[ecrea] Feminist Media Studies

>Feminist Media Studies
>Commentary and Criticism & Reviews Section
>
>We invite short essays for the Commentary and Criticism section of
>Feminist Media Studies on either of the following topics.  Potential
>contributors should contact Jane Arthurs ((jane.arthurs /at/ blueyonder.co.uk))
>and Usha Zacharias ((usha.zacharias /at/ gmail.com)) to express your interest.
>The final deadline to receive completed essays of around 1500 words is
>July 7, 2007.
>
>1. Global Girlhood, Queer Cultures and Youth Cultures
>Are the experiences of girlhood, queer teen cultures, and youth cultures
>changing throughout the world as new media technologies and new visual
>media cultures, including public visual culture and television cultures,
>craft new terrains? How have mobile technologies ­ especially the
>ubiquitous practices of cell phone communication and texting ­ created new
>spaces of communication for youth cultures? Has cultural globalization
>fundamentally shifted the ways in which girlhood and the genders of youth
>cultures, and queer cultures may be experienced in the metro/urban
>contexts? We welcome a diverse range of contributions that relate to this
>topic.
>
>2. Race vs Gender? The Framing of the American Election
>The contentious race for the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party
>in the United States has drawn worldwide attention due to the historical
>novelty of the two candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Obama's
>identity from the marriage of a white woman from Kansas and a man from
>Kenya has posed a racial complexity for the media and the public.  The
>candidacy of Hillary Clinton, who, if elected, would have been the first
>woman president of the U.S., has drawn attention to the ways in which the
>popular understanding of gender and womanhood has been framed, as well as
>how political issues are understood as "gender" or "race" issues. What
>also seems interesting is the curious blend of traditional feminism and
>post-feminism ­ or rather, the multiple feminisms that have activated
>popular allegiances. The "blackening" of Obama with the remarks of his
>pastor, as well as the "whitening" of Clinton with her projected
>affiliation to the white working-class have also marked the critical
>turning-points of the long race that call for further analysis. We invite
>contributions on issues that relate to race, class, and gender that
>emerged out of the campaign, especially those that analyze it from a
>transnational perspective.
>
>Book Reviews
>We welcome book reviews not exceeding 1000 words during our round-the-year
>production cycle. Please write to us if you are planning to send in a book
>review, providing some details about you as well as the book you plan to
>review.
>
>Contributors should follow the Harvard style of reference and guidelines
>for submission of manuscripts outlined on our website,
>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14680777.asp. The title page of the
>manuscript must contain the complete mailing address,institutional
>affiliation, and full contact information including phone and fax numbers
>of the author(s). Submissions should be e-mailed as a Word attachment to
>both (jane.arthurs /at/ blueyonder.co.uk) and to (usha.zacharias /at/ gmail.com).

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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