Edited Volume with e-ISBN (Digital)

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, feminist and gender studies have entered a moment of profound conceptual transformation. The political, economic, ecological, and technological upheavals that define our global present demand new analytical tools, new theoretical vocabularies, and new forms of collective imagination. Feminism today is not merely a critical intervention into structures of inequality—it is a generative practice of world-building, a method of envisioning futures where embodiment, relationality, and agency are understood beyond binary, essentialist, and exclusionary frameworks. This edited volume, Feminist Futures and the Politics of Becoming: Intersections of Gender, Bodies, and Power, invites scholars from across disciplines to rethink what it means to inhabit, resist, and transform gendered worlds in times of crisis and possibility.

Contemporary feminist thought has increasingly turned toward concepts of becoming—becoming-with, becoming-other, becoming-embodied, becoming-collective—as theoretical alternatives to stable models of identity and subjectivity. This shift situates gender not as a fixed position but as a dynamic process, a relational field in which power, affect, materiality, and discourse intersect. Gender becomes something we do, feel, negotiate, and transform through everyday practices, technological mediations, ecological entanglements, and cross-cultural imaginaries. The “politics of becoming” foregrounds the unfinished, the fluid, and the emergent; it calls for feminist scholarship that captures the subtle negotiations through which bodies and subjectivities are shaped and reshaped.

This volume aims to create a space for such scholarship by bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, and creative/critical practices. We welcome contributions that examine how gender and power operate in moments of transition, in hybrid spaces, at the edges of categories, or within emerging social and technological formations. We especially encourage work that illuminates new feminist imaginaries—visions of futurity, solidarity, and resistance that challenge the constraints of dominant narratives and institutionalized systems of knowledge.

Possible themes and areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:
Posthuman and post-anthropocentric feminisms: gendered bodies in relation to technology, AI, digitality, cyborg theory, and multispecies entanglements.
Intersectional and decolonial approaches to feminist futures: race, class, empire, migration, borders, and transnational solidarities.
Affect, embodiment, and the politics of care: affect theory, care labor, reproductive justice, emotional epistemologies, feminist ethics.
Queer, trans, and non-binary becomings: lived experiences and theoretical models that resist heteronormativity and gender essentialism.
Feminist ecologies and environmental humanities: ecological crisis, planetary ethics, ecofeminism, climate grief, sustainable futures.
Digital feminisms and virtual embodiment: activism, cyber-intimacies, online communities, digital labor, algorithmic bias, and platform governance.
Feminist myth-making and narrative futures: rewriting myths, reimagining classical and cultural narratives, speculative fiction, and narrative world-building.
Cultural representations of gendered bodies: literature, film, visual arts, performance, media, and popular culture.
Feminist pedagogy and transformative practices: education, community work, collective action, grassroots movements, and feminist methodologies.
This call encourages both theoretically grounded contributions and empirically informed studies, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge academic fields. Submissions may engage with individual texts or cultural artifacts, comparative/transnational analyses, philosophical arguments, ethnographic approaches, or methodological reflections. Creative-critical pieces and experimental academic writing will also be considered if they contribute meaningfully to the volume’s overarching themes.

Submission Guidelines
We invite proposals for book chapters written in English, between 4,000 and 6,000 words, excluding references. All submissions should follow a consistent academic citation style (MLA 9), and include an abstract of approximately 150–200 words. Authors are responsible for ensuring the originality of their work and for adhering to ethical standards of academic publishing.

Proposals should be sent in .docx format and include:

Title of the proposed chapter
Abstract (200-300 words)
4–6 keywords
Author’s full name, affiliation, and email address
A short biographical note (100–150 words)
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2026

Notification of acceptance: 15 April 226
Full chapter submission: 15 September 2026

Final acceptance after review: 15 December 2026
Publication date: upon completion of the edited volume, estimated within 2–3 months after final submission
Review Process
Chapters will undergo a peer-review process conducted by the volume's editor(s) and external reviewers. The review process is designed to ensure scholarly rigor while supporting authors in refining their work.

Publication Details
The volume will be published with an e-ISBN, in digital format. Authors will receive a digital copy of the volume. Print copies will be available for purchase on demand only.

To cover editing, formatting, ISBN assignment, and production costs, a publication fee of 50 EUR will be required upon acceptance of the final chapter.

Contact
For submissions and inquiries, please contact: Dr. Nicolae Bobaru
Email: critical.humanities.studies.journal@mail.com
Subject line: Feminist Futures – Chapter Proposal

critical.humanities.studies.journal@mail.com

Dr. Nicolae Bobaru