CALL FOR PAPERS:  Man-Hating in Cinema, Literature, Media, and Society  Editors Gilad Padva, scholar in cinema, culture, men's studies, and queer theory Yair Koren Maimon, Chair of the Department of Literature, GordonAcademic College When a legitimate and crucial criticism of patriarchy is transformedinto a bigoted, ruthless misandry/man-hating? When resistance toandrocentric systems that focus on men's interests stimulatesgynocentric attitudes that disrespect, misrepresent, and diminish men'shuman dignity? How does resistance to the objectification of women'sbodies involve mocking and grotesque representations of men's bodiesand, particularly, their genitalia? What are the (counter)culturalimplications of commercialization and voracious consumption of malebodies? How and why has the phallus been delegitimized, demonized,criminalized, and associated with dreadful fascism? Is the tensionbetween lesbians and gay men synonymous with the tension between men andwomen in the heteronormative world? /Man-Hating in Cinema, Literature,Media, and Society /initially inquires how popular screens, arts,animations, mass communications, fiction and nonfiction books andcommunities mediate and negotiate those intriguing, provocative, anduncomfortable questions. Across both canonical and popular literary forms, media, and cinemas,one can identify an implied author's worldview reflecting misandry,whether overtly or implicitly expressed. Typically, these culturalproducts misperceive masculinity as a source of violence, alienation, ormoral decay. In some instances, they materialize an exclusively femaleworld in which men are marginalized, persecuted, absent, or annihilated. Recently, however, controversial feminist publications have radicalizedthe intricate relationship between resistance and fanaticism, activismand intolerance, anger and violence, enthusiasm and brutality, protestand reactionary discrimination.//However, /Man-Hating in Cinema,Literature, Media, and Society/ presupposes that a sincere, critical,unbiased, and pragmatic discussion of popularized misandry aligns withinclusivity, multiculturalism, egalitarianism, and the promotion of amultivocal, multigendered, and antipatriarchal agenda. We invite chapters that examine representations of misandry/man-hatingfrom diverse cultural, cinematic, literary, communicational, and socialperspectives and disciplinary backgrounds. Potential topics include: - Hatred of male bodies, phallophobia, and castration fantasies onscreen, e.g., /Marnie /(USA 1964), /Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom/(Italy 1975), /Bram Stoker's Dracula /(USA 1992), /Teeth /(USA  2007),/Dangerous /(India 2022), and /Deadloch /(TV series) (Amazon PrimeVideo, 2023-present). - "Rape-revenge" portrayals of cis- and trans- women's vigilantism andsavagery, e.g., /Myra // Breckinridge/(1970), /Death Game/ (USA 1977),/I Spit on Your Grave/ (USA 1978), and /I Spit on Your// Grave: DejaVu/(USA 2019), and sensational docu-dramatizations of women whoamputated their husbands' penis. - Misandry as transphobia: discriminatory images of m2f and,particularly, f2m transgender people inside and outside feministmovements and mainstream cultures. - Screening and fictionalizing misandric criticism of cissexual malebodies in the age of a multigendered society. - The aestheticization of misandry in political resistance, activism,and shaming, including abusive caricatures of male politicians' genitalsand impotence. - Screening, fictionalizing, and documenting misandry and itsmythologies, cults, occults, and rituals, from the Greek Sirens andAmazons, and the Jewish semen-stealing Lilith, to some contemporaryall-female paganisms. - Misandry and its discontents in the New Queer Cinema & TV, e.g.,/Bound /(USA 1996), /Isle of Lesbos///(USA 1997), /The Misandrists/(Germany 2017), and, arguably,/The L Word /(Showtime, 2004-2009). - Misandry vs. misogyny in drag (kings/queens) performances, carnivals,circuses, musicals, stand-up comedies, fringe theatre, and freak shows. - Women molesting young boys and male preteens in films like /The Perksof Being a Wallflower/(USA 2012), /May December/(USA 2023), and the TVseries /American Gigolo /(Showtime, 2022). - Women sexually harass, exploit, and abuse men in films like/Disclosure/(USA 1994) and /Horrible //Bosses /(USA 2011). - Misandry and its horrors: misandric homophobia, misandriclesbophobia/butchophobia, misandric heterophobia, misandric matriarchy,misandric racism, and misandric monstrosity. - Featuring misandry as a patriarchal illusion and a manifestation ofparanoia in the age of excessive political correctness. - Eroticized misandry in straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, andtransgender pornographies, particularly the/femdom/phenomenon andinsatiable power bottoms. - Misandric objectification and commercialization of the male physiquein advertisements, fashion, porn, and sex toys. - The role of misandry in coming-of-age memoirs, sex (mis)education,bullying, and ex-gay/conversion therapy. Abstracts of 400 words and five references, alongside the author's shortbio (200 words), to be submitted by October 10, 2025. Accepted chapters of approx. 6,000 - 7,000 words to be submitted byApril 15, 2026. Direct queries and submissions to: Dr. Gilad Padva giladpadva@gmail.com <mailto:giladpadva@gmail.com> Dr. Yair Koren Maimon yairma@gordon.ac.il <mailto:yairma@gordon.ac.il>