n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (published by KT press, since 1998).
Website: www.ktpress.co.uk
n.paradoxa publishes the work of women authors, scholars and artists working anywhere in the world. The journal is published in print and electronic format and has now reached its 15th year of publication. The focus of n.paradoxa is articles on contemporary women’s art practices (visual arts only, women artists working post-1970) or an aspect of feminist art theory which relates to their practices; as well as interviews with woman artists. Each volume is thematic.
Do not send finished articles. Articles are commissioned through negotiation with the editor: Katy Deepwell. email: katy@ktpress.co.uk Please send, well in advance of the copy deadline, an outline (1-2 paragraphs) and a short resume (1 page only). Please also outline the relation of your proposal to the theme of a particular volume.
Volume 30: Feminist Aesthetics (July 2012) (Copy deadline: 1 May 2012, to be published July 2012) After forty years of feminist art practices around the world which are neither media-specific nor have a single aesthetic (in the limited modernist sense of an identifiable “style”), how can we redefine feminist aesthetics in its relation to feminist politics today? This volume will explore questions about feminist aesthetics, art and politics and welcomes contributions which look at new and progressive lines of enquiry in these longstanding debates (even when revisiting previous formulations or arguments since the 1970s). These may touch on ‘aesthetics in the feminine’ and ‘feminist philosophical critiques of aesthetic theory’ (but the latter will only be accepted, where the primary examples used in discussion are feminist artworks (visual arts only)). Feminist critiques of aesthetic theory have drawn on and developed in relationship to post-structuralist and post-colonialist theories and contributions bringing together discussions of race, class, sexualities and ethnicities or nationalisms will also be welcomed, alongside critiques of neoliberalism.