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Special Issue Call for Papers: ‘Transforming Genitals in Culture and Media’</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Guest-edited by Professor Meredith Jones, Brunel University London, and Dr Marija Geiger Zeman, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Paper proposals are to be sent to Marija.GeigerZeman@pilar.hr</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Since the 1980s, research into the body has moved it from the position of ‘an absent presence’ (Shilling 1993) to an important and stimulating topic for the social sciences and humanities (Shilling 2005). However,
we have not paid sufficient theoretical or ethnographical attention to genitals, despite their social and cultural importance. Genitals have multifarious meanings, ideologies, connotations, inscriptions, norms, practices, technologies, imaginaries, feelings,
experiences and representations (Blackman 2008).</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">These body parts are anatomical and biological but can also be (like age) a ‘social organizing principle’, based on which individuals build their identities and gain/lose power (Calasanti and Slevin 2006). In the
gender binary paradigm genitals are understood as male or female, aligning with corresponding gender identity. Mainstream cultures still insist on the idea of the connection of genitalia and gender (Jones and Callahan 2022). At birth gender is assigned based
on genitals, beginning a lifelong process of binary gender differentiation (Wade and Marx Ferree 2015). Transgender, intersex and non-binary people are leading the way in questioning the gender binary system: demonstrating, advocating and indeed embodying
fresh understandings of relations between genitalia and gender that are far more complex than simple binaries.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Historically, apart from their social importance, genitals have prominent mythological, religious, ethical and cultural meanings, from worship to ridicule, from pride to shame, from public display to concealment,
and from unrestrained expression to discipline. They are often positioned in terms of dualisms: femininities/masculinities, youth/old age, beauty/ugliness, pleasure/pain, hatred/love, disability/capacity, intimacy/violation, private/public, etc. They are ordinary
and ubiquitous but also controversial, and fraught with anxiety.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">This Special Issue will examine how culture and media intersect with, consider, or work through genital transformations. We seek contributions that consider how genital transformations are represented visually
and textually – in film, television, social media, gaming, print, etc., and for what cultural reasons? We seek papers that address transformations of genitals that may be metaphoric, mythical, representational, surgical, phenomenological, etc. Intersectional,
feminist and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, and Global South stories are particularly welcome.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Research into social and cultural meanings as well as media representations of genitalia (male, female, intersex) is still considered a provocative but at the same time an extremely potent interdisciplinary field
that enables the establishment/expansion/strengthening of a platform for dialogues and cooperation between different disciplines and perspectives – body studies, media studies, gender studies, women’s studies, men’s studies, LGBTQ studies, cultural studies,
fashion studies, sociology, a number of sociological sub-disciplines (sociology of gender, sociology of the body, sociology of the media, etc.), and feminism, etc. Precisely because of the emphasised interdisciplinarity, academics from different disciplinary/professional
backgrounds are invited to participate in the realization of the topics.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Abstracts (500 words) should be sent to marija.geigerzeman@pilar.hr by Monday 17 November 2022</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Notifications of acceptance will be sent by Monday 24 November 2022</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Full papers due for peer review by Monday 30 January 2023</div>
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Approximate date of the final manuscript delivery 30 April 2023</div>
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