{"id":1544,"date":"2020-06-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:23:10","slug":"cfp-wonder-women-rebel-girls-women-warriors-in-the-media-18th-21st-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/2020\/06\/15\/cfp-wonder-women-rebel-girls-women-warriors-in-the-media-18th-21st-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Wonder Women &#038; Rebel Girls (deadline 6\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>4<span class=\"s2\">th <\/span>September 2020<\/p><p>Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin<\/p><p>Online Workshop<\/p><p>Keynote: Dr Emma Butcher (University of Leicester)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center p5 wp-block-heading\">\u2018<strong>War Girls: Youthful Soldiers and Writers in the Age of Modern War\u2019 (provisional title)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The explosive popularity of recent films such as Wonder Woman (2017) and initiatives like <em>Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls <\/em>(2016; 2018) reflects a growing appetite in today\u2019s media for depictions of women on the front lines, \u2018strong\u2019 female action heroes taking up roles other than victim, girlfriend, or grieving widow. At the same time, however, the waging of war off-screen continues to test the limits of policies of gender equality, with women\u2019s admission to combat positions in the military only granted in the last few years in many countries and opposition to it remaining widespread. The complex interaction between media representation and reality in the sphere of women and war has a long history. Women have been formally excluded from western armies for centuries, including an outright ban on women soldiers in Revolutionary France in the 1790s, and marginalized in military history. Beneath the surface, of course, exceptions are everywhere: from joining armies in disguise to winning open acceptance, women have taken part in innumerable conflicts across the world throughout history, but the narratives around their roles remain contested. Women soldiers\u2019 tales are more often seen as semi-fictional sources than authoritative pieces of military history; scholarship on women\u2019s participation in war remains separate from general surveys of conflict; historical depictions of women who fight have rarely been studied in comparison with those of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This workshop therefore aims to explore the unfolding contemporary\nphenomenon of women warriors on screen and\nin print within\na larger historical context, from the\nearly 18th century onwards,\nand in any\ngeographical context. While\nthe focus of the workshop is on women who took up arms, papers\ncould also explore\nthe blurred boundaries of women\u2019s war experience through time, reflecting on the multiple\nauxiliary ways in which they\nhave participated. For the purposes\nof this workshop, the definition of \u2018women\u2019 includes\nanyone identifying as such. Suggested themes\ninclude:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Autobiographical and biographical accounts, photography, film, literature and journalism about and\nby female soldiers, fighters or combatants, broadly defined, both\nfictional and non-fictional, and the reception these received<\/li><li>Challenges of telling\nwomen\u2019s stories today,\nwhether in scholarship, media, or museums<\/li><li>Commemoration, celebration and\/or criticism of\nwomen at war, both in state military bodies and armed\ninsurrections, terrorism or guerrilla warfare<\/li><li>Connections between discourse about female\nfighters and actual opportunities in the military, or the legal and political\nstatus of women and girls<\/li><li>Definitions,\ne.g. \u2018warrior\u2019 vs. \u2018soldier\u2019, and the connotations attached to each<\/li><li>Propaganda, symbolism and allegory<\/li><li>Women and girls as producers and consumers of media about war<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submissions are particularly welcome from PhD students and ECRs, and from scholars in all relevant disciplines, as well as heritage professionals, journalists, broadcasters, and writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guidelines for submission:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an online workshop, which will take place over the course of one day on GMT+1. Please indicate your time zone when applying, so that we can adapt the schedule accordingly. Speakers will be asked to pre-record their papers (of max. 20 minutes each), and we plan to offer you the support of a professional video editor to produce a high-quality version of your talk, which with your permission will then be shared online after the event. Efforts will be made throughout to offer as many informal networking opportunities as possible, including an optional social activity in the evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"> Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, plus a short biographical note, to <a href=\"mailto:wonderwomenworkshop@gmail.com\">wonderwomenworkshop@gmail.com <\/a>by 15 June (extended from 5 June).                    &nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Further questions can be directed to Dr. Matilda Greig, UCD Centre for War Studie (matilda.greig [at] ucd [dot] ie).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CFP-Wonder-Women-Rebel-Girls-4-Sept-2020.pdf\">CFP-Wonder-Women-Rebel-Girls-4-Sept-2020<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CFP-Wonder-Women-Rebel-Girls-4-Sept-2020.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th September 2020 Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin Online Workshop Keynote: Dr Emma Butcher (University of Leicester) \u2018War Girls: Youthful Soldiers and Writers in the Age of Modern War\u2019 (provisional title) The explosive popularity of recent films such as Wonder Woman (2017) and initiatives like Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls (2016; 2018) reflects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-template-features","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1884],"tags":[1895,1896,1897,1932,1941],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-announcements","tag-18th-century","tag-19th-century","tag-20th-century","tag-gender-sexuality","tag-media-studies"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}