Call for Papers for Joint SSS/ESAC/CWSA Session at Congress

Session Title: What is Happening to Socialist Feminism?
Session Coordinator: Regina Cochrane

Abstract: Socialist feminism's synthesis of radical feminism with socialism
seems to becoming undone. Many socialist feminists have become
postmodernists
or postmodern "materialists." Others, especially socialist eco-feminists,
are
drifting into cultural feminism. Some are calling for a move from socialist
to Marxist feminism. Is socialist feminism necessarily "totalistic" and
"essentialist"? Does postmodern feminism really defend "difference" and
eschew grounding politics in "nature"? Is postmodern materialist feminism a
coherent project? Is postmodern feminism anarchist? Is cultural feminism the
"feminist" feminism? Is it "radical"? Can the domination of women and
nonhuman nature be adequately addressed by Marxist feminism? How is the
shift
to postmodernism in theory affecting feminist practice, political
engagements, and research?

Please send completed conference form (below) and 100-word abstract, by
January 15, to: [email protected] or to:

Regina Cochrane
Faculty of Communication and Culture
Social Sciences Building
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4

Presenters should be members of either SSS, ESAC, or CWSA. I hope to get
several panels on this topic including at least one focusing specifically on
eco-feminism.

Conference form / Formulario / Formulaire

Name:
Title of Session:
What is Happening to Socialist (Eco)feminism?
Session Coordinator: Regina Cochrane
Institutional Affiliation (if any):
Address:
Phone number:
E-mail:
Fax:
AV requirements (if any):
Title of paper:
Abstract: (100 words please)