CFP: Old Dilemmas, New Voices: Feminist Ethics and #MeToo

Several years have passed since the #MeToo movement‘s worldwide impact. In the meantime, many serious issues have surfaced, with considerable global backlash in response to issues concerning gender equality. How did the #MeToo movement change the world, especially in terms of its reponses to sexual violence? How does it relate to various other social movements? How has it affected feminist scholarship or state policies?

Keynote speakers:

Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Graceland University

Kate Manne, Cornell University

We welcome abstracts on any aspects of feminist ethics and value theory, feminist critical analysis, feminist political theory, feminist epistemology, feminist metaphysics or feminist activism with relevance to #MeToo or other related movements or issues. Submissions from all academic disciplines are welcome, provided they implicate feminist analysis in their work and have sufficient relevant to the topics. Submissions from scholars at all career levels are welcomed.

Possible topics/themes include (but are not limited to):

• #MeToo in an intersectional context
• Gender identity and #MeToo
• #MeToo at a local level
• #MeToo as an international phenomenon
• #MeToo and solidarity
• #MeToo and activism
• #MeToo in the law
• #MeToo as a social movement
• Gendered policies after #MeToo
• (Mis)interpretations of #MeToo
• Apologies and forgiveness
• Changes in social and moral norms
• Love, sex, and relationships
• Feminist revolutions
• Theory and activism
• Feminist ethics as an independent subject and/or as a part of feminist philosophy
• The history of feminist ethics
• Influence of feminist activism on moral norms
• Individual vs. collective responsibility

Deadline for abstracts: 20 December, 2024 (new deadline!)

Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2025

Abstracts (250 words) should be submitted through https://emfem.hi.is/olddilemmas/