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Call for Chapter Proposals: Sex and Tech! An Intersectional Feminist Guide to the Innovations that Shape Us
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Dear Professor Fellows,
Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press is considering publishing a volume that will explore the rapidly changing intersection of sex and technology. This book will present students and the interested public with an interdisciplinary, intersectional examination of the way technology and innovation affects and is affected by gender. The editors seek chapters that cover key theoretical building blocks, such as: the conceptual division between technology and the natural world; global technological transformations and their impact on gendered lived experience; and technology as a tool of suppression, as well as a site of resistance and transformation. Contributors are asked to draw on feminist, intersectional and/or queer theories, to examine our everyday uses of technology from the mundane to the surreal to the playful to the devastating and everything in between.
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Possible areas for submission would include (but are not limited to):
- Tech/nature, Public/private, and male/female
- Globalization, capitalism, and technologies of colonialism
- Gendered life in the digital age
- Technology as a site of erasure and resistance
- Gendering Virtual Assistants and/or AI
- Online pornography, dating apps, online sex and hookup culture
- Online sexual harassment, sexual violence and doxxing
- Representations of gender, race and ability online (video games, memes, avatars)Gendered barriers to entering the digital world
- Intersectionality and digital surveillance
- Representations and creations of the digital gendered self (Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram etc.)
- Transitioning in the internet age
- Decolonial resistance movements on-line (such as #idlenomore and #standingrock)
- Reproductive and new-reproductive technologies
- Tech gadgets for pregnancy and child-rearing
- Gendered dimensions of coding and computer programming
- Cyborgs and the division of labour
- Power, technology and violence
- Communities in the online world (the good, the bad and the ugly)
The co-editors J.J. Fellows and L. Smith invite individual and co-authored proposals and/or chapters from both established and emerging scholars (including graduate students), as well as community activists and public intellectuals. Proposals and chapters should be written with a first or second year undergraduate reader in mind, and be as accessible as possible for the general public.
Expected length of abstracts 250-500 words. Due Date of Abstracts: April 30th 2020 Expected length of final chapter: 6000-7000 words Proposed deadline for final chapter: December 30th 2020
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Sarah Powell Acquisitions Editor Pronouns: she/her/hers
Canadian Scholars | Women's Press 1066 W Hastings St., 20th floor Vancouver, BC V6E 3X2 sarah.powell@canadianscholars.ca
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