Please forward to potentially interested parties:
Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "Extreme
Bodies: Cultures of Body Modification and Discourses of Beauty." The
purpose of this book is to explore the cultural significance of bodies and
body modifications from a variety of scholarly approaches and perspectives.
Ideally this collection will be a comprehensive introductory textbook for
the growing interest in bodies and will be suitable for use at both
undergraduate and graduate levels.
Possible topics include social constructions and performances of Beauty, as
well as theoretical analyses of Body Modification Culture (from grooming
habits to amputation fetishes). Examples include: practices of permanent
body modification (tattooing or branding) within "mainstream" and
sub-cultures; plastic/cosmetic surgery; the negotiation of cultural
boundaries between "normative" and "acceptable" modifications vs.
"extreme," "aberrant," "devious" etc.; and the future of body modification
in light of new medical technologies.
Studies of Gender and Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, and Class are encouraged
and any number of methodological/theoretical approaches are appropriate,
including but limited to: Performance, Women's Studies, Sociology, Literary
Analysis, Anthropology, Culture Studies, Historical Analysis, Psychology,
Folklore, etc.
Please submit 2-page proposals or completed manuscripts (MLA style, 15-25
pages in length) to:
Reconstruction Reader Submissions
104 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226
jsmith@reconstruction.ws
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the
above email addresses.
The deadline for submission of completed papers is August 16th, 2002.
This collection co-edited by Jeremiah Smith and Sarah Hildebrandt.
A full version of this call for papers is available at:
http://www.reconstruction.ws/projects/bodiescfp.htm
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