{"id":6748,"global_id":"anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=6748","global_id_lineage":["anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=6748"],"author":"4","status":"publish","date":"2025-04-25 19:11:21","date_utc":"2025-04-25 23:11:21","modified":"2025-04-25 19:12:10","modified_utc":"2025-04-25 23:12:10","url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/n-signs-journal-of-women-in-culture-and-society-seeking-submissions-on-feminism-antifeminism-and-the-mobilization-of-regret\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/6748","title":"N – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Seeking Submissions on: Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret","description":"

Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Feminism is forward-looking and world-building. Feminists everywhere can call to mind the manifestos, mobilizations, solidarities, creative inspirations, legal propositions, and revolutionary paradigms that inspire us to action and move us toward more just futures. At the same time, we may also be haunted by obstacles encountered, losses experienced, and regrets felt along the way. With over fifty years of feminist history behind the journal\u2014and, we hope, another fifty years of feminist troublemaking ahead\u2014Signs<\/em>\u00a0seeks essays that delineate both how feminists may experience, theorize, and productively apply the concept of regret and how it may, alternatively,\u00a0 thwart the development of feminist futures.<\/p>\n

As Andrea Long Chu\u00a0asserts<\/a>, \u201cWhere there is freedom, there will always be regret. . . . Regret is freedom projected into the past.\u201d Janet Landman, similarly, has\u00a0conceptualized<\/a>\u00a0regret as signifying the \u201cpersistence of the possible.\u201d On the one hand, how can feminists engage these generative qualities of regret\u2014freedom and possibility\u2014in our thinking and action? If there are choices that we, individually or collectively, regret, how might our regrets motivate political or personal choices? On the other, how do false narratives deployed by the Right, such as threats of regret over abortion or gender transition, act to undermine individual transformation and broader social change?<\/p>\n

We seek essays that make theoretical, analytical, and\/or activist interventions. We welcome papers that engage the complex dynamics and larger contexts of regret, from the personal, emotional, and creative realms to the social, political, and empirical; or that consider how regret converges with or departs from related affective terrains of shame, guilt, grief, or nostalgia. As always,\u00a0Signs<\/em>\u00a0encourages transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions, debates, and forms of literary, artistic, and cultural representation and that minimize disciplinary or academic jargon.<\/p>\n

Possible areas of focus might include:<\/p>\n