[ecrea] call for contributors: Women's Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture

I am currently under contract with Greenwood Press to produce a
reference book, with a U.S.A. focus, titled Women’s Rights: Reflections
in Popular Culture. I am seeking contributors for the entries listed
below.  If you are interested, please email me at (asavage /at/ butler.edu)
<mailto:(asavage /at/ butler.edu)>.  Include what entries you are interested in
and a brief bio as it relates to the entries you have chosen. The call
is below.

Thank you,

       Ann Savage*__*


A. M. Savage, Ph.D
Professor
Critical Communication & Media Studies Department
Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Butler University
Indianapolis, IN 46208


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*_TITLE_: /WOMEN’S RIGHTS: REFLECTIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE/*

*_SERIES_: ISSUES THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE*

*_IMPRINT_: GREENWOOD*

*_EDITOR_: ANN M. SAVAGE, BUTLER UNIVERSITY*

*_DUE_: FEBRUARY 15th, 2016*

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*_Purpose & Scope_**: *The purpose of this series is to help high school
and undergraduate students understand how social issues and popular
culture interact with one another.  This title will focus on the issue
of women’s rights (broadly defined) in the U.S.A. and will explore how
it is treated in film, television, literature and other various
manifestations of popular culture.

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*_Entries_**:*

Individual entries will consist of

·An opening statement that summarizes the content of the particular work.

·Each entry should detail the reason(s) why the work was so influential,
what it brought to light about the issue at hand, whether it was
received with praise or backlash or both, what controversial elements it
contained, and other relevant information.

·Further reading citations of authoritative sources for further study of
the issue under examination.

·Each entry is limited to 500-550 words, including citations.

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*_Seeking Authors for the Following Entries_**:*

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*TELEVISION***

The L Word (2004-2009)

How to Get Away with Murder (2014-present)

Transparent (2014-present)

Jane the Virgin (2014-present)

*POPULAR MUSIC ARTISTS*

Nina Simone (1954-2003)

Lauryn Hill (1991-present)

Missy Elliot (1991-presnt)

Lilith Fair (1997-1999)

Laura Jane Grace (1997-present)

Janelle Monáe (2003-present)

Angel Haze (2011-present)

Pussy Riot (2011-present)

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*FILMS*

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1975)

Foxy Brown (1974)

Norma Rae (1979)

The Color Purple (1985)

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Orlando (1992)

A League of Their Own (1992)

Silkwood (1993)

If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

Set It Off (1996)

Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Frida (2002)

Real Women Have Curves (2002)

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

Persepolis (2007)

Suffragette (2015)

Stonewall (2015)

*LITERATURE*

/The Awakening/ by Kate Chopin (1899)

/The House of Mirth /by Edith Wharton (1905)

/A Room of One’s Own/ by Virginia Wolf (1929)

/Their Eyes Were Watching God /by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

/The Diary of  Young Girl /by Anne Frank (1947)

/The Dream of a Common Language/: /Poems 1974-1977 /by Adrienne Rich (1978)

/For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is
Enuf/ by Ntozake Shange(1980)

/Zami: A New Spelling of My Name /by Audre Lorde (1982)

/Handmaid’s Tale/ by Margaret  Atwood (1985)

/The Round House/ by Louise Erdrich (2012)

/Bad Feminist: Essays/ by Roxanne Gay (2014)

/Citizen: An American Lyric/ by Claudia Rankine (2014)

*IN THE NEWS*

Seneca Falls Women’s Convention in 1848

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)

Helen Thomas (1920-2013)

Betty Freidan (1921-2006)

Gloria Steinem (1934-present)

Geraldine A. Ferraro (1935-2011)

Rosie the Riveter (1942-1944)

Angela Davis (1944-present)

Sonia Sotomayor (1954-present)

Women’s Liberation Movement (1960s-1970s)

Bechdel Test (Alison Bechdel) (1985-present)

United States vs Windsor (2013)

Caitlyn Jenner

*ON THE WEB*

Planned Parenthood.org (1916-present)

NARAL.org (1969-present)

Ms. Magazine.com and Gloria Steinem (1971-present)

Feminist Majority Foundation (Feminist.org) (1987-present)

Feminist.com (1995-present)

The Crunk Feminist Collective (crunkfeministcollective.com) (2000s-present)

Feministing.com (2004-present)

Jezebel.com (2007-present)

The Shriver Report.org (2009-present)

#sayhername #blacklivesmatter (2013-present)

*ANN M. SAVAGE, PH.D.*

*(ASAVAGE /at/ BUTLER.EDU) <mailto:(asavage /at/ butler.edu)>*

*PROFESSOR, CRITICAL COMMUNICATION & MEDIA STUDIES*

*AFFILIATE FACULTY IN GENDER, WOMEN & SEXUALITY STUDIES*

*BUTLER UNIVERSITY*

*INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, USA*


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