[ecrea] CFP Nasty Women in Popular Culture

*CFP:****Nasty Women in Popular Culture*
*Editors: Dr Alexia L. Bowler, Dr Adele Jones & Dr. Claire O’Callaghan*
Donald Trump’s now infamous phrase ‘such a nasty woman’, uttered about 
his then rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential 
debates, was rudely used to patronise and belittle Clinton, who is known 
for being a strong, independent (and feminist) politician.
In reality, Trump is not the only figure to characterise today’s women 
in this manner. Indeed, the alt-right commentator and Trump supporter, 
Milo Yiannopoulos, argues that feminism is ‘a cancer’ and suggests that 
fixing the so-called online gender wars is merely a matter of women 
exiting public space. Similarly, in the ‘community beliefs’ section of 
his /Return of the Kings/site, the neo-masculinist, self-styled pick-up 
artist and infamous internet misogynist, Roosh V, suggests that the 
elimination of traditional sex and gender roles increases female 
promiscuity and diminishes the rightful centrality of the nuclear 
family, for which he blames, among other things, women and feminism.
Nonetheless, in a demonstration of the power of the internet, the phrase 
was rapidly taken up (and continues to be used) by social media as a 
rallying cry for feminists, women’s rights groups and their supporters. 
The result of Trump’s comment was a spectacular subversion of his 
attempts to discredit Clinton and marginalise women’s voices. Alongside 
existing feminist slogans such as the Fawcett Society’s ‘this is what a 
feminist looks like’ and Laura Bates’s the #everydaysexism project, the 
‘nasty woman’ slogan has gone viral; used in Twitter hashtags, on a 
range of merchandise, and as memes. It has inspired poems, theatre, 
exhibitions, music and collected responses, as well as sparked political 
activism, visible in the global Women’s Marches that took place across 
the globe in 2017 at which banners celebrating feminist ‘nastiness’ 
could be seen: ‘Stay Nasty’, ‘The Future is Nasty’, and ‘I am a Nasty Woman’
Alongside this, the rise in visibility of strong, complex and vocal 
women in popular media, including television and film, suggests that the 
time of the ‘nasty woman’ is not over but about to begin. This 
collection will interrogateand contribute to this ongoing debate by 
bringing together new scholarship focusing on the idea of the ‘nasty 
woman’, and the embrace of this label, in late 20^th  and 21^st  century 
popular media and culture. The collection will ask how can we best 
theorise ‘the nasty woman’? What characterises or who /is/ the ‘nasty 
woman’ and where can we find her? Is her central characteristic anger, 
strength, crudity, power, or all of these things? Finally, it will 
consider the question of whether she bears responsibility for others and 
what, if anything, makes her different to previous iterations of the 
arguably feminist female figure?
The collection will both celebrate and problematise the application and 
endorsement of the term, considering recent debates, responses and 
trends in popular culture and feminist scholarship.
We seek contributions that engage with the notion of the ‘nasty woman’ 
in all forms of media (including recent film and television) and popular 
culture in late 20^th  and 21st century sex and gender politics.
Possible topics could include but are by no means limited to:
•Theorising the ‘nasty woman’
•Television and Film (e.g. Furiosa in/ Mad Max: Fury Road, /Claire 
Underwood in /House of Cards, /Waller-Bridge’s/ Fleabag/)
•Relationship with other feminist movements such as ‘this is what a 
feminist looks like’ movement and everyday sexism projects, among others
•Nasty women and bad language
•The ‘nasty woman’ of comedy (e.g. Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy, Tina 
Fey,Amy Poehler, Sharon Horgan, Phoebe Waller-Bridge)
•Nasty women of pop (e.g. Madonna, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus)
•Nasty women of fashion, TV, film, theatre, gaming
•Nasty women of history as viewed by contemporary culture
•Issues of responsibility and shared identity
•Politics, the media and the nasty woman
•Controversial commentators and the idea of the nasty woman (e.g. Roosh 
V, Milo Yiannopoulos, Katie Hopkins, Ann Coulter, Camille Pagilia)
•Nasty women in different global contexts
Please address any enquiries and expressions of interest to the editors, 
Dr Alexia L. Bowler ((a.bowler /at/ swansea.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.bowler /at/ swansea.ac.uk)>), Dr Adele Jones 
((Adele.M.Jones /at/ swansea.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Adele.M.Jones /at/ swansea.ac.uk)?subject=>), and Dr Claire 
O’Callaghan ((Claire.Ocallaghan /at/ brunel.ac.uk) 
<https://mobile.swan.ac.uk/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>).
Abstracts of 500-600 words, for chapters of between 6,000-7,500 words, 
along with a short biographical note, should be emailed to both editors 
by 1^st  August 2017. Successful proposals will be notified by 1^st 
September 2017. Completed chapters will be due by 31^st  January 2018.
A full proposal will be submitted to I.B. Tauris’s Library of Gender and 
Popular Culture 
<http://www.ibtauris.com/en/Series/Library%20of%20Gender%20and%20Popular%20Culture> 
series in autumn 2017.

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