New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology This edited collection is interested in the intersections of feminism, American politics, and popular culture. Right now, as feminism in general is forced to shift back to a focus on reproductive rights, the fourth wave is being splintered into those prioritizing this issue and those still focused on empowerment, intersectionality, and other issues original to the fourth wave. As more and more strains of feminism emerge, how might we understand their origins and place them in conversation with each other? Is feminism finally intersectional? If not, how do we get there? How might the issues facing us collectively--such as climate change--impact feminism?Are politicians bringing us there or setting us back? One of the underlying arguments of this collection is that these new strains or forms are communicated to larger audiences via social media and popular culture, which, as flawed conduits, potentially change larger meanings.  This collection is divided into the three following sections.     The Politics of Feminism: How politics have infiltrated or shaped the latest wave of feminism What strains of feminism have emerged as a result of social media or other forms of popular culture? How are those impacted by an always shifting political landscape? The political landscape has certainly forced returning or new priorities into the feminist agenda. Has pop culture been a help or a hindrance to this? How has Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization shaped the fourth wave, what will it mean going forward, have shifts in the fourth wave emerged that take into consideration?  Feminisms of Politics: The brands of politics created by women politicians Leading women politicians – like Hilary Clinton, Kamala Harris, or Nikki Haley (in her “She who dares wins” sweater) have each branded their own feminism when campaigning and creating policies. How do these feminisms correspond to their politics? How are they received by voters? How are they portrayed in popular culture? Are they in contrast to each other? Are these brands of feminism progress? Setbacks? How do they interact with American culture, with social constructions? Feminist Futures: The next wave, what is gen z’s feminism, is there a “feminist” future?  The fourth wave is greatly impacted by identity politics. Has an over-reliance produced overly generalized narratives?  As pushback against identity politics grows and grows, how much will it be part of feminist waves going forward? What are the narratives that we rely on most? What is a productive way to include identity politics going forward? Might we conceptualize a fifth wave and what might that look like given our current socio-political landscape? In what ways might we revisit the force and impact of second wave feminism in the wake of this historical moment? An underlying focus of this collection is to make mainstream and digestible some feminist theories or feminist approaches, using culture, the environment, and society as the texts to be analyzed. Part of this lies in revealing new perspectives on this ever-changing fourth wave of feminism and the impact it is having on politics, or vice versa. This collection seeks to examine, challenge, and reveal new feminisms, challenge some of the limiting ideologies that have emerged on the right, continuously coming back to how some of the established feminist theories can expand our worldviews. Please send a 250-350 word abstract to editors Melissa Sande (melissa.sande@ucc.edu) and Christine Battista (christine.battista@UCDenver.edu) by November 15, 2024. We are happy to guide ideas/proposals through the development process. Accepted, full-length chapters will be due by May 1, 2025.