I thought that someone on this list serv might be interested in this
new publishing opportunity.
Please forward it to interested individuals.
Thank you,
Sherrie A. Inness
Associate Professor of English
Miami University
Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture: Call for Contributors to
a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women in the Popular Media
For a new anthology on the depiction of tough women in the
contemporary popular media (1985-present), I am seeking essays that
explore the complex depictions of tough women in the modern popular
media. How are women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions of
tough women? How do different popular genres depict tough women?
Are these new depictions progressive? How does popular culture
depict tough women from different races, classes, and ethnic
backgrounds? How is toughness in women constituted differently than
in men? The range of materials that could be addressed is vast:
toys, television shows, films, video games, comic books, to name just
a few. Essays that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their
material are welcome, as are ones that discuss race, ethnicity, and
socioeconomic class. Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging;
they should be of broad interest to scholars in many academic
disciplines from the humanities, including history, women's studies,
English, American studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American studies,
and African-American studies. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000
words (including notes and references); accompanying photographs are
welcome. Please send completed article and curriculum vita by
September 1, 2002, to Dr. Sherrie A. Inness, Department of English,
1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio 45011
(inness@muohio.edu). Early submissions are encouraged.
This anthology will be edited by Sherrie A. Inness, Associate
Professor of English at Miami University. Inness is the author or
editor of thirteen books, including The Lesbian Menace: Ideology,
Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life (University of
Massachusetts Press, 1997); Delinquents and Debutantes:
Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures (editor, New York
University Press, 1998); Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women
in Popular Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999); Kitchen
Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
(editor, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001); Pilaf, Pozole, and
Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food (editor, University of
Massachusetts Press, 2001); Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary
Culture (University of Iowa Press, 2001); and Disco Divas: Women and
Popular Culture in the 1970s (University of Pennsylvania Press,
forthcoming, 2003).
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