[csaa-forum] CFP: Women's Studies International Forum, special issue on Food and Masculinities

[Michelle Phillipov]

CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue - Women’s
Studies International Forum
Eating like a ‘man’: Food and the
performance and regulation of masculinities 

Guest Editors
Meredith Nash, University of Tasmania
Michelle Phillipov, University of Tasmania
Scope
This special issue is intended to provide a sustained
examination of feminist perspectives on food as a site for the performance
and regulation of masculinities. Existing feminist scholarship on food and
eating has tended to focus on women’s experiences food preparation and
consumption. While this has been an appropriate corrective to the historical
marginalisation of women’s lives and experiences, much of this work tends to
focus on food and eating as primarily feminine experience. The ways in which food operates as a site of masculine gender construction for both men and women has been
largely neglected in the scholarship. More work is urgently needed that
considers food and masculinities from global and international perspectives and which addresses the vectors of nationality, ethnicity, migration, class,
age and sexuality. Contributions to this special issue will extend existing
feminist work on gender, food and eating by examining masculinities as
important sites through which meaning and power with respect to food are
mobilised (and sometimes contested).
We are especially interested in papers that explore
relationships between food and masculinities beyond hegemonic masculinity. We
intend to unsettle and ‘queer’ the notion that masculinity is associated with biological
‘men’ as much as possible, and so we are interested in contributions that will
engage with transgender masculinities and female masculinities and how they
operate in connection with food, eating and embodiment. 
Themes
We hope that the articles in this special issue will
raise questions on several levels: conceptual (how do concepts of
masculinity help to us understand and define contemporary gendered
relationships to food?), cultural (what discourses of masculinity are
attached to food, and how do men and women negotiate these cross-culturally in
their daily lives?), political (how can feminist perspectives on food
and masculinities assist us to understand, and contest, relationships between
food, eating, gender and social power?), and practical (how does
masculinity help us to address the gendered nature of food access and inequity
around the world?)
We are seeking articles that adopt a feminist approach
to food and masculinities and that explore one or more of the following topics
as they relate to masculinities or ‘men’:
	* The gendered geopolitics of food
	* Food and nation-building
	* Foodways and their relationship to agriculture, globalisation and industrialisation
	* Cross-cultural relationships to food
	* Class and consumption
	* Food and families
	* Food, fitness and health
	* Embodied experiences of eating
	* ‘Obesity’ and ‘fat’
	* Food, appetite and emotion
	* Food, sex and sexuality
	* Eating and (im)morality
	* Risk related to food
	* Food fads and trends
	* Fast food, extreme food, competitive eating
	* Genetically modified food
	* Famine and hunger
Contributors are invited to submit articles
of 7500 words (maximum) This e-mail
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it by 31
October 2012.

Articles
for this special issue will need to be submitted via the Elsevier Editorial
System (EES) for Women's Studies International Forum: http://ees/elsevier.com/wsif/ 
Authors should follow Women's Studies
International Forum’s submission guidelines available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/361/authorinstructions. 
Articles for this special issue will need
to be submitted via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) for Women's Studies
International Forum: http://ees/elsevier.com/wsif/. 
Authors
must select “Eating Like a Man SI” in the “Article Type” step in the submission
process. Authors must also request ‘Kalwant Bhopal’ at the ‘Request Editor’
stage of the submission process.  

The editors of the Special Issue welcome
discussion of initial ideas for articles via e-mail (please send queries to
both of the editors):
Meredith Nash: Meredith.Nash[at]utas.edu.au
Michelle Phillipov: Michelle.Phillipov[at]utas.edu.au 
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