of shame in recent years?
-          Classed shame: what is the relationship between economic
inequality and shame? Has the shaming of classed Others intensified in
light of the global financial crisis and related, recent events? How is
poverty construed as shameful?
-          Shame and activism/subversion: how do shamed constituencies deal
with shame? What strategies have been developed to counter shaming
narratives? How do activists draw on shame to highlight and remedy
injustices committed by the state?
-          Shame and political institutions/systems: what role does the
state play in performing the gendered politics of shame? How do its
institutions produce shaming narratives? Are institutionalized Others
particularly subject to a politics of shame?
-          Shame and humiliation: what is the difference between shaming
and humiliating? Are shamed Others also humiliated Others?
-          Shame and aesthetics: what role does the aesthetic countering of
shame (evinced, for example, by ‘black is beautiful’) play in liberatory
politics? How are shameful Others constructed in art? How do feminist
artists engage shame and the gendered politic of shame?

*Deadline for submission: December 1, 2016*

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and
bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract
of no more than 200 words. In addition to articles, submissions to the
Musings section are encouraged. These should not exceed 3,000 words,
including footnotes and references. All submissions will be externally
reviewed. For details, please see Hypatia’s submission guidelines:
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When you submit, make sure to select “Politics of Shame” as your manuscript
type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Clara Fischer, at
[log in to unmask] indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.


-- 
Dr. Clara Fischer
Teaching & Research Fellow, UCD School of Philosophy
Research Associate, UCD Women's Studies
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