[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

Pleased find attached the info on a CFP on Women’s Studies and Rock.

Possible subjects to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:

• Memory and Forgetting.
• Creation: reflections on musical and literary production.
• Narrative strategies of life-writing in a memoir.
• Being a woman in the music world.
• Aging: the perspective of a mature woman looking back and considering the present.
• Role models and cultural influences.
• Maternity: wanted and unwanted maternity. Abortion. Children. Adoption…
• Sex: Narrating sexual experiences and verbalizing sexual abuse.
• Mental issues: eating disorders, depression, anxiety, etc.
• Affect theory and the female musical autobiography.
• Defense of or resistance to feminist ideas.
• Punk/Rock aesthetics and politics.
• Re-writing their stories: challenges of previous representations (reports, interviews, videoclips, pictures, …)
• Life writing as performance.
• The female memoir as a genre: topoi, tropes, traditions…
• Ethics of storytelling in a memoir
• The limitations and the politics of remembering
• The therapeutics of writing a memoir

Please submit proposals (300 words) and a brief bio (100 words) by 15 October 2020 to Cristina Garrigós cgarrigos@flog.uned.es or Marika Ahonen mjahon@utu.fi
For accepted proposals, final essays between 5,000-7,000 words (inclusive of notes and bibliography) will be due 30 September 2021.

 

 

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