National Webinar on Re-Spacing Menstrual Narratives

Organizer: Post Graduate Department of English, Sri. C Achutha Menon Govt. College, Thrissur, Kerala, India

About the Webinar

• When: 11 December 2021
• There is no registration fee or registration link
• The platform will be Google Meet and the joining info and other details will be shared soon

Call for Papers

The paradigmatic shifts in theories of menstruation were indissoluble from the discursive construction of gender. Menstruation is considered a female phenomenon and fluctuations in physical and emotional states associated with menstruation are real experiences for many women. The articulation of real experience, however, is inherently subjective. Such articulations utilize a language which will render the experience identifiable and comprehensible, both for the individual and for society. It is the availability of a language for menstruation and the perpetual recreation of that language that menstruation becomes a social and medical concept as opposed to a real phenomenon. This is not to dismiss the significance of menstrual experience but to recognize that it is only the act of communicating the experience, be it linguistically or symbolically, that exists outside the individual. If we are to explore concepts of femininity in the past, it is essential to extend the analysis of menstrual theories beyond a recognition of how they reflected and concurred with ideals of femininity to perceive such narratives as fundamental in the creation of those ideals. This webinar aims to open up critical appraisals of the relationship between dictates of menstruation and the construction of femininity rather than aim to identify any linear progression of biological ‘truths’.

Well researched, original and unpublished articles on (but not restricted to) the following topics are invited for presentation.

• Menstruation as Lens
• Menstruation and Religion
• Menstruation as Fundamental
• Menstruation as Social Stigma
• Menstruation as Rationale
• Menstruation as Structure
• Menstruation as Material
• Menstruation as Narrative

Paper Submission

Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or under
consideration for publication elsewhere. An abstract of 250 words must be mailed to
menstrualnarrativesgct@gmail.com
If accepted, the full paper must be submitted in MS Word Document of 3000-4000 words in Times New Roman 12 and following MLA 8th Edition. Selected papers will be published in a book with ISBN.

Dates to Remember

• Deadline for abstracts- 25 November 2021
• Intimation of acceptance- 26 November 2021
• Deadline for full paper submission- 8 December 2021

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