TESSERA: Feminist Interventions in Writing and Culture
Call for Papers for Tessera, Volume 30 (Summer 2001)
Special issue on Female Fetishes
How have women have assumed the position of the fetishist at different
moments and in diverse spaces-=ADas film spectators and sexual subjects, as
artists and performers? What are some current emblems of fetishism? We
invite contributions on the female fetish, the logic of fetishization, and
women and commodity culture from psychoanalytic- and materialist-feminist
perspectives. We are interested in contemporary analyses of fetishization as
well as historical work on the constitution of gendered subjectivities in
discourses of the aesthetic and in capitalist culture.
In classical psychoanalytic theory, the fetishist is necessarily a
castration-anxious son, but is the compulsion to invest an object with
magical values a specifically masculine one? The balance of knowing/not
knowing in the fetishistic posture is certainly one way of characterizing
the relation of Western consumers to the "invisible" female labour producing
the shoe, the jacket, the keyboard, on the other side of the globe. How does
transnational capitalist commodification turn us all into masculine
fetishists in this sense? How might feminist critique of commodity fetishism
elaborate new ethical responsiblities in this context?
Tessera is a bilingual Canadian journal, publishing feminist literary
theory, cultural criticism, innovative cross-genre writing, and visual art
since 1984. Submissions in English or French, of no more than 4,000 words,
in MLA-format and accompanied by a disk and brief biographical note, should
be sent to:
Tessera, c/o Lianne Moyes, Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al, D=E9partement d'=E9tudes
anglaises, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montr=E9al (Qu=E9bec), H3C 3J7
Fax: 514-343-6443
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